Changelog for Teamscale 8.9 ​

Version 8.9.17 ​

Fixes ​

• Security: Users could gain access to quality reports without permission
• False positives for "Multiple statements in same line" check for Objective-C++ in case of constructor initializer lists
• False positives for "Each variable should be declared in separate statement" check for Objective-C++ in case of lambdas defined as properties
• IndexOutOfBoundsException in "Hard-coded user name" check in ABAP
• Finding messages in tooltips contained incorrectly escaped characters in some cases
• Header files in Objective-C were incorrectly classified as C files in some cases
• False positives for multiple checks, e.g. "Methods should not have too many parameters" check, for Objective-C++ with the @property keyword
• ShallowParserException in TypeScript when leaving out the left operand in expressions with the | or & operator

Version 8.9.16 ​

Fixes ​

• False positives for "Methods should not be defined in a header file" check for Objective-C when using inline and const keywords

Version 8.9.15 ​

Fixes ​

• Misleading message was shown in issue details view in case of flagged findings
• False positives for "Control flow depending on system variable (SY-...)" check in ABAP for conditional operator statements
• Security: Updating an external account URI was possible without providing the password
• False positive for "Unnecessary exit statement" check in C++ when using a macro before a break statement in a default section
• Wrong project could be shown in some situations when having multiple open tabs with different projects
• Automatic Git garbage collection ran even if the option was disabled

Version 8.9.14 ​

Fixes ​

• The automatic Git garbage collection maintenance did not run any garbage collections
• C# architecture analysis did not consider transitive project references for SDK-style projects
• Editing a project with absolute date in a field caused re-analysis when user had a time zone with a large offset
• Non-admin users with group edit rights could not access the group edit view

Improvements ​

• Reduced log level for unresolved issue references from error to warning

Version 8.9.13 ​

Fixes ​

• Projects could not be filtered in "Select Users, Group or Project" selector
• Eclipse plugin: "Upload Projects for Pre-Commit Analysis" required all projects to be Teamscale enabled
• Links to specification items in Code view led to non-existing page
• Security: API token used for a remote instance comparison was visible to other admin users
• Check explorer: Wrong supported languages for some rules
• False positives for "Hard-coded user name" check for ABAP
• False positives for "Comments should not contain nested comments” check for “C/C++”
• NullPointerException when deleting multiple projects in a row
• Findings Churn widget did not respect the "Findings Type" setting
• Voting on Bitbucket server merge requests did not work in some cases
• Reports: Test Detail slide misaligned comments for multi-line titles
• No jobs were scheduled in Teamscale when upgrading from a previous patch

Version 8.9.12 ​

Fixes ​

• ClassCastException when opening the Metrics > Spec Items view
• Permissions were inconsistent after LDAP or GitHub groups were deleted
• False positives for "Value assigned to variable ... is never read" check for C++
• typedef with struct was not parsed correctly for Objective-C
• OutOfMemoryError in instance comparison in some cases
• IndexOutOfBoundsException for "Bad assignments" check for Objective-C
• Project selector allowed switching to a different project in Finding Details view
• Copying projects with issue or requirements connectors failed if the "Copy all project data" option was disabled
• Project ID could not be changed when project validation failed

Improvements ​

• Automatic garbage collection for Git connections is now configurable in the server options

Version 8.9.11 ​

Fixes ​

• False positives for "Comparison with NULL using = operator" check for Transact-SQL
• Read caching in the storage system could cause OutOfMemoryError
• Hidden .metadata files were shown in the search results
• False positives for "Variable is assigned to itself" check for Kotlin if safe call operator was used
• Treemap annotations were not rendered on Test Gap Treemap slides if they would have overflown
• Applying a change to a slide then switching to another slide sometimes jumped back to the previous slide

Version 8.9.10 ​

Fixes ​

• AssertionError when importing backups in rare cases
• Simulink data type inference did not terminate for some specific models
• Assigned lambdas in JavaScript/TypeScript were not considered as methods in TGA
• For some commits, the number of findings in the Commit Details view was incorrectly shown as zero
• Including submodules that used a default branch different from the one in the main repository did not work

Version 8.9.9 ​

Fixes ​

• Test Gap Treemap slide always used default branch for partition selection
• Analysis profile configuration options for abaplint were not considered in the analysis
• Editing users was not possible due to an error in the Edit user view
• Issue query input element in Issues view was too small
• Job Queue button in System > Execution Status view showed "undefined delayed" for the total number of queued jobs
• Backup export dialog did not retain selected projects when switching to another tab
• IndexOutOfBoundsException in DataFlowFindingsSynchronizer for for loop with init statement in C++
• Loading of global instance warnings could take multiple seconds
• NullPointerException for escaped carriage return character in Kotlin
• App-based GitHub issue connector failed validation
• Toleration and false positive flagging was lost for Simulink findings on backup import
• Security: "Referrer-Policy" disclosed server name to external services
• Pre-Commit was not possible if the current branch was unknown to Teamscale
• Hiding the 'Tasks' column in the Findings table did not work

Version 8.9.8 ​

Fixes ​

• Dashboard import API did not allow updating an existing dashboard
• Teamscale could not import SAP system exports with very large object metadata files
• False negatives for commented-out code analyses in Java
• False positives for "Non-empty switch clauses have to be terminated unconditionally" check in C++
• ESLint native binaries were deleted during parallel execution of ESLintSynchronizer
• IntelliJ plugin: Fetch finding widget indicated that findings were pending although no teamscale server was configured
• Architecture changes on a branch before project start revision were silently discarded
• Bitbucket code insights were not displayed by default if their corresponding lines were not shown in the pull request's diff view of changed lines
• Changing project in advanced code search reset the page
• Group Edit view showed role assignment of current user instead of selected group

Improvements ​

• Simulink: Improved performance of data-type extraction

Version 8.9.7 ​

Fixes ​

• MATLAB files were sometimes erroneously detected as Objective-C files
• ABAP method definitions could not be properly identified for some checks
• Bullseye Coverage Reports: Parsing failed if switch-case contained a lambda expression
• Bullseye Coverage Reports: Parsing failed for statements in lambda functions
• JaCoCo Agent wizard suggested weird package names when the project included non-JVM programming languages
• Snippet Analysis did not always update Representation tab
• In rare cases, if multiple files had the same name but different extensions, the architecture metrics were calculated incorrectly
• ABAP method names were not correctly parsed in some cases
• Requirements Tracing: Horizontal scrollbar was only available by scrolling to the bottom of the page in the Verification Matrix view
• Findings badge was not rendered correctly in Bitbucket pull requests
• Bitbucket webhook events scheduled merge request updates for wrong projects

Improvements ​

• Gravatar usage can be disabled globally using feature flag -Dcom.teamscale.disable-gravatar=true

Version 8.9.6 ​

Fixes ​

• Sending e-mail notification failed with provider not found
• MATLAB files were sometimes erroneously detected as Objective-C files
• Snippet Analysis: Indentation for AST representation was missing
• IndexOutOfBoundsException in "Bad assignments" check for Objective-C
• Incorrect error message displayed in Delta view for Spec Items delta type
• PolarionSynchronizer failed with a NoSuchElementException in some cases
• AbapScanner erroneously marked \ as an illegal character in CDS ABAP code
• Abaplint findings description of "change if to case" check was wrong
• IndexOutOfBoundsException in data flow analysis
• Treemap tab in the test filter view was misnamed and no warnings were shown in case of no testwise coverage
• System > Execution Status view could be very slow because all jobs were fetched when opening it
• False positives for "Unreachable code after exit statement" check in Kotlin
• Role assignment selector did not work when assigning the same role twice
• S3 and Artifactory connectors sometimes did not show files in the file preview
• IntelliJ plugin: "No mapping found" warnings when viewing files from a source archive
• Spurious whitespace changes for connector properties in Instance Comparison view
• Findings view treemap could not be opened if LoC metrics were disabled in analysis profile
• Retrieving code changes from TFS could sometimes run into a reoccurring RepositoryException
• Pre-commit data was shown when using Instance Comparison
• Add to Jira issues option could not be configured separately for each Jira issue connector in the project
• Backup import from other instance failed with OutOfMemoryError
• Eclipse plugin: ABAP CDS objects were not supported

Improvements ​

• Improved performance of the ABAP scanner
• Improved documentation for Teamscale Integration for Visual Studio
• Admin can now distinguish pre-commit branches of users
• Better logging for StackOverFlowError while creating a TFS connection

Version 8.9.5 ​

Fixes ​

• IndexOutOfBoundsException in "Replace magic numbers with named constants" check for ABAP
• False positives for commented-out code analysis
• False positives for "Return value null dereferencing" check
• Visual Studio plugin: Newer versions of plugin showed up in unsupported IDE versions 2015 & 2017
• Clang-Tidy modernize-raw-string-literal findings description formatting was broken
• NullPointerException in TestImpactSynchronizer in some cases when processing execution units
• Parsing of issues with long descriptions failed in some cases
• ABAP Scanner was not able to scan "method" as an identifier
• IntelliJ plugin: "Refresh Findings" task failed with "cannot load findings because .teamscale.toml not found"
• Instance comparison showed too many differences in project configuration
• Projects with reports uploaded to an external storage backend could not be edited or copied
• Users with an e-mail as the username could not be added to groups
• Activity view showed no commits in some cases
• Incorrect types in Simulink type analysis for some cases where types from subsystem outports were not propagated upwards
• False positives for "Comments should not contain nested comments" check for trailing slashes in a comment for Objective-C++
• False positives for "Methods should not be defined in a header file" check for C++
• Branch transformations sometimes led the default branch to be excluded from the analysis resulting in an error

Improvements ​

• Security: Docker image directories containing executable jars are now marked as read-only
• Improved parallel scheduling of ClangTidySynchronizer on different branches
• Introduced "Import Only Items Changed After" option for issue/requirements connectors to limit the import of old items
• Improved instance comparison performance for test gap analysis
• ABAP Metadata files are now included per default in ABAP connectors

Version 8.9.4 ​

Fixes ​

• Simulink: Indirectly linked data dictionaries were not considered for type propagation
• False positives for "Multiple statements in same line" check in Kotlin
• SVN start revisions were incorrectly interpreted as dates in the Edit Project view
• Non-admin Teamscale users could not view ABAP file metadata due to permission error
• Pre-commit did not support path transformations
• Check Explorer did not show external metrics
• Findings Summary widget did not show all categories in its settings
• Azure DevOps Boards issue connector did not validate all connector fields before saving the project
• ClassCastException with custom field types in PolarionSynchronizer
• SpecItemIndexCleanupTrigger did not clear the specification items correctly
• ConcurrentModificationException in TestHistorySynchronizer
• Dashboards perspective was broken if users had deleted dashboards marked as favorite
• Voting connectors did not include submodules configured with SSH URLs
• Static methods in Objective-C were not parsed correctly
• GitHub validation for public repositories reported no errors if the access token was not valid
• Importing backups with external uploads twice could trigger rollbacks also on the second backup import

Improvements ​

• Improved performance of CodeOwnershipSynchronizer on large commits containing non-code paths (e.g. test executions)
• Improved performance of loading metrics

Version 8.9.3 ​

Fixes ​

• False positives for "Use only one font in a Simulink model" check in Simulink
• AssertionError in S3ContentUpdater or ArtifactoryContentUpdater when new S3 or Artifactory uploads occurred during ongoing analysis
• Test cases that are part of execution units were sometimes duplicated for merge commits
• Preview was broken after changing the avatar image
• Parsing error for C/C++ code when using pragma directives between if, else-if and else statements
• False positives for "Missing interface comment" check in Kotlin when using @field annotations
• False positives for "Unreachable code after exit statement" check in JavaScript/TypeScript when using get and set methods
• External reports uploaded to SVN revisions were stuck in Queued state when analysis was still in progress
• ABAP metadata files were visible in the UI
• Activity > Commits view: Findings churn of merge commits excluded the findings introduced by the merge commit

Improvements ​

• Improved performance of ABAP architecture analysis

Version 8.9.2 ​

Fixes ​

• Visual Studio plugin: BadRequestException when retrieving findings for files with no findings
• Visual Studio plugin: TOML migration message always appeared although it was not performed
• Rollback loops in architecture triggers due to conflicts in completion timestamps
• HTTP 404 error when creating a dashboard from a template during project creation
• Validation error for Polarion connectors due to missing modify permissions
• Analysis Profile with PowerShellScriptAnalyzer activated could not be saved
• PowerShellScriptAnalyzer verify step failed due to wrong Powershell version in Teamscale docker image
• NullPointerException in CppDependencyExtractor
• Some tolerated ESLint findings got lost after project import and reanalysis
• Referencing stored issue queries that use the baseline function threw parsing errors
• Teamscale ran out of heap memory due to huge amounts of processed external uploads marked for deletion
• External uploads in an external storage backend were kept during a project copy
• Check Explorer: Missing checks and misplaced options
• When creating reports from templates, project names and dates were not automatically adjusted

Improvements ​

• Improved logging in case of problems with Git garbage collection

Version 8.9.1 ​

Fixes ​

• IntelliJ Plugin: IllegalArgumentException for file paths that contained special characters
• Rollbacks occurred in scenarios with many triggers running in parallel due to write overlaps
• Dashboards: Widget section icons in the right sidebar were displayed above Save As button during scrolling
• Reporting: Highlighting of braces & identifiers did not work correctly
• Bullseye Coverage Reports: Some probe event types were not fully supported
• Delta analysis results for a group were accessible to users without corresponding permissions
• Macro expansions on report slides for C, Objective-C and Objective-C++ did not work correctly
• Overflow in the Issue Details view for issue fields that contain long strings (such as URLs)
• File Size assessment metric was not available in the selection dialog for the Metrics Change Table widget
• NullPointerException in CodeChangeIndexSynchronizer when processing line-based text files
• Analysis granularity was enabled after saving a project configuration without modifications in some cases

Improvements ​

• Improved logging for response to webhooks for unknown repositories

Version 8.9.0 ​

Web UI ​

• Worker Logs view: Input delta size is now shown in the table
• System perspective now keeps the current filter parameters upon refresh
• Check Explorer can differentiate between internal and external tools
• Delta view: Added toggle for flagged findings
• Spec Items Findings view: New specification item query selector to filter findings
• Test Selection view now allows selecting stored queries
• Worker Logs view: ERROR and WARN labels are easier to see, message table is sortable and links are used for the input deltas
• Test Selection view: UI/UX improvements
• Additional check whether projects should be reanalyzed when saving analysis profiles
• Commits in the Commit Chart widget now show the commit message on hover and link to the respective commit
• Issue subject is also shown in the Open Issue dialog suggestions
• Visual categorization of dashboard widgets

New Checks ​

• "Missing VDM view type annotation" check for ABAP
• "Use object-oriented ABAP instead of procedural programming (functions, forms)" check for ABAP
• "Replace magic numbers with named constants" check for ABAP
• "Division by zero" check for Objective-C and Swift

New Cloud-Readiness Checks ​

• "Hard Coded IP Address (in Config File)" check
• "Hard Coded Path (in Config File)" check
• "Hard Coded UNC Path (in Config File)" check

IDE Integrations ​

• Renamed the command-line client for developers from teamscale-cli to teamscale-dev
• teamscale-dev: Open-in-browser now supports multiple files/directories
• Visual Studio plugin now uses TOML configuration format .teamscale.toml (requires at least .NET 461)
• Eclipse plugin: "Open in Web Browser" now opens on selected line if executed within an editor
• Eclipse plugin: Findings and files in the pre-commit results view can now be opened in the editor or web browser via double-click

Administration ​

• External accounts now also support s3+http(s)
• Findings are stored more efficiently, reducing the overall on-disk database size
• New expert option for Git connectors to fetch additional Git references as tags (the retrieved tags can be used for time-traveling)
• Warning if user limit of the license is exceeded
• S3 URLs are now accepted for backups
• Overview table in Project Configuration Details view now contains the initial analysis duration
• Improved documentation on monitoring and how to address CCP comments
• Improved parallel analysis of commits
• Code snippet analysis is now available for all users