SonarLint for IntelliJ 4.7 released

[JBL_SonarSource (Jean-Baptiste Lievremont)]

Hi here, I’m pleased to announce that SonarLint for IntelliJ 4.7 has just been published to the JetBrains Plugin Repository. The highlights of this version are:

• 2 new rules for Python, and improved accuracy thanks to the use of type information for builtins
• 2 new rules for Java, with significant performance improvements

We also fixed a few bugs, such as a compatibility issues with older versions of our TypeScript analyzer, and display of rule descriptions.

See the release notes for the full details.

[tobiaspreuss]

Hey. It would be useful to have the new rules being named or linked in the release notes. It is a bit cumbersome to find out which rules is new otherwise. Thanks.

[JBL_SonarSource (Jean-Baptiste Lievremont)]

Hey, thanks for the suggestion!

For this version, here are the new rules:

• Python:
  • Arguments given to functions should be of an expected type
  • Functions and lambdas should not reference variables defined in enclosing loops
• Java:
  • Raw types should not be used
  • “@Deprecated” code marked for removal should never be used

We’ll try to come up with something more accessible for next announcements - listing all new rules is OK when there are only a few of them like this time, but can be hard to read when there are more than a dozen.