The default settings for Constant Naming Conventions in NetBenas 8.1 Beta show a warning for a properly-defined serialVersionUID. There should be an option for the hint to specifically ignore "serialVersionUID", and that option should be set by default.

There should also be a @SuppressWarnings option that allows this warning to be suppressed on a case-by-case (or class-by-class) basis. A good example of where this would be used: constants that represent units multipliers and have a prescribed representation in an international standard, such as:

/** IEC symbol/multiplier for 1 kibibyte (1024 bytes). */
@SuppressWarnings("ConstantNamingConventions")
public static final int KiB = 1024;