Changelog for Teamscale 6.4 ​

Version 6.4.10 ​

Fixes ​

• State of collapse buttons of the left and right sidebars was inconsistent in some cases
• False positives for "Non-void function should return a value" check in C++
• False positives for "Top-level class name" check in C++ when class names were preceded by namespaces
• "Methods should not have arrays as arguments" check generated findings for main functions in C++
• Right mouse click on a finding in the findings table did not open the context menu in IE 11

Improvements ​

• New option in "Do not declare anything in restricted namespaces" check to add allowed class template specializations (e.g. std::hash)

Version 6.4.9 ​

Fixes ​

• False positives for "Null pointer dereference" check in Java
• PatternSyntaxException in "Own header should be included first" check if the file name contained regex symbols
• Adding a code snippet to a task failed if a branch had been manually selected for the snippet
• When updating an assessment, the architecture editor lost all matched types for a component if the component had the same name as the architecture
• CMocka testsuites were ignored when uploading JUnit reports to Teamscale
• Importing of identical external metric descriptions failed with an exception
• IntelliJ plug-in: NullPointerException during IDE start up after update to IntelliJ 2020.3.1

Version 6.4.8 ​

Fixes ​

• The difference to baseline link in the Findings Detail view was never shown
• The Issues metric page provided no way to add a new issue metric
• Nesting Depth Assessment metric was incorrectly calculated in the presence of nested lambdas
• FindingsTracker had very long run times
• Lines with C++ macros were omitted in Line Coverage metric calculation

Version 6.4.7 ​

Fixes ​

• The Architecture Editor sometimes showed assessments even when showing them was disabled
• The Architecture Editor did retrieve assessments multiple times for a single change of the model
• Policy visibility in the Architecture Editor was not correct after setting a component to public
• NullPointerException in Task Detail slide if the task contained a finding that was removed by file deletion
• The layout of code snippets on the Task Detail slide was broken when using long titles
• Users could not edit their own dashboards in some cases

Version 6.4.6 ​

Fixes ​

• The percentage values in the Test Gap Trend Chart widget sometimes did not add up to one hundred percent
• Collapsing a component in the architecture editor created new policies instead of combining existing ones whenever possible
• When expanding a collapsed component in the architecture editor, the policies were sometimes shown in the wrong position
• Errors in some dashboard widgets due to missing metrics from the threshold profile

Version 6.4.5 ​

Fixes ​

• Communication with Bitbucket servers failed if self-signed SSL certificates were used
• Blacklisting too many findings for the same file caused Teamscale to allocate all system resources
• Reimporting old reports sometimes led to a broken report editor
• When creating reports from a template the owner property was not correctly set
• Dashboards could not be deleted if they contained invalid JSON
• The content of Issue Table widgets was rendered outside the bounds of its container
• Legend in the Assessment Pie Chart widget was showing redundant 0 values
• Searching for a type in the architecture editor did not correctly highlight collapsed components
• Using the remove and control keys in the architecture editor's comment field affected the architecture components
• Architecture editor did not remember the filter settings
• OpenCover and Clover were not offered as available test coverage tools in the analysis profile configuration
• SVN merges were not correctly recognized in rare cases, leading to stalled analysis progress
• Merge Requests page showed a link to reconfigure the project even if the user did not have project edit permissions
• Method length analysis for JavaScript code sometimes failed with a NullPointerException
• Misaligned metric values in the Summary table in the right sidebar when viewing the code of a file
• Misleading error message in case of an invalid default branch in a git-based repository connector
• Artifactory connector sometimes incorrectly analyzed revisions that were older than the configured start revision

Improvements ​

• Improved performance in the report editor for reports with many slides

Version 6.4.4 ​

Fixes ​

• Re-importing unprocessed external upload sessions led to multiple rollbacks
• Test coverage was not merged correctly in some cases
• Test coverage which has been merged transitively across multiple branches led to a red error page in the Method History view
• Binary files were analyzed if they were mistakenly included in the connector patterns
• Preprocessed if-statements without curly braces in C/C++ sometimes caused errors in the DataFlowFindingsSynchronizer
• The Hide and Show settings in the architecture editor were not applied to collapsed components
• The focus of a component in the architecture editor was lost on selecting a policy
• False positives for Redundant parentheses check in Python
• Creating a project via a service call without specifying the commit-analysis granularity was no longer possible
• Architectures with spaces in their names could not be imported
• Some dashboards could not be imported
• Editing a task set its last updated timestamp to zero

Improvements ​

• The architecture editor's Exclude component option now has search-and-type functionality
• The performance of regex validation in the architecture editor has been improved

Version 6.4.3 ​

Fixes ​

• Findings perspective could not be opened in some cases
• Architecture analysis did not consider dynamic ES6 imports
• Excluded component mappings were not updated after renaming architecture components
• Excluded component entries were not sorted
• Affected lines for architecture findings were not shown in the finding details view
• An architecture-overlap warning was sometimes mistakenly displayed
• Validation of architecture component names was overly restrictive
• Architectures were not saved in case only a comment of a component was changed
• Hide/Show state was inconsistent after switching to edit mode in the architecture editor
• False positives in long method analysis in JavaScript
• False positives for "C++ naming conventions" check for constructor declarations
• Task status filter got stuck in an inactive state once all statuses were unchecked
• LDAP group members were lost after a sync of the group.
• CheckProcessor errors when analyzing ABAP code
• Initial dashboards created while creating a project did not use the provided alias leading to errors
• IntelliJ plug-in: The Project Mappings Settings page did not work due to an AssertionError
• NetBeans plug-in did not show Teamscale's settings page in the properties of Gradle projects

Improvements ​

• IntelliJ and NetBeans plug-ins are now disabled for new projects by default to avoid redundant notifications

Version 6.4.2 ​

Fixes ​

• Repeated line comments for structure findings whose associated metric details had changed
• Testwise coverage was not shown when opening a file via an architecture path
• False positives for "Avoid using c-style arrays in C++" check flagging char[] used for string constants
• False positives for "Avoid conditional expressions of the form if (true..." checks in case of complex expressions
• Connector option Ignore Yellow Findings For Comments did not have any effect
• Switching default branches in Git connectors could lead to unwanted side effects and missing commits
• Creating an external upload session based on a Git revision failed in case of missing credentials
• ESLintFindingsSynchronizer failed with ESLint could not find plugin message when using custom ESLint configuration
• NullPointerException when parsing Simulink models with unsupported port types
• Scheduled maintenance triggers were skipped when Teamscale was under high load

Improvements ​

• Documentation for the teamscale-upload Jenkins plugin

Version 6.4.1 ​

Fixes ​

• Rollbacks occurred due to write overlap
• Trends in the Issues page started on January 1st 1970
• Single Metric Trend Chart widgets showed no trend
• False positives for "Statements in Conditional Expression are equal" check for C/C++ in case of macro expansions
• Upload dates for external data changed in case of reanalyses or rollbacks
• Changes to the field Finding Creation in the architecture editor were sometimes overwritten
• The font size of block quotes in task descriptions was too big
• User or group filter dropdowns in the Activity perspective were initially empty
• Sorting the table in the Files page in the Test Gaps perspective did not work

Version 6.4.0 ​

Major Features ​

• Analysis granularity configuration
• Support for importing SonarQube Quality Profiles (Java, JavaScript, Kotlin and PHP)
• Test Gaps perspective: New Unlinked Changes page showing changes with test gaps, which are not linked to any issue

Web UI ​

• Code view: Line coverage can now be filtered by partitions
• Activity perspective: New detail view for test coverage upload commits
• Activity perspective: Commits can now be filtered using the text in commit messages
• Baselines can now be added or edited directly from the widget settings dialog
• New toggle to hide default or unused profiles in the Analysis Profiles page

Architecture Editor ​

• Sub-components can now be collapsed
• Ability to sort the mappings list either lexicographically or based on the number of matches

SAML Integration ​

• Support for encrypted assertions and generating metadata XML for IdP
• New option to specify SAML IdP metadata via URL
• Improved error messages in case of SAML authentication issues

Languages and Tools ​

• JavaScript/TypeScript analysis: Support for .jsx and .tsx file extensions
• C/C++: Any preprocessor directives can now be used in the default-directives box in the analysis profile
• Simulink Model Advisor: Findings are now generated for failed analyses from the report
• Simulink Model Advisor: Support for some legacy checks
• SAP integration: Coverage from SAP tests can now be retrieved per test

New Checks ​

• "Comments should not contain nested comments" check (Objective-C & Python)

Administration ​

• New analysis profile option allowing Clang-Tidy C++ checks to be executed for C code as well
• Ability to export analysis profiles, project configurations, dashboards and threshold profiles in JSON format