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This project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

1.3.0 - 2023-01-04

Changed

  • Removed the poor support for reading dependencies from pom.xml files. Instead semgrep will try to read dependencies from a maven_dep_tree.txt file, which can be generated using the command mvn dependency:tree -DoutputFile=maven_dep_tree.txt (sc-pom)

Fixed

  • Use the GitHub REST API when possible to compute the merge base for semgrep ci, improving performance on shallow clones of large repositories. (gha-mergebase)

  • YAML: Fixed a bug where metavariables matching YAML double-quoted strings would not capture the entire range of the string, and would not contain the double-quotes. Also added the ability to properly use patterns like "$FOO", which will unpack the contents of the matched string. (pa-2332)

  • Fixed a race condition related to the parsing cache that could lead to internal errors (pa-2335)

  • YAML: Fixed a bug where literal or folded blocks would not be parsed properly.

    So for instance, in:

    key: |
  string goes here

    A metavariable matching the contents of the string value might not be correct. (pa-2347)

  • Julia: Greatly improved parsing support (pa-2362)

1.2.1 - 2022-12-16

Fixed

  • Go: fix NoTokenLocation for metavariables matching function type without an argument (e.g. func()) (gh-6715)
  • typed-metavariables: handle ternary expressions so we can type correctly expressions like foo(cond ? new A() : this.a) (pa-2328)
  • Reverted a change which caused findings with different sources (but the same sink) to be deduplicated. This would cause findings which looked identical in range and data, but had different taint traces. (pa-2336)

1.2.0 - 2022-12-15

Fixed

  • Fixed rare crash that could occur due to stale file caches when temp file names overlap (cache-invalidation)
  • PHP: support metavariables in string (as in foo("$VAR")) (gh-6311)
  • Java: support static block patterns (gh-6366)
  • Rust: parse correctly scoped identifier in constructor (gh-6594)
  • Java: support super(...) patterns (gh-6638)
  • C#: bugfix on bad interaction between -fast and the internal code generated for LINQ queries (gh-6666)
  • Java: support the Java 10 'var' keyword by not using 'var' as a valid type when using typed metavariables. (gh-6672)
  • When matching module specifiers in imports, prevent metavariables from capturing quotes. (gh-6674)
  • Swift: support complex expression in switch case (gh-6704)
  • Constant propagation: Fixed a bug where constant propagation would only run within functions. Now, it runs on the top-level of the program as well. (pa-1656)
  • DeepSemgrep: Fixed a bug where imports which reached type names (among other things) would not resolve properly (pa-2260)
  • DeepSemgrep: Fixed a bug which caused Java functions with interfaces to wipe taint (instead of propagating taint by default) (pa-2265)
  • Fix matching of qualified names. For example, new $X.Foo() will now match new a.b.Foo(). (pa-2296)
  • DeepSemgrep: Fix regression in taint-mode introduced by Semgrep v1.1 that caused some findings to be missed. Also, DeepSemgrep will assume, for now, that a method call on a tainted object is always tainted. (pa-2304)
  • Improved matching behavior on JS require calls (require-match)

1.1.0 - 2022-12-05

Added

  • JSON output: Added a max_memory_bytes field to the semgrep --time output which corresponds to the amount of memory allocated during the OCaml phase of Semgrep. This is useful for telemetry purposes. (pa-2075)

Changed

  • Don't print out summary of blocking rules unless running with semgrep ci subcommand (gh-6651)

Fixed

  • taint-mode: In 0.94.0 we made that when a pattern-source (or pattern-sanitizer) matched a variable exactly, this was understood as that variable being tainted (sanitized, resp.) by side-effect. For example, given tainted(x) we would taint x by side-effect, and subsequent occurrences of x were also considered tainted. This allowed to write rules like c.lang.security.use-after-free.use-after-free in a very succint way, and it also addressed some limitations of the workarounds that were being used to simulate this until then.

    This worked well initially, or so we thought, until in 0.113.0 we added field-sensitivity to taint-mode, and in subsequent versions we made sources and sanitizers apply by side-effect to more kinds of l-values than just simple variables. It was then that we started to see regressions that were fairly unintuitive for users. For example, if $_GET['foo'] was a taint source, this would make $_GET itself to be tainted by side-effect, and a subsequent expression like $_GET['bar'] was also considered tainted.

    We now correct the situation by adding the by-side-effect option to sources and sanitizers, and requiring this option to be explicitly enabled (that is, by-side-effect: true) in order to apply the source or the sanitizer by side-effect. Otherwise, the default is that sources and sanitizers matching l-values apply only to the precise occurrences that they match. (pa-1629)

  • taint-mode: Fixed matching of pattern-sinks to be more precise, so that e.g. it will no longer report sink(ok1 if tainted else ok2) as a tainted sink, as the expression passed to the sink is actually not tainted. (pa-2142)

  • CLI: Separated experimental rules from normal rules in semgrep --debug output. (pa-2159)

  • Taint: Fixed an issue where findings with the same sink would be identified as the same, and cause only one of them to be reported, even if they had different sources. (pa-2208)

  • DeepSemgrep: When the "DeepSemgrep" setting is enabled in Semgrep App, semgrep ci will try to run the analysis using the DeepSemgrep engine. But if this engine was not installed, semgrep ci failed. Now semgrep ci will automatically try to install DeepSemgrep if it is not already present. Note that, if DeepSemgrep is already installed, semgrep ci does not attempt to upgrade it to a newer version. (pa-2226)

  • CLI: Made the number of jobs when using semgrep --deep default to 1. (pa-2231)

  • Autofix: If multiple autofixes are targeting an overlapping range, then one of them is picked arbitrarily to occur, to prevent autofixes which may produce incorrect code. (pa-2276)

  • DeepSemgrep: Time data now outputs properly when running semgrep --deep --time (pa-2280)

  • DeepSemgrep: Added a message which suggests that users update their version of DeepSemgrep, if the DeepSemgrep binary crashes (pa-2283)

  • Yarn 2 parse failure on versions like @storybook/react-docgen-typescript-plugin@canary. This is only present as some kind special version range specifier and never appears as a concrete version. It would only be used to check if the dependency was in the manifest file, so we just parse the version as "canary" Yarn 2 parse failure on versions like @types/ol-ext@npm:@siedlerchr/[email protected] Yarn 2 parse failure on versions like resolve@patch:resolve@^1.1.7#~builtin<compat/resolve>. These are now just ignored, as they appear to always come with a non-patch version as well. (sc-406)

1.0.0 - 2022-12-01

Added

  • DeepSemgrep: If you have a Team tier account in Semgrep App, and you enable the DeepSemgrep setting, then semgrep ci will automatically run the DeepSemgrep engine instead of the OSS engine on full scans (but not in PR scans). (pa-2226)

0.123.0 - 2022-11-29

Added

  • CLI: Added deep traces to --dataflow-traces (pa-2116)

Changed

  • Reachable Supply Chain findings will no longer block pull requests when using semgrep ci. Note that unreachable findings have been non-blocking already. (sca-nonblocking)

Fixed

  • Fix matching issue related to JS imports with multiple imported values (gh-5305)
  • DeepSemgrep: Keep only the shortest trace originating from a taint source. This also prevents falling into infinite loops when inferring taint signatures for mutually recursive procedures. (pa-2224)
  • taint-mode: Improved taint tracking for array-like accesses. Previously, if x.a.b[i].c got tainted, Semgrep would track x.a.b as tainted, and thus x.a.b[i].d would be incorrectly considered as tainted too. Now Semgrep will do the right thing and track x.a.b[*].c as tainted, and x.a.b[i].d will not be considered tainted. (pa-2225)
  • Java: private, singly-assigned class variables now permit constant propagation (pa-2230)
  • JS/TS: Allow dependencies to @Injectable and @Component classes in Angular JS to be visible outside the scope of the constructor. (pa-2233)
  • Fix matching issue related to Python imports with multiple imported values (python-imports)
  • Supply Chain findings from a yarn.lock lockfile were marked as 'transitive' when we couldn't find the matching package.json file. These findings will now be marked as having 'unknown' transitivity. (sc-425)
  • Make $X(...) match this() and super(). (this-match)

0.122.0 - 2022-11-16

Fixed

  • DeepSemgrep: Added installation path for DeepSemgrep on M1 machines (pa-2153)
  • Correctly handle optional name field in yaml1 lockfiles (parse_yaml)

0.121.2 - 2022-11-10

Fixed

  • Fix yaml excessive mapping captures (gh-5698)
  • Rule syntax: Allow pattern-not, pattern-inside, and pattern-not-inside to take in arbitrary patterns (such as patterns, pattern-either, and friends) (pa-1723)
  • Kotlin: Fixed bug where constructor invocation with a trailing comma would not parse (pa-1988)
  • Constant propagation: Type casts and parenthesized expressions (in Go) can now be symbolically propagated. (pa-2054)
  • CLI: Added a fix preventing findings from experimental rules being displayed. Experimental rules also now no longer run silently. (pa-2121)

0.121.1 - 2022-11-08

No significant changes.

0.121.0 - 2022-11-07

Changed

  • taint-mode: Semgrep can now track taint through l-values of the form this.x. It will also be more precise when tracking taint on l-values involving an array access, previously if x.a[i] was tainted, then x itself was tainted; now only x.a will be considered tainted. (pa-2086)

Fixed

  • JS: correctly parse exported function pattern (gh-6218)
  • Terraform: Can now analyze constant-propagated values of variables with metavariable-comparison and friends (pa-2088)

0.120.0 - 2022-11-02

Added

  • Fail gracefully and print error message when running in unsupported Linux aarch64/arm64 environment (arm-fail)
  • Added 'fingerprints' field to results in sarif output (gh-5729)
  • Add dataflow traces as 'codeFlows' object in SARIF output (gh-6367)
  • Fail immediately if semgrep tries to run a supply chain rule with an invalid version range specifier (ssc-fail-early)
  • Added Supply Chain support for requirements.txt lockfiles (with requirement.in manifest files) and Yarn 2/3 lockfiles (ssc-yarn-req)

Changed

  • Change default behavior of CircleCI configurations. If a user manually sets their environment variables (i.e. SEMGREP_REPO_NAME, SEMGREP_REPO_URL, SEMGREP_BRANCH, SEMGREP_JOB_URL, SEMGREP_COMMIT), use it before falling back on autodetection. (app-2434)
  • Change default behavior of Buildkite CI configurations. If a user manually sets their environment variables (i.e. SEMGREP_REPO_NAME, SEMGREP_REPO_URL, SEMGREP_BRANCH, SEMGREP_JOB_URL, SEMGREP_COMMIT), use it before falling back on autodetection. (app-2435)
  • Change default behavior of bitbucket CI configurations. If a user manually sets their environment variables (i.e. SEMGREP_REPO_NAME, SEMGREP_REPO_URL, SEMGREP_BRANCH, SEMGREP_JOB_URL, SEMGREP_COMMIT), use it before falling back on autodetection. (app-2436)

Fixed

  • Handle unexpected exceptions when performing AST-based autofix. (autofix-exception)
  • Fix an issue that could cause AST-based autofix to fail on autofixes containing statements. (autofix-statement-exception)
  • Fix an issue preventing AST-based autofix from running in the presence of focus-metavariable. (focus-metavariable-autofix)
  • Implement string literal metavariables in Python AST-based autofix (gh-3648)
  • Go: parse correctly generic types from other packages (gh-5799)
  • Fix parsing of dot access ellipsis in PHP patterns (e.g. $x-> ... ->bar()). (gh-6183)
  • JS/TS: Allowed parsing of patterns using the optional chaining "?." syntax. (gh-6201)
  • Dockerfile language: Add support for RUN options such as RUN --mount=type=$TYPE,target=$TARGET .... (gh-6353)
  • taint-mode: Fixed a bug in the experimental taint-labels feature that caused labels to be incorrectly applied to dot accesses. For instance, if a pattern-source that requires label A and adds label B matches a dot-access expression like x.a, the field a will get the label B even if it does not carry label A as required. (gh-6355)
  • Use AST-based autofix when possible for JS autofixes. This is more likely to lead to correct output, especially for complicated fixes. (js-autofix)
  • taint-mode: Fixed regression in 0.113.0, after field sensitivity support was added, that broke existing behavior when a prefix in a chain of dot-accesses such as x.a.b was specified as a source/sanitizer/sink. For example, if x had been previously tainted, then we encountered sink(x.a.b) where x.a matched a sanitizer, there was a finding reported because x.a.b was incorrectly considered tainted. (pa-1928)
  • JS/TS: Fixed a parsing bug where special identifiers were parsed differently in patterns (pa-2030)
  • Language server now appropriately applies regex fixes (vscode-regex)

0.119.0 - Skipped

Version 0.119.0 of Semgrep was intentionally skipped. Version 0.120.0 immediately follows version 0.118.0.

0.118.0 - 2022-10-19

Added

  • Taint mode will now track taint coming from the default values of function parameters. For example, given def test(url = "http://example.com"):, if "http://example.com" is a taint source (due to not using TLS), then url will be marked as tainted during the analysis of test. (gh-6298)

  • taint-mode: Added two new rule options that help minimizing false positives.

    First one is taint_assume_safe_indexes, which makes Semgrep assume that an array-access expression is safe even if the index expression is tainted. Otherwise Semgrep assumes that e.g. a[i] is tainted if i is tainted, even if a is not. Enabling this option is recommended for high-signal rules, whereas disabling it may be preferred for audit rules. Currently, it is disabled by default for pure backwards compatibility reasons, but this may change in the near future after some evaluation.

    The other one is taint_assume_safe_functions, which makes Semgrep assume that function calls do NOT propagate taint from their arguments to their output. Otherwise, Semgrep always assumes that functions may propagate taint. This is intended to replace not conflicting sanitizers (added in v0.69.0) in the future. This option is still experimental and needs to be complemented by other changes to be made in future releases. (pa-1541)

Changed

  • Ignore the .npm/ directory by default in Semgrep scans (gh-6315)
  • The --scan-unknown-extensions option is now set to false by default. This means that from now on --skip-unknown-extensions is the default. This is an important change that prevents many errors when using Semgrep in a pre-commit context or in CI. (pa-1932)

Fixed

  • Add autodetection for pull request numbers for Azure Pipelines. If SEMGREP_PR_ID is set, override the autodetection. (app-2083)
  • Fixed an autofix regression that caused Semgrep to fail to replace metavariables in string literals, e.g. foo("xyz $X"). (autofix-string-metavar)

0.117.0 - 2022-10-12

Added

  • taint-mode: It is now possible to use pattern-propagators to propagate taint through higher-order iterators such as forEach in Java. For example: 
      pattern-propagators:
    - pattern: $X.forEach(($Y) -> ...)
      from: $X
      to: $Y
``` (gh-5971)

Changed

  • Change default behavior of Travis CI configurations. If a user manually sets their environment variables (i.e. SEMGREP_REPO_NAME, SEMGREP_REPO_URL, SEMGREP_BRANCH, SEMGREP_JOB_URL, SEMGREP_COMMIT, SEMGREP_PR_ID), use it before falling back on autodetection.

Fixed

  • Scala: Fixed a bug where generators would not parse if newlines were present, in certain cases (pa-1902)
  • Fixed bug where nested dependencies in package-lock.json files were not detected (sc-247)
  • Removed Gradle as a separate supply chain ecosystem. Maven rules now work on Gradle projects (sc-256)
  • Lockfiles are no longer subject to size filtering during file targetting, so very large lockfiles can now generate unreachable findings (sc-293)

0.116.0 - 2022-10-06

Added

  • Added support for named arguments in taint tracking. This is only relevant for DeepSemgrep users. (pa-1886)

Changed

  • Change default behavior of Jenkins CI configurations. If a user manually sets their environment variables (i.e. SEMGREP_BRANCH, SEMGREP_JOB_URL, SEMGREP_COMMIT), use it before falling back on autodetection. (app-2432)
  • Change default behavior of Azure Pipelines configurations. If a user manually sets their environment variables (i.e. SEMGREP_REPO_NAME, SEMGREP_REPO_URL, SEMGREP_BRANCH, SEMGREP_JOB_URL, SEMGREP_COMMIT), use it before falling back on autodetection. (app-2433)
  • taint-mode: Removed experimental poor-man's support for wrapper functions around taint sources. This was an early experiment to make Semgrep inter-procedural, but it was later abandoned in favor of DeepSemgrep. (pa-1838)
  • Disabled Bloom filter optimization by default, due to undesired interactions with constant and symbolic propagation, while it appears to not provide a net major performance benefit (nowadays). If you do notice a significant drop in performance after this change, please let us know. (pa-1927)
  • Semgrep-core will no longer accept a rule file containing only one rule object, rules must be given in an array unde the rules: key. This change does not affect Semgrep CLI which never accepted that relaxed format. (pa-1931)
  • Changed command line flag for supply chain scans from --sca to --supply-chain. Correspondinly changed --config sca to --config supply-chain (sca-ssc)

Fixed

  • Change default behavior of Jenkins CI configurations. If the SEMGREP_REPO_URL is set, use it. Otherwise, default to autodetection. (app-2406)
  • fix: Ensure the docker image uses the latest base packages (docker)
  • Fixed symbolic propagation of the new operator, that had been broken since version 0.98.0. You can again e.g. use the pattern new A().foo() to match a.foo(), with a = new A(). (gh-6161)
  • Some crypto code like hashing algorithms can lead to a very large amount of symbolically propageted values, which previously caused Semgrep's Bloom filter to hang. (pa-1920)
  • taint-mode: It is now possible for this or this.x to be a source of taint. (pa-1929)
  • taint-mode: Fixed a bug that made Semgrep miss taint findings when the sink was located inside an if condition or a throw (aka raise) expression/statement. (pa-1933)
  • Start to use the AST to render autofixes in some specific cases. As this is extended, autofix will become more correct and more powerful. (ast-autofix)
  • Fixed a parser error in some package-lock.json files (sca-parse-error)

0.115.0 - 2022-09-27

Added

  • Adds support for a .semgrepconfig file. Users can add metadata (such as a list of tags) to the .semgrepconfig YAML file which will automatically be assigned to the project. (app-2112)
  • Modify the CLI output to separate non-blocking and blocking findings and show a list of the blocking rules that fired. (app-2306)

Changed

  • generic mode: allow text input without human-readable indentation up to 500 bytes. This value is subject to change. This relaxing is intended to facilitate testing where someone might copy-paste a long line without a trailing newline. Semgrep users should not expect files that are not human-readable to be processed in semgrep's generic mode, or in any mode for the matter. (gh-6071)
  • Changed behavior for renamed files on diff scans (scans in which a baseline ref is provided). Semgrep will not show old issues to developers when they rename a file now. (gh-6157)

Fixed

  • Fixed nondeterministic failure of test_api test due to invalid settings file by configuring home directory to temporary directory. (app-2166)
  • Change default behavior of Jenkins CI configurations. If the SEMGREP_REPO_NAME environment variable is set, use it. Otherwise, default autodetection. (app-2331)
  • Dockerfile mode: Fix failure to match where image name and image alias should be the same. The problem was due to some names and identifiers being fragmented due to parsing rules and not pieced back together. (gh-5229)
  • Scala: add support for ellipsis in match body (e.g., $X match { ... }) (gh-6131)
  • Added a fix for a bug involving parsing of TS imports, where they were not allowed to appear as patterns to a rule. (pa-1910)

0.114.0 - 2022-09-19

Added

  • Add functionality to exclude rules by id passing it by cli flag --exclude-rule (cli-2530)
  • Fixes semgrep#5686. You can now have multiple metavariables under focus-metavariable, which allows Semgrep to highlight the values matched by multiple metavariables more easily in certain circumstances. See the gist in the description of the original issue for an example. (gh-5686)

Fixed

  • C++: support ellipsis in right-hand-side of an assignment (gh-1923)
  • Rust: support ellipsis in struct declarations (gh-3759)
  • Fixed incorrect stripping of '$' (literal dollar sign) in regexps used in the context of metavariable-regex. (gh-5987)
  • Solidity: support constructor and modifier patterns (gh-6053)
  • C#: support for metavariable ellipsis (e.g., $...ARGS) in arguments (gh-6065)
  • Rust: support ellipsis inside module mody (gh-6066)
  • Hold references to NamedTemporaryFile objects while their corresponding temporary files are still in use by the core runner. Failure to explicitly hold references to these objects on some Python implementations, such as PyPy, results in them sometimes being garbage-collected during processing. This, in turn, triggers removal of the temp files while they are still in use by the core runner or the worker subprocesses, resulting in various crashes and processing failures. (gh-6100)
  • Swift: Fix parsing of statement ellipsis without a preceding semicolon (pa-1809)

0.113.0 - 2022-09-15

Added

  • Adds backwards-compatibility with older versions of semgrep-app. Only relevant for customers with on-prem versions of the app. (gh-6098)
  • taint-mode: Experimental support for basic field-sensitive taint tracking. Semgrep can now track x.a and x.b separately, so that e.g. x.a can be tainted at the same time as x.b is clean, hence sink(x.a) would produce a finding but sink(x.b) would not. It is also possible for x to be tainted while x.a is clean. We expect this to have an net positive effect by reducing false positives. (pa-1278)
  • Update the supply chain API to include information about the transitivity of matched dependencies (sca-199)

Fixed

  • Resolve imported classes when there are multiple chained classes. For example, if you import world.Hello, and create a new Hello.internal_class(), you can match that with new world.Hello.internal_class(). (gh-6001)
  • Java: Correctly parse ellipsis in the body of top-level constructor patterns with privacy modifiers (e.g. public Foo() { ... }) (gh-6051)
  • semgrep --test now fails when encountering a parsing error in target code. (gh-6068)
  • Allowed metavariable-comparison to make use of the not in operator. (gh-6072)
  • Fixed parsing of Rust impl definitions (gh-6078)
  • Fixed a TypeError: unbound method set.intersection() needs an argument crash that occurred when all of a scan's rules were multilang (regex or generic). (gh-6093)

0.112.1 - 2022-09-08

Fixed

  • Fixed a regression introduced with the previous release, involving a bug with pattern-inside. (gh-6059)

0.112.0 - 2022-09-07

Added

  • JS/TS: Allow standalone switch cases as patterns (e.g. case 5: ...) (pa-1788)
  • Symbolic propagation: Added propagation of all variables which are assigned to a single time. This will affect global variables and class attributes, in particular. (pa-1821)

Changed

  • Use new semgrep-app endpoint that combines the two POST requests to upload findings and ignored findings into one POST request. (app-1446)

Fixed

  • Update git url parser to support optional "org" after hostname. Example: https://some.enterprise.scm/myorg/owner/repo. (app-2202)
  • Fix an incorrect autofix application when the fix includes Python f strings (gh-2995)
  • Fix matching and autofix with bare tuples in Python array accesses (e.g. x[1, 2]) (gh-3387)
  • Ruby: A pattern of the form /.../ can now match any regexp, including regexp templates such as /hello #{name}/. (gh-5147)
  • Fix parsing of Java constructors with privacy modifiers as patterns, e.g. the pattern public Foo() { } (gh-5558)
  • Java: correctly parse class literal patterns (gh-6002)
  • Solidity: correctly parse try statements (gh-6031)
  • Python: Now support match statements (pa-1739)
  • Fixed bug in constant propagation that caused incorrect constants to be inferred in the presence of subtraction. (pa-1846)

0.111.1 - 2022-08-23

Changed

  • Previously, the following error message appears when metrics are not uploaded within the set timeout timeframe:

    Error in send: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='metrics.semgrep.dev', port=443): Read timed out. (read timeout=3)

    As this causes users confusion when running the CLI, the log level of the message is reduced to appear for development and debugging purposes only. Note that metrics are still successfully uploaded, but the success status is not sent in time for the curent timeout set. (app-1398)

Fixed

  • taint-mode: Fixed the translation from Generic to IL for expressions like "some string".concat(x). Previously, when x was tainted, the concat expression was not recognized as tainted and this caused false negatives. (pa-1787)

0.111.0 - 2022-08-22

Added

  • Introduced experimental support for Swift (gh-2232)
  • Add configuration options for using a tree-sitter library installed anywhere on the system. (gh-5944)
  • Updated the supply chain finding API:
    • The API is now typed and defined entirely in semgrep_output_v0.atd
    • Supply chain findings now have only one dependency match, not a list, and only one resolved url
    • Supply chain findings now have a field called reachable and reachability_rule, which indicate if the finding is reachable, and whether or not it was generated by a reachability rule (rule that had a semgrep pattern)
    • Supply chain findings now include a schema version
    • The complete finding information sent to semgrep app now includes a mapping from lockfile paths to the number of dependencies that were present in that lockfile (sca-197)

Fixed

  • When a YAML rule file had a string that contained an ISO timestamp, that would be parsed as a datetime object, which would then be rejected by Semgrep's rule schema validator. This is now fixed by keeping strings that contain an ISO timestamp as strings. (app-2157)

  • When parsing PHP with tree-sitter, parse $this similar to pfff, as an IdSpecial. This makes it possible to match $this when the pattern is parsed with pfff and the program with tree-sitter. (gh-5594)

  • Parse die() as exit() in tree-sitter PHP. This makes pfff and tree-sitter parse die() in the same way. (gh-5880)

  • All: Applied a fix so that qualified identifiers can unify with metavariables. Notably, this affected Python decorators, among others. (pa-1700)

  • Fixed a regression in DeepSemgrep after the experimental taint labels feature was introduced in 0.106.0. This prevented DeepSemgrep from reporting taint findings when e.g. the sink was wrapped by another function. (pa-1750)

  • Fixed metavariable unification in JSON when one of the patterns is a single field. (pa-1763)

  • Changed symbolic propagation such that "redundant" matches are no longer reported as findings. For instance:

    def foo():
  x = g(5)
  f(x)

    If we are looking for the pattern g(5), we should not match on line 3, since we will match on line 2 anyways, and this is just repeating information that we already know.

    This patch changes it so that we do not match on line 3 anymore. (pa-1772)

  • Semgrep now passes -j to DeepSemgrep engine so --deep became noticeably faster. (pa-1776)

  • taint-mode: Due to a mistake in the instantiation of a visitor, named function definitions were being analyzed twice! This is now fixed and you may observe significant speed ups in some cases. (pa-1778)

  • Extract mode: fixed a possible exception in normal usage introduced due to changes in handling of search/taint rules. (pa-1786)

  • Changed the fail-open message body (pm-194)

Infra/Release Changes

  • GHA Runner macos-12 is unreliable and has begun failing without a clear explanation as to why: this downgrades to macos-11, since 10.15 is to be depracted ~10 from now. (devop-609)
  • Keep the tree-sitter library inside a local folder rather than requiring a global installation. (gh-2956)

0.110.0 - 2022-08-15

Changed

  • Parse several built-in PHP functions in the same way in pfff and tree-sitter. This makes it possible to match exit, eval, empty and isset, even if the pattern is parsed with pfff and the PHP file with tree-sitter. (gh-5382)
  • Use new semgrep-app endpoints that are pure GET with no side-effects and pure POST (app-2001)

Fixed

  • Skip fail-open for exit code 1 (app-2073)

0.109.0 - 2022-08-11

Changed

  • semgrep ci now defaults to fail open and will always exit with exit code 0, which is equivalent to passing --suppress-errors. To disable this behavior, you can pass --no-suppress-errors and semgrep will behave as it did previously, surfacing any exit codes that may result. (app-1951)

Fixed

  • taint-mode: Taint traces (--dataflow-traces) should no longer report "strange" intermediate variables when there are record accesses involved. This happened e.g. if foo was a tainted record and the code accessed some of its fields as in foo.bar.baz. This was related to the use of auxiliary variables in the Dataflow IL. These variables got tainted, but they had real tokens attached corresponding to the dot . operator. Now we do not include these variables in the taint trace. (pa-1672)

Infra/Release Changes

  • GHA runner-image macos-10.15 is deprecated and will be unsupported by 30AUG2022. We've tested and can upgrade to macos-12 to avoid issues with brownouts or end of support. (devop-586)

0.108.0 - 2022-08-03

Added

  • Metrics now include language-aggregated parse rates (files, bytes). The purpose of this is to help drive parsing improvements more intelligently. See PRIVACY.md for more details. (pa-1678)

Changed

  • Updated SCA finding generation so that the following hold:
    • One SCA finding per vulnerable dependency. If one rule matches multiple dependencies in one lockfile, that will produce multiple findings. This still needs to be codified in the typed interface
    • No findings in files that were not targeted. If foo.py depends on Pipfile.lock, and foo.py is targeted but Pipfile.lock is not, then we can produce reachable findings in foo.py but not non-reachable findings in Pipfile.lock. If Pipfile.lock is included in our targets then we can produce non-reachable findings inside of it
    • No massive single scan for lockfiles. (sca-127)

Fixed

  • Fixed issue when scan fails due to pending changes in submodule. (cli-272)

  • Semgrep CI now accepts more formats of git url for metadata provided to semgrep.dev and lets the user provide a fallback for repo name (SEMGREP_REPO_NAME) and repo url (SEMGREP_REPO_URL) if they are undefined by CI. (cli-280)

  • Fixed a crash that occurred when reporting results when join mode and taint mode were used together (gh-5839)

  • JS: Allowed decorators to appear in Semgrep patterns for class methods and fields. (pa-1677)

  • Quick fix for a regression introduced in 0.107.0 (presumably by taint labels) that could cause some taint rules to crash Semgrep with:

    Invalid_argument "output_value: abstract value (Custom)" (pa-1724)

  • Increase timeout for network calls to semgrep.dev from 30s to 60s (timeout-1)

0.107.0 - 2022-07-29

Added

  • Added metadata in App-connected scans to report extensions of files that do not match the language of any enabled rules in order to enable more effective language prioritization while developing new rules. (app-1354)
  • Support fail-open in CI: adds --suppress-errors/--no-suppress-errors (defaults to --no-suppress-errors) (cli-254)
  • New language Elixir with experimental support. (gh-3698)
  • Kotlin: support for ellipsis in field access (e.g., obj. ... .bar()) (gh-5819)
  • Changed semgrep-core so that it can now be run with -rules on .yaml files which do not have a top-level rules: ... key. This means you can now copy paste from the playground editor directly into a .yaml file for use with semgrep-core. (implicit-rules-sc-core)
  • Add experimental support for taint labels, that is the ability to attach labels to different kinds of taint. Both sources and sinks can retrict what labels are present in the data that passes through them in order to apply. This allows to write more complex taint rules that previously required ugly workarounds. Taint labels are also useful for writing certain classes of typestate analyses (e.g., check that a file descriptor is not used after being closed). (pa-1362)
  • Introduced the --dataflow-traces flag, which directs the Semgrep CLI to explain how non-local values lead to a finding. Currently, this only applies to taint mode findings and it will trace the path from the taint source to the taint sink. (pa-1599)

Changed

  • Made breaking changes to the dataflow_trace JSON output to make it more easily consumable by the App. Added content for taint_source and intermediate_vars, and collapsed the multile taint_source locations into one. (dataflow-trace-json)
  • Removed the unique_id field from the semgrep (and semgrep-core) JSON output for metavariables. (unique-id-json)

Fixed

  • Fixed format of repository urls so links to findings can be properly displayed on semgrep.dev (cli-278)
  • Scala: Allow metavariables in import patterns (gh-5219)
  • Rules reported for LSP metrics now are hashed before sending (lsp-metrixs)
  • -filter_irrelevant_rules was incorrectly skipping files when the PCRE engine threw an error, while trying to match a regex that determines whether a rule is relevant for a file. This has been fixed so that, in case of a PCRE error, we assume that the rule could be relevant and we do run it on the file. (pa-1635)

0.106.0 - 2022-07-21

Changed

  • metavariable-comparison: The metavariable field is now optional, except if strip: true. When strip: false (the default) the metavaraible field has no use so it was pointless to require it. (metavariable-comparison-metavariable)

  • metavariable-comparison now also works on metavariables that cannot be evaluated to simple literals. In such cases, we take the string representation of the code bound by the metavariable. The way to access this string representation is via str($MVAR). For example:

    - metavariable-comparison:
    metavariable: $X
    comparison: str($X) == str($Y)

    Here $X and $Y may bind to two different code variables, and we check whether these two code variables have the same name (e.g. two different variables but both named x). (pa-1659)

  • When running an SCA scan with semgrep ci --sca, SCA findings will no longer be considered blocking if they are unreachable. (sca-128)

Fixed

  • Fixed a regression in name resolution that occurred with metavariable patterns (gh-5690)

  • Rust: Fixed a bug with matching for scoped identifiers

    Basically, scoped identifiers were only looking at the last identifier. So something like A::B::C would result in something like C. (gh-5717)

0.105.0 - 2022-07-20

Added

  • Experimental LSP support for: metavariable inlay hints, hot reloading, App integation, scan commands, and much much more (cli-235)
  • Added a concatenation reduction for extract mode, so that disjoint snippets within a file can be treated as one unified file. (extract-reductions)
  • Extract mode: taint trace positions are now updated to correspond to the source file. (extract-taint-traces)
  • Extract mode: generic is now permitted as a languages value (pa-1648)
  • Added handling for EXPERIMENT severity to allow the ability to test rules as experiments. (rules-680)

Changed

  • Do not store time or skipped targets output unless requested. This reduces memory consumption significantly in large repos (pa-1618)
  • Reduce memory consumption of semgrep by passing the targets in a more condensed structure. Previously, we told semgrep which rules to run on which target by listing out all the rule_ids each target should run. Now, we have a separate rule_id list and for each target we only ilst the rule_id indices. On large repos, particularly when run with multiple processes, this has a significant impact. (pa-1618-2)

Fixed

  • C#: Improved error message when function parameters are declared with var (gh-5068)

  • Scala/others: Added a fix allowing percolation of name information from class parameters

    For example, classes which take in arguments like the following in Scala:

    class ExampleClass(val x: TypeName) {
}

    do not properly enter the context. So in our analysis, we would not know that the identifier x has type TypeName, within the body of ExampleClass. (gh-5506)

  • Fixed the logged message describing the endpoint where rules are fetched from when SEMGREP_URL is set (gh-5753)

  • Fixed what data was used for indexing match results to used match based id data (index)

0.104.0 - 2022-07-13

Added

  • semgrep ci will now not block builds on triage ignored issues (cli-162)
  • Add support to cli/scripts/compare.py for podman environments (compare-script-podman)
  • A new experimental 'extract' mode. This mode runs a Semgrep rule on a codebase and "extracts" code from matches, treating it as a different language. This allows users to supplement an existing set of rules, e.g., for JavaScript, by writing additional rules to find JavaScript in non-JavaScript files, e.g., JavaScript contained in HTML or template files. While this is somewhat possible with metavariable-pattern, this reduces the work from an M * N problem to an M + N one. (gh-4478)
  • Added taint traces as part of Semgrep's JSON output. This helps explain how the sink became tainted. (pa-1271)

Changed

  • Metavariable-pattern now uses the same metavariable context as its parent. This will potentially cause breaking changes for rules that reuse metavariables in the pattern. For example, consider the following formula:

    - patterns:
   - pattern-either:
       - pattern-inside: $OBJ.output($RESP)
   - pattern: $RESP
   - metavariable-pattern:
       metavariable: $RESP
       pattern: `...{ $OBJ }...`

    Previously, the $OBJ in the metavariable-pattern would be a new metavariable. The formula would behave the same if that $OBJ was $A instead. Now, $OBJ will try to unify with the value bound by $OBJ in the pattern-inside. (gh-5060)

  • The semgrep test output used to produce expected lines and reported lines which is difficult to read and interpret. This change introduces missed lines and incorrect lines to make it easier for the users to pinpoint the differences in output. (gh-5600)

  • Separator lines are no longer drawn between findings that have no source code snippet. (sca-ui)

  • Using ellipses in XML/HTML elements is now more permissive of whitespace. Previously, in order to have a element with an ellipsis no leading/trailing whitespace was permitted in the element contents, i.e., <tag>...</tag> was the only permitted form. Now, leading or trailing whitespace is ignored when the substantive content of the element is only an ellipsis. (xml-permissive-ellipsis)

Fixed

  • Semgrep App's links to repositories, code snippets, and pull requests are no longer broken for projects that run Semgrep in Circle CI, Bitbucket, and Buildkite. (cli-267)
  • When running Semgrep via Docker for Mac, all volume-mounted files were considered executable and thus a candidate for scanning Bash code, making target collection take longer, and sometimes targeting more files than intended. This was fixed by using os.stat instead of os.access to determine if a file is executable. (gh-5560)
  • Semgrep used to crash when trying to print findings that match only whitespace, such as when a rule disallows two newlines at the end of a file. This crash is now fixed. (gh-5633)
  • Memory usage improvement: don't save skipped targets when --debug isn't passed since it isn't read unless --debug is used (pa-1618)

Infra/Release Changes

  • Updated the GH Release creation to publish the release instead of drafting one - this avoids a failure of validation jobs on release. (cli-243)
  • Using some building blocks from release, set up a workflow to test semgrep ci e2e. (cli-253)
  • Updated our changelog management system to towncrier to avoid merge conflicts in changelog on release (cli-77)
  • The opening of PRs in other repos is automated with semgrep release - there is still a manual review required to build confidence. (cli-84)

Unreleased

0.103.0 - 2022-07-05

Added

  • Expression statement patterns (e.g. foo();) used to also match when they were a bit deeper in the expression (e.g., x = foo();). This can now be disabled via rule options: with implicit_deep_exprstmt: false (#5472)
  • The timeout for git commands Semgrep runs is now configurable by setting the SEMGREP_GIT_COMMAND_TIMEOUT environment variable. The unit used is seconds. The default value is 300.

Fixed

  • Error messages in JSON output used to contain ANSI color codes, this was fixed so they are now uncolored (and readable!) plain text.
  • Fixed config parsing bug to cut CI scan speeds down significantly

0.102.0 - 2022-06-30

Added

  • Scala: ellipsis are now allowed in for loop headers, so you can write patterns like for (...; $X <- $Y if $COND; ...) { ... } to match nested for loops. (#5650)
  • The SEMGREP_GHA_MIN_FETCH_DEPTH environment variable which lets you set how many commits semgrep ci fetches from the remote at the minimum when calculating the merge-base in GitHub Actions. Having more commits available helps Semgrep determine what changes came from the current pull request, fixing issues where Semgrep would report findings that weren't touched in a given pull request. This value is set to 0 by default (#5664)

Fixed

  • taint-mode: In some scenarios some statements were not being included in the CFG used by taint tracking, and as a result some expected findings were not being reported (i.e. false negatives). This affected mainly languages like Scala where traditional control-flow constructs are expressions rather than statements (or, seen in a different way, every statement returns a value). (#5652)
  • Yaml: location information is fixed for unicode characters (#5660)

Changed

  • --verbose no longer toggles the display of timing information, use --verbose --time to display this information.
  • Change timeout for git operations from 100s to 500s

0.101.1 - 2022-06-28

Fixed

  • semgrep ci: CI runs in GitHub Actions failed to checkout the commit assoociated with the head branch, and is fixed here.

0.101.0 - 2022-06-27

Added

  • Bash: Support for subshell syntax i.e. commands in parentheses (#5629)

Changed

Fixed

  • semgrep ci: CI runs were failing to checkout the PR head in GitHub Actions, which is corrected here.
  • TS: fixed the parsing of type predicates and typeof queries
  • Deep expression matching now works on HTML in JavaScript
  • taint-mode: Taint propagation via pattern-propagators now works correclty when the from or to metavariables match a function call. For example, given sqlBuilder.append(page.getOrderBy()), we can now propagate taint from page.getOrderBy() to sqlBuilder.
  • Will no longer print "files were not tracked by git" if not in a git repo
  • Will no longer print "Some files were skipped" if no files were skipped
  • Fixed bug where semgrep would crash in nonexistent directory (#4785)
  • taint-mode: Correctly propagate taint in for-each loops with typed iteration variables (as in Java or C#). If the iterator object is tainted, that taint will now be propagated to the iteration variable. This should fix some false negatives (i.e., findings not being reported) in the presence of for-each loops. (#5590)

0.100.0 - 2022-06-22

Added

  • taint-mode: New experimental pattern-propagators feature that allows to specify arbitrary patterns for the propagation of taint by side-effect. In particular, this allows to specify how taint propagates through side-effectful function calls. For example, you can specify that when tainted data is added to an array then the array itself becomes tainted. (#4509)

Changed

  • --config auto no longer sends the name of the repository being scanned to the Semgrep Registry. As of June 21st, this data is not recorded by the Semgrep Registry backend, even if an old Semgrep version sends it. Also as of June 21st, none of the previously collected repository names are retained by the Semgrep team; any historical data has been wiped.
  • Gitlab SAST output is now v14.1.2 compliant
  • Removed the following deprecated semgrep scan options: --json-stats, --json-time, --debugging-json, --save-test-output-tar, --synthesize-patterns, --generate-config/-g, --dangerously-allow-arbitrary-code-execution-from-rules, and --apply (which was an easter egg for job applications, not the same as --autofix)
  • PHP: switch to GA maturity! Thanks a lot to Sjoerd Langkemper for most of the heavy work

Fixed

  • Inline join mode rules can now run taint-mode rules
  • Python: correctly handle with context expressions where the value is not bound (#5513)
  • Solidity: update to a more recent tree-sitter-solidity to fix certain parsing errors (#4957)

0.99.0 - Skipped

Version 0.99.0 of Semgrep was intentionally skipped. Version 0.100.0 immediately follows version 0.98.0.

0.98.0 - 2022-06-15

Added

  • New language R with experimental support (#2360) Thanks to Zythosec for some contributions.
  • Autodetection of CI env now supports Azure Pipelines, Bitbucket, Buildkite, Circle CI, Jenkins, and Travis CI in addition to GitHub and GitLab
  • You can now disable version checks with an environment variable by setting SEMGREP_ENABLE_VERSION_CHECK=0
  • Dataflow: spread operators in record expressions (e.g. {...foo}) are now translated into the Dataflow IL
  • An experimental LSP daemon mode for semgrep. Try it with semgrep lsp --config auto!

Changed

  • Rules are now downloaded from the Semgrep Registry in JSON format instead of YAML. This speeds up rule parsing in the Semgrep CLI, making a semgrep --config auto run on the semgrep Python package in 14s instead of 16s.

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug where --disable-version-check would still send a request when a scan resulted in zero findings.
  • Fixed a regression in 0.97 where the Docker image's working directory changed from /src without notice. This also could cause permission issues when running the image.
  • Go: single pattern field can now match toplevel fields in a composite literal (#5452)
  • PHP: metavariable-pattern: works again when used with language: php (#5443)
  • PHP: booleans are propagated by constant propagation (#5509)
  • PHP: named arguments work in patterns (#5508)
  • Fixed a non-deterministic crash when matching a large number of regexes (#5277)
  • Fixed issue when running in GithubActions that caused semgrep to report on files not changed in the PR (#5453)
  • JS/TS: $X() no longer matches new Foo(), for consistency with other languages (#5510)
  • JS/TS: Typed metavariables now match constructor calls (e.g. ($X: C) matches new C(). (#5540)

0.97.0 - 2022-06-08

Added

  • Dataflow: XML elements (e.g. JSX elements) have now a basic translation to the Dataflow IL, meaning that dataflow analysis (constant propagation, taint tracking) can now operate inside these elements (#5115)
  • Java: you can now use a metavariable in a package directive (#5420), for example, package $X, which is useful to bind the package name and use it in the error message.

Fixed

  • The output of semgrep ci should be clear it is exiting with error code 0 when there are findings but none of them being blockers
  • Java: support for Sealed classes and Text Blocks via tree-sitter-java (#3787, #4644)
  • The JUnit XML output should serialize the failure messages as a single string instead of a python list of strings.
  • Typescript: update to latest tree-sitter-typescript, with support for 'abstract' modifier in more places
  • Scala: stop parsing parenthesized expressions as unary tuples
  • yarn.lock files with no depenencies, and with dependencies that lack URLs, now parse
  • Scala: fixed bug where typed patterns inside classes caused an exception during name resolution
  • metavariable-regex: patterns are now unanchored as specified by the documentation (#4807)
  • When a logged in CI scan encounters a Git failure, we now print a helpful error message instead of a traceback.

0.96.0 - 2022-06-03

Added

  • Generic mode: new option generic_ellipsis_max_span for controlling how many lines an ellipsis can match (#5211)
  • Generic mode: new option generic_comment_style for ignoring comments that follow the specified syntax (C style, C++ style, or Shell style) (#3428)
  • Metrics now include a list of features used during an execution. Examples of such features are: languages scanned, CLI options passed, keys used in rules, or certain code paths reached, such as using an :include instruction in a .semgrepignore file. These strings will NOT include user data or specific settings. As an example, with semgrep scan --output=secret.txt we might send "option/output" but will NOT send "option/output=secret.txt".

Changed

  • The output summarizing a scan's results has been simplified.

0.95.0 - 2022-06-02

Added

  • Sarif output format now includes fixes section
  • --test flag will now seach for code files with .fixed suffix and use these to test the behaviour of autofixes of the rules.
  • Rust: added support for method chaining patterns.
  • r2c-internal-project-depends-on: support for poetry and gradle lockfiles
  • M1 Mac support added to PyPi
  • Accept SEMGREP_BASELINE_REF as alias for SEMGREP_BASELINE_COMMIT
  • r2c-internal-project-depends-on:
    • pretty printing for SCA results
    • support for poetry and gradle lockfiles
  • taint-mode: Taint tracking will now analyze lambdas in their surrounding context. Previously, if a variable became tainted outside a lambda, and this variable was used inside the lambda causing the taint to reach a sink, this was not being detected because any nested lambdas were "opaque" to the analysis. (Taint tracking looked at lambdas but as isolated functions.) Now lambas are simply analyzed as if they were statement blocks. However, taint tracking still does not follow the flow of taint through the lambda's arguments!
  • Metrics now include an anonymous Event ID. This is an ID generated at send-time and will be used to de-duplicate events that potentially get duplicated during transmission.
  • Metrics now include an anonymous User ID. This ID is stored in the ~/.semgrep/settings.yml file. If the ID disappears, the next run will generate a new one randomly. See the Anonymous User ID in PRIVACY.md for more details.

Fixed

  • M1 Mac installed via pip now links tree-sitter properly
  • Restore --sca

Changed

  • The ci CLI command will now include ignored matches in output formats that dictate they should always be included

  • Previously, you could use $X in a message to interpolate the variable captured by a metavariable named $X, but there was no way to access the underlying value. However, sometimes that value is more important than the captured variable. Now you can use the syntax value($X) to interpolate the underlying propagated value if it exists (if not, it will just use the variable name).

    Example:

    Take a target file that looks like

    x = 42
log(x)

    Now take a rule to find that log command:

    - id: example_log
  message: Logged $SECRET: value($SECRET)
  pattern: log(42)
  languages: [python]

    Before, this would have given you the message Logged x: value(x). Now, it will give the message Logged x: 42.

  • A parameter pattern without a default value can now match a parameter with a default value (#5021)

Fixed

  • Numerous improvements to PHP parsing by switching to tree-sitter-php to parse PHP target code. Huge shoutout to Sjoerd Langkemper for most of the heavy lifting work (#3941, #2648, #2650, #3590, #3588, #3587, #3576, #3848, #3978, #4589)
  • TS: support number and boolean typed metavariables (#5350)
  • When a rule from the registry fails to parse, suggest user upgrade to latest version of semgrep
  • Scala: correctly handle return for taint analysis (#4975)
  • PHP: correctly handle namespace use declarations when they don't rename the imported name (#3964)
  • Constant propagation is now faster and memory efficient when analyzing large functions with lots of variables.

0.94.0 - 2022-05-25

Added

  • metavariable-regex now supports an optional constant-propagation key. When this is set to true, information learned from constant propagation will be used when matching the metavariable against the regex. By default it is set to false
  • Dockerfile: constant propagation now works on variables declared with ENV
  • shouldafound - False Negative reporting via the CLI

Changed

  • taint-mode: Let's say that e.g. taint(x) makes x tainted by side-effect. Previously, we had to rely on a trick that declared that any occurrence of x inside taint(x); ... was as taint source. If x was overwritten with safe data, this was not recognized by the taint engine. Also, if taint(x) occurred inside e.g. an if block, any occurrence of x outside that block was not considered tainted. Now, if you specify that the code variable itself is a taint source (using focus-metavariable), the taint engine will handle this as expected, and it will not suffer from the aforementioned limitations. We believe that this change should not break existing taint rules, but please report any regressions that you may find.
  • taint-mode: Let's say that e.g. sanitize(x) sanitizes x by side-effect. Previously, we had to rely on a trick that declared that any occurrence of x inside sanitize(x); ... was sanitized. If x later overwritten with tainted data, the taint engine would still regard x as safe. Now, if you specify that the code variable itself is sanitized (using focus-metavariable), the taint engine will handle this as expected and it will not suffer from such limitation. We believe that this change should not break existing taint rules, but please report any regressions that you may find.
  • The dot access ellipsis now matches field accesses in addition to method calls.
  • pattern-regex, pattern-not-regex, metavariable-regex: ^ and $ now match at the beginning and end of each line, respectively, rather than previously just at the beginning and end of the input file. This corresponds to PCRE's multiline mode. To get the old behavior back, use \A instead of '^' and \Z instead of $. See the PCRE manual for details.
  • Made error message for resource exhausion (exit code -11/-9) more actionable
  • Made error message for rules with patterns missing positive terms more actionable (#5234)
  • In this version, we have made several performance improvements to the code that surrounds our source parsing and matching core. This includes file targeting, rule fetching, and similar parts of the codebase. Running semgrep scan --config auto on the semgrep repo itself went from 50-54 seconds to 28-30 seconds.
    • As part of these changes, we removed :include .gitignore and .git/ from the default .semgrepignore patterns. This should not cause any difference in which files are targeted as other parts of Semgrep ignore these files already.
    • A full breakdown of our performance updates, including some upcoming ones, can be found here semgrep#5257 (comment)
  • If a metrics event request times out, we no longer retry the request. This avoids Semgrep waiting 10-20 seconds before exiting if these requests are slow.
  • The metrics collection timeout has been raised from 2 seconds to 3 seconds.

Fixed

  • TS: support for template literal types after upgrading to a more recent tree-sitter-typescript (Oct 2021)
  • TS: support for override keyword (#4220, #4798)
  • TS: better ASI (#4459) and accept code like (null)(foo) (#4468)
  • TS: parse correctly private properties (#5162)
  • Go: Support for ellipsis in multiple return values (e.g., func foo() (..., error, ...) {}) (#4896)
  • semgrep-core: you can use again rules stored in JSON instead of YAML (#5268)
  • Python: adds support for parentheses around with context expressions (e.g., with (open(x) as a, open(y) as b): pass) (#5092)
  • C++: we now parse correctly const declarations (#5300)

0.93.0 - 2022-05-17

Changed

  • Files where only some part of the code had to be skipped due to a parse failure will now be listed as "partially scanned" in the end-of-scan skip report.
  • Licensing: The ocaml-tree-sitter-core component is now distributed under the terms of the LGPL 2.1, rather than previously GPL 3.
  • A new field was added to metrics collection: isAuthenticated. This is a boolean flag which is true if you ran semgrep login.

Fixed

  • semgrep ci used to incorrectly report the base branch as a CI job's branch when running on a pull_request_target event in GitHub Actions. By fixing this, Semgrep App can now track issue status history with on: pull_request_target jobs.
  • Metrics events were missing timestamps even though PRIVACY.md had already documented a timestamp field.

0.92.1 - 2022-05-13

Added

  • Datafow: The dataflow engine now handles if-then-else expressions as in OCaml, Ruby, etc. Previously it only handled if-then-else statements. (#4965)

Fixed

  • Kotlin: support for ellispis in class parameters, e.g.. class Foo(...) {} (#5180)
  • JS/TS: allow ellipsis in binding_pattern (e.g., in arrow parameters) (#5230)
  • JS/TS: allow ellipsis in imports (e.g., import {..., Foo, ...} from 'Bar') (#5012)
  • fixed_lines is once again included in JSON output when running with --autofix --dryrun

0.92.0 - 2022-05-11

Added

  • The JSON output of semgrep scan is now fully specified using ATD (https://atd.readthedocs.io/) and jsonschema (https://json-schema.org/). See the semgrep-interfaces submodule under interfaces/ (e.g., interfaces/semgrep-interfaces/Semgrep_output_v0.atd for the ATD spec)
  • The JSON output of semgrep scan now contains a "version": field with the version of Semgrep used to generate the match results.
  • taint-mode: Previously, to declare a function parameteter as a taint source, we had to rely on a trick that declared that any occurence of the parameter was a taint source. If the parameter was overwritten with safe data, this was not recognized by the taint engine. Now, focus-metavariable can be used to precisely specify that a function parameter is a source of taint, and the taint engine will handle this as expected.
  • taint-mode: Add basic support for object destructuring in languages such as Javascript. For example, given let {x} = E, Semgrep will now infer that x is tainted if E is tainted.

Fixed

  • OCaml: Parenthesis in autofixed code will no longer leave dangling closing-paren. Thanks to Elliott Cable for his contribution (#5087)
  • When running the Semgrep Docker image, we now mark all directories as safe for use by Git, which prevents a crash when the current user does not own the source code directory.
  • C++: Ellipsis are now allowed in for loop header (#5164)
  • Java: typed metavariables now leverages the type of foreach variables (#5181)

0.91.0 - 2022-05-03

Added

  • --core-opts flag to send options to semgrep-core. For internal use: no guarantees made for semgrep-core options (#5111)

Changed

  • semgrep ci prints out all findings instead of hiding nonblocking findings (#5116)

0.90.0 - 2022-04-26

Added

  • Users can access the propagated value of a metavariable in the JSON output in the extra field
  • Join mode now supports inline rules via the rules: key underneath the join: key.
  • Added vendor.name field in gitlab sast output (#5077)

Changed

  • YAML parsing is more tolerant of {} appearing when it expects a scalar, allowing extensions of YAML that use {} to be parsed (#4849)
  • Turn off optimization that trades off memory for performance because the effect is minor (with current parameters)

Fixed

  • Keep only latest run logs in last.log file (#5070)
  • r2c-internal-project-depends-on:
    • Lockfiles that fail to parse will not crash semgrep
    • cargo.lock and Pipfile.lock dependencies that don't specify hashes now parse
    • go.sum files with a trailing newline now parse

0.89.0 - 2022-04-20

Added

  • Bash/Dockerfile: Add support for named ellipses such as in echo $...ARGS (#4887)
  • PHP: Constant propagation for static constants (#5022)

Changed

  • When running a baseline scan on a shallow-cloned git repository, Semgrep still needs enough git history available to reach the branch-off point between the baseline and current branch. Previously, Semgrep would try to gradually fetch more and more commits up to a thousand commits of history, before giving up and just fetching all commits from the remote git server. Now, Semgrep will keep trying smaller batches until up to a million commits. This change should reduce runtimes on large baseline scans on very large repositories.
  • Semgrep-core now logs the rule and file affected by a memory warning.
  • Improved error messages from semgrep-core (#5013)
  • Small changes to text output (#5008)
  • Various exit codes changed so that exit code 1 is only for blocking findings (#5039)
  • Subcommand is sent as part of user agent (#5051)

Fixed

  • Lockfiles scanning now respects .semgrepignore
  • Workaround for git safe.directory change in github action (#5044)
  • When a baseline scan diff showed that a path changed a symlink a proper file, Semgrep used incorrectly skip that path. This is now fixed.
  • Dockerfile support: handle image aliases correctly (#4881)
  • TS: Fixed matching of parameters with type annotations. E.g., it is now possible to match ({ params }: Request) => { } with ({$VAR} : $REQ) => {...}. (#5004)

0.88.0 - 2022-04-13

Added

  • Scala support is now officially GA
    • Ellipsis method chaining is now supported
    • Type metavariables are now supported
  • Ruby: Add basic support for lambdas in patterns. You can now write patterns of the form -> (P) {Q} where P and Q are sub-patterns. (#4950)
  • Experimental semgrep install-deep-semgrep command for DeepSemgrep beta (#4993)

Changed

  • Moved description of parse/internal errors to the "skipped" section of output
  • Since 0.77.0 semgrep-core logs a warning when a worker process is consuming above 400 MiB of memory. Now, it will also log an extra warning every time memory usage doubles. Again, this is meant to help diagnosing OOM-related crashes.

Fixed

  • Dockerfile: lang.json file not found error while building the docker image
  • Dockerfile: EXPOSE 12345 will now parse 12345 as an int instead of a string, allowing metavariable-comparison with integers (#4875)
  • Scala: unicode character literals now parse
  • Scala: multiple annotated type parameters now parse (def f[@an A, @an B](x : A, y : B) = ...)
  • Ruby: Allow 'unless' used as keyword argument or hash key (#4948)
  • Ruby: Fix regexp matching in the presence of escape characters (#4999)
  • r2c-internal-project-depends-on:
    • Generic mode rules work again
    • Semgrep will not fail on targets that contain no relevant lockfiles
    • package-lock.json parsing now defaults to dependencies instead of packages, and will not completely fail on dependencies with no version
    • yarn.lock parsing has been rewritten to fix a bug where sometimes large numbers of dependencies would be ignored
  • Go: parse multiline string literals
  • Handle utf-8 decoding errors without crashing (#5023)

0.87.0 - 2022-04-07

Added

  • New focus-metavariable operator that lets you focus (or "zoom in") the match on the code region delimited by a metavariable. This operator is useful for narrowing down the code matched by a rule, to focus on what really matters. (#4453)
  • semgrep ci uses "GITHUB_SERVER_URL" to generate urls if it is available
  • You can now set NO_COLOR=1 to force-disable colored output

Changed

  • taint-mode: We no longer force the unification of metavariables between sources and sinks by default. It is not clear that this is the most natural behavior; and we realized that, in fact, it was confusing even for experienced Semgrep users. Instead, each set of metavariables is now considered independent. The metavariables available to the rule message are all metavariables bound by pattern-sinks, plus the subset of metavariables bound by pattern-sources that do not collide with the ones bound by pattern-sinks. We do not expect this change to break many taint rules because source-sink metavariable unification had a bug (see #4464) that prevented metavariables bound by a pattern-inside to be unified, thus limiting the usefulness of the feature. Nonetheless, it is still possible to force metavariable unification by setting taint_unify_mvars: true in the rule's options.
  • r2c-internal-project-depends-on: this is now a rule key, and not part of the pattern language. The depends-on-either key can be used analgously to pattern-either
  • r2c-internal-project-depends-on: each rule with this key will now distinguish between reachable and unreachable findings. A reachable finding is one with both a dependency match and a pattern match: a vulnerable dependency was found and the vulnerable part of the dependency (according to the patterns in the rule) is used somewhere in code. An unreachable finding is one with only a dependency match. Reachable findings are reported as coming from the code that was pattern matched. Unreachable findings are reported as coming from the lockfile that was dependency matched. Both kinds of findings specify their kind, along with all matched dependencies, in the extra field of semgrep's JSON output, using the dependency_match_only and dependency_matches fields, respectively.
  • r2c-internal-project-depends-on: a finding will only be considered reachable if the file containing the pattern match actually depends on the dependencies in the lockfile containing the dependency match. A file depends on a lockfile if it is the nearest lockfile going up the directory tree.
  • The returntocorp/semgrep Docker image no longer sets semgrep as the entrypoint. This means that semgrep is no longer prepended automatically to any command you run in the image. This makes it possible to use the image in CI executors that run provisioning commands within the image.

Fixed

  • - is now parsed as a valid identifier in Scala
  • new $OBJECT(...) will now work properly as a taint sink (#4858)
  • JS/TS: ...{$X}... will no longer match str
  • taint-mode: Metavariables bound by a pattern-inside are now available to the rule message. (#4464)
  • parsing: fail fast on in semgrep-core if rules fail to validate (broken since 0.86.5)
  • Setting either SEMGREP_URL or SEMGREP_APP_URL now updates the URL used both for Semgrep App communication, and for fetching Semgrep Registry rules.
  • The pre-commit hook exposed from semgrep's repository no longer fails when trying to install with recent setuptools versions.

0.86.5 - 2022-03-28

Changed

  • Set minimum urllib3 version

0.86.4 - 2022-03-25

Changed

  • Increase rule fetch timeout from 20s to 30s

0.86.3 - 2022-03-25

Fixed

  • Network timeouts during rule download are now less likely.

0.86.2 - 2022-03-24

Fixed

  • Some finding fingerprints were not matching what semgrep-agent would return.

0.86.1 - 2022-03-24

Fixed

  • The fingerprint of findings ignored with # nosemgrep is supposed to be the same as if the ignore comment wasn't there. This has previously only worked for single-line findings, including in semgrep-agent. Now the fingerprint is consistent as expected for multiline findings as well.

Changed

  • --timeout-threshold default set to 3 instead of 0

0.86.0 - 2022-03-24

Added

  • Semgrep can now output findings in GitLab's SAST report and secret scanning report formats with --gitlab-sast and --gitlab-secrets.
  • JSON output now includes a fingerprint of each finding. This fingerprint remains consistent when matching code is just moved around or reindented.
  • Go: use latest tree-sitter-go with support for Go 1.18 generics (#4823)
  • Terraform: basic support for constant propagation of locals (#1147) and variables (#4816)
  • HTML: you can now use metavariable ellipsis inside <script> (#4841) (e.g., <script>$...JS</script>)
  • A semgrep ci subcommand that auto-detects settings from your CI environment and can upload findings to Semgrep App when logged in.

Changed

  • SARIF output will include matching code snippet (#4812)
  • semgrep-core should now be more tolerant to rules using futur extensions by skipping those rules instead of just crashing (#4835)
  • Removed tests from published python wheel
  • Findings are now considered identical between baseline and current scans based on the same logic as Semgrep CI uses, which means:
    • Two findings are now identical after whitespace changes such as re-indentation
    • Two findings are now identical after a nosemgrep comment is added
    • Findings are now different if the same code triggered them on different lines
  • Docker image now runs as root to allow the docker image to be used in CI/CD pipelines
  • Support XDG Base directory specification (#4818)

Fixed

  • Entropy analysis: strings made of repeated characters such as 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxx' are no longer reported has having high entropy (#4833)
  • Symlinks found in directories are skipped from being scanned again. This is a fix for a regression introduced in 0.85.0.
  • HTML: multiline raw text tokens now contain the newline characters (#4855)
  • Go: fix unicode parsing bugs (#4725) by switching to latest tree-sitter-go
  • Constant propagation: A conditional expression where both alternatives are constant will also be considered constant (#4301)
  • Constant propagation now recognizes operators ++ and -- as side-effectful (#4667)

0.85.0 - 2022-03-16

Added

  • C#: use latest tree-sitter-c-sharp with support for most C# 10.0 features
  • HTML: support for metavariables on tags (e.g., <$TAG>...</$TAG>) (#4078)
  • Scala: The data-flow engine can now handle expression blocks. This used to cause some false negatives during taint analysis, which will now be reported.
  • Dockerfile: allow e.g. CMD ... to match both CMD ls and CMD ["ls"] (#4770).
  • When scanning multiple languages, Semgrep will now print a table of how many rules and files are used for each language.

Fixed

  • Fixed Deep expression matching and metavariables interaction. Semgrep will not stop anymore at the first match and will enumarate all possible matchings if a metavariable is used in a deep expression pattern (e.g., <... $X ...>). This can introduce some performance regressions.

  • JSX: ellipsis in JSX body (e.g., <div>...</div>) now matches any children (#4678 and #4717)

  • ℹ️ During a --baseline-commit scan, Semgrep temporarily deletes files that were created since the baseline commit, and restores them at the end of the scan.

    Previously, when scanning a subdirectory of a git repo with --baseline-commit, Semgrep would delete all newly created files under the repo root, but restore only the ones in the subdirectory. Now, Semgrep only ever deletes files in the scanned subdirectory.

  • Previous releases allowed incompatible versions (21.1.0 & 21.2.0) of the attrs dependency to be installed. semgrep now correctly requires attrs 21.3.0 at the minimum.

  • package-lock.json parsing defaults to packages instead of dependencies as the source of dependencies

  • package-lock.json parsing will ignore dependencies with non-standard versions, and will succesfully parse dependencies with no integrity field

Changed

  • File targeting logic has been mostly rewritten. (#4776) These inconsistencies were fixed in the process:

    • ℹ️ "Explicitly targeted file" refers to a file that's directly passed on the command line.

      Previously, explicitly targeted files would be unaffected by most global filtering: global include/exclude patterns and the file size limit. Now .semgrepignore patterns don't affect them either, so they are unaffected by all global filtering,

    • ℹ️ With --skip-unknown-extensions, Semgrep scans only the explicitly targeted files that are applicable to the language you're scanning.

      Previously, --skip-unknown-extensions would skip based only on file extension, even though extensionless shell scripts expose their language via the shebang of the first line. As a result, explicitly targeted shell files were always skipped when --skip-unknown-extensions was set. Now, this flag decides if a file is the correct language with the same logic as other parts of Semgrep: taking into account both extensions and shebangs.

  • Semgrep scans with --baseline-commit are now much faster. These optimizations were added:

    • ℹ️ When --baseline-commit is set, Semgrep first runs the current scan, then switches to the baseline commit, and runs the baseline scan.

      The current scan now excludes files that are unchanged between the baseline and the current commit according to git status output.

    • The baseline scan now excludes rules and files that had no matches in the current scan.

    • When git ls-files is unavailable or --disable-git-ignore is set, Semgrep walks the file system to find all target files. Semgrep now walks the file system 30% faster compared to previous versions.

  • The output format has been updated to visually separate lines with headings and indentation.

0.84.0 - 2022-03-09

Added

  • new --show-supported-languages CLI flag to display the list of languages supported by semgrep. Thanks to John Wu for his contribution! (#4754)
  • --validate will check that metavariable-x doesn't use an invalid metavariable
  • Add r2c-internal-project-depends on support for Java, Go, Ruby, and Rust
  • PHP: .tpl files are now considered PHP files (#4763)
  • Scala: Support for custom string interpolators (#4655)
  • Scala: Support parsing Scala scripts that contain plain definitions outside an Object or Class
  • JSX: JSX singleton elements (a.k.a XML elements), e.g., <foo /> used to match also more complex JSX elements, e.g., <foo >some child</foo>. This can now be disabled via rule options: with xml_singleton_loose_matching: false (#4730)
  • JSX: new matching option xml_attrs_implicit_ellipsis that allows disabling the implicit ... that was added to JSX attributes patterns.
  • new focus-metavariable: experimental operator (#4735) (the syntax may change in the near futur)

Fixed

  • Report parse errors even when invoked with --strict
  • Show correct findings count when using --config auto (#4674)
  • Kotlin: store trailing lambdas in the AST (#4741)
  • Autofix: Semgrep no longer errors during --dry-runs where one fix changes the line numbers in a file that also has a second autofix.
  • Performance regression when running with --debug (#4761)
  • SARIF output formatter not handling lists of OWASP or CWE metadata (#4673)
  • Allow metrics flag and metrics env var at the same time if both are set to the same value (#4703)
  • Scan yarn.lock dependencies that do not specify a hash
  • Run project-depends-on rules with only pattern-inside at their leaves
  • Dockerfile patterns no longer need a trailing newline (#4773)

0.83.0 - 2022-02-24

Added

  • semgrep saves logs of last run to ~/.semgrep/last.log
  • A new recursive operator, -->, for join mode rules for recursively chaining together Semgrep rules based on metavariable contents.
  • A new recursive operator, -->, for join mode rules for recursively chaining together Semgrep rules based on metavariable contents.
  • Semgrep now lists the scanned paths in its JSON output under the paths.scanned key.
  • When using --verbose, the skipped paths are also listed under the paths.skipped key.
  • C#: added support for typed metavariables (#4657)
  • Undocumented, experimental metavariable-analysis feature supporting two kinds of analyses: prediction of regular expression denial-of-service vulnerabilities (ReDoS, redos analyzer, #4700) and high-entropy string detection (entropy analyzer, #4672).
  • A new subcommand semgrep publish allows users to upload private, unlisted, or public rules to the Semgrep Registry

Fixed

  • Configure the PCRE engine with lower match-attempts and recursion limits in order to prevent regex matching from potentially "hanging" Semgrep
  • Terraform: Parse heredocs respecting newlines and whitespaces, so that it is possible to correctly match these strings with metavariable-regex or metavariable-pattern. Previously, Semgrep had problems analyzing e.g. embedded YAML content. (#4582)
  • Treat Go raw string literals like ordinary string literals (#3938)
  • Eliminate zombie uname processes (#4466)
  • Fix for: semgrep always highlights one extra character

Changed

  • Improved constant propagation for global constants
  • PHP: Constant propagation now has built-in knowledge of escapeshellarg and htmlspecialchars_decode, if these functions are given constant arguments, then Semgrep assumes that their output is also constant
  • The environment variable used by Semgrep login changed from SEMGREP_LOGIN_TOKEN to SEMGREP_APP_TOKEN

0.82.0 - 2022-02-08

Added

  • Experimental baseline scanning. Run with --baseline-commit GIT_COMMIT to only show findings that currently exist but did not exist in GIT_COMMIT

Changed

  • Performance: send all rules directly to semgrep-core instead of invoking semgrep-core
  • Scans now report a breakdown of how many target paths were skipped for what reason.
    • --verbose mode will list all skipped paths along with the reason they were skipped
  • Performance: send all rules directly to semgrep-core instead of invoking semgrep-core for each rule, reducing the overhead significantly. Other changes resulting from this: Sarif output now includes all rules run. Error messages use full path of rules. Progress bar reports by file instead of by rule
  • Required minimum version of python to run semgrep now 3.7 instead of EOL 3.6
  • Bloom filter optimization now considers import module file names, thus speeding up matching of patterns like import { $X } from 'foo'
  • Indentation is now removed from matches to conserve horizontal space

Fixed

  • Typescript: Patterns E as T will be matched correctly. E.g. previously a pattern like v as $T would match v but not v as any, now it correctly matches v as any but not v. (#4515)
  • Solidity: ellipsis in contract body are now supported (#4587)
  • Highlighting has been restored for matching code fragments within a finding

0.81.0 - 2022-02-02

Added

  • Dockerfile language: metavariables and ellipses are now supported in most places where it makes sense (#4556, #4577)

Fixed

  • Gracefully handle timeout errors with missing rule_id
  • Match resources in Java try-with-resources statements (#4228)

0.80.0 - 2022-01-26

Added

  • Autocomplete for CLI options
  • Dockerfile: add support for metavariables where argument expansion is already supported

Changed

  • Ruby: a metavariable matching an atom can also be used to match an identifier with the same name (#4550)

Fixed

  • Handle missing target files without raising an exception (#4462)

0.79.0 - 2022-01-20

Added

  • Add an experimental key for internal team use: r2c-internal-project-depends-on that allows rules to filter based on the presence of 3rd-party dependencies at specific version ranges.
  • Experimental support for Dockerfile syntax.
  • Support nosemgrep comments placed on the line before a match, causing such match to be ignored (#3521)
  • Add experimental semgrep login and semgrep logout to store API token from semgrep.dev
  • Add experimenntal config key semgrep --config policy that uses stored API token to retrieve configured rule policy on semgrep.dev

Changed

  • CLI: parse errors (reported with --verbose) appear once per file, not once per rule/file

Fixed

  • Solidity: add support for for(...) patterns (#4530)

0.78.0 - 2022-01-13

Added

  • Pre-alpha support for Dockerfile as a new target language
  • Semgrep is now able to symbolically propagate simple definitions. E.g., given an assignment x = foo.bar() followed by a call x.baz(), Semgrep will keep track of x's definition, and it will successfully match x.baz() with a pattern like foo.bar().baz(). This feature should help writing simple yet powerful rules, by letting the dataflow engine take care of any intermediate assignments. Symbolic propagation is still experimental and it is disabled by default, it must be enabled in a per-rule basis using options: and setting symbolic_propagation: true. (#2783, #2859, #3207)
  • --verbose outputs a timing and file breakdown summary at the end
  • metavariable-comparison now handles metavariables that bind to arbitrary constant expressions (instead of just code variables)
  • YAML support for anchors and aliases (#3677)

Fixed

  • Rust: inner attributes are allowed again inside functions (#4444) (#4445)
  • Python: return statement can contain tuple expansions (#4461)
  • metavariable-comparison: do not throw a Not_found exn anymore (#4469)
  • better ordering of match results with respect to captured metavariables (#4488)
  • Go, JavaScript, Java, Python, TypeScript: correct matching of multibyte characters (#4490)

0.77.0 - 2021-12-16

Added

  • New language Solidity with experimental support.
  • Scala: Patterns like List(...) now correctly match against patterns in code
  • A default set of .semgrepignore patterns (in semgrep/templates/.semgrepignore) are now used if no .semgrepignore file is provided
  • Java: Ellipsis metavariables can now be used for parameters (#4420)
  • semgrep login and semgrep logout commands to save api token

Fixed

  • Go: fixed bug where using an ellipsis to stand for a list of key-value pairs would sometimes cause a parse error
  • Scala: Translate definitions using patterns like val List(x,y,z) = List(1,2,3) to the generic AST
  • Allow name resolution on imported packages named just vN, where N is a number
  • The -json option in semgrep-core works again when used with -e/-f
  • Python: get the correct range when matching comprehension (#4221)
  • Python and other languages: allow matches of patterns containing non-ascii characters, but still with possibly many false positives (#4336)
  • Java: parse correctly constructor method patterns (#4418)
  • Address several autofix output issues (#4428, #3577, #3338) by adding per- file line/column offset tracking

Changed

  • Constant propagation is now a proper must-analysis, if a variable is undefined in some path then it will be considered as non-constant
  • Dataflow: Only consider reachable nodes, which prevents some FPs/FNs
  • Timing output handles errors and reports profiling times
  • semgrep-core will log a warning when a worker process is consuming above 400 MiB of memory, or reached 80% of the specified memory limit, whatever happens first. This is meant to help diagnosing OOM-related crashes.

0.76.2 - 2021-12-08

0.76.2 - 2021-12-08

Fixed

  • Python: set the right scope for comprehension variables (#4260)
  • Fixed bug where the presence of .semgrepignore would cause reported targets to have absolute instead of relative file paths

0.76.1 - 2021-12-07

Fixed

  • Fixed bug where the presence of .semgrepignore would cause runs to fail on files that were not subpaths of the directory where semgrep was being run

0.76.0 - 2021-12-06

Added

  • Improved filtering of rules based on file content (important speedup for nodejsscan rules notably)
  • Semgrep CLI now respects .semgrepignore files
  • Java: support ellipsis in generics, e.g., class Foo<...> (#4335)

Fixed

  • Java: class patterns not using generics will match classes using generics (#4335), e.g., class $X { ...} will now match class Foo<T> { }
  • TS: parse correctly type definitions (#4330)
  • taint-mode: Findings are now reported when the LHS of an access operator is a sink (e.g. as in $SINK->method), and the LHS operand is a tainted variable (#4320)
  • metavariable-comparison: do not throw a NotHandled exn anymore (#4328)
  • semgrep-core: Fix a segmentation fault on Apple M1 when using -filter_irrelevant_rules on rules with very large pattern-eithers (#4305)
  • Python: generate proper lexical exn for unbalanced braces (#4310)
  • YAML: fix off-by-one in location of arrays
  • Python: generate proper lexical exn for unbalanced braces (#4310)
  • Matching "$MVAR" patterns against string literals computed by constant folding no longer causes a crash (#4371)

Changed

  • semgrep-core: Log messages are now tagged with the process id
  • Optimization: change bloom filters to use sets, move location of filter
  • Reduced the size of --debug dumps
  • Given --output Semgrep will no longer print search results to stdout, but it will only save/post them to the specified file/URL

0.75.0 - 2021-11-23

Fixed

  • semgrep-ci relies on --disable-nosem still tagging findings with is_ignored correctly. Reverting optimization in 0.74.0 that left this field None when said flag was used

0.74.0 - 2021-11-19

Added

  • Support for method chaining patterns in Python, Golang, Ruby, and C# (#4300), so all GA languages now have method chaining
  • Scala: translate infix operators to generic AST as method calls, so $X.map($F) matches xs map f
  • PHP: support method patterns (#4262)

Changed

  • Add profiling_times object in --time --json output for more fine grained visibility into slow parts of semgrep
  • Constant propagation: Any kind of Python string (raw, byte, or unicode) is now evaluated to a string literal and can be matched by "..." (#3881)

Fixed

  • Ruby: blocks are now represented with an extra function call in Generic so that both f(...) and f($X) correctly match f(x) in f(x) { |n| puts n } (#3880)
  • Apply generic filters excluding large files and binary files to 'generic' and 'regex' targets as it was already done for the other languages.
  • Fix some Stack_overflow when using -filter_irrelevant_rules (#4305)
  • Dataflow: When a switch had no other statement following it, and the last statement of the switch's default case was a statement, such as throw, that can exit the execution of the current function, this caused break statements within the switch to not be resolved during the construction of the CFG. This could led to e.g. constant propagation incorrectly flagging variables as constants. (#4265)

0.73.0 - 2021-11-12

Added

  • experimental support for C++

Changed

  • Dataflow: Assume that any function/method call inside a try-catch could be raising an exception (#4091)
  • cli: if an invalid config is passed to semgrep, it will fail immediately, even if valid configs are also passed

Fixed

  • Performance: Deduplicate rules by rule-id + behavior so rules are not being run twice
  • Scala: recognize metavariables in patterns
  • Scala: translate for loops to the generic ast properly
  • Catch PCRE errors
  • Constant propagation: Avoid "Impossible" errors due to unhandled cases

0.72.0 - 2021-11-10

Added

  • Java: Add partial support for synchronized blocks in the dataflow IL (#4150)
  • Dataflow: Add partial support for await, yield, &, and other expressions
  • Field-definition-as-assignemnt equivalence that allows matching expression patterns against field definitions. It is disabled by default but can be enabled via rule options: with flddef_assign: true (#4187)
  • Arrows (a.k.a short lambdas) patterns used to match also regular function definitions. This can now be disabled via rule options: with arrow_is_function: false (#4187)
  • Javascript variable patterns using the 'var' keyword used to also match variable declarations using 'let' or 'const'. This can now be disabled via rule options: with let_is_var: false

Fixed

  • Constant propagation: In a method call x.f(y), if x is a constant then it will be recognized as such
  • Go: match correctly braces in composite literals for autofix (#4210)
  • Go: match correctly parens in cast for autofix (#3387)
  • Go: support ellipsis in return type parameters (#2746)
  • Scala: parse case object within blocks
  • Scala: parse typed patterns with variables that begin with an underscore: case _x : Int => ...
  • Scala: parse unicode identifiers
  • semgrep-core accepts sh as an alias for bash
  • pattern-regex: Hexadecimal notation of Unicode code points is now supported and assumes UTF-8 (#4240)
  • pattern-regex: Update documentation, specifying we use PCRE (#3974)
  • Scala: parse nullary constructors with no arguments in more positions
  • Scala: parse infix type operators with tuple arguments
  • Scala: parse nested comments
  • Scala: parse case class within blocks
  • metavariable-comparison: if a metavariable binds to a code variable that is known to be constant, then we use that constant value in the comparison (#3727)
  • Expand ~ when resolving config paths

Changed

  • C# support is now GA
  • cli: Only suggest increasing stack size when semgrep-core segfaults
  • Semgrep now scans executable scripts whose shebang interpreter matches the rule's language

0.71.0 - 2021-11-01

Added

  • Metavariable equality is enforced across sources/sanitizers/sinks in taint mode, and these metavariables correctly appear in match messages
  • Pre-alpha support for Bash as a new target language
  • Pre-alpha support for C++ as a new target language
  • Increase soft stack limit when running semgrep-core (#4120)
  • semgrep --validate runs metachecks on the rule

Fixed

  • text_wrapping defaults to MAX_TEXT_WIDTH if get_terminal_size reports width < 1
  • Metrics report the error type of semgrep core errors (Timeout, MaxMemory, etc.)
  • Prevent bad settings files from crashing Semgrep (#4164)
  • Constant propagation: Tuple/Array destructuring assignments now correctly prevent constant propagation
  • JS: Correctly parse metavariables in template strings
  • Scala: parse underscore separators in number literals, and parse 'l'/'L' long suffix on number literals
  • Scala: parse by name arguments in arbitary function types, like (=> Int) => Int
  • Bash: various fixes and improvements
  • Kotlin: support ellipsis in class body and parameters (#4141)
  • Go: support method interface pattern (#4172)

Changed

  • Report CI environment variable in metrics for better environment determination
  • Bash: a simple expression pattern can now match any command argument rather than having to match the whole command

0.70.0 - 2021-10-19

Added

  • Preliminary support for bash

Fixed

  • Go: support ... in import list (#4067), for example import (... "error" ...)
  • Java: ... in method chain calls can now match also 0 elements, to be consistent with other use of ... (#4082), so o. ... .foo() will now also match just o.foo().
  • Config files with only a comment give bad error message (#3773)
  • Does not crash if user does not have write permissions on home directory

Changed

  • Resolution of rulesets use legacy registry instead of cdn registry
  • Benchmark suite is easier to modify

0.69.1 - 2021-10-14

Fixed

  • The --enable-metrics flag is now always a flag, does not optionally take an argument

0.69.0 - 2021-10-13

Added

  • C: support ... in parameters and sizeof arguments (#4037)
  • C: support declaration and function patterns
  • Java: support @interface pattern (#4030)

Fixed

  • Reverted change to exclude minified files from the scan (see changelog for 0.66.0)
  • Java: Fixed equality of metavariables bounded to imported classes (#3748)
  • Python: fix range of tuples (#3832)
  • C: fix some wrong typedef inference (#4054)
  • Ruby: put back equivalence on old syntax for keyword arguments (#3981)
  • OCaml: add body of functor in AST (#3821)

Changed

  • taint-mode: Introduce a new kind of not conflicting sanitizer that must be declared with not_conflicting: true. This affects the change made in 0.68.0 that allowed a sanitizer like - pattern: $F(...) to work, but turned out to affect our ability to specify sanitization by side-effect. Now the default semantics of sanitizers is reverted back to the same as before 0.68.0, and - pattern: $F(...) is supported via the new not-conflicting sanitizers.

0.68.2 - 2021-10-07

Fixed

  • Respect --skip-unknown-extensions even for files with no extension (treat no extension as an unknown extension)
  • taint-mode: Fixed (another) bug where a tainted sink could go unreported when the sink is a specific argument in a function call

0.68.1 - 2021-10-07

Added

  • Added support for raise/throw expressions in the dataflow engine and improved existing support for try-catch-finally

Fixed

  • Respect rule level path filtering

0.68.0 - 2021-10-06

Added

  • Added "automatic configuration" (--config auto), which collaborates with the Semgrep Registry to customize rules to a project; to support this, we add support for logging-in to the Registry using the project URL; in a future release, this will also perform project analysis to determine project languages and frameworks
  • Input can be derived from subshells: semgrep --config ... <(...)
  • Java: support '...' in catch (#4002)

Changed

  • taint-mode: Sanitizers that match exactly a source or a sink are filtered out, making it possible to use - pattern: $F(...) for declaring that any other function is a sanitizer
  • taint-mode: Remove built-in source source(...) and built-in sanitizer sanitize(...) used for convenience during early development, this was causing some unexpected behavior in real code that e.g. had a function called source!
  • When enabled, metrics now send the hashes of rules that yielded findings; these will be used to tailor rules on a per-project basis, and also will be used to improve rules over time
  • Improved Kotlin parsing from 77% to 90% on our Kotlin corpus.
  • Resolution of rulesets (i.e. p/ci) use new rule cdn and do client-side hydration
  • Set pcre recursion limit so it will not vary with different installations of pcre
  • Better pcre error handling in semgrep-core

Fixed

  • taint-mode: Fixed bug where a tainted sink could go unreported when the sink is a specific argument in a function call
  • PHP: allows more keywords as valid field names (#3954)

0.67.0 - 2021-09-29

Added

  • Added support for break and continue in the dataflow engine
  • Added support for switch statements in the dataflow engine

Changed

  • Taint no longer analyzes dead/unreachable code
  • Improve error message for segmentation faults/stack overflows
  • Attribute-expression equivalence that allows matching expression patterns against attributes, it is enabled by default but can be disabled via rule options: with attr_expr: false (#3489)
  • Improved Kotlin parsing from 35% to 77% on our Kotlin corpus.

Fixed

  • Fix CFG dummy nodes to always connect to exit node
  • Deep ellipsis <... x ...> now matches sub-expressions of statements
  • Ruby: treat 'foo' as a function call when alone on its line (#3811)
  • Fixed bug in semgrep-core's -filter_irrelevant_rules causing Semgrep to incorrectly skip a file (#3755)

0.66.0 - 2021-09-22

Added

  • HCL (a.k.a Terraform) experimental support

Changed

  • METRICS COLLECTION CHANGES: In order to target development of Semgrep features, performance improvements, and language support, we have changed how metrics are collected by default
    • Metrics collection is now controlled with the --metrics option, with possible values: auto, on, or off
    • auto will send metrics only on runs that include rules are pulled from the Semgrep Registry. It will not send metrics when rules are only read from local files or passed directly as strings
    • auto is now the default metrics collection state
    • on forces metrics collection on every run
    • off disables metrics collection entirely
    • Metrics collection may still alternatively be controlled with the SEMGREP_SEND_METRICS environment variable, with the same possible values as the --metrics option. If both are set, --metrics overrides SEMGREP_SEND_METRICS
    • See PRIVACY.md for more information
  • Constant propagation now assumes that void methods may update the callee (#3316)
  • Add rule message to emacs output (#3851)
  • Show stack trace on fatal errors (#3876)
  • Various changes to error messages (#3827)
  • Minified files are now automatically excluded from the scan, which may result in shorter scanning times for some projects.

Fixed

  • Dataflow: Recognize "concat" method and interpret it in a language-dependent manner (#3316)
  • PHP: allows certain keywords as valid field names (#3907)

0.65.0 - 2021-09-13

Added

  • Allow autofix using the command line rather than only with the fix: YAML key
  • Vardef-assign equivalence can now be disabled via rule options: with vardef_assign: false

Changed

  • Grouped semgrep CLI options and added constraints when useful (e.g. cannot use --vim and --emacs at the same time)

Fixed

  • Taint detection with ternary ifs (#3778)
  • Fixed corner-case crash affecting the pattern: $X optimization ("empty And; no positive terms in And")
  • PHP: Added support for parsing labels and goto (#3592)
  • PHP: Parse correctly constants named PUBLIC or DEFAULT (#3589)
  • Go: Added type inference for struct literals (#3622)
  • Fix semgrep-core crash when a cache file exceeds the file size limit
  • Sped up Semgrep interface with tree-sitter parsing

0.64.0 - 2021-09-01

Added

  • Enable associative matching for string concatenation (#3741)

Changed

  • Add logging on failure to git ls-files (#3777)
  • Ignore files whose contents look minified (#3795)
  • Display semgrep-core errors in a better way (#3774)
  • Calls to semgrep --version now check if Semgrep is up-to-date; this can cause a ~ 100 ms delay in run time; use --disable-version-check if you don't want this

Fixed

  • Java: separate import static from regular imports during matching (#3772)
  • Taint mode will now benefit from semgrep-core's -filter_irrelevant_rules
  • Taint mode should no longer report duplicate matches (#3742)
  • Only change source directory when running in docker context (#3732)

0.63.0 - 2021-08-25

Added

  • C#: support ellipsis in declarations (#3720)

Fixed

  • Hack: improved support for metavariables (#3716)
  • Dataflow: Disregard type arguments but not the entire instruction

Changed

  • Optimize ending ... in pattern-insides to simply match anything left

0.62.0 - 2021-08-17

Added

  • OCaml: support module aliasing, so looking for List.map will also find code that renamed List as L via module L = List.
  • Add help text to sarif formatter output if defined in metadata field.
  • Update shortDescription in sarif formatter output if defined in metadata field.
  • Add tags as defined in metadata field in addition to the existing tags.

Fixed

  • core: Fix parsing of numeric literals in rule files
  • Java: fix the range and autofix of Cast expressions (#3669)
  • Generic mode scanner no longer tries to open submodule folders as files (#3701)
  • pattern-regex with completely empty files (#3705)
  • --sarif exit code with suppressed findings (#3680)
  • Fixed fatal errors when a pattern results in a large number of matches
  • Better error message when rule contains empty pattern

Changed

  • Add backtrace to fatal errors reported by semgrep-core
  • Report errors during rule evaluation to the user
  • When anded with other patterns, pattern: $X will not be evaluated on its own, but will look at the context and find $X within the metavariables bound, which should be significantly faster

0.61.0 - 2021-08-04

Added

  • Hack: preliminary support for hack-lang thanks to David Frankel, Nicholas Lin, and more people at Slack!
  • OCaml: support for partial if, match, and try patterns (e.g., if $X = $Y)
  • OCaml: you can match uppercase identifiers (constructors, module names) by using a metavariable with an uppercase letter followed by an underscore, followed by uppercase letters or digits (e.g. $X_, $F_OO). Instead, $FOO will match everything else (lowercase identifiers, full expressions, types, patterns, etc.).
  • OCaml: match cases patterns are now matched in any order, and ellipsis are handled correctly
  • Improved error messages sent to the playground

Changed

  • Run version check and print upgrade message after scan instead of before
  • OCaml: skip ocamllex and ocamlyacc files. Process only .ml and .mli files.
  • Memoize range computation for expressions and speed up taint mode
  • Report semgrep-core's message upon a parse error
  • Deprecated the following experimental features:
    • pattern-where-python
    • taint-mode
    • equivalences
    • step-by-step evaluation output
  • Deduplicate findings that fire on the same line ranges and have the same message.

Fixed

  • Go: Match import module paths correctly (#3484)
  • OCaml: use latest ocamllsp 1.7.0 for the -lsp option
  • OCaml: include parenthesis tokens in the AST for tuples and constructor calls for better range matching and autofix
  • OCaml: fixed many matching bugs with ellipsis
  • core: Do not crash when is not possible to compute range info
  • eliminate 6x slowdown when using the '--max-memory' option

0.60.0 - 2021-07-27

Added

  • Detect duplicate keys in YAML dictionaries in semgrep rules when parsing a rule (e.g., detect multiple 'metavariable' inside one 'metavariable-regex')

Fixed

  • C/C++: Fixed stack overflows (segmentation faults) when processing very large files (#3538)
  • JS: Fixed stack overflows (segmentation faults) when processing very large files (#3538)
  • JS: Detect numeric object keys 1 and 0x1 as equal (#3579)
  • OCaml: improved parsing stats by using tree-sitter-ocaml (from 25% to 88%)
  • taint-mode: Check nested functions
  • taint-mode: foo.x is now detected as tainted if foo is a source of taint
  • taint-mode: Do not crash when is not possible to compute range info
  • Rust: recognize ellipsis in macro calls patterns (#3600)
  • Ruby: represent correctly a.(b) in the AST (#3603)
  • Rust: recognize ellipsis in macro calls patterns

Changed

  • Added precise error location for the semgrep metachecker, to detect for example duplicate patterns in a rule

0.59.0 - 2021-07-20

Added

  • A new experimental 'join' mode. This mode runs multiple Semgrep rules on a codebase and "joins" the results based on metavariable contents. This lets users ask questions of codebases like "do any 3rd party libraries use a dangerous function, and do I import that library directly?" or "is this variable passed to an HTML template, and is it rendered in that template?" with several Semgrep rules.

Fixed

  • Improve location reporting of errors
  • metavariable-pattern: pattern-not-regex now works (#3503)
  • Rust: correctly parse macros (#3513)
  • Python: imports are unsugared correctly (#3940)
  • Ruby: pattern: $X in the presence of interpolated strings now works (#3560)

0.58.2 - 2021-07-15

Fixed

  • Significant speed improvements, but the binary is now 95MB (from 47MB in 0.58.1, but it was 170MB in 0.58.0)

0.58.1 - 2021-07-15

Fixed

  • The --debug option now displays which files are currently processed incrementally; it will not wait until semgrep-core completely finishes.

Changed

  • Switch from OCaml 4.10.0 to OCaml 4.10.2 (and later to OCaml 4.12.0) resulted in smaller semgrep-core binaries (from 170MB to 47MB) and a smaller docker image (from 95MB to 40MB).

0.58.0 - 2021-07-14

Added

  • New iteration of taint-mode that allows to specify sources/sanitizers/sinks using arbitrary pattern formulas. This provides plenty of flexibility. Note that we breaks compatibility with the previous taint-mode format, e.g. - source(...) must now be written as - pattern: source(...).
  • HTML experimental support. This does not rely on the "generic" mode but instead really parses the HTML using tree-sitter-html. This allows some semantic matching (e.g., matching attributes in any order).
  • Vue.js alpha support (#1751)
  • New matching option implicit_ellipsis that allows disabling the implicit ... that are added to record patterns, plus allow matching "spread fields" (JS ...x) at any position (#3120)
  • Support globstar (**) syntax in path include/exclude (#3173)

Fixed

  • Apple M1: Semgrep installed from HomeBrew no longer hangs (#2432)
  • Ruby command shells are distinguished from strings (#3343)
  • Java varargs are now correctly matched (#3455)
  • Support for partial statements (e.g., try { ... }) for Java (#3417)
  • Java generics are now correctly stored in the AST (#3505)
  • Constant propagation now works inside Python with statements (#3402)
  • Metavariable value replacement in message/autofix no longer mixes up short and long names like $X vs $X2 (#3458)
  • Fixed metavariable name collision during interpolation of message / autofix (#3483) Thanks to Justin Timmons for the fix!
  • Revert pattern: $X optimization (#3476)
  • metavariable-pattern: Allow filtering using a single pattern or pattern-regex
  • Dataflow: Translate call chains into IL

Changed

  • Faster matching times for generic mode

0.57.0 - 2021-06-29

Added

  • new options: field in a YAML rule to enable/disable certain features (e.g., constant propagation). See https://github.com/returntocorp/semgrep/blob/develop/semgrep-core/src/core/Config_semgrep.atd for the list of available features one can enable/disable.
  • Capture groups in pattern-regex: in $1, $2, etc. (#3356)
  • Support metavariables inside atoms (e.g., foo(:$ATOM))
  • Support metavariables and ellipsis inside regexp literals (e.g., foo(/.../))
  • Associative-commutative matching for bitwise OR, AND, and XOR operations
  • Add support for $...MVAR in generic patterns.
  • metavariable-pattern: Add support for nested Spacegrep/regex/Comby patterns
  • C#: support ellipsis in method parameters (#3289)

Fixed

  • C#: parse __makeref, __reftype, __refvalue (#3364)
  • Java: parsing of dots inside function annotations with brackets (#3389)
  • Do not pretend that short-circuit Boolean AND and OR operators are commutative (#3399)
  • metavariable-pattern: Fix crash when nesting a non-generic pattern within a generic rule
  • metavariable-pattern: Fix parse info when matching content of a metavariable under a different language
  • generic mode on Markdown files with very long lines will now work (#2987)

Changed

  • generic mode: files that don't look like nicely-indented programs are no longer ignored, which may cause accidental slowdowns in setups where excessively large files are not excluded explicitly (#3418).
  • metavariable-comparison: Fix crash when comparing integers and floats Thanks to Justin Timmons for the fix!
  • Do not filter findings with the same range but different metavariable bindings (#3310)
  • Set parsing_state.have_timeout when a timeout occurs (#3438)
  • Set a timeout of 10s per file (#3434)
  • Improvements to contributing documentation (#3353)
  • Memoize getting ranges to speed up rules with large ranges
  • When anded with other patterns, pattern: $X will not be evaluated on its own, but will look at the context and find $X within the metavariables bound, which should be significantly faster

0.56.0 - 2021-06-15

Added

  • Associative-commutative matching for Boolean AND and OR operations (#3198)
  • Support metavariables inside strings (e.g., foo("$VAR"))
  • metavariable-pattern: Allow matching the content of a metavariable under a different language.

Fixed

  • C#: Parse attributes for local functions (#3348)
  • Go: Recognize other common package naming conventions (#2424)
  • PHP: Support for associative-commutative matching (#3198)

Changed

  • Upgrade TypeScript parser (#3102)

Changed

  • --debug now prints out semgrep-core debug logs instead of having this behavior with --debugging-json

0.55.1 - 2021-06-9

Added

  • Add helpUri to sarif output if rule source metadata is defined

Fixed

  • JSON: handle correctly metavariables as field (#3279)
  • JS: support partial field definitions pattern, like in JSON
  • Fixed wrong line numbers for multi-lines match in generic mode (#3315)
  • Handle correctly ellipsis inside function types (#3119)
  • Taint mode: Allow statement-patterns when these are represented as statement-expressions in the Generic AST (#3191)

0.55.0 - 2021-06-8

Added

  • Added new metavariable-pattern operator (available only via --optimizations), thanks to Kai Zhong for the feature request (#3257).

Fixed

  • Scala: parse correctly symbol literals and interpolated strings containing double dollars (#3271)
  • Dataflow: Analyze foreach body even if we do not handle the pattern yet (#3155)
  • Python: support ellipsis in try-except (#3233)
  • Fall back to no optimizations when using unsupported features: pattern-where-python, taint rules, and --debugging-json (#3265)
  • Handle regexp parse errors gracefully when using optimizations (#3266)
  • Support equivalences when using optimizations (#3259)
  • PHP: Support ellipsis in include/require and echo (#3191, #3245)
  • PHP: Prefer expression patterns over statement patterns (#3191)
  • C#: Support unsafe block syntax (#3283)

Changed

  • Run rules in semgrep-core (rather than patterns) by default (aka optimizations all)

0.54.0 - 2021-06-2

Added

  • Per rule parse times and per rule-file parse and match times added to opt-in metrics
  • $...MVAR can now match a list of statements (not just a list of arguments) (#3170)

Fixed

Changed

  • Moved some debug logging to verbose logging
  • $...ARGS can now match an empty list of arguments, just like ... (#3177)
  • JSON and SARIF outputs sort keys for predictable results

0.53.0 - 2021-05-26

Added

  • Scala alpha support
  • Metrics collection of project_hash in cases where git is not available
  • Taint mode now also analyzes top-level statements.

Fixed

  • Running with --strict will now return results if there are nosem mismatches. Semgrep will report a nonzero exit code if --strict is set and there are nosem mismathces. #3099
  • PHP: parsing correctly ... and metavariables in parameters
  • PHP: parsing correctly functions with a single statement in their body
  • Evaluate interpolated strings during constant propagation (#3127)
  • Fixed #3084 - Semgrep will report an InvalidRuleSchemaError for dictionaries with duplicate key names.
  • Basic type inference also for implicit variable declarations (Python, Ruby, PHP, and JS)
  • JS/TS: differentiating tagged template literals in the AST (#3187)
  • Ruby: storing parenthesis in function calls in the AST (#3178)

0.52.0 - 2021-05-18

Added

  • C# alpha support
  • Let meta-variables match both a constant variable occurrence and that same constant value (#3058)

Fixed

  • OCaml: fix useless-else false positives by generating appropriate AST for if without an else.
  • JS/TS: Propagate constant definitions without declaration
  • Python: Make except ... match except _ as _

0.51.0 - 2021-05-13

Added

  • Keep track of and report rule parse time in addition to file parse time.
  • v0 of opt-in anonymous aggregate metrics.
  • Improved cheatsheet for generic mode, now recommending indented patterns (#2911, #3028).

Fixed

  • JS/TS: allow the deep expression operator <... ...> in expression statement position, for example:
$ARG = [$V];
...
<... $O[$ARG] ...>; // this works now
  • PHP arrays with dots inside parse
  • Propagate constants in nested lvalues such as y in x[y]
  • C# experimental support

Changed

  • Show log messages from semgrep-core when running semgrep with --debug.
  • By default, targets larger than 1 MB are now excluded from semgrep scans. New option --max-target-bytes 0 restores the old behavior.
  • Report relative path instead of absolute when using --time

0.50.1 - 2021-05-06

Changed

  • Reinstate --debugging-json to avoid stderr output of --debug

0.50.0 - 2021-05-06

Added

  • JS/TS: Infer global constants even if the const qualifier is missing (#2978)
  • PHP: Resolve names and infer global constants in the same way as for Python

Fixed

  • Empty yaml files do not crash
  • Autofix does not insert newline characters for patterns from semgrep.live (#3045)
  • Autofix printout is grouped with its own finding rather than the one below it (#3046)
  • Do not assign constant values to assigned variables (#2805)
  • A --time flag instead of --json-time which shows a summary of the timing information when invoked with normal output and adds a time field to the json output when --json is also present

Changed

  • .git/ directories are ignored when scanning
  • External Python API (semgrep_main.invoke_semgrep) now takes an optional OutputSettings argument for controlling output
  • OutputSettings.json_time has moved to OutputSettings.output_time, this and many other OutputSettings arguments have been made optional

Removed

  • --debugging-json flag in favor of --json + --debug
  • --json-time flag in favor of --json + --time

0.49.0 - 2021-04-28

Added

  • Support for matching multiple arguments with a metavariable (#3009) This is done with a 'spread metavariable' operator that looks like $...ARGS. This used to be available only for JS/TS and is now available for the other languages (Python, Java, Go, C, Ruby, PHP, and OCaml).
  • A new --optimizations [STR] command-line flag to turn on/off some optimizations. Use 'none' to turn off everything and 'all' to turn on everything. Just using --optimizations is equivalent to --optimizations all, and not using --optimizations is equivalent to --optimizations none.
  • JS/TS: Support '...' inside JSX text to match any text, as in <a href="foo">...</a> (#2963)
  • JS/TS: Support metavariables for JSX attribute values, as in <a href=$X>some text</a> (#2964)

Fixed

  • Python: correctly parsing fstring with multiple colons
  • Ruby: better matching for interpolated strings (#2826 and #2949)
  • Ruby: correctly matching numbers

Changed

  • Add required executionSuccessful attribute to SARIF output (#2983) Thanks to Simon Engledew
  • Remove jsx and tsx from languages, just use javascript or typescript (#3000)
  • Add limit max characters in output line (#2958) and add flag to control maxmium characters (defaults to 160). Thanks to Ankush Menat

0.48.0 - 2021-04-20

Added

  • Taint mode: Basic cross-function analysis (#2913)
  • Support for the new Java Record extension and Java symbols with accented characters (#2704)

Fixed

  • Capturing functions when used as both expressions and statements in JS (#1007)
  • Literal for ocaml tree sitter (#2885)
  • Ruby: interpolated strings match correctly (#2967)
  • SARIF output now contains the required runs.invocations.executionSuccessful property.

Changed

  • The extra lines data is now consistent across scan types (e.g. semgrep-core, spacegrep, pattern-regex)

0.47.0 - 2021-04-15

Added

  • support for(...) for Java
  • Ability to match lambdas or functions in Javascript with ellipsis after the function keyword, (e.g., function ...(...) { ... })
  • Rust: Semgrep patterns now support top-level statements (#2910)
  • support for utf-8 code with non-ascii chars (#2944)
  • Java switch expressions

Fixed

  • fixed single field pattern in JSON, allow $FLD: { ... } pattern
  • Config detection in files with many suffix delimiters, like this.that.check.yaml. More concretely: configs end with .yaml, YAML language tests end with .test.yaml, and everything else is handled by its respective language extension (e.g. .py).
  • Single array field in yaml in a pattern is parsed as a field, not a one element array

0.46.0 - 2021-04-08

Added

  • YAML language support to --test
  • Ability to list multiple, comma-separated rules on the same line when in --test mode
  • Resolve alias in require/import in Javascript
child_process.exec(...)

will now match

var { exec } = require("child_process");
exec("dangerous");
  • Taint mode: Pattern-sources can now be arbitrary expressions (#2881)

Fixed

  • SARIF output now nests invocations inside runs.
  • Go backslashed carets in regexes can be parsed

Changed

  • Deep expression matches (<... foo ...>) now match within records, bodies of anonymous functions (a.k.a. lambda-expressions), and arbitrary language-specific statements (e.g. the Golang go statement)

0.45.0 - 2021-03-30

Added

  • New --experimental flag for passing rules directly to semgrep-core (#2836)

Fixed

  • Ellipses in template strings don't match string literals (#2780)
  • Go: correctly parse select/switch clauses like in tree-sitter (#2847)
  • Go: parse correctly 'for ...' header in Go patterns (#2838)

0.44.0 - 2021-03-25

Added

  • Support for YAML! You can now write YAML patterns in rules to match over YAML target files (including semgrep YAML rules, inception!)
  • A new Bloomfilter-based optimisation to speedup matching (#2816)
  • Many benchmarks to cover semgrep advertised packs (#2772)
  • A new semgrep-dev docker container useful for benchmarking semgrep (#2800)
  • Titles to rule schema definitions, which can be leveraged in the Semgrep playground (#2703)

Fixed

  • Fixed taint mode and added basic test (#2786)
  • Included formatted errors in SARIF output (#2748)
  • Go: handle correctly the scope of Go's short assignment variables (#2452)
  • Go: fixed the range of matched slices (#2763)
  • PHP: correctly match the PHP superglobal $_COOKIE (#2820)
  • PHP: allow ellipsis inside array ranges (#2819)
  • JSX/TSX: fixed the range of matched JSX elements (#2685)
  • Javascript: allow ellipsis in arrow body (#2802)
  • Generic: correctly match the same metavariable when used in different generic patterns

Fixed in semgrep-core only

These features are not yet available via the semgrep CLI, but have been fixed to the internal semgrep-core binary.

  • Fixed all regressions on semgrep-rules when using -fast
  • Handle pattern-not: and pattern-not-inside: as in semgrep
  • Handle pattern: and pattern-inside: as in semgrep (#2777)

0.43.0 - 2021-03-16

Added

  • Official Python 3.9 support
  • Support for generating patterns that will match multiple given code targets
  • Gitignore for compiled binaries

Fixed

  • Parsing enum class patterns (#2715)
  • Ocaml test metavar_equality_var (#2755)

Changed

  • Pfff java parser and tree-sitter-java parser are now more similar
  • Octal numbers parsed correctly in tree-sitter parsers

0.42.0 - 2021-03-09

Added

  • Added propagation of metavariables to clauses nested under patterns:. Fixes (#2548)[semgrep#2548].
  • --json-time flag which reports runtimes for (rule, target file)
  • --vim flag for Syntastic
  • PHP - Support for partial if statements
  • CSharp - Many improvements to parsing

Fixed

  • Rust can be invoked with rs or rust as a language

Changed

  • The timeout for downloading config files from a URL was extended from 10s to 20s.

0.41.1 - 2021-02-24

Fixed

  • Statically link pcre in semgrep-core for MacOS releases

0.41.0 - 2021-02-24

Added

  • Added basic typed metavariables for javascript and typescript (#2588)
  • Ability to match integers or floats by values e.g., the pattern '8' will now match code like 'x = 0x8'
  • Start converting the tree-sitter CST of R to the generic AST thx to Ross Nanopoulos!
  • Allow 'nosem' in HTML. (#2574)

Added in semgrep-core only

These features are not yet available via the semgrep CLI, but have been added to the internal semgrep-core binary.

  • ability to process a whole rule in semgrep-core; this will allow whole-rule optimisations and avoid some fork and communication with the semgrep Python wrapper
  • handling the none (regexp) and generic (spacegrep) patterns in a rule
  • handling the metavariable-regexp, metavariable-comparison
  • correctly handle boolean formula using inclusion checks on metavariables
  • new semgrep-core -test_rules action to test rules; it reports only 28/2800 mismatches on the semgrep-rules repository

Changed

  • update C# to latest tree-sitter-csharp thx to Sjord for the huge work adapting to the new C# grammar
  • Improve --generate-config capabilities (#2562)
  • optimise the matching of blocks with ellipsis (#2618) e.g., the pattern 'function(...) { ... }' will now be more efficient
  • Change pattern-not-regex to filter when regex overlaps with a match (#2572)

Fixed

  • remove cycle in named AST for Rust 'fn foo(self)' (#2584) and also typescript, which could cause semgrep to use giga bytes of memory
  • fix missing token location on Go type assertion (#2577)

0.40.0 - 2021-02-17

Added

  • Documentation for contributing new languages.
  • New language Kotlin with experimental support.
  • Work on caching improvements for semgrep-core.
  • Work on bloom filters for matching performance improvement.

Changed

  • Typescript grammar upgraded.
  • Ruby parser updated from the latest tree-sitter-ruby.
  • New Semgrep logo!
  • metavariable_regex now supported with PCRE.
  • Rust macros now parsed. Thanks Ruin0x11!

Fixed

  • Constant propagaion support covers := short assignment in Go. (#2440)
  • Functions now match against functions inside classes for PHP. (#2470)
  • Import statements for CommonJS Typescript modules now supported. (#2234)
  • Ellipsis behave consistently in nested statements for PHP. (#2453)
  • Go Autofix does not drop closing parenthesis. (#2316)
  • Helpful errors added for Windows installation. (#2533)
  • Helpful suggestions provided on output encoding error. (#2514)
  • Import metavariables now bind to the entire Java path. (#2502)
  • Semgrep matches the short name for a type in Java. (#2400)
  • Interface types explicitly handled in Go patterns. (#2376)
  • TooManyMatches error generated instead of Timeout error when appropriate. (#2411)

0.39.1 - 2021-01-26

No new changes in this version. This is a re-release of 0.39.0 due to an error in the release process.

0.39.0 - 2021-01-26

Added

  • Typed metavariables in C. Patterns like $X == $Y can now match specific types like so: (char *$X) == $Y. (#2431)

Added in semgrep-core only

These features are not yet available via the semgrep CLI, but have been added to the internal semgrep-core binary.

  • semgrep-core supports rules in JSON and Jsonnet format. (#2428)
  • semgrep-core supports a new nested format for combining patterns into a boolean query. (#2430)

Changed

  • When an unknown language is set on a rule, the error message now lists all supported languages. (#2448)
  • When semgrep is executed without a config specified, the error message now includes some suggestions on how to pick a config. (#2449)
  • -c is the new shorthand for --config in the CLI. -f is kept as an alias for backward-compatibility. (#2447)

Fixed

  • Disable timeouts if timeout setting is 0 (#2423).
  • Typed metavariables in go match literal strings (#2401).
  • Fix bug that caused m_compatible_type to only bind the type (#2441).

0.38.0 - 2021-01-20

Added

  • Added a new language: Rust. Support for basic semgrep patterns (#2391) thanks to Ruin0x11!
  • Added a new language: R. Just parsing for now (#2407) thanks to Ross Nanopoulos!
  • Parse more Rust constructs: Traits, type constraints (#2393, #2413) thanks to Ruin0x11!
  • Parse more C# constructs: Linq queries, type parameter constraints (#2378, #2408) thanks to Sjord!
  • new experimental semgrep rule (meta)linter (#2420) with semgrep-core -check_rules

Changed

  • new controlflow-sensitive intraprocedural dataflow-based constant propagation (#2386)

Fixed

  • matching correctly Ruby functions with rescue block (#2390)
  • semgrep crashing on permission error on a file (#2394)
  • metavariable interpolation for pattern-inside (#2361)
  • managing Lua assignment correctly (#2406) thanks to Ruin0x11!
  • correctly parse metavariables in PHP, and ellipsis in fields (#2419)

0.37.0 - 2021-01-13

Added

  • pattern-not-regex added so findings can be filtered using regular expression (#2364)
  • Added a new language: Lua. Support for basic semgrep patterns (#2337, #2312) thanks to Ruin0x11!
  • C# support for basic semgrep patterns (#2336)
  • Parse event access, conditional access, async-await in C# (#2314, #2329, #2358) thanks to Sjord

Changed

  • Java and Javascript method chaining requires extra "." when using ellipsis (#2354)

Fixed

  • Semgrep crashing due to missing token information in AST (#2380)

0.36.0 - 2021-01-05

Added

  • Typed metavariables can now match field access when we can propagate the type of a field
  • Constant propagation for Java final fields (using this.field syntax)

Changed

  • Packaging and setup.py functionality (.whl and pip install unchanged): SEMGREP_SKIP_BIN, SEMGREP_CORE_BIN, and SPACEGREP_BIN now available

Fixed

  • correctly match the same metavariable for a field when used at a definition site and use site for Java
  • add classname attribute to junit.xml report

0.35.0 - 2020-12-16

Added

  • Support for ... in chains of method calls in JS, e.g. $O.foo() ... .bar()
  • Official Ruby GA support

Fixed

  • Separate out test and pattern files with --test (#1796)

0.34.0 - 2020-12-09

Added

  • Experimental support for matching multiple arguments in JS/TS. This is done with a 'spread metavariable' operator, that looks like $...ARGS.
  • Support for using ... inside a Golang switch statement.
  • Support for matching only the try, the catch, or the finally part of a try { } catch (e) { } finally { } construct in JS/TS.
  • Support for matching only the if () part of an if () { } construct in Java
  • Support for metavariables inside dictionary keys in Ruby. This looks like {..., $KEY: $VAL, ...}.
  • An experimental --json-stats flag. The stats output contains the number of files and lines of code scanned, broken down by language. It also contains profiling data broken down by rule ID. Please note that as this is an experimental flag, the output format is subject to change in later releases.
  • Regex-only rules can now use regex as their language. The previously used language none will keep working as well.

Changed

  • Matches are now truncated to 10 lines in Semgrep's output. This was done to avoid filling the screen with output when a rule captures a whole class or function. If you'd like to adjust this behavior, you can set the new --max-lines-per-finding option.
  • Fans of explicit & verbose code can now ignore findings with a // nosemgrep comment instead of the original // nosem. The two keywords have identical behavior.
  • Generic pattern matching is now 10-20% faster on large codebases.

Fixed

  • Semgrep would crash when tens of thousands of matches were found for the same rule in one file. A new internally used semgrep-core flag named -max_match_per_file prevents these crashes by forcing a 'timeout' state when 10,000 matches are reached. Semgrep can then gracefully report what combination of rules and paths causes too much work.
  • semgrep --debug works again, and now outputs even more debugging information from semgrep-core. The new debugging output is especially helpful to discover which rules have too many matches.
  • A pattern that looks like $X & $Y will now correctly match bitwise AND operations in Ruby.
  • Metavariables can now capture the name of a class and match its occurrences later in the class definition.
  • Semgrep used to crash when a metavariable matched over text that cannot be read as UTF-8 text. Such matches will now try to recover what they can from apparent broken unicode text.

0.33.0 - 2020-12-01

Added

  • Allow selecting rules based on severity with the --severity flag. Thanks @kishorbhat!

Changed

  • In generic mode, shorter matches are now always preferred over longer ones. This avoids matches like def bar def foo when the pattern is def ... foo, instead matching just def foo
  • In generic mode, leading dots must now match at the beginning of a block, allowing patterns like ... foo to match what comes before foo
  • Disabled link following for parity with other LINUX tools (e.g. ripgrep)
  • spacegrep timeouts are now reported as timeouts instead of another error

Fixed

  • Correctly bind a metavariable in an import to the fully-qualified name. Issue
  • Fix invalid match locations on target files containing both CRLF line endings UTF-8 characters (#2111)
  • Fix NoTokenLocation error when parsing Python f-strings
  • [C] Support include $X
  • [Go] Fix wrong order of imports

0.32.0 - 2020-11-18

Added

  • JSON output now includes an attribute of findings named is_ignored. This is false under regular circumstances, but if you run with --disable-nosem, it will return true for findings that normally would've been excluded by a // nosem comment.

Changed

  • // nosemgrep can now also be used to ignore findings, in addition to // nosem
  • Added a default timeout of 30 seconds per file instead of none (#1981).

0.31.1 - 2020-11-11

Fixed

  • Regression in 0.31.0 where only a single file was being used when --config was given a directory with multiple rules (#2019).
  • Cheatsheet's html functionality now has correct output.

0.31.0 - 2020-11-10

Fixed

  • Gracefully handle empty configuration file.
  • Gracefully handle LexicalErrors from semgrep-core.
  • Fix stack overflows in spacegrep on large input files (#1944).
  • Fix extension-based file selection when the language is generic (#1968).
  • Fix semgrep error when no valid config on path provided (#1912).
  • Fix NO_FILE_INFO_YET error which causes the python wrapper to crash (#1925).
  • Fix usage of '...' in special builtin arguments for PHP (#1963).
  • Fix automatic semicolon insertion parse error in javascript (#1960).

Added

  • kotlin-tree-sitter integration into semgrep-core. Can now call dump-tree-sitter-cst on kotlin files.
  • c++ tree-sitter integration into semgrep-core (#1952).
  • More documents for language porting.
  • Error handling in spacegrep to print stderr when CalledProcessError occurs.

0.30.0 - 2020-11-03

Added

  • Better examples for the generic mode aka spacegrep (#1951).

Fixed

  • Fix matching of trailing dots in spacegrep (#1939).
  • Allow matching on one-line files with spacegrep (#1929).
  • Fix incorrect number of lines matched by dots with spacegrep (#1918).
  • Other subtle spacegrep matching bugs (#1913).
  • Metavariable for method call should be matched against corresponding metavariable in method definition (#1861).
  • Typescript class properties/declarations not recognized (#1846).
  • Can't match inside Python try/except clause (#1902).

0.29.0 - 2020-10-27

Added

  • Semgrep will now partially parse files with parse errors and report findings detected before the parse errors was encountered.
  • Allow user to specify registry path without having to add semgrep.dev url i.e.: instead of --config https://semgrep.dev/p/r2c-ci users can use --config p/r2c-ci
  • Allow user to specify snippet id without having to add semgrep.dev url i.e.: instead of --config https://semgrep.dev/s/username:snippetname users can use --config username:snippetname
  • --test will now error out if ruleid or ok is not in reported IDs
  • Semgrep will run JavaScript rules on TypeScript files automatically.

Fixed

  • More off by one fixes in autofix
  • Support for matching dynamic class names in Ruby
  • Removed nosem findings from the final findings count
  • Matching nested JSX elements works properly. See https://semgrep.dev/s/erlE?version=0.29.0.
  • Can now match partial class definitions with annotations in Java. See semgrep#1877.
  • Fixed errors in TypeScript "implements" keyword. See semgrep#1850.

0.28.0 - 2020-10-21

Added

  • A metavariable-comparison operator for evaluating numeric comparisons on metavariable values, such as comparison: $KEY_SIZE < 2048. This is a safe alternative to pattern-where-python snippets. Check the full documentation of this feature!
  • Matching 1-to-N attributes with a ... wildcard in JSX tags' attribute lists, such as <$TAG attr="1" ... />
  • Matching only the function signature without the function body, such as function foo(...). This is useful to have cleaner match output when the body content doesn't matter in a rule. This works on JavaScript, TypeScript, and Java code currently.
  • SARIF output now includes the exact CWE and OWASP categories as tags. Thanks @hunt3rkillerz!
  • Matching of annotation patterns for Java (like @SomeAnnot(...)) in any context.

Fixed

  • PHP superglobals such as $_GET, which start with a dollar sign just like Semgrep metavariables, are now correctly interpreted as PHP code instead of Semgrep pattern code.
  • Calls to isset(...) in PHP look like function calls, but technically are not functions calls. Now you can match them anyway!
  • It's now possible to write unit tests for OCaml rules.
  • JavaScript's special identifiers, such as this, can now be captured into a metavariable.
  • A Java pattern for implements B will now also match code that does implements A, B, C.
  • Addressed off by one errors when applying autofixes
  • Missing characters in metavariable interpolation in messages
  • And many more minor code parser fixes!

0.27.0 - 2020-10-06

Added

  • Added a --debug flag and moved most of the output under --verbose to it.
  • Can run multiple rule configs by repeating --config option
  • Jenkins information added to integrations
  • Added matching with partial patterns for function signatures for Go.

Changed

  • Parse and other errors are mentioned at final output, but not individually displayed unless --verbose is passed
  • tree-sitter parse error exceptions converted to parsing_error, improving error location

Fixed

  • Dislayed types using the message key are more complete.
  • Triple token repeat for EncodedString in semgrep messages fixed.
  • Crashes on 3 or more layered jsonschema errors fixed.

0.26.0 - 2020-09-30

Fixed

  • Metavariables are able to match empty tuples
  • Correctly parse optional chaining (?.) in Typescript
  • Correctly parse logical assignment operators (&&=, ||=, ??=) in Typescript
  • Some type constraing matching in Typescript

Changed

  • Added default timeout of 5 seconds to javascript parsing (related to ?. on large minified files stalling)

0.25.0 - 2020-09-23

Added

  • Added support for the JUnit XML report format (--junit-xml)
  • C now supports the deep expression operator: <... $X ...>. See this example.
  • Added support for ellipses ... in PHP. (semgrep#1715). See this example.

Fixed

  • JavaScript will parse empty yields (semgrep#1688).
  • In JavaScript, arrow functions are now considered lambdas (semgrep#1691). This allows matching arrow functions in var assignments.
  • tsx and typescript are now properly recognized in the languages key. (semgrep#1705)

0.24.0 - 2020-09-16

Added

  • The --test functionality now supports the --json flag
  • Alpha support for TypeScript
  • Alpha support for PHP
  • PyPI artifacts are now compatible with Alpine Linux

Fixed

  • Can now parse ECMAScript object patterns with ellipses in place of fields

0.23.0 - 2020-09-09

Added

  • Experimental support for Typescript (with -lang ts). You can currently mainly use the Javascript subset of Typescript in patterns, as well as type annotations in variable declarations or parameters.
  • Ability to read target contents from stdin by specifying "-" target.

Changed

  • You can now specify timeouts using floats instead of integers (e.g., semgrep -timeout 0.5 will timeout after half a second)

Fixed

  • We now respect the -timeout when analyzing languages which have both a Tree-sitter and pfff parser (e.g., Javascript, Go).

0.22.0 - 2020-09-01

Added

  • The 'languages' key now supports 'none' for running pattern-regex on arbitrary files. See this file for an example.
  • You can now use the '...' ellipsis operator in OCaml.
  • True negatives to '--test' functionality via the 'ok:' annotation.

Changed

  • Groups of rules are now called "Rulesets" in the Semgrep ecosystem, instead of their previous name, "Packs".
  • We now use also the tree-sitter-javascript Javascript parser, which can parse quickly minified files. Thus, we also removed the 5 seconds parsing timeout we were using for Javascript.
  • We should correctly report ranges when matching array access expressions (e.g., 'foo[$X]').
  • Breaking: regular expressions in semgrep string patterns (e.g., "=~/foo/") are now using the PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) syntax instead of the OCaml syntax. This means you should not escape parenthesis for grouping or escape pipes for dijunctions (e.g., use simply "=~/foo|bar/" instead of "=~/foo\|bar/"). You can also use more advanced regexp features available in PCRE such as case-insensitive regexps with '/i' (e.g., "=~/foo/i"). The semantic of matching changes also to look for the regexp anywhere in the string, not just at the beginning, which means if you want to enforce a format for the whole string, you will now need to use the '^' anchor character (e.g., "=~/^o+$/" to check if a string contains only a sequence of 'o').

Removed

  • Breaking: install script installation procedure (semgrep--ubuntu-generic.sh). Please use 'pip install' for equivalent Linux installation.

0.21.0 - 2020-08-25

Added

  • Parsing JSX (JavaScript React) files is now supported as a beta feature! In this release, you need to target .jsx files one by one explicitly to have them be scanned. We're planning to scan all .jsx files in targeted directories in our next release
  • We now bundle a json-schema spec for rules YAML syntax.

Changed

  • Our custom-made rules YAML validator has been replaced with a jsonschema standard one. This results in more reliable and comprehensive error messages to help you get back on track when bumping into validation issues.
  • Calling semgrep --validate now includes more information, such as the number of rules validation ran on.

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug where multiple assignment, also known as tuple unpacking assignment in Python, such as a, b = foo, could be misinterpreted by semgrep.
  • Fixed a bug that would cause a crash when trying to get debug steps output as JSON.
  • .mly and .mll files are no longer targeted implicitly by OCaml scans.
  • Fixed the --skip-unknown-extensions flag skipping files even with recognized extensions.
  • Fixed JavaScript conditionals without braces, such as if (true) return;, not being matched by patterns such as if (true) { return; }.

0.20.0 - 2020-08-18

Added

  • Support for JSX tag metavariables (e.g., <$TAG />) and ellipsis inside JSX attributes (e.g., )
  • By default Semgrep treats explicitly passed files with unknown extension as possibly any language and so runs all rules on said files. Add a flag --skip-unknown-extensions so that Semgrep will treat these files as if they matched no language and will so run no rules on them. Link: PR

Fixed

  • Python patterns do not have to end with a newline anymore.
  • Pattern $X = '...'; in JavaScript matches var $X = '...'. Additionally, semicolon is no longer required to match. Link: Issue; Link: Example
  • In JavaScript, can now match destructured object properties inside functions. Link: Issue; Link: Example
  • Java annotations can be matched with fully qualified names. Link: Issue; Link: Example
  • Ensure /src exists in Dockerfile; Link: PR

0.19.1 - 2020-08-13

Fixed

  • Update Docker container to run successfully without special volume permissions

0.19.0 - 2020-08-11

Added

  • --timeout-threshold option to set the maximum number of times a file can timeout before it is skipped
  • Alpha support for C#

Fixed

  • Match against JavaScript unparameterized catch blocks
  • Parse and match against Java generics
  • Add ability to match against JSX attributes using ellipses
  • Add ability to use ellipses in Go struct definitions
  • No longer convert Go expressions with a newline to a statement

0.18.0 - 2020-08-04

Added

  • Match arbitrary content with f"..."
  • Performance improvements by filtering rules if file doesn't contain string needed for match
  • Match "OtherAttribute" attributes in any order
  • Support Python 3.8 self-documenting fstrings
  • --max-memory flag to set a maximum amount of memory that can be used to apply a rule to a file

0.17.0 - 2020-07-28

Added

  • The metavariable-regex operator, which filters finding's by metavariable value against a Python re.match compatible expression.
  • --timeout flag to set maximum time a rule is applied to a file
  • Typed metavariables moved to official support. See docs

Changed

  • Improved pattern-where-python error messages

0.16.0 - 2020-07-21

Added

  • Match file-name imports against metavariables using import "$X" (most useful in Go)
  • Support for taint-tracking rules on CLI using the key-value pair 'mode: taint' (defaults to 'mode: search')

Changed

  • Don't print out parse errors to stdout when using structured output formats

Fixed

  • Parse nested object properties in parameter destructuring in JavaScript
  • Parse binding patterns in ECMAScript 2021 catch expressions
  • Was mistakenly reporting only one of each type of issue even if multiple issues exist

0.15.0 - 2020-07-14

Added

  • Alpha level support for Ruby

Changed

  • Show semgrep rule matches even with --quiet flag

Fixed

  • Fixed a crash when running over a directory with binary files in it.
  • Fix SARIF output format
  • Parse nested destructured parameters in JavaScript
  • True and False are not keywords in Python2
  • Send informative error message when user tries to use semgrep on missing files

0.14.0 - 2020-07-07

Changed

  • Default Docker code mount point from /home/repo to /src - this is also configurable via the SEMGREP_SRC_DIRECTORY environment variable

Removed

  • --precommit flag - this is no longer necessary after defaulting to pre-commit's code mount point /src

Fixed

  • Parse python files with trailing whitespace
  • Parse python2 tuple as parameter in function/lambda definition
  • Parse python3.8 positional only parameters (PEP 570)
  • Parse python2 implicit array in comprehension
  • Cache timeout errors in semgrep-core so running multiple rules does not retry parsing

0.13.0 - 2020-06-30

Added

  • Const propagation now works with Java 'final' keyword and for Python globals which were assigned only once in the program

Fixed

  • Parsing Ocaml open overriding
  • Parse raise in Python2 can take up to three arguments
  • Metavariable matching now works with variables with global scope:
$CONST = "..."
---
def $FUNC(...): return foo($CONST)

will match

GLOBAL_CONST = "SOME_CONST"

def fetch_global_const():
    return foo(GLOBAL_CONST)

Changed

  • More clear Parse error message

0.12.0 - 2020-06-23

Added

  • Support for a new configuration language: JSON. You can now write JSON semgrep patterns with -lang json
  • Support for '...' inside set and dictionaries
  • Version check to recommend updating when out-of-date, disable with --disable-version-check
  • Support for multiline pattern-where-python
  • --dryrun flag to show result of autofixes without modifying any files
  • Add capability to use regex replacement for autofixing. See documentaion here
  • Add version check to recommend upgrading when applicable

Fixed

  • The range of function calls and statement blocks now includes the closing } and ). The range for expression statements now includes the closing ';' when there's one. The range of decorators now includes '@'.
  • Do not convert certain parenthesized expressions in tuples in Python
  • Returned warning when improperly mounting volume in docker container
  • Correctly handle uncommited file deletions when using git aware file targeting

Changed

  • Progress bar only displays when in interactive terminal, more than one rule is being run, and not being run with -v or -q
  • Colapsed --include-dir and --exclude-dir functionaity into --include and --exclude respectively

0.11.0 - 2020-06-16

Added

  • Support for another programming language: OCaml. You can now write OCaml semgrep patterns with -lang ocaml
  • Inline whitelisting capabilities via nosem comments and the --disable-nosem flag #900
  • Show a progress bar when using semgrep in an interactive shell
  • More understandable error messages

Changed

  • If scanning a directory in a git project then skip files that are ignored by the project unless --no-git-ignore flag is used
  • Show aggregate parse errors unless --verbose flag is used

Fixed

  • Handle parsing unicode characters

0.10.1 - 2020-06-10

Fixed

  • Value of pattern_id when using nested pattern operators #828
  • ... now works inside for loops in javascript
  • Metavariable
  • Infinite loop in python #923
  • Treat field definition ({x: 1}) differently from assignment ({x = 1})
  • Support triple-quoted f-strings in python
  • Fix ubuntu build error #965

0.10.0 - 2020-06-09

Fixed

  • Support immediately indexed arrays with initializers in Java
  • Support object rest parameters in ECMAScript 6+
  • Support various array destructuring calls with ommitted arguments in ECMAScript 6+
  • Fix an issue where an error was raised when matching to Python else blocks with a metavariable
  • Don't filter out files that are explicitly passed as arguments to semgrep even if they do not have expected extension

Added

  • Java imports can now be searched with patterns written like import javax.crypto.$ANYTHING
  • --debugging-json flag for use on semgrep.dev

Changed

  • Pattern matches now distinguish between conditionals without else blocks and those with empty else blocks; write two patterns to capture both possibilities
  • Print output before exiting when using --strict

0.9.0 - 2020-06-02

Fixed

  • Performance optimizations in deep statement matching
  • Disable normalization of != ==> !(==)
  • Support empty variable declaration in javasript
  • Support "print expr," in Python 2.X
  • Support "async" keyword on inner arrow functions for ECMAScript 7+
  • Support optional catch bindings for ECMAScript 2019+
  • Support non-ASCII Unicode whitespace code points as lexical whitespace in JavaScript code
  • Support assignment expressions in Python 3.8
  • Emtpty block in if will only match empty blocks

Removed

  • --exclude-tests flag - prefer --exclude or --exclude-dir
  • --r2c flag - this was completely unused

0.8.1 - 2020-05-26

Fixed

  • semgrep --version on ubuntu was not returning the correct version

0.8.0 - 2020-05-20

Added

  • pattern-regex functionality - see docs for more information.
  • Ellipsis used in the final position of a sequence of binary operations will match any number of additional arguments: 
    $X = 1 + 2 + ...
    will match 
    foo = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4
  • Per rule configuration of paths to include/exclude. See docs for more information.

Changed

  • fstring pattern will only match fstrings in Python: 
    f"..."
    will match 
    f"foo {1 + 1}"
    but not 
    "foo"
  • Change location of r2c rule config to https://semgrep.live/c/r/all which filters out pattern-where-python rules

0.7.0 - 2020-05-12

Added

  • --exclude, --include, --exclude-dir, and --include-dir flags for targeting specific paths with command line options. The behavior of these flags mimics grep's behavior.
  • A --sarif flag to receive output formatted according to the SARIF v2.1.0 specification for static analysis tools.
  • Metavariables are now checked for equality across pattern clauses. For example, in the following pattern, $REQ must be the same variable name for this to match: 
    - patterns:
    - pattern-inside: |
        $TYPE $METHOD(..., HttpServletRequest $REQ, ...) {
          ...
        }
    - pattern: $REQ.getQueryString(...);

Fixed

  • Correclty parse implicit tuples in python f-strings
  • Correctly parse % token in python f-string format
  • Correctly parse python fstrings with spaces in interpolants

0.6.1 - 2020-05-06

Fix

  • Message field in output was not using proper interpolated message

0.6.0 - 2020-05-05

Added

  • The -j/--jobs flag for specifying number of subprocesses to use to run checks in parallel.
  • expression statements will now match by default also return statements 
    foo();
    will now match 
    return foo();
  • You can now use regexps for field names: 
    var $X = {"=~/[lL]ocation/": $Y};
    will now match 
    var x = { Location: 1 };
  • Add severity to json output and prepend the rule line with it. Color yellow if WARNING, and red if ERROR. e.g. WARNING rule:tests.equivalence-tests
  • For languages not allowing the dollar sign in identifiers (e.g., Python), semgrep will return an error if your pattern contains an identifier starting with a dollar that is actually not considered a metavariable (e.g., $x)
  • Support top level metadata field in rule.yaml. Entire metadata object is attached to all things that match the rule when using json output format.

Changed

  • Config files in hidden paths can now be used by explicitly specifying the hidden path: 
    semgrep --config some/hidden/.directory
  • Metavariables can now contain digits or _. $USERS_2 is now a valid metavariable name. A metavariable must start with a letter or _ though.
  • Simple calls of the semgrep CLI, such as semgrep --version, are now 60% faster.
  • Display autofix suggestion in regular and json output mode.
  • Update command line help texts.

Fixed

  • Correctly parse f"{foo:,f}" in Python
  • Correctly parse Python files where the last line is a comment

0.5.0 - 2020-04-28

Changed

  • Rename executable to semgrep

  • Deep expression matching in conditionals requires different syntax:

    if <... $X = True ...>:
    ...

    will now match

    if foo == bar and baz == True:
    return 1

  • Deduplicate semgrep output in cases where there are multiple ways a rule matches section of code

  • Deep statement matchings goes into functions and classes:

    $X = ...
...
bar($X)

    now matches with

    QUX = "qux";

function baz() {
  function foo() {
    bar(QUX);
  }
}

Added

  • python2 is a valid supported language

Fixed

  • Expression will right hand side of assignment/variable definition in javascript. See #429 
    foo();
    will now match 
    var x = foo();
  • Regression where "..." was matching empty list 
    foo("...")
    does not match 
    foo()

0.4.9 - 2020-04-07

Changed

  • Only print out number of configs and rules when running with verbose flag
  • Match let and const to var in javascript: 
    var $F = "hello"
    will now match any of the following expressions: 
    var foo = "hello";
let bar = "hello";
const baz = "hello";

Added

  • Print out --dump-ast

  • Print out version with --version

  • Allow ... in arrays

    [..., 1]

    will now match

    [3, 2, 1]

  • Support Metavariable match on keyword arguments in python:

    foo(..., $K=$B, ...)

    will now match

    foo(1, 2, bar=baz, 3)

  • Support constant propogation in f-strings in python:

    $M = "..."
...
$Q = f"...{$M}..."

    will now match

    foo = "bar"
baz = f"qux {foo}"

  • Constant propogation in javascript:

    api("literal");

    will now match with any of the following:

    api("literal");

const LITERAL = "literal";
api(LITERAL);

const LIT = "lit";
api(LIT + "eral");

const LIT = "lit";
api(`${LIT}eral`);

  • Deep statement matching: Elipsis operator (...) will also include going deeper in scope (i.e. if-else, try-catch, loop, etc.)

    foo()
...
bar()

    will now match

    foo()
if baz():
    try:
        bar()
    except Exception:
        pass

  • Unified import resolution in python:

    import foo.bar.baz

    will now match any of the following statements:

    import foo.bar.baz
import foo.bar.baz.qux
import foo.bar.baz as flob
import foo.bar.baz.qux as flob
from foo.bar import baz
from foo.bar.baz import qux
from foo.bar import baz as flob
from foo.bar.bax import qux as flob

  • Support for anonymous functions in javascript:

    function() {
    ...
}

    will now match

    var bar = foo(
  //matches the following line
  function () {
    console.log("baz");
  }
);

  • Support arrow function in javascript

    (a) => { ... }

    will now match:

    foo((a) => {
  console.log("foo");
});
foo((a) => console.log("foo"));

// arrows are normalized in regular Lambda, so an arrow pattern
// will match also old-style anynonous function.
foo(function (a) {
  console.log("foo");
});

  • Python implicit string concatenation

    $X = "..."

    will now match

    # python implicitly concatenates strings
foo = "bar"       "baz"              "qux"

  • Resolve alias in attributes and decorators in python

    @foo.bar.baz
def $X(...):
    ...

    will now match

    from foo.bar import baz

@baz
def qux():
    print("hello")

Fixed

  • Handle misordered multiple object destructuring assignments in javascript:

    var {foo, bar} = qux;

    will now match

    var {bar, baz, foo} = qux;

  • Defining properties/functions in different order:

    var $F = {
    two: 2,
    one: 1
};

    will now match both

    var foo = {
  two: 2,
  one: 1,
};

var bar = {
  one: 1,
  two: 2,
};

  • Metavariables were not matching due to go parser adding empty statements in golang

0.4.8 - 2020-03-09

Added

  • Constant propagation for some languages. Golang example:
pattern: dangerous1("...")
will match:

const Bar = "password"
func foo() {
     dangerous1(Bar);
}
  • Import matching equivalences
pattern: import foo.bar.a2
matches code: from foo.bar import a1, a2
  • Deep expression matching - see (#264)
pattern: bar();
matches code: print(bar())