We are pleased to announce the SonarQube C++ Community Plugin version 0.9.9.
See lists below for features added and bugs fixed in this release.

SonarQube compability

Enhancements

minimal supported SQ API is 6.7 #1317
- Refactoring: remove conditional code for older SQ versions #1318
- Refactoring: mark deprecated API #1329
updated parent POM to 41 #1316
Cppcheck 1.82 support #1370 #1373
support C++ Core Check improvements in Visual Studio 2017 15.5 #1309 #1375
improve parser LOG file regex for MSVC 14.11 #1356
Metrics #1339
- Refactoring: FILE_COMPLEXITY_DISTRIBUTION metric is deprecated - removed #1333
- Refactoring: COMPLEXITY_IN_FUNCTIONS metric is deprecated - removed #1332
- Refactoring: COMPLEXITY_IN_CLASSES metric is deprecated - removed #1331
- Refactoring: FUNCTION_COMPLEXITY_DISTRIBUTION metric is deprecated - removed #1330
Coverage
- Refactoring: remove sonar.cxx.coverage.overallReportPath support #1322
- Refactoring: remove sonar.cxx.coverage.itReportPath support #1321
- Refactoring: remove sonar.cxx.coverage.forceZeroCoverage support #1320
- Refactoring: remove CxxCoverageSensor from CxxSquidSensor #1335 #1327
- Refactoring: CxxPlugin::testingAndCoverageProperties #1324
Refactoring: cleanup CxxFileLinesVisitor visitor #1323
Refactoring: Remove no more supported use cases from integration tests #1319
fix technical debt quality flaws, make quality gate green: #1369 #1368 #1362 #1358 #1357 #1354 #1349

fix ERROR: sonar.cxx.other.xslt.1.inputs file is not defined #1367
Cobertura coverage source tag support #1364 #1353
fix selection options for compiler.parser #1361
C-Compiler parser : Cannot feed the data into sonar, details: 'java.lang.NullPointerException' #1359
fix CxxLint with and add unit tests #1355
fix custom rules support #1308 #1347 #1346 #1343
remove warning: CPD error in file - debug info now #1338 #1307

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

V0.9.9 is not compatible with Java 9
Ensure that a rule is enabled if you get no results. In new SQ versions the default profile is read-only. The cxx plugin does not enable all rules per default.
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.
test execution metrics are not supported
The Cppckeck plugin is deprecated and not working in parallel to this plugin. This plugin provides an own Cppcheck sensor.
C plugin and JSON Compilation Database support are experimental only
Symlinks are not supported.

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