Release notes - SonarJava - 7.16

Bug

SONARJAVA-4127 UnsupportedOperationException when computing the signature of a MethodSymbol

SONARJAVA-4279 S1612 should not report an issue with incomplete semantics

SONARJAVA-4356 Several regular expressions are inefficient

SONARJAVA-4370 Memory leak in rule S5852 RedosCheck because regexCreations field is never cleaned

SONARJAVA-4371 Memory leak in multiple symbolic execution-based rules

SONARJAVA-4386 Members of RECORD tree are not ordered

SONARJAVA-4390 NPE in ECJ should be catched by JType.isSubtype(...)

SONARJAVA-4391 NPE in LombokFilter

SONARJAVA-4392 NPE in DivisionByZeroCheck

Documentation

SONARJAVA-4345 Update rules metadata

SONARJAVA-4374 S5411: Improve rule message, title, and description

SONARJAVA-4381 S1135: Update metadata to be explicit about main code only scope

False-Positive

SONARJAVA-4098 FP S1612 method reference should not be suggested when replacement is longer that actual code

SONARJAVA-4255 FP S1185(MethodOnlyCallsSuperCheck) with different modifiers

SONARJAVA-4281 Rule S1313: Exclude local IPv4-mapped IPv6 address

SONARJAVA-4292 Rule S1313: Exclude reserved documentation IP ranges

SONARJAVA-4329 FP on rule S1612 when replacing lambda on Integer conversion to String

SONARJAVA-4331 S1213 should not raise issues on static fields placed at the top of records

SONARJAVA-4343 FP on S2699 (Missing assertions in tests) with latest versions of AssertJ (>3.19) and newly added assertions

SONARJAVA-4347 FP in S1144 When annotated parameters are present

SONARJAVA-4353 S131 FP on switch that covers all enum constants

SONARJAVA-4354 S2259 FP on Springframework 5 annotations

SONARJAVA-4363 FP on S2272 when the next/previous() method calls another one which itself throw the NoSuchElementException

SONARJAVA-4365 S5786 should not report issues on classes defining publicly visible constants

SONARJAVA-4372 FP in rule S6204 when Collections.shuffle() is used as a mutator

SONARJAVA-4382 S1191 should not raise issues on imports from `com.sun.*` packages

New Feature

SONARJAVA-4266 Rule S6432: Counter Mode initialization vectors should not be reused

False Negative

SONARJAVA-4250 FN in S2692 when the number is coming from a constant

SONARJAVA-4283 S5838 does not handle primitive type inequality operators correctly

Improvement

SONARJAVA-4265 Improve the rule message of S1120

SONARJAVA-4268 Rule S5542: Detect CBC mode when used with padding

SONARJAVA-4269 S1711 should clean up type names replacing dollar signs with periods

SONARJAVA-4351 Update S5411 documentation with SONARJAVA-3570 exceptions

SONARJAVA-4384 Replace method `symbol()` on `MethodInvocationTree` and `NewClassTree` with `methodSymbol()` in public API