We are pleased to announce the SonarQube C++ Community Plugin version 0.9.7.
See lists below for features added and bugs fixed in this release.

SonarQube compability

• tested and released for SonarQube 5.6.x, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2
  see also SonarQube compatibility matrix
• Installation Instructions
• Upgrade Instructions

Enhancements

• SQ 5.6 API support: #926, #828, #988
  • use latest highlighting API: #918, #919
  • forceZeroCoverage: better detection of executable lines: #1014
  • improved CPD algorithm with additional configuration settings sonar.cxx.cpd.ignoreLiterals and sonar.cxx.cpd.ignoreIdentifiers: #941, #953
  • remove detailed mode from test metrics (no more supported with SQ 5.6 API: sonar.cxx.xunit.provideDetails): #906, #911
  • remove computation of package/file tangle metrics (no more supported with SQ 5.6 API): #364
• Improved report handling: there is a tolerant and a strict mode now. In tolerant mode analysis continue in case of errors in a report file. In strict mode an error in a report file will stop the analysis (sonar.cxx.errorRecoveryEnabled): #842, #959, #758, #985, #972, #971
• CppCheck 1.75, 1.76, 1.77 support: #913, #963, #966, #970, #1020, #1011
• improve C99 designated initializers: #925, #961
• support for Visual Studio 64-bit integer-suffix: #904
• support for Visual Studio throw(...) exception specification: #892
• improved preprocessor number decoding #967
• support of VS2017 RC log file parsing #997
• improved commented code check, supports also //@ and /*@: #992
• remove indentation check: #873
• PC-Lint: support of MISRA C++ 2008 and MISRA C++ Rule messages: #917
• improved AppVeyor MAVEN path handling: #950
• run integration tests with latest SQ versions: #1013, #1012, #1002, #998, #977, #964, #942, #935, #934, #959

Bugfixes

• coverage issues with SQ6.2 #999
• Regression in org.sonar.cxx.visitors.AbstractCxxPublicApiVisitor #980
• typedef enum not supported by public API visitor #974
• cpd visitor: IllegalArgumentException: 208 is not a valid line offset for pointer #952
• C++11 preprocessor syntax not supported #951
• error handling raw string literals #944
• violationsCount is always "0" #939
• Travis build failing #932
• Problem with alias declarations inside template class #928
• typedef union not supported by public API visitor #921
• figure out what to do with forceZeroCoverage feature that does not work anymore in batch side #909
• sonar-cxx 0.9.6 : compatibility issue with google collection ? #898
• Issues with undocumented API detetction #890
• API Documentation on template function #886
• SwitchLastCaseIsDefault rule regression for fallthrough before default case #884
• DuplicatedIncludeCheck not working in V0.9.6 #879
• CycleBetweenPackagesCheck not working in V0.9.6 #878
• MethodNameCheck: ctor and dtor of class should not be checked #800
• Indentation within namespace blocks (again) #689
• The token column will get wrong when include file has macro #1003
• Extract this magic number 'nullptr' into a constant, variable declaration or an enum. #986
• typename not always parsed #989
• API documentation on template function in template class #1000
• Coverage fails with wrong number of lines #842
• workaround for 'forceZeroCoverage' #1007
• MethodNameCheck: ctor and dtor of class should not be checked #984
• improve public API handling #976
• improve public API typedef handling #969
• fix SwitchLastCaseIsDefault #968
• improve preprocessor number decoding #967
• improve C99 designated initializers #961
• replacing text macros (C++11 syntax) #960
• Alias declaration in function is not public API #949
• Refactor/highlighting #945
• increment violationsCount #940
• TooManyStatementsPerLineCheck: remove redundant expression #938
• Remove redundant expression #937
• Fix ^= (BW_XOR_ASSIGN) #1026
• support nested template definitions #1029
• support nested names in CLI attributes #1037
• add Cppcheck rules which seems to be not part of errlist #1045
• improve syntax error warnings in LOG file #1047
• fix Visual Studio coverage #1048
• handle CxxUnitTestResultsImportSensor exceptions #1052, #1050
• add XPath check again #1033

Know Issues

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

• V0.9.7 is not compatible with Java 9
• Starting with SQ 6.2 there are some new metrics and some are no more available. Please have a look to the SonarQube release notes.

Thanks ....

go to all contributors (in alphabetical order):

@Bertk
@dkt01
@guwirth
@jmecosta
@wichtounet

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