Clarification on formatting rules on Section 4.6.1 Vertical Whitespace (blank lines)

[Praveen7294]

In Section 4.6.1 Vertical whitespace, the Style Guide allows multiple consecutive blank lines and google-java-formatter removes consecutive blank lines during formatting, as shown below.

Multiple consecutive blank lines are permitted, but never required (or encouraged).

Formatter

$ java -jar google-java-format-1.33.0-all-deps.jar Test.java > FormattedCode.java
$ diff -Naru Test.java FormattedCode.java
--- Test.java   2025-12-29 21:28:43.899070500 +0530
+++ FormattedCode.java  2025-12-29 21:31:15.540657300 +0530
@@ -4,41 +4,28 @@

 /** Test. */
 public class Test {
-
+
   static int count;
   String str;

   {
     str = "Hello";
-
-
-
-
   }

   Test() {
     int a;

-
     int b;
-
-
   }

   static {
-
-
     count = 5;
-
-
-
   }

   /** Method. */
   public void foo() {
     int x = 10;

-
     int y = 20;
   }

@@ -46,5 +33,4 @@
   public static void main(String[] args) {
     new Test();
   }
-
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}

Could you please confirm whether this behavior is intentional or a bug?