Changelog for Teamscale 5.9 ​

Version 5.9.15 ​

Fixes ​

• AssertionError in ExternalAnalysisResultsChangeRetriever due to race condition when uploading external results
• A lot of time spent on many workers during periodic job scheduling

Version 5.9.14 ​

Fixes ​

• Debug service /force-rollback sometimes failed
• Legacy service for .NET trace uploads did not use the correct partition
• False positives for "Non-void function should return a value" check in C++
• Wrong data was shown in the Project Configuration perspective in case a project's alias was the same as another project's ID.
• Search service threw IndexOutOfBoundsException in some cases
• Legacy badge services did not work with Azure Devops Extension

Version 5.9.13 ​

Fixes ​

• False positives for "Redundant parentheses" check in Python
• Location of ternary operator findings was sometimes incorrect

Improvements ​

• Artifactory connector now logs a warning if no files matching the name or path search patterns were found

Version 5.9.12 ​

Fixes ​

• Architectures with constraints could not be loaded
• Linking to the Test Gaps perspective with a preselected issue metric did not work

Version 5.9.11 ​

Fixes ​

• GitLabMergeRequestAnnotationTrigger produced errors due to missing regions
• GitChangeRetriever got stuck in Git garbage collection
• Merge request finding churns showed findings that had already been removed on the target branch
• AnalysisReportPersister failed with the message "Status object missing but should have been created before!"
• Issue finding summaries in Jira and issue details in Teamscale did not ignore tolerated / false-positive findings
• Architectures in invalid states could still be saved
• Empty files were being downloaded when viewing the changelogs from Teamscale's built-in Documentation
• AzureDevOps cross-repository pull requests have not been ignored

Version 5.9.10 ​

Fixes ​

• Model Advisor reports could not be parsed
• C++ header files were not considered as dependencies when referred to using Windows paths (with backslashes)
• C++ type extraction during architecture analysis always treated paths in a case-insensitive manner
• Python dependencies were incorrect if an __init__.py file was added after initial analysis
• False positives in "Unused Private Method Check" when using final variables in Java
• Project configurations with validation errors were not saved when choosing to Save Anyway
• Intellij Plugin: Warnings for invalid mapping configurations were not shown

Improvements ​

• The element churn service (element-churn endpoint) is now public API

Version 5.9.9 ​

Fixes ​

• Teamscale Bitbucket Cloud app could not be installed in some cases
• System Execution view did not display the project name and commit for running triggers
• Deletion of reports uploaded via repository connectors was ignored
• False positives for "Empty blocks" check in C++
• TFS connector failed with "Adding node that is already added" error in very rare cases
• False positives in comment completeness analysis in Python caused by single-quote and double-quote docstrings
• Users with "User Manager" role were unable to view imported users or groups
• Order of architecture constraints was not preserved upon save
• TGA treemap widget displayed wrong error message for an invalid path

Version 5.9.8 ​

Fixes ​

• Locally checked out Git clone grew to enormous size
• False positives for "Don't hide exception stack trace" check when using nested catch blocks
• It was possible to configure multiple projects to vote on the same repository
• Adding multiple architecture constraints was inconvenient if the list of constraints was very long

Improvements ​

• Test execution-count metrics now default to "higher is better"

Version 5.9.7 ​

Fixes ​

• ArchitectureUploadStateCleanupTrigger caused unnecessary rollbacks
• External uploads with Accept: text/plain headers were rejected by the legacy report upload services
• False positives for "Test class naming convention" check in Java
• False positives for "Every line starting with # has to be a valid preprocessing directive" check in C++ in case of #warning preprocessor directives

Version 5.9.6 ​

Fixes ​

• Python coverage was sometimes incorrectly applied to too many statements
• NullPointerException in GitChangeRetriever in certain cases
• Incorrect test-gap percentages were displayed in issue list
• Importing large numbers of users and groups was slow
• Jira Integration: Duplicated entries in the Teamscale Info table in Jira issues
• PHP parsing errors in case of single line comments ending with ?>
• False positives for "Avoid unused private fields" check in Java when fields were annotated with certain Java annotations (e.g. @Inject, @Mock, etc.)
• False positives for "Throw of generic exception" check in Java
• "Incomplete metric entry" errors were logged in the Service Log when using branch coverage metrics

Improvements ​

• API for TGA percentage service (/test-gaps/percentage) and repository timestamp by revision service (/revision/{revision}/commits) is now public
• Best practices for static code analysis are now documented in the user guide
• How to record test coverage for Java with Docker is now documented in the user guide

Version 5.9.5 ​

Fixes ​

• Some projects were stuck in state "rollback analysis" after deletion of external uploads
• Findings that were deleted and re-added after a baseline were reported as new
• TGA treemaps were not clickable after a link has been opened
• Selecting multiple but not all coverage sources yielded no coverage at all
• Testwise coverage report could not contain paths with prefixes not known to Teamscale
• Objective-C header files were sometimes considered to be C/C++ code
• Artifactory connector died when failing to extract a revision
• DataBindingException when using Atlassian Crowd Server configuration and running on Java 11+
• Dashboard analysis progress showed undefined for aliased projects
• Rule browser mistakenly required permission to edit analysis profiles
• Path selection dialog did not render long paths well
• Deep links to the documentation always redirected to the documentation's start page
• Documentation on "Testwise Coverage" linked to wrong page

Version 5.9.4 ​

Fixes ​

• Slide's input options could not be edited after exiting presentation mode
• Visual Studio plug-in did not correctly display timeout errors
• Changing the project's credentials was not possible after force-deleting the configured credentials
• Downloading Test Gap information and Issue Trend data as CSV files did not work
• Eclipse plug-in: Offline installation was not possible under certain circumstances
• Viewing the history trend and treemap for the "Line Coverage" metric in the Tests perspective did not work
• The total number of tasks was not displayed in the task list view's header
• False positives for "Multiple statements in same line" check in TypeScript
• False positives for "Destructor should be declared noexcept" check in C++
• False positives for "Switch statements should not contain unexpected constructs" check in C++
• False positives for "Interface comment missing" check in Python in case of lambdas as default parameters
• False positive "Interface comment missing" findings were generated for local classes in Java

Version 5.9.3 ​

Fixes ​

• Visual Studio plug-in caused IDE start-up errors
• Full text search in Teamscale documentation was broken
• Malformed ZIP files in Artifactory sometimes caused unnecessary rollbacks
• Importing testwise coverage reports via repository connectors was not working
• False positive nesting depth findings in Python in case of lambda arrays
• Incorrect calculation of metric distribution delta in Metric Distribution Pie Chart widget
• Eclipse plug-in: The current branch was incorrectly displayed as master, when Fetching findings from Pre-Commit was enabled
• Architectures with slashes / in their names could not be deleted
• Architecture uploads without an explicit format failed with a NullPointerException
• Jira connector validation failed for projects whose key and project name were equal
• Parsing errors in IEC-61131 code

Improvements ​

• Improved performance when processing custom check results
• New configuration option in "Empty blocks" check allowing empty constructors

Version 5.9.2 ​

Fixes ​

• Backup import via Web UI did not work
• DeleteExternalAnalysisPartitionTrigger sometimes got stuck
• Python architecture analysis detected incorrect dependencies if a built-in module was shadowed
• False positives for "Unused private method" check in C# when the only call was within a constructor
• "Avoid special characters in javax.ws.rs.QueryPara' annotation parameters" check did not consider fields
• Certain preprocessor directives could result in poor performance of checks
• External-credentials account selection dropdown did not follow UI conventions
• A validation failure for external credentials prevented saving credentials even if they later validated successfully
• Dashboards edit view showed empty Filter Options and Summary sections
• Baseline rating did not apply to file review rating if older manual ratings existed
• Spurious bars were shown in the Findings Summary Bar Chart widget
• Editing Findings Summary Bar Chart widget required read permission on analysis profile
• External report upload in UI ignored all but the first file in case multiple reports were uploaded

Improvements ​

• Teamscale documentation now supports full-text search
• Database for temporary storage systems is configurable (default switched to LevelDB)

Version 5.9.1 ​

Fixes ​

• Legacy add-non-code-metrics project service was mistakenly removed
• SAML login caused 404 Not Found HTTP error for index.html
• StackOverflowError in DataFlowFindingsSynchronizer
• Improved error message when uploading JavaScript source maps without having the CQSE JavaScript Profiler enabled
• IndexOutOfBoundsException for "Calling equals()/toString() on array" check in Java
• Dashboard Sharing view did not open when list contained any dashboards from a deleted user
• False positive for "Multiple declarations in statement" check in TypeScript
• Event log view mistakenly showed columns for warnings and errors that always had 0 entries
• Fixed some cases of wrong findings in changed code in findings badges

Improvements ​

• Jira projects can now be specified by Jira project key or project name

Version 5.9.0 ​

Major Features ​

• New metrics in the Test Execution table
• Ability to focus on components in the architecture view

Merge Request Integration ​

• Aggregation of structure findings on method level before commenting
• Aggregation of findings of the same type before commenting

Web UI ​

• Line Coverage metric is now shown in the Test perspective
• Report slide titles now support markdown
• "Interface comment missing" findings now indicate which entity (e.g. class, method, etc) is missing the comment
• Ability to copy the IDs of multiple findings in the Findings perspective
• Metrics perspective now supports permalinks

New Checks ​

• "Ensure method pairs are called" check (Java)
• "Arithmetic operation on text literal" check (ABAP)

Administration ​

• Analysis profile option to extend code search to include all tokens
• Analysis profile option to allow only simple ternary operators
• New option to automatically create Teamscale users after successful SAML login
• Branch names can now contain . in Multi-version filesystem connector
• "Preserve empty commits" option is now enabled by default in repository connectors
• Ability to include/exclude fields marked with specific annotations from the "Unused private field" check