Changelog for Teamscale 7.8 ​

Version 7.8.19 ​

Fixes ​

• False positives for "Comments should not contain nested comments" check in Python when comments contained URLs with #

Improvements ​

• Support for setting a credentials process for S3 connector through a configuration property

Version 7.8.18 ​

Fixes ​

• JsonSerializationException in LoadAndIntegrateSapTestwiseCoverageTrigger
• License was not valid on the last day of the license period
• Rendering the verification matrix blocked UI for multiple seconds on huge data sets
• Teamscale added badges to merge requests that had no relevant changes

Version 7.8.17 ​

Fixes ​

• Font color UI glitch in left sidebar

Improvements ​

• Updated dependencies in docker image to latest version

Version 7.8.16 ​

Fixes ​

• Contents of some dashboard widgets were not properly adjusted after browser window resize
• Treemap in Commit Details view did not show up sometimes
• "Too much data to show" error displayed when viewing large treemaps
• Delta view of merge requests could not be opened in a new tab
• Parsing errors for annotations on Java arrays
• HDL Code Advisor checks could not be parsed from a Model Advisor report
• Ordering and searching Simulink findings by location were not working properly
• Badges were not shown for GitHub pull requests that had no findings
• Connectors were shown as part of repositories they did not belong to
• New commits were sometimes not analyzed if there were no commits during the initial analysis
• NoSuchPullRequestException for merge requests in Teamscale that have already been deleted in Bitbucket
• False positive for "Assignment of a variable to itself" check in Swift

Improvements ​

• Updated Node.js to the latest version to fix potential remote code execution

Version 7.8.15 ​

Fixes ​

• Git repository synchronization failed if the default branch was removed
• Teamscale did not vote on GitHub pull requests without any findings
• Rollback was unnecessarily postponed after specification items were manually cleaned
• NullPointerException in SwiftLintOutputParser
• Metric File Distribution widget could not show specification items metrics if there were multiple folders for one part of the path
• IndexOutOfBoundsException in "Bad assignments" check for Objective-C
• ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in BitbucketServerMergeRequestSynchronizer after multiple retries
• False positives for "Assignment of variable to itself" check for multi-line assignments in Swift

Version 7.8.14 ​

Fixes ​

• Race condition in ESLintFindingsSynchronizer could lead to missing npm modules and corresponding worker log errors
• Missing code location column in table on Test Filter view
• GitHubMergeRequestSynchronizer could run indefinitely
• False-positives for "Assert statement without ID" check for ABAP
• False-positives for "Avoid usage of implicit int" check for C/C++
• Rare NullPointerException in ArtifactoryContentUpdater when updating existing archives in Artifactory
• Number of specification items did not correctly account for multiple changes for the same item in merge requests
• Projects or branches in the "recent" section of the selection dropdown where not shown in the full list below
• Branch of the revision was not selected when time travelling to it
• Connector status was green even when the default branch was deleted on the server
• Tooltip text size for tree maps was dependent on the screen resolution

Improvements ​

• Better performance of GerritChangeRetriever for large amounts of Gerrit changes

Version 7.8.13 ​

Fixes ​

• Polarion fields for linked work items were mixed up
• S3 connector failed due to malformed authorization header
• High memory consumption when multiple external reports were uploaded or changed at the same time

Version 7.8.12 ​

Fixes ​

• NullPointerException in TestHistorySynchronizer
• "Enable Findings Badge for votes" option for merge request annotations was disabled when updating from previous versions
• "Statements in Conditional Expression are equal" check was falsely applied to pre-processed C++ code
• Excessive synchronization with remote git repository
• Tooltip links for the submenu on the Delta view were broken when the left sidebar was collapsed
• Task details view for resolved findings was showing the current code instead of the code causing it
• NullPointerException in ContainerSynchronizerBase for corner cases of non-code metrics

Version 7.8.11 ​

Fixes ​

• False positives for "Null pointer dereference" check in C/C++ for loops
• System info page showed a red error banner on certain Linux systems
• Comments in Quality Task slides did not support Markdown
• Visual Studio plugin: Reverting changes of a pre-commit analysis did not remove the respective findings
• Bitbucket: Teamscale was sometimes not voting on merge requests during high traffic

Version 7.8.10 ​

Fixes ​

• Ternary operators in initialization lists in C++ were not parsed correctly
• Null-conditional operators in C# were incorrectly handled in case expressions of switch statements
• External pylint reports could not be parsed if spaces were missing
• NullPointerException in TestHistorySynchronizer
• Adding a branch with the same name as a branch rename target led to inconsistencies
• Storage directory size was incorrectly computed in MB instead of GB
• Disabling the backup options "include pending external analysis result sessions" and "include git labeling information" had no effect
• TGA treemaps and Changed Files in the Delta perspective showed too many files when the name of the selected folder was a prefix for another sibling folder
• Specification item queries using codeReferences or testReferences were not usable on dashboards
• NullPointerException about skipped post revision triggers due to missing analysis state
• Quality goal settings were not preserved when changing the file path for the Findings and Metrics perspectives
• In some cases text could overlap the Treemap widget
• C# switch expressions were not handled correctly in dataflow analyses

Improvements ​

• Speed up for scheduling of external analysis triggers
• Better initial loading time for Test Filter view
• Better documentation for the creation of GitLab webhooks

Version 7.8.9 ​

Fixes ​

• AssertionError in TypeIndexSynchronizer due to missing support for ABAP enhancement objects from abapGit repositories
• Branch coverage detection failed for branches with only a single line of code

Version 7.8.8 ​

Fixes ​

• Check descriptions in the Analysis profile editor could appear hidden in the background
• Using await before foreach statement in C# was not parsed correctly
• Static local functions in C# were not parsed correctly
• Line numbers of SAP code inspector findings were wrong in class private or protected sections
• Project admin access for project creator was not transferred when changing the public ID of a project
• Obsolete finding discussions in Gitlab merge requests were sometimes not resolved
• Check for nested comments was running very long for JavaScript files with inline source maps
• False positives for "Variable assigned to itself" check when using C# object initializers
• In rare edge cases methods were incorrectly shown as untested even though they were covered after their last modification
• Voting did not happen when the "Partitions Required for Voting" option was enabled and the uploaded external data was empty
• Some widgets could not be added to dashboards if the project had a lexicographically smaller alias
• UnsatisfiedLinkError in TFS connector
• Objective-C preprocessed code was not ignored in the "Statements in Conditional Expression are equal" check
• Some branches were considered covered even if no coverage reports were uploaded
• C# property initializations were not parsed correctly
• Users could alter the avatar images of other users
• ESLint configuration files other than json, yml or yaml have to be allowed explicitly (e.g. JavaScript files, which are executable)

Improvements ​

• Improved security against path traversal and DoS attacks

Version 7.8.7 ​

Fixes ​

• AssertionError for unrecognized foreach macro in C++
• AssertionError for ABAP when a SYNTAX-CHECK argument was named like a keyword (e.g., "message")
• NullPointerException in "Post-Operator in return statement" check
• False positives for dead store analysis when using C# tuple syntax
• Pareto chart did not show ticks on the x-axis in some cases
• Error in SwiftLintRunner if project did not contain any Swift files
• StackOverflowError for recursively nested Simulink models
• Clone coverage metric was not correct for C/C++ files using macros
• Teamscale-SCI Integration: Space characters in ABAP function group names caused Bad Request errors

Improvements ​

• In the Metric Percentage widget, a different path can now be selected for the denominator metric

Version 7.8.6 ​

Fixes ​

• TFS library error in TfsContentUpdater
• False positive clone findings in C++ header files for re-declared virtual functions
• Pre-commit jobs led to exceptions in the scheduler during rollbacks
• Coverage path mapping was sometimes incorrect when multiple coverages referred to the same file name
• External reports were not imported from repositories (e.g., Artifactory, S3)
• Struct members were erroneously detected as unread variables
• Polarion: Relationships between specification items were not updated reliably in specification item table and queries

Version 7.8.5 ​

Fixes ​

• Upload dates of external uploads were incorrect when imported from backup
• Architecture analysis created many false positive dependencies for C# projects
• Quality goal settings were not considered for findings treemap in Findings List view
• C# parser error when using default operator
• Large rollbacks could lead to OutOfMemoryErrors when using Xodus storage backend
• Misleading error message was displayed when unknown attribute was used in a numeric aggregation function (e.g. size()) in issue queries
• C++ naming convention findings were displayed for Objective-C code
• Errors in Clang-Tidy execution for C, C++ and Objective-C when using relative include paths
• False positives for "Each variable should be declared in a separate statement" check in Objective-C++
• RFC authorization issues when using the SAP JCo library

Improvements ​

• Show better explained message instead of alarming NoSuchFileException during computation of storage directory size
• .NET Profiler: Upload Daemon now sends distinct user agent header for Teamscale uploads

Version 7.8.4 ​

Fixes ​

• IndexOutOfBoundsException for "Duplicate Set Elements" check for empty set in Swift
• IndexOutOfBoundsException in "String interpolation argument number" check
• False positives for commented out code in C# when using empty summary block or keywords in the comment (e.g. object)
• Finding locations of commented out code findings were offset for classes with an InitializeComponent method
• Wrong dependency was extracted in the C# architecture analysis when classes with the same full qualified names existed in multiple Visual Studio projects of which only one was visible
• NullPointerException in the TestCaseExtractionSynchronizer when a test implementation was no longer known
• OutOfMemoryError in FindingsTracker on large deltas
• Group filter broke when filtering by groups containing a backslash
• False positives in "Check the display attributes of block names" check for HDL Coder library blocks
• IndexOutOfBoundException in SimulinkDimensionalityResolver
• False negatives in "Avoid using C-style arrays" check when using .cc file extension
• Using out as a label with goto statement in Objective-C was not parsed correctly
• Preprocessor directives that contain unbalanced quotes were not parsed correctly
• Specification items were not deleted from Teamscale when they were deleted from Polarion
• Line comments limit was not working for Gerrit connectors
• GerritFindingBlacklistTrigger threw NoSuchElementException in rare cases
• TestMetricsAndContentSynchronizer ran very long in some cases
• TfsWorkItemSynchronizer did not adher to the "Retry-After" reply header in case of many outgoing requests
• IllegalThreadStateException when waiting for external processes in rare cases
• SAML login was not working if authentication response contained additional parameter (e.g. RelayState)
• Eclipse plugin: Server names with special characters (white spaces, slashes) could not be saved
• Import of code inspector findings from SAP systems did not work reliably
• Merge request comments were not deleted when comment limit was exceeded
• Gerrit votes were skipped in certain scenarios

Version 7.8.3 ​

Fixes ​

• False positives for "Avoid unused private methods" check in Java
• False positives for "Redundant parentheses" check in Python when returning a generator expression
• Visual Studio was frozen during pre-commit
• Visual Studio plug-in: Pre-commit was not offered for projects, solutions or solution folders
• C# "expression-bodied" methods and properties were considered to be non-coverable
• Selection of nested partitions was not persisted when all sub-partitions were selected
• Too many similar logs when processing report uploads
• Deleted files in Artifactory could lead to infinite analysis loop
• Gosu: Top level functions with return values were not parsed correctly
• False positive clone findings for Objective-C methods copy, copyWithZone and isEqual
• Code Comparison page was sometimes not able to load the code for one revision
• Filtering findings by path had no effect in the Findings perspective
• Visual Studio plug-in: The Findings view only showed "Loading findings..." if Teamscale was not configured for the associated solution
• False positives for "Switch statements should not contain unexpected constructs" check in C++
• BOM characters in JavaScript files caused scanner errors
• MergeRequestSynchronizers tried to synchronize merge requests from other connectors in the project
• AWS S3 backups could not be deleted
• Concurrent uploading of multiple external analysis results blocked the creation of other sessions in some circumstances

Improvements ​

• Artifactory: Improved content retrieval performance for large changesets
• Improved findings description of "Octal constants usage" check
• Improved findings description of "Non-empty switch clauses have to be terminated unconditionally" check

Version 7.8.2 ​

Fixes ​

• Images on Image slide rendered poorly when exceeding the slide's height
• False positives for "Non-virtual destructor" check in C++ on classes with deleted destructor
• False positives for "Multiple statements in single line" check in PL/SQL when using aggregate functions
• StackOverflowError in TypeScript parser when reserved keywords were used as parameter names in lambda type guards
• Code blocks in finding descriptions were not rendered consistently
• Backups could not be exported to AWS S3
• Coverage data exported by XCode 13.3 couldn't be parsed
• Metrics for issues or specification items were not reliably updated due to caching

Improvements ​

• Improved documentation on how to install the Eclipse, IntelliJ, NetBeans, and Visual Studio plug-ins when offline
• The Gerrit repository connector now uses robot comments for Teamscale findings instead of regular comments

Version 7.8.1 ​

Fixes ​

• Add baseline button in time picker dialog was shown when user did not have Edit Baselines permission
• False positives for "Check unused data in Data Dictionary" check in Simulink
• False positives for "Unused variable or parameter" check in C# when using multiple discards _1, _2, etc.
• False negatives for "Check for Usage of Gain Blocks" in Simulink in corner cases involving the Auto default storage class
• T-SQL code clones were not detected
• Download Ranking as CSV button in Pareto ranking view offered invalid CSV
• IndexOutOfBoundsException in "Names must not only differ in casing" check
• An internal server error occurred when updating the project configuration of projects using the parent project feature
• Opening the Issue Details page for a ticket did not work when all the ticket's findings were flagged as tolerated or false positive
• Check Explorer and Analysis Profiles views ignored user-defined check descriptions
• Eclipse/IntelliJ/NetBeans plug-ins ceased to work if license was expiring soon
• The C# unsafe keyword was treated as coverable
• Computation of Pareto ranking was started as soon as the view was opened, potentially impacting performance

Improvements ​

• Improved description of "Assignment to wider type" check in C/C++

Version 7.8.0 ​

Web UI ​

• Check Explorer can now show descriptions of analysis profiles
• Test Metrics view: Test Implementations and Test Executions are now separated into their own tabs
• New function codeLocation for test query search
• External Reports upload view now supports pagination
• Findings CSV export in the Findings perspective now includes whether a finding has been resolved or not
• Included clone alerts into merge request line comments
• Architecture Editor: Code Mappings of parent components are now respected in child components for newly created architecture models
• Added support for announcing events

New Options ​

• Immutable macro definitions can now be added in the analysis profiles
• Enabled source-library connector options for Simulink projects

New Checks ​

• Approximately 200 new checks available for Swift
• "Duplicate Set element" check for C/C++, Java, JS, Kotlin, Python, Swift
• Added Support for SonarLint for C#
• Added Support for SwiftLint

Testing ​

• C# tests using the NUnit testing framework version 2 and 3 are now extracted from test code and shown in the Tests view of the Metrics perspective
• Upload of test execution reports is now supported for the testing framework NUnit versions 2 and 3

IDE Integrations ​

• Visual Studio: Now supports blacklisting of false positive findings

Administration ​

• Automatic daily backups at midnight are now active by default to prevent data loss
• New Teamscale instances now, by default, store backups in a "backup" folder in the working directory