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@codeql-ci codeql-ci released this 04 Feb 21:10
· 146 commits to main since this release
  • Beware that the CodeQL build tracer in this release (and in all earlier CodeQL CLI releases) is incompatible with Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022. This incompatibility affects database extraction for compiled languages: cpp, csharp, go, and java. If you use any of these languages, please avoid these specific Windows versions until a new CodeQL CLI release fixes this incompatibility.

  • The bundled extractors are updated to match the versions currently used on LGTM.com. These are newer than the last release (1.29) of LGTM Enterprise. If you plan to upload databases to an LGTM Enterprise 1.29 instance, you need to create them with release 2.6.3.

Breaking change

  • The CodeQL Action versions up to and including version 1.0.22 are not compatible with the CodeQL CLI 2.8.0 and later. The CLI will emit an error if it detects that it is being used by an incompatible version of the codeql-action.

New features

  • A new extractor option has been added to the Java extractor. The flag --extractor-option exclude='<glob>' allows specifying a glob that describes which paths need to be excluded from extraction but still need to be compiled. This is useful when some files are necessary for a successful build but are uninteresting for analysis.

    See also: https://codeql.github.com/docs/codeql-cli/extractor-options/

  • Summary metrics can now associate messages with their results, for instance to report the name and number of uses of a particular API endpoint within a repository. To associate messages with summary metrics, define a query with @kind metric and @tags summary metadata and use either the location, message, value or the message, value results pattern.

Bug fixed

  • Fixed a bug where codeql resolve upgrades ignores the --target-dbscheme option.

For more information about the changes included in this release, see the CodeQL CLI changelog.

You can download either the codeql-PLATFORM.zip for your platform, or the generic codeql.zip which contains binaries for all supported platforms. Please ignore the additional "source code" downloads below the .zip artifacts.