Skip to content

Changelog for Teamscale 5.9

Newer Release Available

Our current release is available here

Newsletter

Check out the Release Newsletter for Teamscale 5.9.

Changed System Requirements

Update from Older Version

  • When updating from 5.9.x, drop-in.
  • When updating from 5.9.8 or earlier, update to at least 5.9.12.
  • When updating from 5.8.x or earlier, a full re-analysis via backup is required.

Version 5.9.15

Download Teamscale v5.9.15 (ZIP)
28th July, 2020

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

Download Teamscale v5.9.14 (ZIP)
22nd July, 2020

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

Download Teamscale v5.9.13 (ZIP)
14th July, 2020

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

Download Teamscale v5.9.12 (ZIP)
9th July, 2020

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

WARNING

  • Do not upgrade to this version from 5.9.8 or earlier, upgrade to 5.9.12 or later instead
Download Teamscale v5.9.11 (ZIP)
7th July, 2020

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

WARNING

  • Do not upgrade to this version from 5.9.8 or earlier, upgrade to 5.9.12 or later instead
Download Teamscale v5.9.10 (ZIP)
30th June, 2020

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

WARNING

  • Do not upgrade to this version from 5.9.8 or earlier, upgrade to 5.9.12 or later instead
Download Teamscale v5.9.9 (ZIP)
23rd June, 2020

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

Download Teamscale v5.9.8 (ZIP)
16th June, 2020

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

Download Teamscale v5.9.7 (ZIP)
9th June, 2020

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

Download Teamscale v5.9.6 (ZIP)
2nd June, 2020

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


Version 5.9.5

Download Teamscale v5.9.5 (ZIP)
26th May, 2020

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

Download Teamscale v5.9.4 (ZIP)
19th May, 2020

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

Download Teamscale v5.9.3 (ZIP)
12th May, 2020

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

Download Teamscale v5.9.2 (ZIP)
5th May, 2020

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

Download Teamscale v5.9.1 (ZIP)
28th April, 2020

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

Download Teamscale v5.9.0 (ZIP)
21st April, 2020

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