Release notes - SonarJava - 8.16

New Feature

SONARJAVA-2511 Rule S4030: Collection and array contents should be used

SONARJAVA-5598 S3063: "StringBuilder" data should be used S3063

SONARJAVA-5599 S3024: Arguments to "append" should not be concatenated S3024

SONARJAVA-5602 S3033: ".length" should be used to test for the emptiness of StringBuffers S3033

Bug

SONARJAVA-5619 NPE when semantic can not resolve "java.lang.Object"

SONARJAVA-5621 Fix issue in CFG computation with generic record pattern

SONARJAVA-5628 CFG computation crashes in case of unexpected break

SONARJAVA-5630 NoSuchElementException in S3626

Task

SONARJAVA-5555 Update RSPEC before 8.16 release

SONARJAVA-5608 Update tomcat-embed-jasper to from 9.0.104 to 9.0.105 to suppress alert about CVE-2025-46701

SONARJAVA-5610 Use "sonar.scanner.skipJreProvisioning" in integration tests

SONARJAVA-5613 Centralize spring fully qualified names into constants

SONARJAVA-5617 Add Java 24 projects to peach

SONARJAVA-5624 Fix coverage of JTypeSymbol new code

SONARJAVA-5625 Upgrade spring-expression to version 6.1.21 to suppress alert

SONARJAVA-5633 Expose Configuration inside ModuleScannerContext

SONARJAVA-5635 Upgrade tomcat-embed-core to version 9.0.106

SONARJAVA-5637 Remove unused collection

Improvement

SONARJAVA-5612 Add performance benchmark table to performance rules documentation

SONARJAVA-5615 Upgrade ECJ to version 3.42

SONARJAVA-5622 Extend S7158 to work with all CharSequence

Documentation

SONARJAVA-5614 Update ECJ upgrade process