V0.9.8

We are pleased to announce the SonarQube C++ Community Plugin version 0.9.8.
See lists below for features added and bugs fixed in this release.

SonarQube compability

• tested and released for SonarQube 5.6 LTS, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7 LTS
  see also SonarQube compatibility matrix
• Installation Instructions
• Upgrade Instructions

Enhancements

• Clang Static Analyzer support v5.0.0 (plist reports) sonar.cxx.clangsa.reportPath #547 #1161 #1254 #1172
• Clang Tidy support sonar.cxx.clangtidy.reportPath #1213 #1076 #1089 #1095 #1240
• Cognitive Complexity support #1006 #1245 #1271
  • recursion is not handled
• own C plugin (experimental) #1100 #1099
  • read Upgrade Instructions
• JSON Compilation Database support (experimental) #1175 #993
• CxxOtherSensor: add an XSLT pre-analyse step #1096
  • sonar.cxx.other.N.inputs, sonar.cxx.other.N.outputs, sonar.cxx.other.N.stylesheet (N=1...9)
• Visual Studio 2017 warnings support #1091 #1239 #1113
• Visual Studio 2017 Core Guideline Checker warnings support #1090
• GCC/G++ V6.3 warnings support #1173 #1188
• Cppcheck 1.78, 1.79, 1.80, 1.81 warnings support #1092 #1133 #1201 #1244 #1129 #1134 #1202 #1246
• improved Bullseye coverage support (file format 5) #1210
• support of cxx-lint custom rules #1068
• PCLint MISRA C 2012 support added #1162
• executable_lines metric support (SQ 6.2+) #1010 #1203 #1206
• display measures per input file #1030 #1241
• C++17 support #1104 #1228 #1130
  • static_assert #1226 #1227
  • new attributes fallthrough, nodiscard, maybe_unused #1146 #1204
  • __has_include #1145 #1224
  • lambda capture of *this #1144 #1211
  • constexpr lambdas #1143 #1211
  • class template argument deduction #1142 #1222
  • non-type template parameters with auto #1141 #1212
  • fold expressions #1140 #1223
  • hexadecimal floating point literals #1139 #1217
  • u8 character literal #1138 #1209
  • nested namespaces #1086 #1136
  • inline variable #1085 #1132
  • constexpr if #1084
  • init in if, switch #1083
  • structured bindings #1082 #1137
• update to SSLR 1.22 #1158 #1169
• update to parent 40 #1064
• sslr-cxx-toolkit: add more configuration parameter #1260
• AppVeyor
  • add technical debt analysis of master branch #1258 #1111
  • publish results in SonarCloud #1252
• Travis
  • use Ubuntu/Trusty #1235
  • cache maven repository #1165
  • use sonar-scanner-cli-3.0.1.778 for testing #1124
  • testing with SonarQube 5.6 LTS, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7 LTS #1155 #1060 #1061 #1069 #1093 #1118 #1157 #1190 #1194 #1195 #1249 #1250 #1261 #1268
• fix technical debt quality flaws #1269 #1075 #1121 #1122 #1126 #1128 #1148 #1153 #1179 #1238 #1255 #1263 #1265 #1114

Bugfixes

• Error during SonarQube Scanner execution: Unable to analyze file bug #1205
• SQ6.4: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/sonar/graph/DirectedGraphAccessor bug #1154
• syntax highlighting error: concatenated strings bug #1094
• Fixes bullseye conditions to be shown in SQ UI #1237
• JsonCompilationDatabase: defines are not supported #1234
• consume empty VS coverage report / NullPointerException when passing empty coverage report #1232 #1231
• Relative path causes NPE / do not use PathUtils.sanitize(filename) #1200 #1199
• fix coverage caching #1198
• CxxCoverageSensor not able to get the coverage property sonar.cxx.coverage.reportPath / fix coverage unit test #1189 #1156 #1010
• Fixes syntax error in list initialization with template #1182
• Fixes syntax error: std::nullptr_t in func args #1178
• Fixes syntax error if template argument is casting pack expansion #1176
• Trailing comma is not removed in complex macro with empty variadic arguments #1168 #1167
• Ignore empty statement after generated code in TooManyStatementsPerLine #1164
• Preserve generated status in concatenated strings #1163
• Generated strings in macros results in DuplicatedLiterals false alarms / Fixes "Generated strings in macros results in DuplicatedLiterals false alarms #1150 #1147
• broken compiler sensor unit tests / remove job prefix from file name in vc report #1125 #1123
• undocumented API with linkageSpecification #1103 #1102
• fix Clang-Tidy error #1088 #1076
• AbstractCxxPublicApiVisitor: fix template declaration #1072 #1067
• fix ClassComplexityCheck and NestedStatementsCheck #1065
• Ignore generated nodes in nested statement check #1171
• ensure the exit id is the rule id and not the template id in case of … #1071

Know Issues

For an up to date list of known issues see the issue tracker.

• V0.9.8 is not compatible with Java 9
• Starting with SQ 6.2 there are some new metrics and some are no more available. Please have a look to the SonarQube release notes.
• Symlinks are not supported.

Thanks ....

go to all contributors (in alphabetical order):

@Bertk
@guwirth
@jmecosta
@Kochise
@gyorb
@nathanaelg
@gena01
@MarcAntoineCRUE
@Pasick
@stefanweiser

... and all people which were active on the issue tracker!