Sonar 1.2.1 is now available. It fixes two bugs when using the embedded database, which is the default mode when installing sonar :

• SONAR-219, no chart on classes distribution by complexity
• SONAR-184, error on the rules breakdown page.

Just unzip the application without replacing the directories /conf, /data and /extensions.

We have always been impressed by the layout of the Google Analytics dashboard. Its data oriented interface is intuitive, simple and powerful at the same time. It gave us a lot of ideas to improve Sonar usability. The release 1.2 is the first step of this interface refactoring. For example major measures like code coverage or complexity/method are emphasized on the project dashboard.

The actual new feature of this release is reviews, like design or code reviews. They are a well-known technique to obtain quality and productivity improvements, even in agile teams. Resulting measures of such manual reviews are saved and displayed on the dashboard besides other metrics. Of course it does not replace tools like Atlassian Crucible, focused on the whole review process.

The release also fixes some bugs. Have a look at the changelog for more details. Download the application and read the installation guide for more details.

The development iteration is one month long, so the release 1.3 is planned for end of April. Until this time don’t forget the mailing-list to give your feedback !

The Sonar team

We are pleased to announce that the Sonar 1.1 release is now available. Major features and enhancements are :

• new GNU Lesser GPL license
• Time Machine to display and compare past measures
• homepage personalization
• new unit test metrics (success ratio, number of failures)
• administration features need authentication
• management of Checkstyle and PMD extensions
• upgrade to PMD 4.1
• better management of coding rules thanks to profiles
• easier to configure (no pom.xml configuration to set JDBC properties)
• and many more

Two series of screenshots on the homepage. Download sonar-1.1.zip. Administration and migration guides are published into the documentation section.

Do not forget do give your feedback on the mailing-list !

We hope this release will fulfil your needs.

The Sonar team

We are pleased to announce that the first 1.1 BETA release is now available. Major features and enhancements are :

• the “time machine“, to manage past measures of a project. You can tag a day (“release 1.0″ or all other kind of event), display past dashboards and compare measures from different days/tags.
• select the indicators to display on the homepage
• new unit test indicators : success ratio, number of errors/failures
• administration features are secured by an authentication system.
• management of checkstyle and PMD extensions
• better management of coding rules thanks to profiles
• upgrade to PMD 4.1, with more than 20 new coding rules
• no more jdbc driver configuration into pom.xml. It is automaticaly downloaded from the server.
• and more than 50 enhancements and bug fixes !

This is the first release since our migration to codehaus. The license is Lesser GPL instead of previous GPL.

Note that this is a BETA release. We offer no guarantees about the reliability and the compatibility with the final 1.1 release. Moreover documentation is not finalized.

Download : http://www.sonarsoftware.org/download/sonar-1.1-beta1.zip
Changelog : http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&&fixfor=13938&pid=11694&sorter/field=issuekey&sorter/order=DESC
Migration guide from 1.0 : http://docs.codehaus.org/display/SONAR/Migration+from+1.0+to+1.1
Administration guide : http://docs.codehaus.org/display/SONAR/Installation+guide+1.1

We’re waiting for your feedback ;o)

It’s done. Sonar is now hosted at Codehaus. It’s a great opportunity for us to join this community that has done so many things for open source during last years. Thank you guys.

The impacts on sonar are the change of license (LGPL instead of GPL, effective from future release 1.1) and the use of the great codehaus infrastructure :

• the mailing-list user@sonar.codehaus.org (archive, subscribe). Please stop using the sonar list hosted at google.
• new subversion repository (and browsable sources with fisheye)
• JIRA as issue tracker

Release 1.0 was developed thanks the use of the Assembla forge. We highly recommend it. It’s a great free subversion/trac packaging. We will continue to use it for our internal needs.

Please stay tuned. Next release 1.1 gets closer !

We are pleased to announce that the Sonar 1.0.2 release is now available. Major features and enhancements are :

• manage non maven projects. More details here.
• display the classes complexity distribution.
  
• display rules compliance indicators as an histogram chart.
  
• better history charts
• on rules breakdown page, sort modules and flop 10 classes by the number of errors to quickly identify hotspots

Links

Full release notes : http://tools.assembla.com/sonar/report/11
Download : http://sonar.hortis.ch/download/sonar-1.0.2.zip
Installation guide : http://sonar.hortis.ch/documentation/installation/

Upgrade from 1.0/1.0.1 releases

• backup /extensions and /conf directories
• unzip the distribution
• copy your /extensions and /conf directories
• start the server
• browse to the sonar homepage (http://localhost:9000 by default) and follow setup instructions
• execute the command ‘mvn ch.hortis.sonar:sonar-maven-plugin:1.0.2:sonar’ on your projects

Many thanks to all the people who have helped us by giving their feedback.

Please stay tuned.

We are pleased to announce that the Sonar 1.0 final release is now available. It fixes several bugs detected from 1.0 BETA release.

Migration from 1.0 beta to 1.0 is quite simple : unzip the application, copy your existing parameters to configuration files (conf/), start the server, open your browser to the sonar homepage and click on the setup button. Notice that tendencies on rule categories will be lost for technical reasons (tendency on global rules compliance index is kept).

Thanks to all beta testers, and don’t forget to give us your feedback on the mailing-list.

Enjoy,
Simon

Five months after the 0.2 release, we are proud to announce the first beta release of sonar 1.0. Forget the previous version ! New functionalities and many enhancements are described here.
We are working now on the website refactoring (design, documentation update, movies, …) and the contextual help within the application. The final 1.0 version will be released as soon as feedbacks of our beta-testers are conclusive.

Note that the maven plugin is still not deployed to the official repository. We are waiting for the maven team validation. Meanwhile you’ll have to add our repository to your maven settings.xml :

  hortis
  
    
      hortis-releases
      Hortis releases
      http://maven2.hortis.ch/releases
      
        true
          
          
        false
      
    
  


      hortis-plugin-releases
      Hortis plugin releases
      http://maven2.hortis.ch/releases
      
        true
          
          
        false
      
    
  

Documentation is available at http://sonar.hortis.ch. Download page is http://sonar.hortis.ch/downloads/.

Your comments, bug reports, patches and suggestions will help sonar to grow and be better. Please report bugs through http://tools.assembla.com/sonar.

Please stay tuned,
Simon Brandhof