codeql/java/ql/lib/change-notes/released/0.8.4.md

0.8.4

Minor Analysis Improvements

• The diagnostic query java/diagnostics/successfully-extracted-files, and therefore the Code Scanning UI measure of scanned Java files, now considers any Java file seen during extraction, even one with some errors, to be extracted / scanned.
• Switch cases using binding patterns and case null[, default] are now supported. Classes PatternCase and NullDefaultCase are introduced to represent new kinds of case statement.
• Both switch cases and instanceof expressions using record patterns are now supported. The new class RecordPatternExpr is introduced to represent record patterns, and InstanceOfExpr gains getPattern to replace getLocalVariableDeclExpr.
• The control-flow graph and therefore dominance information regarding switch blocks in statement context but with an expression rule (e.g. switch(...) { case 1 -> System.out.println("Hello world!") }) has been fixed. This reduces false positives and negatives from various queries relating to functions featuring such statements.