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SpotBugs 4.9.4

CHANGELOG

• https://github.com/spotbugs/spotbugs/blob/4.9.4/CHANGELOG.md

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SpotBugs 4.9.3

CHANGELOG

Added

• Introduced UselessSuppressionDetector to report the useless annotations instead of NoteSuppressedWarnings (#3348)

Fixed

• Do not report US_USELESS_SUPPRESSION_ON_METHOD on synthetic methods (#3351)

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SpotBugs 4.9.2

CHANGELOG

Added

• Reporting useless @SuppressFBWarnings annotations (#641)

Fixed

• Fixed html bug descriptions for AT_STALE_THREAD_WRITE_OF_PRIMITIVE and AT_NONATOMIC_64BIT_PRIMITIVE (#3303)
• Fixed an HSM_HIDING_METHOD false positive when ECJ generates a synthetic method for an enum switch (#3305)
• Fix AT_UNSAFE_RESOURCE_ACCESS_IN_THREAD false negatives, detector depending on method order.

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4.9.4 - 2025-08-07

Changed

• AnnotationMatcher can now ignore bugs if annotation is also applied on methods or fields. Previously only annotations on classes were considered.
• Add relevant CWE ids to bugs and refer the CWEs in the bug messages (#3354).
• Replace LOCAL_VARIABLE_UNKNOWN with exact method name for NP_NULL_ON_SOME_PATH_FROM_RETURN_VALUE (#3485)

Fixed

• Widen main method recognition according to JEP 445. (#3371)
• Do not report US_USELESS_SUPPRESSION_ON_* on methods, fields, parameters, packages or classes with an *.Generated annotation with retention >= class (#3350)(#3409)
• Rewrite some member in ResourceValueFrame.java to Enum (#2061)
• Ignore non-interpreted text when looking for FS_BAD_DATE_FORMAT_FLAG_COMBO (#3387)
• Fix IllegalArgumentException thrown from FindNoSideEffectMethods detector (#3320)
• Do not report RV_RETURN_VALUE_IGNORED_NO_SIDE_EFFECT when part of a Mockito doAnswer(), doCallRealMethod(), doNothing(), doThrow() or doReturn() call (#3334)
• Fix CT_CONSTRUCTOR_THROW false positive with public and private constructors in specific order of methods (#3417)
• Fix AT_NONATOMIC_OPERATIONS_ON_SHARED_VARIABLE, AT_NONATOMIC_64BIT_PRIMITIVE and AT_STALE_THREAD_WRITE_OF_PRIMITIVE FP when the relevant code is in private method, which is only called with proper synchronization (#3428)
• Do not report RV_RETURN_VALUE_IGNORED_NO_SIDE_EFFECT when part of a BDDMockito call (#3441)
• Fix AT_NONATOMIC_OPERATIONS_ON_SHARED_VARIABLE when field of a local variable is set. (#3459)
• Fix AT_NONATOMIC_OPERATIONS_ON_SHARED_VARIABLE FP when there was no compound operation (#3363)
• Fix NM_FIELD_NAMING_CONVENTION crash in the TestASM detector (#3489)
• Do not report UWF_FIELD_NOT_INITIALIZED_IN_CONSTRUCTOR for fields initialized in JUnit 3/4 setUp() method. (#3169)
• Fix US_USELESS_SUPPRESSION_ON_FIELD/UUF_UNUSED_FIELD false positive (#3496)
• Make the osgi manifest of the annotations jar Java 8 compatible (#3498) (#3500)
• TextUICommandLine supports all options encoded in Eclipse preferences file (#3520)
• Unnecessary suppressions fix for records headers (#3471)
• Dead store fix when switch case contains loops (#3530) (#3449)
• Consider PUTFIELD and PUTSTATIC when looking for assertions with side effects (#3463)
• Detect cases when equals() unconditionally returns true or false (#3528)
• Do not report that an Iterator does not throw NoSuchElementException when hasNext() returns true (#3501)
• Detect random value cast to int when stored in temporary variable (#3461)
• Look for interfaces default methods when searching uncalled private methods (#1988)
• Fixed field self assignment false positive (#2258)
• Fixed DMI_INVOKING_TOSTRING_ON_ARRAY on newer JDK (#1147)
• Fix NP_NULL_ON_SOME_PATH_FROM_RETURN_VALUE false positive with Objects.requireNonNull (#2965) (#3573)
• Track inner classes access methods to correctly report the bugs (#2029)
• SF_SWITCH_NO_DEFAULT false positive fix (#1148) (#3572)

Added

• Added the unnecessary annotation to the US_USELESS_SUPPRESSION_ON_* messages (#3395)
• Multi-threaded code checks can be skipped with @NotThreadSafe (#3390)
• New bug type CWO_CLOSED_WITHOUT_OPENED for locks that might be released without even being acquired. (See SEI CERT rule LCK08-J) (#2055)
  • Breaking change: changed values and new items in ResourceValueFrame.
• Inline access method for method. (#3481)
• Added DMI_MISLEADING_SUBSTRING for calling subString(0) on a StringBuffer/StringBuilder (#1928)

Signing

• Signing for Eclipse plugin has been removed at the current time due to signing keys being expired. The expired key produced a warning during install, the same is true without signing.

4.9.3 - 2025-03-14

Added

• Introduced UselessSuppressionDetector to report the useless annotations instead of NoteSuppressedWarnings (#3348)

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