Merge branch 'main' into lcartey/remove-old-is-excluded

Author: lcartey

.vscode/tasks.json

@@ -140,6 +140,28 @@
             },
             "problemMatcher": []
         },
+        {
+            "label": "🧪 Standards Automation: Build Case Test DB from test file",
+            "type": "shell",
+            "windows": {
+                "command": ".${pathSeparator}scripts${pathSeparator}.venv${pathSeparator}Scripts${pathSeparator}python.exe scripts${pathSeparator}build_test_database.py ${file}"
+            },
+            "linux": {
+                "command": ".${pathSeparator}scripts${pathSeparator}.venv${pathSeparator}bin${pathSeparator}python3 scripts${pathSeparator}build_test_database.py ${file}"
+            },
+            "osx": {
+                "command": ".${pathSeparator}scripts${pathSeparator}.venv${pathSeparator}bin${pathSeparator}python3 scripts${pathSeparator}build_test_database.py ${file}"
+            },
+            "presentation": {
+                "reveal": "always",
+                "panel": "new",
+                "focus": true
+            },
+            "runOptions": {
+                "reevaluateOnRerun": false
+            },
+            "problemMatcher": []
+        },
         {
             "label": "📝 Standards Automation: Format CodeQL",
             "type": "shell",

change_notes/2023-10-04-aggregate-literals-from-variadic-templates.md

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+ `M8-5-2` - `AggregateLiteralEnhancements.qll`:
+   - recognise aggregate literals initialized with parameters from variadic templates.

change_notes/2023-11-03-identifier-hiding-improvements.md

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+ - `A2-10-1`, `RULE-5-3`:
+   - Reduce false positives by considering point of declaration for local variables.
+   - Reduce false negatives by considering catch block parameters to be in scope in the catch block.

change_notes/2023-11-05-m6-5-5-const-refs.md

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+ - `M6-5-5`:
+   - Reduce false positives by no longer considering the taking of a const reference as a modification.
+   - Improve detection of non-local modification of loop iteration variables to reduce false positives.

change_notes/2023-11-24-a2-7-3-remove-function-scope.md

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+ * `A2-7-3` - `UndocumentedUserDefinedType.ql`:
+   - Excluding declarations in function scope. The rationale is that these declarations are not exposed outside the scope of the function.
+   

change_notes/2024-01-14-m5-3-3-exclude-binary.md

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+`M5-3-3` - `UnaryOperatorOverloaded.ql`:
+  - Exclude binary user defined `operator&` from this rule.

change_notes/2024-01-16-m5-2-10-arith-only.md

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+ `M5-2-10` - `IncrementAndDecrementOperatorsMixedWithOtherOperatorsInExpression.ql`:
+   - only report use of the increment and decrement operations in conjunction with arithmetic operators, as specified by the rule. Notably we no longer report the expressions of the form `*p++`, which combine increment and dereferencing operations.

change_notes/2024-02-12-exclusion-A2-10-4.md

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+- `A2-10-4` - `IdentifierNameOfStaticNonMemberObjectReusedInNamespace.ql`:
+    - Fix FP reported in #385. Addresses incorrect detection of partially specialized template variables as conflicting reuses.

change_notes/2024-02-12-improve-a18-0-1.md

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+- `A18-0-1` - `CLibraryFacilitiesNotAccessedThroughCPPLibraryHeaders.ql`:
+    - Fix issue #7 - improve query logic to only match on exact standard library names (e.g., now excludes sys/header.h type headers from the results as those are not C standard libraries).

change_notes/2024-02-13-fix-fp-a15-4-4.md

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+-`A15-4-4` - `MissingNoExcept.ql`:
+    - Fix FP reported in #424. Exclude functions calling `std::string::reserve` or `std::string::append` that may throw even if their signatures don't specify it.