Release notes - SonarJava - 8.15

New Feature

SONARJAVA-5501 S7474: S7474 Markdown, HTML and Javadoc tags should be consistent

SONARJAVA-5537 S7476: S7476 Comments should start with the appropriate number of slashes

SONARJAVA-5544 Deprecate rule S6291 and S6300

False Positive

SONARJAVA-5377 FP on S125 on markdown comments

SONARJAVA-5445 FP on S1123 not reading @deprecated tags in markdown javadocs

SONARJAVA-5482 FP S1854 with broken semantics

SONARJAVA-5553 FP in rule S2384 on private getters

Bug

SONARJAVA-5522 S3052 should not fail to parse floats and doubles containing an underscore

Task

SONARJAVA-4634 S6437 requires a complete test source for all the methods listed in S6437-methods.json

SONARJAVA-5543 Upgrade third-party dependencies

SONARJAVA-5562 Upgrade analyzer commons to 2.17

SONARJAVA-5567 Fix failing Quality Gate: remove unused field.

SONARJAVA-5568 Create continuous releasability check

SONARJAVA-5571 Expose public api for SE engine that were mistakenly used by improper dependency

SONARJAVA-5574 Fix UpdateRuleMetadata GitHub action to also update the sonar-java-symbolic-execution-plugin rules

SONARJAVA-5593 Update spring-security-core from 6.4.5 to 6.4.6 to suppress alert about CVE-2025-41232

SONARJAVA-5601 Update rule metadata

False Negative

SONARJAVA-5552 FN in S1943 on InputStreamReader::new