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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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 1.7.7 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 1.7.4 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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Nov
Nov
Exakat 1.5.5 Review Exakat 1.5.5 is the sinkterklas version : it brings a lot of speed, reports and analysis on its boat, from Spain. Seriously, Exakat 1.5.5 now reports your HTTP headers for unsafe configuration; it also suggests speed up tricks for fputcsv(), and it recommends using the file() functions, instead of fileget_contents(). Then, Exakat […]