Understand 6.3 build notes

New Features

• Entity filter list may be blank on Windows
• Variables in CodeCheck may appear as "unnamed"
• License manager occasionally displays a threading warning
• Collapsed code no longer accessible when modifying first line of a collapsed block

Bug Fixes

• Strict: Fix worker process crash regression on C++ rethrow expressions
• Incorrect control flow graph when simplify macro expansion is enabled

New Features

• Entity filter list may be blank on Windows
• Variables in CodeCheck may appear as "unnamed"
• License manager occasionally displays a threading warning
• Collapsed code no longer accessible when modifying first line of a collapsed block

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the -c++systemincludesremove to remove the include directory
• Fix dark mode print of graphs with styled labels off to correctly change white text to black
• Fixed handling of UNC filenames
• Fix duplicate override c++ include directories being added unintentionally to project source directories and disallow explicit duplicate directories from being added
• Incorrect control flow graph when simplify macro expansion is enabled

New Features

• Long texts are truncated in CodeChecks' description - Text was not being truncated but the horizontal scrollbar was not working. The horizontal scrollbar is now working properly.
• Update the previewer to not take focus when activated from CodeCheck results.
• When single as well as multiple entities are selected in the Entity Filter, 'Ctrl+c' will copy the entity names to the clipboard. Also, used the right click menu, 'Copy Fullname', that will do the same.
• Copying multiple Entity Filter lines - replace the action of "Copy Full Name" with the new copy entity name action and removed 'Copy Entity Names"
• Update default options for acf_ControlFlowTree.pl to match current options available
• Change C# and Java SameName IB fields to Overloads
• Add Overloads IB field for Ada
• Add Overloads IB field for Basic methods
• Add Overrides and OverriddenBy IB fields for C#
• Add VirtualType and VirtualCalls options to C# CalledBy and References IB fields
• Add VirtualCalls and VirtualType options to C++ CalledBy and References fields
• Change java CalledBy and References IB fields to identify static calls instead of dynamic calls
• IReports use last used options instead of default options when options popup is not shown.
• Change the IReport entity double click to match entity double clicks in other parts of the tool.
• Add missing references to types and fields referenced inside of __builtin_offsetof expressions
• Variables in CodeCheck may appear as "unnamed"
• License manager occasionally displays a threading warning
• Collapsed code no longer accessible when modifying first line of a collapsed block

Bug Fixes

• Fixed text for the description of 'Instructions to build your architecture' key in the resource file
• Remove the CodeCheck save on Inspect for the ignores file in order to fix the issue with baselining CodeCheck violations.
• Selected CodeCheck config is overwritten by importing another config - Issue is fixed and current selected configuration is no longer overwritten by the importing configuration.
• Fix potential crash on project close
• Fix Butterfly Compare (Classic) graph ignoring of multi-line /* ...*/ comments.
• Fix visual studio import of configurations with parentheses in the name.
• Fix some Entity Locator string localizations.
• Fix worker process crash on malformed Objective-C for-in statement
• Fixed bug where overload resolution cold be incorrect when overloaded methods were inherited from ancestor classes and additional overloads were defined in the child class.
• Fix duplicate entries in Scopelist for C# and Java
• Fixed bug where variables declared as global within functions but having no assignment statement at the file level were generating Unknown Variables.
• Fixed bug where xml and css file counts were sometimes incorrect. Fixed bug where a src of a php file from html caused an attempt to parse as Javascript.
• Error calling ent.draw() using custom Python
• Incorrect control flow graph when simplify macro expansion is enabled

New Features

• Show virtual callby references in the c++ References IB from overridden methods
• License manager occasionally displays a threading warning
• Collapsed code no longer accessible when modifying first line of a collapsed block

Bug Fixes

• Issue with baselining CodeCheck violations - Remove the CodeCheck save on Inspect for the ignores file
• Crash when closing Understand while CodeCheck is performing a read or write operation - Fixed the crash while previous inspection is loading and the user closes Understand or when exporting results
• Fix slight performance regression
• Fix worker process crash
• Incorrect control flow graph when simplify macro expansion is enabled

New Features

• Menu Bar Changes - Added 'Violation Browser" to the View Menu and the Annotations - 'Browse All Annotations' is now the top menu item
• Add missing references to entities made visible through using declarations
• Avoid counting semicolons in inactive code
• Change constructor and destructor type text from "void" to empty
• Allow C++20 to be chosen as a language standard
• Added support for Ada to call_pairs.py script
• Install warning when rolling back to a previous build after installing build 1135 on Windows
• License manager occasionally displays a threading warning
• Collapsed code no longer accessible when modifying first line of a collapsed block

Bug Fixes

• Fix crash in associated c comments
• Fix report group by directory und setting
• Some translations not showing - Fix the About Page translation
• Fix translation of graph options
• Don't show git related errors in stderr unless STI_GIT_ERRORS environment variable is defined
• Fix crash on exit when an info browser context menu is visible
• Fixed potential parser crash
• For Visual Basic, fixed syntax errors on some uses of XML literals
• Fix crash in associated c comments
• Fix CountStmt metric for for statements
• Fix failure to count lines with nothing but a semicolon as "code" lines
• Fix missing "friend" reference for friend functions defined inline
• Fix missing references in C++17 if/swtich init statements
• Fix crash in associated c comments
• Fixed crash when the parser attempted to read some .so files found in the import path
• For Web,Typescript,Javascript, fixed syntax errors on property declarations without terminating semicolons
• For Web/Typescript, fixed bug where arrow functions were not included in the CountDeclFunction metric
• Incorrect control flow graph when simplify macro expansion is enabled

New Features

• Update help for und create
• Add UML Sequence Diagram Ada support
• Add image for CyclomaticStrictModified metric documentation
• Add missing assign references to fields appearing in designated initializers
• C and C++
• Declarations and Definitions
• CPP_DD014: Add check "Use the same parameter names and type qualifiers for all declarations and definitions"
• Headers
• CPP_H020: Add check "Do not use standard header tgmath.h"
• CPP_H021: Add check "Do not use standard header setjmp.h"
• Identifiers
• CPP_I010: Add check "Do not reuse identifiers of static objects or static functions"
• Published Standards
• MISRA C 2012
• MISRA12_21.11: Add check "Do not use standard header tgmath.h"
• MISRA12_21.4: Add check "Do not use standard header setjmp.h"
• MISRA12_8.3: Add check "Use the same parameter names and type qualifiers for all declarations and definitions"
• MISRA-C 2004
• MISRA04_5.5: Add check "Do not reuse identifiers of static objects or static functions"
• MISRA04_8.3: Add check "Use the same parameter names and type qualifiers for all declarations and definitions"
• MISRA-C++ 2008
• MISRA08_2-10-5: Add check "Do not reuse identifiers of static objects or static functions"
• License manager occasionally displays a threading warning
• Und batch mode requires the database explicitly set for each line
• Collapsed code no longer accessible when modifying first line of a collapsed block

Bug Fixes

• Fix crash when attempting to drag-and-drop to install an invalid Python plugin
• Fixed bug where adding a directory containing .class files as a Class Path sometimes resulted in 'unable to read file' errors for the .class files
• Fixed error loading some class files when reading from a class reference directory
• Fixed bug where nested classes with names containing ‘$’ did not load correctly from reference jar files
• Fixed parser crash on some uses of unknown classes as parent types
• CPP_D011: Fixed: "Type error in CPP_D011"
• Incorrect control flow graph when simplify macro expansion is enabled

New Features

• Rename macOS package to reflect Universal Support
• Change synthetic 'use' references for entities marked with an 'unused' attribute to 'use implicit'

New Features

• Don't show chat option on welcome page in Japanese build
• Avoid blocking the user interface when changing filters (including after analysis).
• Write inline member initializers as the init value
• Write parameter default arguments as the init value
• Cannot load nested classes with entity names containing “$” in Java
• Collapsed code no longer accessible when modifying first line of a collapsed block
• Und batch mode requires the database explicitly set for each line
• License manager occasionally displays a threading warning

Bug Fixes

• Fix crash on exit during project open
• Fix regression in positioning violation popups within editor bounds in files with very few lines.
• Fix architecture metric calculation of AvgCyclomaticStrictModified and MaxCyclomaticStrictModified
• Fix failure to respect the encoding setting for some paths on Windows
• Fixed bug where some parameters loaded from dll files were written to the Understand database with null long names. This could result in a crash during parsing.
• Fixed bug where the use of an integer literal as a prefix in a dotted name caused a syntax error.
• Fixed syntax error on use of 'Out' as an identifier. Fixed syntax errors on some references to enumeration literals with names 'And' and 'Or'.
• Fixed bug where the mscorlib.dll file information was purged from the database and rewritten on all refresh parses.
• Fixed bug where a '/' operator overload resulted in a null named entity in the database.
• Fixed bug where the mscorlib.dll file information was purged from the database and rewritten on all refresh parses.
• Fixed bug where some entities with non-alphanumeric names were created with null entity names in the database.
• Incorrect control flow graph when simplify macro expansion is enabled

New Features

• Ensure that violations pop up within editor scroll area bounds
• Cannot load nested classes with entity names containing “$” in Java
• Collapsed code no longer accessible when modifying first line of a collapsed block
• Und batch mode requires the database explicitly set for each line

Bug Fixes

• Fix crash loading old databases
• Fix crash on analysis when the database is locked by another process
• Incorrect control flow graph when simplify macro expansion is enabled

New Features

• Add a built-in variable tracker graph
• Update Project Overview Charts subtitles.
• Change fuzzy c analysis to treat static function and object definitions in included files as external
• Added IntPtr and UIntPtr stubs to the understand conf standard directory.
• Added 'synchronized' to the AdditionalKinds free text for synchronized methods.
• 'Synchronized' now appears as part of the kind text in the Information Browser.
• In control flow graphs, changed synchronized blocks from 'passive' nodes to 'java block begin' nodes with a corresponding 'java block end' and with 'synchronized...' as the node text.
• Cannot load nested classes with entity names containing “$” in Java
• Collapsed code no longer accessible when modifying first line of a collapsed block
• Und batch mode requires the database explicitly set for each line

Bug Fixes

• Fix crash on project close when a CodeCheck analysis is running
• Fix failure to save Perl script options
• Fix failure to recognize icon files.
• Fix crash on user tools import dialog cancel
• Fix crash after user tool import
• For Web/Typescript, fixed bug where 'any' and 'unknown' types on catch variables caused syntax errors.
• Incorrect control flow graph when simplify macro expansion is enabled

New Features

• Update minor version number to 6.3.
• Change dependency analysis settings from global settings to project settings and make the default mode link time.
• Update warnings in Tools->Options->General for settings that require Understand to restart.
• Change sound defaults to off (Tools->Options->User Interface ->Alerts->Audible Alerts).
• Project overview bar chart make change so it doesn't elide labels in full-screen.
• Clicking on nodes in a comparison treemap opens a diff view. The diff view, used by both the comparison treemap and locate changed entities no longer becomes the active window on sync events.
• Restore ability to call API draw function from scripts run through the Understand GUI.
• Move graph styling controls from Tools->Options->Graphs to the graph legend.
• Graph styles: Add metric color scale options.
• Graph styles: Allow different graphs to have different graph styles, and add a style for object references.
• Added Data Flow graphs.
• Avoid defaulting to a comparison graph variant when drawing from the API.
• Graphs allow showing comments and annotations on a per-node basis.
• Updated how clusters block child edges to match dependency graphs.
• Add a file_type() method for entities to the Perl and Python APIs.
• Changed the Python and Perl API version method (.version()) to return 'Major_version '." Minor_version '.' build number'.
• C-api: Add missing Python library RPATH entry to the C API shared library
• Refactor Rename for files moves files on disk.
• Add support for the CyclomaticStrictModified metric: Logical operators (AND, OR, NOT) in conditional expressions add one (1) to the complexity for each occurrence.
• Change the mechanism for calculating cyclomatic complexity to be more consistent with the other languages
• Add missing control flow graph support for C++11 range-based for loops and Objective-C collection for-in loops.
• Support added for C# 11
• Cannot load nested classes with entity names containing “$” in Java
• Collapsed code no longer accessible when modifying first line of a collapsed block

Bug Fixes

• Fix xcode project import failure to include .hpp files.
• Fix crash when running CodeCheck on an architecture containing unresolved entities.
• Fix plugin legend display of dashed arrow style and #RRGGBBAA colors.
• For web - Javascript, Typescript and Php, fixed bug where average line metrics were incorrect for some files.
• Fixed the Search Results find shortcut. Keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+F) was not working in Search Results.
• For Visual Basic, fixed invalid syntax error on use of an array variable in a 'for each' statement.
• For Web/Typescript, fixed bug where a function defined using a 'const' set to an 'arrow function' created an unnamed function entity instead of just a function with the name given in the const declaration. This prevented call trees from following into the body of the defined function.
• Incorrect control flow graph when simplify macro expansion is enabled