# Release Notes

## 1.0.0-M4

### General

- license changed from ASL 2.0 to GPLv3 to solve compatibility issues with Neo4j community edition

### Core

#### Scanner

- major performance improvements, especially for larger projects

- all scanned files are represented with a file label, even if no scanner actually accepts the file type

- a public API for scanner plugins is now provided, an example for SCV files is available in the documentation

#### Analysis

- constraints and concepts provide a severity

### Maven plugin

- added support for additional scan directories (scanDirectories) and rule directories (rulesDirectories)

- added 'skip' property for excluding single modules from scan

- renamed property 'failOnConstraintViolations' to 'failOnViolations'

- include JUnit test reports in scan

- better support for multi-module projects

### Command line

- added downloadable distribution providing a standalone CLI including shell scripts for Windows and Unix compatible systems

### Sonar

- provide all plugins of jQAssistant distribution in sonar plugin

### Plugins

#### Java

- added scanner support for Java 8 bytecode

- new concepts for throwable types are now provided

#### Java 8

- added concepts for functional interfaces and default methods

#### JUnit4

- new concepts for lifecycle annotations (@Before, @After, @BeforeClass, @AfterClass)

- new concepts for JUnit3 tests

- split up of concept "junit4:TestClassOrMethod" into "junit4:TestClass" and "junit4:TestMethod"

- added constraints for unit tests

#### CDI

- new plugin containing a scanner for beans.xml descriptors, concepts and constrains

### Documentation

- explanation of rule types added (concepts, constraints, groups)

- an example is provided for distributing plugins containing rules