detekt/detekt v1.21.0-RC2

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1.21.0-RC2 - 2022-06-29

Notable Changes

• We enabled ~30 new rules by default which we believe are now stable enough. - #4875
• We added 6 new Rules to Detekt
  • NullableBooleanCheck - #4872
  • CouldBeSequence - #4855
  • UnnecessaryBackticks - #4764
  • ForbiddenSuppress - #4899
  • MaxChainedCallsOnSameLine - #4985
  • CascadingCallWrapping - #4979
• We added support for Markdown reports - #4858
• We now allow users and rule authors to specify a reason for every value in the config file - #4611
• We now report as warnings the in the config file that can be converted to be an array - #4793
• We added a dependency on ConTester to help us verify concurrency scenarios for Detekt - #4672
• For contributors: we restructured our build setup to be use Gradle composite build - #4751

Changelog

• Fix Signatures.kt:buildFunctionSignature - #4961
• Loading a specific resource from a module must use class from module - #5008
• Update github/codeql-action digest to 3f62b75 - #5007
• Show finding at declaration name instead of the whole declaration - #5003
• NamedArguments: don't count trailing lambda argument - #5002
• Address TextLocation for Wrapping - #4998
• Support markdown report in Gradle plugin - #4995
• Fix false-negative for CanBeNonNullable - #4993
• Give a better error message for --jvm-target - #4978
• Fix rule code samples to be valid Kotlin code - #4969
• Use plain ASCII output in standard reports - #4968
• UnnecessaryApply: fix false negative for assignment - #4948
• Support disabling config validation via tooling spec - #4937
• UnusedPrivateMember: highlight declaration name - #4928
• Provide a priority field for DetektProvider - #4923
• CastToNullableType: allow casting null keyword - #4907
• Update plugin com.gradle.common-custom-user-data-gradle-plugin to v1.7.2 - #4897
• Set strict dependency on tested Kotlin compiler version - #4822
• Simplify regular expressions - #4893
• Remove redundant character escape in RegExp - #4892
• Reformat Markdown files to comply with the spec - #4891
• UnnecessaryInnerClass: fix false negative with this references - #4884
• UselessCallOnNotNull: fix false positive for unresolved types - #4880
• Update MagicNumber rule to exclude .kts files - #4877
• CanBeNonNullable: fix false positives for parameterized types - #4870
• UnnecessaryInnerClass: fix false positives labeled expression to outer class - #4865
• UnnecessaryInnerClass: add test for safe qualified expressions - #4864
• Fix a confusing Regex in the Compose webpage - #4852
• Fix edit URLs for the website - #4850
• detektGenerateConfig adds the configuration of plugins - #4844
• Update dependency prism-react-renderer to v1.3.3 - #4833
• Search in all versions.properties, not just the first one #4830 - #4831
• Improve exception message - #4823
• Fix ValShouldBeVar false positive inside unknown type - #4820
• Add a recent conference talk link - #4819
• False positive for unused imports #4815 - #4818
• Revert "Display dynamic --jvm-target values when using --help flag (#4694)" - #4816
• UnnecessaryAbstractClass: report only the class name - #4808
• Fix wrong replacement suggestion for UnnecessaryFilter - #4807
• UseOrEmpty: fix false positive for indexing operator calls with type parameters - #4804
• ExplicitCollectionElementAccessMethod: fix false positive for get operators with type parameters - #4803
• Add tests for #4786 - #4801
• Add documentation link for rules in html report - #4799
• Improve rule documentaion and smell message of NamedArguments - #4796
• Improve issue description and smell message of DestructuringDeclarationWithTooManyEntries - #4795
• NestedScopeFunctions - Add rule for nested scope functions - #4788
• Partially drop redundant usage of "dry run" in Gradle plugin tests - #4776
• Allow additionalJavaSourceRootPaths to be defined on @KotlinCoreEnvironmentTest - #4771
• Report KDoc comments that refer to non-public properties of a class - #4768
• Self-inspect the detekt-gradle-plugin - #4765
• Pass args to DetektInvoker as List<String> - #4762
• Cleanup Gradle Plugin Publications - #4752
• Break a dependency between detekt-gradle-plugin and detekt-utils - #4748
• Remove suspend lambda rule with CoroutineScope receiver due to not de… - #4747
• VarCouldBeVal: Add configuration flag ignoreLateinitVar - #4745
• UnnecessaryInnerClass: fix false positive with references to function type variables - #4738
• Fix false positive on VarCouldBeVal in generic classes - #4733
• OutdatedDocumentation: fix false positive with no primary constructor - #4728
• Android Gradle: add javac intermediates to classpath - #4723
• OptionalWhenBraces: fix false negative when the single statement has comments inside - #4722
• Document pre-commit hook for staged files - #4711
• Enable rules by default for 1.21 - #4643

Dependency Updates

• Update dependency org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-core to v1.6.3 - #4976
• Update dependency org.jetbrains.dokka to v1.7.0 - #4974
• Update plugin binaryCompatibilityValidator to v0.10.1 - #4954
• Update dependency org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-core to v1.6.2 - #4868
• Update dependency com.android.tools.build:gradle to v7.2.1 - #4861
• Update plugin binaryCompatibilityValidator to v0.10.0 - #4837
• Update dependency io.mockk:mockk to v1.12.4 - #4829
• Update dependency com.android.tools.build:gradle to v7.2.0 - #4824
• Add dependency-analysis plugin and implement some recommendations - #4798
• Add dependency on slf4j-nop to silence warning - #4775
• Update plugin dokka to v1.6.21 - #4770
• Update org.jetbrains.kotlin to v1.6.21 - #4737
• Update dependency com.github.breadmoirai:github-release to v2.3.7 - #4734
• Update plugin binaryCompatibilityValidator to v0.9.0 - #4729

Housekeeping & Refactorings

• Measure flakyness on Windows CI - #4742
• Declare nested test classes as non-static - #4894
• Remove deprecated usages in gradle-plugin test - #4889
• Remove reference to contributor list - #4871
• Add missing image - #4834
• Upgrade to GE enterprise 3.10 - #4802
• Fix broken snapshot publishing - #4783
• Remove pending Gradle version milestones from comments - #4777
• Add more tests for Annotation Suppressor - #4774
• fix: add test case that fails if environment is not properly set up - #4769
• Disable UnusedImports for the Detekt project - #4741
• Remove Unnecesary @nested - #4740
• Update the argsfile to unblock runWithArgsFile failing locally - #4718

See all issues at: 1.21.0