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Version releases

Understand ships frequent builds; every few builds a version-point release marks a larger step, rolling up the notable features developed during the previous release cycle. Each release below links to its own announcement page — headline features, screenshots, and the notable additions from that cycle — with the release date and debut build. For the individual build-by-build changes, see the build notes; for how versioning works, see Release notes.

8.x

VersionReleasedHighlights
8.0May 2026Rust language support, VHDL 2008, expanded AI with remote/third-party models, unified Bookmarks & Favorites, refreshed native Windows UI, enhanced Python API

7.x

VersionReleasedHighlights
7.2Oct 2025Global Search bar, VS Code extension improvements, multi-threaded CodeCheck 7.1Apr 2025Cloud-free local AI code descriptions, Virtual Debugger, expanded graph customization 7.0Nov 2024Reimagined CodeCheck, DO-178C compliance reporting, new Plugin Manager, expanded language support, first AI code understanding

6.x

VersionReleasedHighlights
6.5Oct 2023Faster analysis (especially on Windows), streamlined CodeCheck workflow 6.4Jun 2023ISO 26262 certification, custom metrics & metric plugins, code-coverage visualization, code churn, maintainability index 6.3Jan 2023Data Flow graphs, Variable Tracker graphs, graph metric overlays, automatic architectures 6.2Apr 2022AUTOSAR C++14 expanded to 90%+ coverage, comparison projects & Comparison Treemaps, more responsive CodeCheck reports 6.1Sep 2021Architecture Designer, dependency rules, Git integration, AUTOSAR C++14, Windows 11 & Monterey support 6.0Jul 2020Overhauled document-style annotations, plus major analysis and UI upgrades

Earlier

VersionReleasedHighlights
5.1Feb 2019Compare Graphs to visualize what changed between two project versions 5.0Feb 2018Visual Basic support, CodeCheck comment keywords 4.0Apr 2015UML Sequence Diagrams, and more 3.1Dec 2012Background Parse, Buildspy build monitoring, Windows 8 support 3.0Apr 2012New floating licensing options (node-locked and USB-dongle) 2.6Sep 2010Native 64-bit Linux kit, and more 2.5Mar 2010Instant Search, redesigned Dependency Graphs 2.0Dec 2008Fully rewritten modern GUI

Per-build detail

Every build's individual changes (features, fixes, known issues) are in the build notes, grouped by version.