3.20.0.8080

New Feature

• [SONARPHP-1180] - Add PCRE recursion feature to regex parser
• [SONARPHP-1189] - Rule S6035: Single-character alternations in regular expressions should be replaced with character classes
• [SONARPHP-1190] - Rule S5996: Regex boundaries should not be used in a way that can never be matched
• [SONARPHP-1191] - Rule S5855: Regex alternatives should not be redundant
• [SONARPHP-1194] - Rule S5868: Unicode Grapheme Clusters should be avoided inside regex character classes
• [SONARPHP-1196] - Rule S5869: Character classes in regular expressions should not contain the same character twice
• [SONARPHP-1199] - Rule S5994: Regex patterns following a possessive quantifier should not always fail
• [SONARPHP-1202] - Rule S5842: Regex repetition pattern's body should not match the empty String
• [SONARPHP-1203] - Rule S5361: `str_replace` should be preferred to `preg_replace`

Task

• [SONARPHP-1216] - Collect statistics to recognize and identify time consumers

Improvement

• [SONARPHP-1182] - Parse regex flags after delimiter
• [SONARPHP-1183] - Add PCRE conditional subpatterns feature to regex parser
• [SONARPHP-1209] - Parser should match PHP POSIX style expressions
• [SONARPHP-1220] - Map regex character location to location in files
• [SONARPHP-1227] - Fix location of characters when using escape sequences
• [SONARPHP-1229] - Handle whitespaces before delimiter
• [SONARPHP-1230] - S5361: Add secondary location on regex pattern

False-Positive

• [SONARPHP-1219] - S1808 NamespaceAndUseStatementCheck does not consider group use statements
• [SONARPHP-1234] - Rule S4792: Invalid exceptions for error_reporting