The community has started several months ago to request a plugin to group / aggregate projects in Sonar. This plugin was released a couple of days ago under the name : Sonar Views Plugin. It is a commercial plugin edited by SonarSource that goes beyond the community initial expectations.
The Views Plugin enables to create any kind and any number of aggregation trees. Here are few examples :

• Recreate inside Sonar the company internal organization : projects can be grouped by applications, applications by team, teams by department…
• Group projects by type : libraries, web applications…
• Separate legacy projects from new ones

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Last November we announced the creation of SonarSource, a company whose objective is to carry on Sonar’s development to make it the open source reference in terms of quality management platform.



Last week, SonarSource launched its web site to support enterprises that need Professional Services around Sonar : Professional Support, Development On Demand, Consulting Services and Commercial Plugins.



Since a quick try is better than a long description, here is the address of the new web site : http://www.sonarsource.com !

The finalists of the 19th annual Jolt Product Excellence Awards have just been announced… and we are honored to report that Sonar is nominated in the Testing Tools category.



The Jolts are presented annually to “define which software development products are ahead of the curve. They honor products that are universally useful, that are simple, yet rich in functionality, or that redefine their product space”.



Congratulations to all the finalists, we wish them all the best of luck. Winners will be Announced at SD West 2009 on March 11th 2009. Every product has a chance to win, even the less known ;-)

The release 1.4.2 is available for download. It fixes two bugs :

• SONAR-344 Configuration of custom rules is not read when importing checkstyle.xml file
• SONAR-351 MySql broken pipe on inactivity timeout

Upgrade steps from 1.4.* releases are :

• unzip the distribution
• replace sonar-1.4.2/conf/, sonar-1.4.2/extensions/ and sonar-1.4.2/data/ directories by yours
• If MySql database, add the following property to sonar-1.4.2/conf/sonar.properties :
  sonar.jdbc.validationQuery: select 1
• start the server
• update the maven plugin version :
  mvn org.codehaus.sonar:sonar-maven-plugin:1.4.2:sonar

Sonar 1.4.1 is now available for download. This is a bug fix release that prevents failures when migrating from previous sonar releases on Oracle database. It also fixes some bugs on coding rules.
Thanks to Michel Pawlak, Matthias Flor and Martin Ehrnhoefer for their help.

The Sonar team is pleased to announce the release 1.4. This version is a bug fix release from version 1.3. We had a number of minor glitches that we felt were important to release. These include :

• coding rules improvements (upgrade to checkstyle 4.4, copy profiles, display name of tools, permalinks on XML export)
• fix a JavaNCSS bug when parsing Java5 annotations from method body
• startup scripts on specific linux/solaris plateforms
• fix bugs on IE6 and SQL Server database

Read the release notes for more details. Updating to this version is recommended. Don’t forget to read the migration guide for 1.2/1.3 users. It’s really simple but it’s mandatory to respect the procedure.

We also developed an extension to analyse PL/SQL projects. Contact us for more details.

Now that 1.4 has been completed, we are finalizing the plugins framework to easily extend Sonar measures. We’ll release a BETA API on 1.5. Other planned features are advanced details on sources (lines covered by unit tests. messages of test failures) and better time machine charts.

Thank you for all your feedback with making this a successful release !

We are pleased to announce that Sonar 1.3 is now released. The major feature is the dramatic improvements to stability and performance. Other features are :

• deploy as a WAR on Tomcat 5.5
• measures on Java packages
• more details on Java classes
• new measures : ratio of duplicated lines and ratio of comments

You will find documentation at http://sonar.codehaus.org/documentation/1_3/ and the distribution on the download page. You can also have a look at the full release notes.

Please stay tuned !

The Sonar team is happy to announce the first Release Candidate of the version 1.3. If only one feature should be arrested, it would be the dramatic improvements to stability and performances. A benchmark will be published soon.

Other features are :

• deploy as a WAR on Tomcat 5.5
• measures on Java packages
• more details on Java classes
• new measures : ratio of duplicated lines and ratio of comments
• and bug fixes

You will find documentation at http://sonar.codehaus.org/documentation/1_3/ and the distribution on the download page.

Please give it a try to help us make Sonar as good as possible. All your feedbacks are welcome on the mailing-list.