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 […]
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Apr
Apr
Exakat 1.7.5 Review Exakat 1.7.5 has been a lot of work behind the scenes. All containers, may it be variable, arrays or properties have been refactored to keep track of their usage. The Files/MissingInclude analysis was extended to be configured with constants and variables. You code once, and when the Exakat 1.7.5 review is right, […]
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Apr
Apr
Exakat 1.7.4 Review This week, Exakat 1.7.4 opened the bug hunt season. Many analysis bugs were tracked and removed from the code, leading to the cleanest version of Exakat yet. Identical files in a code repository are now omitted, but one, automatically. And it is possible to configure the target reports from the command line, […]
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Apr
Apr
Exakat 1.7.3 review This week, Exakat 1.7.3 version upgrades the reports, with the automated detection of identical files, and the grouping of global variables. We shall never know all the good that a simple Exakat 1.7.3 review can do. Report of Identical Files The Ambassador report added a new item on the menu : in […]
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Mar
Mar
Exakat 1.7.2 Review The Exakat 1.7.2 version brings more grunt work for the engine, and fewer surprises for your audits. This week, we extended the support for ignored classes to functions and constants: ignore any file in the configuration, and Exakat keeps in mind when it contains definitions. Also, the automated detection of large libraries […]
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Mar
Mar
Exakat 1.7.1 Review The Exakat 1.7.1 fixes the bugs reported from last week’s major upgrade. ‘Concentrated issues’ is a new section for the Ambassador report, which puts lines of code that collected the most errors. The Exakat engine also received an upgrade to support ‘Virtualproperty’. The Quality section reached 2900 UT tests (again). Every great […]
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Mar
Mar
Exakat 1.7.0 Review The Exakat 1.7.0 precedes Confoo 2019 by a mere day. If you are in Montreal for one of the greatest PHP and web related conference, be sure to meet us! This version is an important milestone : with the 1.7.0, we are introducing two new reports, Diplomat and History; we also added […]
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Feb
Feb
Exakat 1.6.6 Review The Exakat 1.6.6 was born in Miami, during sunshine PHP 19. The conference is incredibly energetic, and with the help of fellow attendees, it provided inspiration for some interesting update : PHP supports strings with logical operators (good for security); Exakat reviews typehint and check if they are sufficient in the method […]
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Feb
Feb
Exakat 1.6.5 Review The Exakat 1.6.5 review comes in with a lot of extensions and some new analysis. In particular, we add support for pcov and weakref, two interesting PECL extensions; New analysis report variables that are used as conditions, and arrays that are initialized as strings (duh!); Finally, the Ambassador report and several previous […]
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Jan
Jan
Exakat 1.6.3 Review This is the Exakat 1.6.3 review for the 2019 new year! New analyzers focus on the upcoming speed boost for array_key_exists(), and the sometimes missing capturing subpatterns from preg_match(). The Ambassador report now includes a ‘new issues’ section, which displays only the most recently found issues in the code, since the last […]