The new version improves the C parser and preprocessor. The main feature is a parsing error recovery mechanism which allows to analyse syntactically incorrect C source files.

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This release fixes an analysis failure when a view name or description contains a comma.
It can be installed from update center or downloaded from the plugin page.

The new version fixes parsing issues and adds support for NSN files.

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The new version adds support for nonstandard preprocessing macros like ‘far’, ‘GCC case ranges’, ‘asm’, ‘__attribute__’ … and fixes several bugs.

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80 issues have been fixed in the new version. This includes improvements, bug fixes and also great new features : addition of an execution flow to Cobol AST visitors, improve Enterprise Cobol / Microfocus / AcuCobol / CICS / Cobol 400 / DB2 SQL grammars, provide a preprocessor extension point, provide a unit tests framework for custom rules and 7 new rules :

• Do not use the GO TO verb to transfer control to a point which is outside the current section
• Avoid use of SQL statements
• Data item must be initialized with correct default value
• A PERFORM statement must not cause itself to be executed
• The second paragraph of a PERFORM statement must only contain an EXIT statement
• In a PERFORM from para1 to a para2, para2 must always be defined after para1
• PERFORM THRU must be made between paragraphs sharing a naming convention

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The new version brings compatibility with Sonar 2.5 and optimizes the database space occupied by Views.

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The new version adds support for legacy varargs.h, adds new GNU CPP named variables and fixes several bugs.

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SonarSource and Obeo are happy to announce the release of the Sonar Natural Plugin.

SonarSource and Obeo have combined their expertise to develop this plugin : Obeo with its parsing and rules engine technology (Obeo Agility) and SonarSource by integrating this technology into a Sonar plugin and adding the glue to cover all quality axes.

This plugin enables to perform objective and automated Natural code quality and standards reviews against pre-defined rule sets and coding best practices.

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About Obeo
Obeo is a leading company in the field of model driven software approaches based on Eclipse. Obeo provides solutions that help large organizations to design, develop and modernize automatically their softwares assets. Promoted to the rank of Eclipse Strategic Member, the company is strongly involved in Open Source communities. Obeo delivers outstanding products and services like Obeo Designer or Obeo Agility, contributing to its customers success.

We did it again ! As in 2009, Sonar has received a Productivity Award at the Jolt Award 2010 in the Testing and Debugging category. Congratulations to AutomatedQA TestComplete 8 (SmartBear Software) for their excellence award and to QA Wizard Pro 2011 (Seapine Software) for their productivity award in the same category.

The Jolt Awards recognize the most innovative, trend-making, ahead-of-the-curve products. It rewards the software products, books and technologies that developers should be using today.

The new version brings two major improvements :

• Compute and reports the number of statements
• Forms extractor improvement

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