Semmle | SemmleCode Changelog

Added a set of optimisations, which improves performance by 40% on average, and up to 20 times on some types of queries (for all databases except H2);
Fixed population bugs #109, #187 and #195;
Updated third-party library files.

Improved the information on "number of lines": exact number of lines of code and number of comment lines are now available for any artefact;
Added new metrics to measure the level of documentation;
Added an "Open declaration" action to jump to .QL classes and methods definitions;
Added support for opening several quick query windows simultaneously (like in the console view of Eclipse);
Added a database version check to avoid user confusion, caused when trying to use unsupported database systems;
Added a new function on string: replaceAll;
Improved error reporting of SQL exceptions;
Improved support for H2 and updated its library file.

Extended the populator to support XML files;
Added population of import statements when parsing Java files (as requested on the forums);
Added four new functions on strings: length(), substring(int,int), toLowerCase(), toUpperCase() (as requested on the forums);
Added covariant return types to the .QL language;
Improved the bundle editor to simplify the creation of custom bundles of queries;
Added a "Clean Database" menu item to drop all SemmleCode intermediate tables;
Improved support for H2 and updated its library file;
Fixed several minor bugs.

Added an entry for specifying what schema to use within the database;
Added a feature to export results from table views (as requested on the forums);
Improved as-you-type error checking;
Updated the H2 database library;
Fixed bug #117 about bundle library paths not being saved properly;
Fixed a problem with absolute paths in getIconPath() .QL methods;
Fixed a few other minor bugs.

Fixed a problem with wrong icons being shown when using H2 backend;
Fixed problems with creating new bundles of queries using the bundle editor;
The dialog window to select a query-bundle file now opens in the folder with the default query-bundle (default.xml) for easy navigation;
Fixed a problem with opening a query library (e.g. default.ql) in Eclipse 3.3. Eclipse 3.3 is therefore now fully supported;
When Eclipse was started with Java 1.4, SemmleCode was throwing an internal error, which led to the confusion that it was a SemmleCode bug. Fixed by disallowing the start of SemmleCode when Java 1.4 is used. Java 1.5 is the minimum requirement;
A number of other minor bug fixes.

Added a new editor to modify the bundle of default queries and create new ones;
Added a feature to refresh the results of a tree query (now also saved across sessions);
Added a feature to dump results of a tree query to a file;
Added configurable key shortcuts;
Introduced more classes in the default .QL library, notably for modifiers, parameters and different kinds of method calls (virtual, static, super);
Improved J2EE queries;
Improved the reporting of errors (now also logged in Eclipse log);
A number of minor bug fixes and GUI enhancements (such as the display of column names in the table view and the ability to name a quick query).

Added the ability to export charts to PNG and EPS files (as requested on the forums);
Improved the selection of queries in the launch configuration;
Enhanced the robustness of the populator;
Fixed the population bug #108;
Added a pull down menu on the views for charts and graphs;
Fixed a number of minor bugs.

Improved the existing queries in the library of J2EE style checks and added new ones;
Fixed the population bug #102;
Fixed the problem with the query in the bug #105;
Fixed a problem with intercepting double clicks on charts;
Fixed a problem with user rights on SQL Server for vacuuming the SemmleCode database.

Added a table view to display results in a multi-column list (see feature request);
Added, in the headers of all views, the indication whether the results were truncated because of the optional result limit in preferences;
Fixed the reported database population bug #103.

Updated H2 library with the most recent release, which has solved a few known issues;
Updated metrics queries;
Added a preliminary list of queries for checking J2EE coding regulations;
A minor enhancement of the count aggregate syntax;
A number of minor bug fixes.

Improved support for H2: work-around for bug in H2, and .QL aggregate queries work now;
H2 is now used as a default database engine, if no other is detected;
Discontinued support for HSQLDB due to lack of development activity on HSQLDB itself;
Added graph views of query results;
Improved support of charts: context-menu with some additional functionality, in particular to jump to program elements that occur in chart;
Improved syntax highlighting: brackets highlighting;
Extended the queries library with a large number of metrics queries;
Added a menu item to open the selected library in Eclipse with syntax highlighting;
Added a menu item to copy the selected library into any existing project;
A number of minor bug fixes.

First official release of an alpha version. Main features include:

Presenting results of queries in an error view (notifications, warnings and errors), tree view and charts view (bar chart and pie chart);
An XML library of queries;
Executing a library of queries via Eclipse launch configurations;
Supported database backends: HSQLDB, H2 PostgreSQL, MS SQL Sever;
Database setup wizard;
Incremental update of the database;
Two optimisation modes of running SemmleCode engine: optimising for a single query or a burst of queries;
Syntax highlighting;
Auto-completion;
As-you-type error checking.