Exakat 1.8.8 Review Exakat 1.8.8 is out. There are numerous improvements under the hood, and significant work during the testing phase. All this new ground will be useful in the upcoming versions, so just listen and get ready for new features. The speed improvements are massive for the smaller codebase : anything smaller than WordPress […]
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Jul
Jul
Exakat 1.8.6 Review Exakat 1.8.6 is a performance version. First, Exakat moved to Tinkergraph 3.4.2, using the latest and brightest of the graph database. Several analyses were refactored for faster processing, then the Query engine was optimized to skip side queries when possible. And finally, we’re working on loading time, both directly and with the […]
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Jun
Jun
Exakat 1.8.5 Review Exakat 1.8.4 and 5 are maintenance version, that focus on fixing edge cases and speeding up analysis. In particular, several analyses have taken advantage of the constant resolution system, to apply checks on literal and constants alike. We also included a new analysis that checks if literal could be replaced by an […]
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Jun
Jun
Exakat 1.8.3 Review Exakat 1.8.3 has been refactoring a lot of property and method infrastructure. We are now quite satisfied with the new handling of properties, even if some unit tests are still not passing. In the meantime, we added new tactical checks : how to speed up usage of magic properties, by choosing the […]
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Jun
Jun
Exakat 1.8.2 Review Exakat 1.8.2 starts a growth cycle with the internal engine. New relations are being built across the code base, to create a shorter path between related pieces of code. In the meantime, we collect three pieces of wisdom last week : infinite foreach() loops, too much of get_class() and identical inherited methods. […]
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Jun
Jun
Configure exakat with .exakat.yml, and run it in your CI pipeline.
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May
May
Exakat 1.8.1 brings several new reports formats for a better bug hunt. This week, we introduce the Top 10 reports, the Yaml and the ExakatYaml reports. Plus Json, Text and XML got upgraded with extra new fields. The Exakat 1.8.1 review is all in the reports!
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May
May
Exakat 1.8.0 Review Exakat 1.8.0 main new feature is the support for ‘in-code review’ : using .exakat.yml, you may run an audit from within the repository. This is particularly useful for CI. More PHP 7.4 support was added, with the upcoming change of precedence with addition and concatenation. For the current versions, Exakat is now […]
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May
May
Exakat 1.7.9 Review Exakat 1.7.9 is bringing a wide range of updates and upgrades. First, support for PHP 7.4 is growing, with arrow functions and spread operators in arrays, and ffi extension. Then, we extended the nested ternary, in preparation for PHP 7.4’s non-nesting features. And finally, the Inventory report added the inclusions list, while […]
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May
May
Exakat 1.7.7 Review Exakat 1.7.7 brings two new analyses : implode() with one argument, and a sneaky security vulnerability. It is the infamous check with integers. Show me the Exakat 1.7.7 review now! Implode() with one argument Implode() is a PHP native function, which has been around since the last millennium. I am pretty certain […]
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Apr
Apr
Exakat 1.7.6 Review Exakat 1.7.6 provides a new report that configure php-cs-fixer and automates fixes in the code. This means that after a good audit, the code may be systematically updated and cleaned of all issues for the next audit. We also introduced a detector for PHP overridden functions, array_merge() used raw with ellipsis and […]