Squore 20.0 was released on April 20th 2020.

This release brings:

• Support of TypeScript and Swift languages
• REST API for project creation and graphics access
• A new "Confirmed" status for findings
• Reports and exports in background
• Java 11 support

Read on to take a visual tour of the new features of Squore 20.0 !

New Features

New file parsing reliability feature

Based on Squore's internal code parsing technology, insight on the parsing completion has been added.

There are two aspects to this new feature, impacting the Software Analytics model:

• A "Partial code parsing" table has been added to the "Code Quality" dashboard:
  • This table is visible on "Application" and "File" artefacts, and lists the number of files with parsing errors.
  • Depending on the coding language, information such as "number of parsed lines" and the associated ratios are available:
    
    
    
• When a file is partially parsed, its rating becomes "unknown", since the rating can't be fully computed, as some of its content could not be fully parsed.
  This can have an impact on the overall rating, which becomes more reliable, as there are no files with inaccurate ratings 
  
  

New language support: TypeScript / Swift

Using the Squan sources data provider, you can now analyse Swift and TypeScript languages like all other languages:

REST API for project creation

Build operations are now available via API: project creation, new version, apply changes, apply model, baseline...

See the list of the new end-points on the Swagger documentation.

REST API for graphics access

It is now possible to give any chart using the API, with the format PNG, SVG, JPG and JSON ( for highchart).

/artefacts/{artefact-id}/charts/{chart-id}?refVersionId={ref-version-id}&width=600&height=600

/versions/{version-id}/artefacts/{artefact-id}/charts/{chart-id}?refVersionId={ref-version-id}&width=600&height=600

REST API for form comments

It is now possible to retrieve the comments of the form values.

/artefacts/{artefact-id}/forms?logs=true
/versions/{version-id}/artefacts/{artefact-id}/forms?logs=true

/artefacts/{artefact-id}/forms/{form-id}?logs=false
/versions/{version-id}/artefacts/{artefact-id}/forms/{form-id}?logs=false

New 'Confirmed' status for findings

For "review" purpose, it is now possible to confirm the validity of a finding as easy as a relaxation status:

The "Open (confirmed)" findings are always considered as open by the engine, so computations like this one:

COUNT RULE.OCCURRENCES FROM TREE

Count the Open + Open (Confirmed) findings by default.

But it is possible to add a condition to count only these occurrences:

... WHERE IS_STATUS_FINDING(OPEN_CONFIRMED)

On source code, like a relaxed finding, a confirmed finding can become "suspicious" if code has changed before (see suspicious option for source code).

Report / Export in background

Reports and exports are now running in background, and all the generated files during the user session are kept in a table.

Reports and exports are now under the "Documents" tab and you can choose between reports and exports on the left side.

Finally, available default reports and exports in the software analytics model now generate files with the date and the project name.

Coverage on Control Graph

Covered and uncovered lines are shown on the Control Graph if the information is available for C functions.

Improve management of paths

For security reason, it is better to avoid file access to the server, so we decide to restrict the usage of file and directory access by default.

To implement this, we add new field types for data provider / repository forms:

<tag type="file|directory|file_or_directory" key="xx" />

Result for a data provider field that needs an Xml file:

These new field types check the path validity and the access permissions.

As you can see, there are different choices:

• None: It is just displayed because this field is not "required"
• Absolute Path: Correspond to a server path, only available if the user have the new permission "Access Server Resources" configurable in the global roles page:

• Authorized Paths: There a new administration option to configure authorized paths on the server, Configure Authorized Server Paths.
• Repositories: Correspond to a relative path from a repository configured on the dedicated repositories part of project (it was already possible before by using $src or $alias variables, and it is fully compatible if you switch from type="text" to "file")
• Upload file: On the external menu only for the moment, there is an additional choice, the "Upload file" to upload a local file:

Finally, it is also possible to use the new "multi" attribute to ask a collection of files for example (the script receives a concatenated string separated by ";"):

Java 11 support

Squore now supportw Java 11, but Java 8 is still supported.

Roles management

In order to harmonize the management of permissions and privileges in Squore, Profiles have been merged with Roles.

Roles are now divided into two concepts : Global roles and Project roles.

• Global Roles are a set of permissions granting a user access to certain Squore features. (Global Roles were previously named Profiles).

• Project Roles are a set of privileges for a user within a Squore project.
  

Both global and project roles are now managed in the administration roles page ("Administration>Roles)". User interface has been improved to facilitate adding, editing and deleting actions.

Removed and Deprecated Features Since 19.0

• The "converter" attribute on export tags has been removed. On the standard export, we use only the REST API to retrieve highlights results.

Licencing Changes

Your 19.0 or 19.1 annual subscription licence is fully compatible with Squore 20.0.

Changes in Installation Prerequisites

No changes since 19.1.

Configuration Changes

For a detailed changelog of the Shared folder, consult the full Configuration Folder Changelog.

Known Issues

• If you are using Oracle, make sure to deactivate statistics columns before upgrading otherwise the upgrade will fail with the following error : "Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: ORA-54032: column to be renamed is used in a virtual column expression".

  • To know more about Oracle Extended Statistics : https://blogs.oracle.com/optimizer/extended-statistics

• If you are using Java 11 you will see some warnings displayed at installation (see below). They are due to the use of Java 11 in conjonction with Wildfly 10, but have no impact on the correct functioning of Squore.

  WARNING: Illegal reflective access by __redirected.__SAXParserFactory...
  WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of __redirected.__SAXParserFactory
  ...

Full Changelog

20.0.8 and up

See Vector official website for more information, section "Support & Downloads > Downloads > Service Packs".

Download page shortcuts :

• Linux : https://www.vector.com/squore/linux
• Windows : https://www.vector.com/squore/windows

20.0.6

Published on 28th October 2020

• Includes database upgrade: no
• Includes WildFly configuration upgrade: no
  

• Upgrade Impacts Analysis Model: no

• Also includes all changes and bug fixes from Squore 19.1.13

20.0.5

Published on 25th September 2020

• Includes database upgrade: yes
• Includes WildFly configuration upgrade: no
  

• Upgrade Impacts Analysis Model: no

• Also includes all changes and bug fixes from Squore 19.1.12

20.0.4

Published on 31st July 2020

• Includes database upgrade: no
• Includes WildFly configuration upgrade: no
  

• Upgrade Impacts Analysis Model: no

• Also includes all changes and bug fixes from Squore 19.1.11
  

20.0.3

Published on 16th June 2020

• Includes database upgrade: no
• Includes WildFly configuration upgrade: no
  

• Upgrade Impacts Analysis Model: no

20.0.2

Published on 2nd June 2020

• Includes database upgrade: no
• Includes WildFly configuration upgrade: no
  

• Upgrade Impacts Analysis Model: no

• Also includes all changes and bug fixes from Squore 19.1.10

20.0.1

Published on 27th April 2020

• Includes database upgrade: no
• Includes WildFly configuration upgrade: no
  

• Upgrade Impacts Analysis Model: no

• Also includes all changes and bug fixes from Squore 19.1.9

20.0.0

Published on 20th April 2020

• Includes database upgrade: yes (from any version)
• Includes WildFly configuration upgrade: no (except coming from pre-19.1.6 versions)
  

• Upgrade Impacts Analysis Model: yes (from any version)

• Also includes all changes and bug fixes from Squore 19.1.8