7.21.0.31796

Release notes - SonarJava - 7.21

Documentation

SONARJAVA-4482 LayC: review and update as appropriate SonarWay rules (1 of 15)

SONARJAVA-4483 LayC: review and update as appropriate SonarWay rules (2 of 15)

SONARJAVA-4484 LayC: review and update as appropriate SonarWay rules (3 of 15)

SONARJAVA-4485 LayC: review and update as appropriate SonarWay rules (4 of 15)

SONARJAVA-4486 LayC: review and update as appropriate SonarWay rules (5.1 of 15)

SONARJAVA-4487 LayC: review and update as appropriate SonarWay rules (6 of 15)

SONARJAVA-4488 LayC: review and update as appropriate SonarWay rules (7 of 15)

SONARJAVA-4489 LayC: review and update as appropriate SonarWay rules (8.1 of 15)

SONARJAVA-4491 LayC: review and update as appropriate SonarWay rules (10 of 15)

SONARJAVA-4492 LayC: review and update as appropriate SonarWay rules (11 of 15)

SONARJAVA-4506 Rule S1291 (NoSonar) metadata are not up to date and do not follow LayC format

SONARJAVA-4524 Update rules metadata

False-Positive

SONARJAVA-4107 Rule S100 - Underscore in method is acceptable when using SpringData

SONARJAVA-4476 FP for S2629 on record getter methods

SONARJAVA-4497 FP on S2142 when using union types and rethrowing

SONARJAVA-4501 FP on S1149 when overriding a method and using same symbols of the signature within method body

Task

SONARJAVA-4445 Upgrade sonarlint-plugin-api to version 8.15.0.65216 or greater

Improvement

SONARJAVA-4518 Introduce a new Spring Issue Filter to filter out spring-specific cases

7.20.0.31692

Release notes - SonarJava - 7.20

Bug

SONARJAVA-4233 Constants accessed with member-select create different SV every time when placed in loops

SONARJAVA-4420 S3518 crashes with IndexOutOfBoundsException for certain inputs

False Negative

SONARJAVA-2126 Unboxing of NULL primitive wrapper raises NPE and should be detected by S2259 (NullDereferenceCheck)

SONARJAVA-4475 FN on S2589 when a constant is outside method scope

Task

SONARJAVA-4498 Upgrade sonar-analyzer-commons 2.5.0.1358

SONARJAVA-4499 Update rules metadata

Improvement

SONARJAVA-4097 Stop method SE at the first unknown method call symbol in Autoscan context

SONARJAVA-4286 Support "ZERO" constraints in (hardcoded) method behaviors

SONARJAVA-4423 Symbolic execution rules metadata should be tagged with "symbolic execution"

SONARJAVA-4442 S3518 DivisionByZeroCheck reports misleading secondary locations

7.19.0.31550

Release notes - SonarJava - 7.19

Breaking change: If you are using Java 19+ preview features, now SonarJava does not enable them automatically, you need to set sonar.java.enablePreview=true explicitly.

False Negative

SONARJAVA-4443 Rule S6437: Add jjwt support

New Feature

SONARJAVA-4369 S6485: Hash-based collections with known capacity should be initialized with the proper related static method

SONARJAVA-4464 Add a new "sonar.java.enablePreview" analysis parameter, disabled by default

Task

SONARJAVA-4468 Update rule metadata

Improvement

SONARJAVA-4378 Update ECJ to 3.33.0

7.18.0.31443

Release notes - SonarJava - 7.18

Bug

SONARJAVA-4396 The Java analyzer distinguishes between changed and unchanged in files in PR context

New Feature

SONARJAVA-4433 S6539: Class depends on an excessive number of classes

SONARJAVA-4434 S6541: Methods should not perform too many tasks (Brain method)

SONARJAVA-4440 S6548: Identify Singleton Design Patterns

Task

SONARJAVA-4455 Update Rules Metadata

Improvement

SONARJAVA-4277 Fix S1142 message wording and secondaries

7.16.1.31255

Release notes - SonarJava - 7.16.1

Bug

SONARJAVA-4396 The Java analyzer distinguishes between changed and unchanged in files in PR context

7.17.0.31219

Release notes - SonarJava - 7.17

Bug

SONARJAVA-4402 Unit tests fail on any non English language OS

SONARJAVA-4418 S1068 dirty state in UnusedPrivateFieldCheck throws IllegalArgumentException repetitively

False-Positive

SONARJAVA-3995 FP S3400 when method can be overridden

SONARJAVA-4244 S3400 should report on boolean types

SONARJAVA-4254 FP S4684 when @Entity are not converter from json automatically

SONARJAVA-4327 FP on S3937 when binary numbers

SONARJAVA-4328 FP on S2142 when `InterruptedException` is rethrown

SONARJAVA-4393 FP on S1105 due to Record conversion in JParser

SONARJAVA-4403 S3553 FP on overridden methods

SONARJAVA-4405 FP on S101 when classes extends java.util.ResourceBundle

SONARJAVA-4406 FP on S2142 when the InterruptedException is caught in an inner try-catch

Task

SONARJAVA-4394 Rule S1849: Refactor HasNextCallingNext rule to not use non-static inner class

SONARJAVA-4395 Rule S1114: In ObjectFinalizeOverridenCallsSuperFinalizeCheck lastStatementTree field is not always cleaned

SONARJAVA-4416 Update rules metadata

Improvement

SONARJAVA-3920 Add quick fixes for S5810 (JUnit5SilentlyIgnoreClassAndMethodCheck)

SONARJAVA-3924 Add quick fixes for S2129 (StringPrimitiveConstructorCheck)

SONARJAVA-3938 Add quick fixes for S4719 (StandardCharsetsConstantsCheck)

SONARJAVA-3959 Add quick fixes for S1656 (SelfAssignementCheck)

SONARJAVA-4185 Rules should not report FP when methods have an unknown parameter type

SONARJAVA-4187 S3329 should not report FP when the semantic is incomplete

SONARJAVA-4311 Add quick fixes for S1217 (ThreadRunCheck)

SONARJAVA-4314 Add quick fixes for S1450 (PrivateFieldUsedLocallyCheck)

SONARJAVA-4315 Add quick fixes for S1066 (CollapsibleIfCandidateCheck)

SONARJAVA-4317 Add quick fixes for S2147 (CombineCatchCheck)

SONARJAVA-4319 Add quick fixes for S2116 (ArrayHashCodeAndToStringCheck)

SONARJAVA-4321 Add quick fixes for S2225 (ToStringReturningNullCheck)

SONARJAVA-4350 Improve the suggested quick fix for S1068 when there are some writes to the variable

SONARJAVA-4352 Add quick fixes for S1132 (StringLiteralInsideEqualsCheck)

7.16.0.30901

Release notes - SonarJava - 7.16

Bug

SONARJAVA-4127 UnsupportedOperationException when computing the signature of a MethodSymbol

SONARJAVA-4279 S1612 should not report an issue with incomplete semantics

SONARJAVA-4356 Several regular expressions are inefficient

SONARJAVA-4370 Memory leak in rule S5852 RedosCheck because regexCreations field is never cleaned

SONARJAVA-4371 Memory leak in multiple symbolic execution-based rules

SONARJAVA-4386 Members of RECORD tree are not ordered

SONARJAVA-4390 NPE in ECJ should be catched by JType.isSubtype(...)

SONARJAVA-4391 NPE in LombokFilter

SONARJAVA-4392 NPE in DivisionByZeroCheck

Documentation

SONARJAVA-4345 Update rules metadata

SONARJAVA-4374 S5411: Improve rule message, title, and description

SONARJAVA-4381 S1135: Update metadata to be explicit about main code only scope

False-Positive

SONARJAVA-4098 FP S1612 method reference should not be suggested when replacement is longer that actual code

SONARJAVA-4255 FP S1185(MethodOnlyCallsSuperCheck) with different modifiers

SONARJAVA-4281 Rule S1313: Exclude local IPv4-mapped IPv6 address

SONARJAVA-4292 Rule S1313: Exclude reserved documentation IP ranges

SONARJAVA-4329 FP on rule S1612 when replacing lambda on Integer conversion to String

SONARJAVA-4331 S1213 should not raise issues on static fields placed at the top of records

SONARJAVA-4343 FP on S2699 (Missing assertions in tests) with latest versions of AssertJ (>3.19) and newly added assertions

SONARJAVA-4347 FP in S1144 When annotated parameters are present

SONARJAVA-4353 S131 FP on switch that covers all enum constants

SONARJAVA-4354 S2259 FP on Springframework 5 annotations

SONARJAVA-4363 FP on S2272 when the next/previous() method calls another one which itself throw the NoSuchElementException

SONARJAVA-4365 S5786 should not report issues on classes defining publicly visible constants

SONARJAVA-4372 FP in rule S6204 when Collections.shuffle() is used as a mutator

SONARJAVA-4382 S1191 should not raise issues on imports from `com.sun.*` packages

New Feature

SONARJAVA-4266 Rule S6432: Counter Mode initialization vectors should not be reused

False Negative

SONARJAVA-4250 FN in S2692 when the number is coming from a constant

SONARJAVA-4283 S5838 does not handle primitive type inequality operators correctly

Improvement

SONARJAVA-4265 Improve the rule message of S1120

SONARJAVA-4268 Rule S5542: Detect CBC mode when used with padding

SONARJAVA-4269 S1711 should clean up type names replacing dollar signs with periods

SONARJAVA-4351 Update S5411 documentation with SONARJAVA-3570 exceptions

SONARJAVA-4384 Replace method `symbol()` on `MethodInvocationTree` and `NewClassTree` with `methodSymbol()` in public API

7.15.0.30507

Release notes - SonarJava - Version 7.15

Bug

SONARJAVA-4342 Nullness annotation on interface methods should be inherited in implementation methods

SONARJAVA-4341 IndexOutOfBoundsException when trying to access symbols of declared parameters of Compact constructor

SONARJAVA-4338 S1186: Inconsistent exceptions in documentation and implementation

SONARJAVA-4176 NPE in JSymbol.typeOwner

SONARJAVA-3529 S3958: Incorrect location in case of certain exceptional paths

Documentation

SONARJAVA-4333 Update sonar.java.jdkHome documentation

False Negative

SONARJAVA-4251 FN S2252(ForLoopFalseConditionCheck) does not support constants

False-Positive

SONARJAVA-4344 FP S3878 when the vararg has an array type

SONARJAVA-4336 S2384, 2386 should support methods from Guava returning immutable collections

SONARJAVA-4282 Exclude "com.sun.xml.ws" package from S1191 by default

SONARJAVA-4252 S2384, S2386 should support immutable collection creation from stream

SONARJAVA-4241 S1125: erroneous quick fix suggestion when negating a binary operation

SONARJAVA-4196 S5860 should cover methods start() and end() of 'java.util.regex.Matcher'

SONARJAVA-4072 FP S107 with Spring and micronaut annotations

SONARJAVA-4024 FP in S6019 because of RegexTreeHelper.isAnchoredAtEnd

SONARJAVA-3900 FP S3242(LeastSpecificTypeCheck) for functional interfaces

SONARJAVA-3896 FP S3329 should not raise when the IV is not defined

SONARJAVA-3890 S5996 should not raise an issue if $ is followed by a line break character

SONARJAVA-3668 FP on S1186: method annotated @Pointcut from AspectJ are often expected to be empty

Improvement

SONARJAVA-4335 S3776 should Ignore equals() and hashCode() methods similarly to S1541

SONARJAVA-4325 Change message suggestion for S3878 when method argument type is not Object

SONARJAVA-4257 Fix typo in S4605 message

New Feature

SONARJAVA-4349 Expose ClasspathForMain.getBinaryDirs() in public API

SONARJAVA-4348 Expose test classpath and binaries in the public API

Task

SONARJAVA-4346 Update rules metadata

SONARJAVA-4264 Remove deprecated common-java:DuplicatedBlocks rule from Sonar Way

7.14.0.30229

Release notes - SonarJava - Version 7.14

False-Positive

SONARJAVA-4330 Rule S2272: FP on method calls that are not next()

SONARJAVA-4242 SE should handle "booleanValue()" from Boolean wrapper

SONARJAVA-4174 S2259 should not raise an issue when a null variable is passed to Optional.ofNullable

SONARJAVA-4131 Add support of org.springframework.util.StringUtils#isEmpty

Improvement

SONARJAVA-4288 Update Analyzer Commons to 1.27: changes in Regex check and resources loading

SONARJAVA-4220 Update ECJ to 3.30.0

SONARJAVA-3891 Add support of org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils methods

New Feature

SONARJAVA-4284 Rules support PCI DSS Security Standard

SONARJAVA-4278 Rule S2068: Remove method checks

SONARJAVA-4275 Rule S6437: Credentials should not be hard-coded

Task

SONARJAVA-4332 Update rules metadata

7.13.0.29990

    Release Notes - SonarJava - Version 7.13

New Feature

• [SONARJAVA-4133] - Rule S6241 Region should be set explicitly when creating a new AwsClient
• [SONARJAVA-4134] - Rule S6242 Credentials Provider should be set explicitly when creating a new "AwsClient"
• [SONARJAVA-4135] - Rule S6243 Reusable resources should be initialized at construction time of Lambda functions
• [SONARJAVA-4136] - Rule S6244 Consumer Builders should be used
• [SONARJAVA-4137] - Rule S6246 Lambdas should not invoke other lambdas synchronously
• [SONARJAVA-4138] - Rule S6262 AWS region should not be set with a hardcoded String
• [SONARJAVA-4139] - Rule S6263 Using Long-term access keys are security-sensitive

Task

• [SONARJAVA-4270] - Add performance timers on the cache-aware analysis paths
• [SONARJAVA-4280] - Update rules metadata

Improvement

• [SONARJAVA-4271] - Do not attempt to scan without parsing in a context where files cannot be skipped
• [SONARJAVA-4276] - Message of S4968 should end with a full stop