We are pleased to announce the release of the SonarQube C++ Community Plugin version 0.9.5.
See lists below for features added and bugs fixed in this release.

SonarQube compability

• tested and released for SonarQube 4.5.2+, 5.0.x, 5.1.x, 5.3.x, 5.4.x and 5.5.x,
  see also SonarQube compatibility matrix
• Upgrade Instructions
• Installation Instructions

Enhancements

• command line tool for standalone analysis cxxlint #791
• allow custom checks in external plugins #667. #527
• improved multi module support #695
• improved report path handling: can be relative or absolute inside or outside rootDir now #683, #425
• parser enhancements:
  • grammar refactoring: improved C++14 and C++17 support #743
  • support cudaKernel grammar #727
• metrics enhancements:
  • undocumented public API detection: documentation for methods marked with "override" is optional now #810
  • add metric COMPLEXITY_IN_CLASSES and COMPLEXITY_IN_FUNCTIONS #788
• checks enhancements:
  • FileHeaderCheck: with regex support #807
  • TooManyLinesOfCodeInFunctionCheck: improved LOC counting #807
  • new checks: LinesOfCodeInFunctionCheck and FunctionParameterCountCheck #790
  • add tags to all checks #783
• rule enhancements:
  • rats: add missing rules strncat/sscanf #811
  • CppCheck 1.72 support #754
  • CppCheck 1.73 support #797
  • remove CompileIncludePathNotFoundOrInvalide rule #698
  • update VS and CppCheck rules, tags and URLs #726
• unit test enhancements:
  • NUnit support:sonar.cxx.nunit.reportsPaths #742
  • MSTest support:sonar.cxx.vstest.reportsPaths #742
• VC build log parser:
  • handle build log files from parallel builds #776
  • improve build log parser #744
  • suppport x64 in x86 machines #686, #685
• integration tests:
  • test with SQ 5.3 #753, #707
  • test with SQ 5.4 #804, #789, #774
  • additional multi-module tests: #756
  • improve AppVeyour tests #682
• other:
  • support environment variables and system properties in configuration files #716, #741
  • support comma separated list for reports in config file #730

Bugfixes

• update urls in pom.xml, wiki and plugin (SonarOpenCommunity) #674
• handle relative report paths with backticks outside basedir. #780
• naming convention for functions should ignore name of class (#795)
• Cannot find reports with relative Ant globbing (#775, #777)
• NullPointerException looking for CppCheck report (#766)
• Why didn't find the checks for naming convention in sonar-cxx-plugin-0.9.4.jar (#762)
• Valgrind parsing error (#759, #799)
• alias template can only be inline documented (#736)
• SQ-5.2 background task: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Rule 'cxx:CycleBetweenPackages' (#734)
• Parsing issues: template-parameter / std::enable_if<...>::type (#733)
• expression parser errors (#728)
• Fix integration tests for SQ 5.2/5.3+ (#721)
• CxxVCppBuildLogParser does not detect absolute path (#711)
• parser error during marco resolving (#705)
• Travis build for Java 7 failing (#700)
• Preprocessor #if code incorrect (#678, #692)
• Failure to parse Botan header file Botan/build/include/botan/buf_comp.h (#673)
• Update Center links are incorrect (#670)
• variadic macros - no argument for ellipsis creates preprocessor parser (#605)
• C++ grammar refactoring (#593, #743)
• improve FunctionNameCheck and MethodNameCheck (#798)
• fix href for Get-test-execution-metrics (#765)
• activate naming checks (#763)
• correct search order of dirs specified via 'sonar.cxx.includeDirectories' (#748)
• try to fix broken Travis build for Java 7 (#746)
• Add documentation node searching for template alias declaration (#739)
• Reintroduce typeid keyword (#737)
• fix rule CycleBetweenPackages Sqale remediation parameters (#735)
• fix macro parameter replacement (#709, #708)
• add sonar log file content to Travis log after failure (#702)
• variadic macros: no argument for ellipsis creates preprocessor parser error (#701)
• improved multi module support (#695)
• remove final and override from keyword list (#675)

Know Issues

For an up to date list of known issues see the issue tracker

Thanks ....

go to all contributors (in alphabetical order):

@Bertk
@felipebz
@guwirth
@jmecosta
@lcintrat
@mjdetullio
@selltc
@wichtounet

... and all people which were active on the issue tracker!