diff --git a/src/bld/java/rife/bld/extension/PmdOperationBuild.java b/src/bld/java/rife/bld/extension/PmdOperationBuild.java
index cae7dcd..1bb6f66 100644
--- a/src/bld/java/rife/bld/extension/PmdOperationBuild.java
+++ b/src/bld/java/rife/bld/extension/PmdOperationBuild.java
@@ -34,14 +34,14 @@ public class PmdOperationBuild extends Project {
     public PmdOperationBuild() {
         pkg = "rife.bld.extension";
         name = "bld-pmd";
-        version = version(0, 9, 7);
+        version = version(0, 9, 8);
 
         javaRelease = 17;
         downloadSources = true;
         autoDownloadPurge = true;
         repositories = List.of(MAVEN_CENTRAL, RIFE2_RELEASES);
 
-        var pmd = version(7, 0, 0, "rc4");
+        var pmd = version(7, 0, 0);
         scope(compile)
                 .include(dependency("com.uwyn.rife2", "bld", version(1, 9, 0)))
                 .include(dependency("net.sourceforge.pmd", "pmd-java", pmd));
diff --git a/src/main/java/rife/bld/extension/PmdOperation.java b/src/main/java/rife/bld/extension/PmdOperation.java
index f55c13e..0d1dae1 100644
--- a/src/main/java/rife/bld/extension/PmdOperation.java
+++ b/src/main/java/rife/bld/extension/PmdOperation.java
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ package rife.bld.extension;
 
 import net.sourceforge.pmd.PMDConfiguration;
 import net.sourceforge.pmd.PmdAnalysis;
-import net.sourceforge.pmd.RulePriority;
 import net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.LanguageVersion;
+import net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.rule.RulePriority;
 import rife.bld.BaseProject;
 import rife.bld.operations.AbstractOperation;
 
@@ -105,6 +105,10 @@ public class PmdOperation extends AbstractOperation<PmdOperation> {
      * The report format.
      */
     String reportFormat_ = "text";
+    /**
+     * The report properties.
+     */
+    Properties reportProperties_ = null;
     /**
      * The show suppressed flag.
      */
@@ -359,6 +363,10 @@ public class PmdOperation extends AbstractOperation<PmdOperation> {
             config.setInputPathList(inputPaths_);
         }
 
+        if (reportProperties_ != null) {
+            config.setReportProperties(reportProperties_);
+        }
+
         if (inputUri_ != null) {
             config.setInputUri(inputUri_);
         }
@@ -367,7 +375,8 @@ public class PmdOperation extends AbstractOperation<PmdOperation> {
 
         if (project_ != null) {
             config.setReportFile(Objects.requireNonNullElseGet(reportFile_,
-                    () -> Paths.get(project_.buildDirectory().getPath(), PMD_DIR, PMD_DIR + "-report." + reportFormat_)));
+                    () -> Paths.get(project_.buildDirectory().getPath(),
+                            PMD_DIR, PMD_DIR + "-report." + reportFormat_)));
         } else {
             config.setReportFile(reportFile_);
         }
@@ -430,7 +439,7 @@ public class PmdOperation extends AbstractOperation<PmdOperation> {
                                     v.getRule().getName(),
                                     v.getRule().getExternalInfoUrl() //TODO bug in PMD?
                                             .replace("${pmd.website.baseurl}",
-                                            "https://docs.pmd-code.org/pmd-doc-7.0.0-rc4"),
+                                            "https://docs.pmd-code.org/latest"),
                                     v.getDescription()});
                 }
             }
@@ -486,6 +495,14 @@ public class PmdOperation extends AbstractOperation<PmdOperation> {
         return this;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Set the Report properties. These are used to create the Renderer.
+     */
+    public PmdOperation reportProperties(Properties reportProperties) {
+        reportProperties_ = reportProperties;
+        return this;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Sets the rule set path(s), disregarding any previously set paths.
      * <p>
diff --git a/src/test/java/rife/bld/extension/PmdOperationTest.java b/src/test/java/rife/bld/extension/PmdOperationTest.java
index c0a0985..9987705 100644
--- a/src/test/java/rife/bld/extension/PmdOperationTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/rife/bld/extension/PmdOperationTest.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ class PmdOperationTest {
     static final int CODING_STYLE_ERRORS = 13;
     static final String COMMAND_NAME = "pmd";
     static final String ERROR_PRONE = "category/java/errorprone.xml";
-    static final int ERROR_PRONE_ERRORS = 8;
+    static final int ERROR_PRONE_ERRORS = 6;
     static final Path ERROR_PRONE_SAMPLE = Path.of("src/test/resources/java/ErrorProne.java");
     static final String TEST = "test";
 
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ class PmdOperationTest {
                 .as("code style").isEqualTo(CODING_STYLE_ERRORS);
         pmd = pmd.addRuleSet(ERROR_PRONE).addInputPath(ERROR_PRONE_SAMPLE);
         assertThat(pmd.performPmdAnalysis(TEST, pmd.initConfiguration(COMMAND_NAME)))
-                .as("code style + error prone").isEqualTo(34);
+                .as("code style + error prone").isEqualTo(29);
     }
 
     @Test