v0.9.2

We are pleased to announce the release of the SonarQube C++ Community Plugin version 0.9.2.
See lists below for features added and bugs fixed in this release.

SonarQube compability

• tested and released for SonarQube 4.5, see also SonarQube compatibility matrix
• Upgrade Instructions
• Installation Instructions

Enhancements

• preprocessor enhancements:
  • improve rescan and parameter extraction of cascaded macros (#302, #304)
  • support expressions in includes (#227, #312)
  • support named variadic arguments (#300, #301)
  • support uin64 values (#224, #308)
• parser enhancements:
  • improve parsing speed (#299, #294, #260)
  • ignore C++ keywords in C files (sonar.cxx.cFilesPatterns) (#291, #345, #353)
  • support special meaning of token paste operator for GCC (#214, #298)
  • support Visual Studio inline assembler (#262, #333, #340)
  • support GCC case range extension (#235)
  • support ISO C99 compound literals (#237)
  • support ISO C99 designated initializers (#236)
• metrics enhancements:
  • compute file and package dependencies (based on #include) ( #232, #292)
  • add metrics to count documented and undocumented APIs (#307, #318, #338)
  • add metric to count number of violations of each type (#177)
• rule enhancements:
  • new rules to check for violations on cyclic package dependencies (#232, #292)
  • new rule to check for undocumented API (#307, #318, #338)
  • new rule FileRegularExpressionCheck: can be used to create rules which will be triggered when a file matches a given regular expression (#339, #179)
  • new rule LineRegularExpressionCheck: can be used to create rules which will be triggered when a line matches a given regular expression (#341, #179)
  • new rule FileEncodingCheck: check if all characters of a file can be encoded with the predefined charset (#223, #328)
  • new rule MissingIncludeFileCheck: generate a violation for missing include files (#52, #239)
  • new rule SwitchLastCaseIsDefaultCheck: test that a switch statement has 'default' label and that the 'default' is the final case (#320)
  • XPathCheck, FileRegularExpressionCheck , LineRegularExpressionCheck: new option allows Ant-style patterns to match a path (#335)
  • UselessParenthesesCheck: ignores generic code now (#231)
  • TooManyStatementsPerLineCheck: new option to allow case and break in one line (#230)
  • TooLongLineCheck: add a tab width setting to compute the length of the line more accurate (#233)
  • MagicNumberCheck: improve magic number detection - const variables are no more violations (#296, #332)
  • Unsupported Code Checker Custom Rules: make import of invalid XML rule files more stable (#254)
  • update Cppcheck messages for 1.67 release (#286, #264)
  • update PC-lint messages for 9.00l release candidate (#264)
• coverage enhancements:
  • possibility to set coverage for source files without coverage report to zero to get more realistic Technical Debt values (sonar.cxx.coverage.forceZeroCoverage) (#218, #321)
  • Bullseye coverage reports: support coverage data on top level (src tag without folder tag) (#243, #250, #251)
  • Bullseye coverage reports: make path handling more robust (#273, #277)
• add SQALE model definitions for the built-in checks (#199)

Bugfixes

• Preprocessor does not support uint64 (#224)
• No meaningful error message if force-included file cannot be found (#225)
• Preprocessor does not support preprocessor expressions in includes (#227)
• Bulleye coverage file is not parsed correctly (#243)
• Server crash after updating 'External rules definition' with 0.9.1 (#253)
• How can I find out whats going on (#260)
• Unit test results not displayed in widget (#263)
• Bullseye based coverage import reports 'cannot find the file ...' (#273)
• Issues in digesting boost test results (#276)
• Very slow performance of nested parenthesis (#294)
• Const declarations are detected as magic numbers when not inside a function (#296)
• Unable to parse named variadic arguments (#300)
• Incomplete macro replacement rescanning (#302)
• NPE in org.sonar.cxx.visitors.AbstractCxxPublicApiVisitor.visitMemberDeclarator (#327)
• Cannot feed Valgrind report (#336)
• The sslr-cxx-toolkit breaks when parsing some files (#374)
• Wrong expansion of macros which dont contain whitespace after the parameter list (#380)

Thanks ....

go to all contributors (in alphabetical order):

@Bertk
@guwirth
@jmecosta
@lcintrat
@Typz
@Zetten

... and all people which were active on the Issue Tracker!

v0.9.1

We are pleased to announce the release of the SonarQube C++ Community Plugin version 0.9.1.
See lists below for features added and bugs fixed in this release.

Features / Enhancements:

• Compatible and tested with SonarQube 3.7 to 4.2
• Multi language support #130
• Support case-insensitive file systems in all sensors #155
• A set of builtin-checks like searching for ToDo, FixMe, NoSonar etc #96 #190 #167 #161 #157 #152 #151
• Use SSLR V1.19.2 and sslr-squide-bridge V2.3 #91
• Support of SonarQube 4.2 #180 #176 #181 #187 #198 #127
• Parse error recovery #133
• Force inclusion of a header file #85
• Improved PC-Lint support #93
• Additional SQALE definitions #105 #94 #62
• Support of Visual Studio Code Coverage reports. #186
• Attributted ATL support #174
• Improve the code colorizer #172
• Add support for Cppcheck 1.63 #166
• Add support for Cppcheck 1.64 #165
• Add support for Cppcheck's XML reports version 2 #158
• Support GCC's statement expression. #144
• Add support for feeding GCC's build warnings. #143
• Support GCC's conditionals with omitted operands. #138
• Support variadic macros. #137
• Support for multi-module configurations #46

Bugfixes:

• Do expand the macro arguments before expanding the macro body #194
• Parse failure for c++11 for range loops #115
• Prevent feeding of duplicated violations #110
• PC-lint violations filename or line = "0" cannot be fed #81
• Violations for files in project root folder cannot be fed #102
• PC-lint improvements for messages without filename or line = "0" #81
• Improper whitespace handling when hashhash'ing functionlike macro arguments #58

Thanks ....

go to all contributors:

@guwirth
@jmecosta
@Bertk
@Typz
@zjg

... and all people which were active on the Issue Tracker!

v0.9

Features / Enhancements:

• Provide an AST using SSLR #59
• Remap PC-lint MISRA violations into unique sonar rules #76
• Improve association of sources to the test #75
• Support for Intel Inspector via 'external rules'-mechanism #74
• Add rules for CppCheck V1.58, V1.59 and V1.60 # 73
• C++ Community Plugin not generating number of classes #70
• Provide support for VC compiler warnings (C4001-C6535) #69
• Replace cppncss with another tool (CCCC, CLOC) #67
• Rule: C++ parsing error #61
• Rule: custom/codebase specific checks via an XPath expression #60

Bugfixes:

• C++ Community Plugin silently ignores unknown files in gcovr reports #72
• Duplication detection doesnt work for source files which use line continuations #71
• Analysis fails when additional tools sensor through exception (RATS, Vera++) #68
• C++ Community Plugin mishandles file suffixes #66
• Error when processing coverage reports containing a big number of hits #65
• Crash with java.lang.IllegalArgumentException when analysing project #64
• The report processing should be more stable / error tolerant #63