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PVS-Studio 7.40 (10 December 2025)

• [#9388627] The cross-platform C and C++ project analyzer: Fixed an issue involving relative paths when using the V_ANALYSIS_PATHS and V_EXCLUDE_PATH settings in the .pvsconfig analysis configuration files.
• [#0859221] V112: Added aggregate initialization support.
• [#5099068] The C and C++ analyzer: Enhanced the performance of the new C and C++ code parser with template functions.
• [#0970334] V758: Fixed false positives when returning std::basic_string_view<T>::data from functions.
• [#7182810] V1050: Added an exclusion for the std::addressof function and the offsetof macro.
• [#6439638] V6014: Fixed handling of lambda functions with the void return type.
• [#6346294] V1077: Fixed false positives caused by incorrect handling of conditionally called functions.
• [#9363217] V1058: Fixed false positives caused by incorrect handling of function pointers.
• [#9726590] V2592: Fixed the analyzer crash.
• [#3099012] The C and C++ analyzer: Fixed comparison of different enum types.
• [#4122041] The C and C++ analyzer: Added support for the alignof keyword (C23), which fixes the analyzer crash issue.
• [#9817902] The C and C++ analyzer: Added support for the sccache incremental build tool.
• [#9409333] V1078: Added support for the Swap function family from Unreal Engine.
• [#3544838] V654: Fixed volatile pointer handling.
• [#3748519] Updated instructions for installing PVS-Studio from .deb and .rpm repositories.
• [#6304087] V2023. Absence of the 'override' specifier when overriding a virtual function may cause a mismatch of signatures.

PVS-Studio 7.39 (10 October 2025)

• [#1951949] V783: Enhanced checking of validity conditions for iterators.
• [#9161879] V776: Fixed handling of types with implicit conversion operators to bool.
• [#0706205] V1028: Enhanced handling of infinite loops.
• [#5814205] V1082, V654: Enhanced handling of noreturn functions.
• [#9161879] V1001: Supported modification of containers via proxy objects.
• [#9291102] V3114: Fixed handling of Disposable objects in interprocedural context.
• [#5175936] The cross-platform C and C++ project analyzer: Enhanced performance in the trace mode.
• [#9109514] The plugin for Visual Studio: Added analysis progress tracking via a taskbar notification icon and the option to collapse the analysis progress window.
• [#2587435] The MSBuild Project analyzer: Added a mechanism for overwriting higher-priority settings for .pvsconfig diagnostic rule configuration files.
• [#6209762] The Visual Studio Code plugin: Added the option to filter warnings by CWE identifiers.

PVS-Studio 7.38 (06 August 2025)

• [#1399651] The C++ analyzer: fixed a crash when analyzing nested structures with bit data members.
• [#7555563] The C# analyzer: fixed hanging during project evaluation.
• [#3843404] The Java analyzer: supported Kotlin DSL when using the PVS-Studio plugin for the Gradle build system. See the documentation for details.
• [#5752819] Plog Converter: enhanced the algorithm for evaluating message uniqueness in the DefectDojo format report.
• [#9485590] Plog Converter: refined the sorting of warnings in the fullhtml format.
• [#1987667] V728: improved multi-component condition handling.

PVS-Studio 7.37 (11 June 2025)

• [#0792723] The C# analyzer: Added support for linking parameter values to return values in data flow analysis.
• [#6480713] The C# analyzer: Fixed handling of the is pattern with double.NaN in data flow analysis.
• [#6052600] The MSBuild project analyzer: Supported analysis of SLNX-format
• [#3211560] [#3211560] PlogConverter: Reduced resource usage when converting large analyzer reports.
• [#6791800] The C++ analyzer: Added support for the constexpr and alignas keywords from the C23 standard.
• [#1270371] V567: Fixed handling of built-in functions and added an exception for the __builtin_choose_expr function.
• [#8916276] V575: Fixed an incorrect type output as a result of calling the std::make_optional() function.
• [#6645077] V607: Implemented proper handling of the QHash class.
• [#8107471] V758: Fixed handling of lambda return values.
• [#6791800] V779: Fixed handling of the NOP assembly instructions.
• [#5335301] V1030: Fixed handling of variables captured by value in lambda capture lists.
• [#0105811] V1101: Fixed detection of overridden virtual functions.

PVS-Studio 7.36 (09 April 2025)

• [#0874681] The C++ analyzer: enhanced the detection of identical indexed elements within loops.
• [#2739247, 6735163] pvs-studio-analyzer: added the --apply-pvs-configs flag to enable automatic search and application of rule configuration files within the checked project catalogs. To set this flag, use the new --project-root flag.
• [#3468400] The C# analyzer: extended support for the user annotation mechanism.
• [#8430972] The Java analyzer: fixed a hang when analyzing some language constructs.
• [#5289474] Added a warning for analyzing MSBuild projects with unsupported platform.
• [#9359232] CLMonitor: fixed access checks to start the wrapcompiler mode.
• [#2043148] PlogConverter: fixed an issue with generating the MISRA Compliance report.
• [#3616237] The MSBuild analyzer: added support for specifying the used version of the C# analyzer when running the analysis. See the documentation for details.
• [#8856839] The MSBuild analyzer: extended report saving options. Now you can save only suppressed, only false, or only false and suppressed warnings.
• [#6219937] The C++ analyzer: fixed annotations of dlopen and pthread_create functions.
• [#6139985] V560: enhanced evaluation of value ranges.
• [#4692794] V547: improved handling of std::basic_string_view and semantically similar classes.
• [#9852311] V674: refined exceptions for std::make_shared.
• [#8374605] V779: fixed a bug in handling class member functions.
• [#9423344] V1101: improved mechanism for searching arguments of overridden functions with modified default values.
• [#5418222] V1030: added an exception for functions without preconditions.
• [#7544605] pvs-studio-analyzer: added the v,version flag to obtain the analyzer version.
• [#7464671] pvs-studio-analyzer: compile_commands.json now ignores all non-compiler calls. To analyze projects with custom compilers, use the --compiler flag.

PVS-Studio 7.35 (12 February 2025)

• [#9627926] V002: added a mechanism for determining the starting point for incorrect warning positioning. See the documentation for details.
• [#2543077] Fixed a bug in behavior of //V_RET_* comments when placed at the end of a file.
• [#7749517] Fixed an error in the C and C++ analyzer core that occurred when running in Korean locale.
• [#9062574] V575: supported std::clamp and enabled users to customize behavior for user-defined functions.
• [#7066465] V558: fixed incorrect processing of nested namespaces.
• [#8865624] V614: improved the mechanism for detecting variable initialization in called functions.
• [#9062574] V764: added heuristics for searching by function argument names.
• [#3473634] V1100: fine-tuned exceptions.
• [#6068010] V2594: improved processing of keywords from C23.
• [#4900670] Fixed the analyzer operation when only .NET 9 SDK Preview is installed.
• [#8584055] The installer no longer requires closing Visual Studio if the necessary components are not installed.
• [#8756380] Fixed the analyzer package search while using Homebrew on macOS.
• [#7217831] The MSBuild analyzer: added a feature to analyze modified files based on their hashes.
• [#2739247] PlogConverter: added support for the "markdown table" report format.
• [#2652005] The C and C++ analyzer: fixed processing of environment variables that do not contain values.
• [#9767662] Fixed an issue with conversion of intermediate report formats.
• [#5889149] The C and C++ analyzer: fixed processing of _Pragma.
• [#2739247] The C and C++ analyzer: fixed incorrect behavior of enum comparison mechanism.
• [#5963593] V2528: now the warning is issued precisely for the troublesome comma instead of the beginning of the expression that contains it.