2.0.0-alpha.1 - 2025-10-21

This is an alpha release of Detekt 2.0.0. Is built against Kotlin 2.2.20, Gradle 9.1.0 and is tested against JDK 25.

Full changelog is available here: https://detekt.dev/changelog-2.0.0

Requirements

Contributors

We would like to thank the following contributors that made this release possible: @3flex @BraisGabin @Copilot @CziSKY @atulgpt @jonapoul @marschwar @mikaelreiersolmoen

See all issues at: 2.0.0

2.0.0-alpha.0 - 2025-09-04

This is an initial alpha release of Detekt 2.0.0.

Full changelog is available here: https://detekt.dev/changelog-2.0.0

Requirements

Contributors

We would like to thank the following contributors that made this release possible: @3flex, @BraisGabin, @ErdoganSeref, @GeorgCantor, @Goooler, @Gosunet, @Hexcles, @JordanLongstaff, @LeoColman, @MaximSysoev, @Nava2, @PStrelchenko, @PhilippNowak96, @PoisonedYouth, @TWiStErRob, @VirtualParticle, @VovaStelmashchuk, @arturbosch, @atulgpt, @baseballyama, @bmuschko, @bomiyr, @bric3, @brunoescalona, @chao2zhang, @cortinico, @dzirbel, @eygraber, @hirokinoue, @hudson155, @ilim-ablyaev, @inorichi, @kkocel, @lexa-diky, @marschwar, @matejdro, @mdemianova, @mgroth0, @neugartf, @noar-t, @pablobaxter, @paolorotolo, @psuzn, @rhazarian, @rmarquis, @robholmes, @schalkms, @segunfamisa, @severn-everett, @stellingsimon, @t-kameyama, @tfcporciuncula, @xouabita.

See all issues at: 2.0.0

1.23.8 - 2025-02-20

This is a point release for Detekt 1.23.0, built against Kotlin 2.0.21, with fixes for several bugs that got reported by the community.

Notable Changes

• fix(deps): Update kotlin to 2.0.21 - #7580
• fix(deps): Update AGP to v8.8.1 - #7879
• fix(deps): update Gradle to v8.12.1 - #7780

Changelog

• UseDataClass: do not report on expect classes - #7857
• Fix InjectDispatcher false positives - #7797
• [UnnecessaryParentheses] Allow float/double without integer part - #7751
• Fix ThrowingExceptionsWithoutMessageOrCause false positive - #7715
• Issue #7634: Make UndocumentedPublicClass configurable to flag `com… - #7635
• Fix redundant empty tags in baseline XML - #7625
• MatchingDeclarationName now supports platofrm suffixes - #6426

Contributors

We would like to thank the following contributors that made this release possible: @BraisGabin, @JordanLongstaff, @Nava2, @atulgpt, @eygraber, @lexa-diky, @t-kameyama

1.23.7 - 2024-09-08

This is a point release for Detekt 1.23.0, built against Kotlin 2.0.10, with fixes for several bugs that got reported by the community.

Notable Changes

• fix(deps): update kotlin monorepo to v2.0.10 - #7517
• Update to Kotlin 2.0.0 #6640
• fix(deps): update kotlin monorepo to v1.9.24 - #7264
• fix(deps): update dependency com.android.tools.build:gradle to v8.5.2 - #7525
• chore(deps): update dependency gradle to v8.10 - #7546

Changelog

• Add basic support for isolated projects to 1.x - #7526
• ExplicitCollectionElementAccessMethod: fix false positive when Map put has 3 arguments - #7563
• BracesOnIfStatements: fix false-positive when chained - #7444
• Add enum entry check in UndocumentedPublicProperty - #7426
• Use the anchor which is already present before - #7423
• Fix small corner-case in "SerialVersionUIDInSerializableClass" rule, … - #7346
• SwallowedException: fix false positive when exception is used as a receiver - #7288
• NamedArguments: fix false positive on spread varargs - #7283
• MultilineLambdaItParameter: fix false negative with single statement on multiple lines - #7221
• Check for root of receiver in selector expression - #7220
• Check for public companion object for UndocumentedPublicClass - #7219
• fix: TopLevelPropertyNaming also detecting extension property name - #7212
• Publish detekt-compiler-plugin-all to Maven and GH Releases - #7179
• versioned default detekt config file link - #7161
• Support rangeUntil operator for UnusedImport rule - #7104
• Fix false positive on it usages when type parameter is specified - #6850

Housekeeping/Docs

• [bugfix] AnnotationOnSeparateLine in snippets - #6526
• Add docs about using the Compiler Plugin with the Kotlin CLI compiler - #7184

1.23.6 - 2024-03-23

This is a point release for Detekt 1.23.0, where we added support for Kotlin 1.9.23 and fixed several bugs that got reported by the community.

Changelog

• UselessPostfixExpression - Fix #7037 false positive postfix - #7084
• Don't allow invalid Source Locations - #7030
• UnusedPrivateClass: don't report if private classes are used for type conversion - #6995
• RedundantSuspendModifier: do not report when the function has 'actual' modifier - #6951
• Update dependency gradle to v8.7 - #7080
• Update kotlin monorepo to v1.9.23 - #7027
• Update dependency gradle to v8.6 - #6939
• Update dependency com.android.tools.build:gradle to v8.3.1 - #7070

Contributors

We would like to thank the following contributors that made this release possible: @BraisGabin, @psuzn, @t-kameyama.

This is a point release for Detekt 1.23.0, where we added support for Kotlin 1.9.22 and fixed several bugs that
got reported by the community.

Notable Changes

• Test Gradle plugin with AGP 8.2.0 - #6672
• chore(deps): update dependency gradle to v8.5 - #6663
• fix(deps): update kotlin monorepo to v1.9.22 - #6746

Changelog

• Report rule's default severity in sarif backport - #6916
• Add ignoreAnnotatedFunctions to TooManyFunctions - #6875
• Fix by checking the existence of label in previous statements - #6671
• Also check USELESS_ELVIS in UnreachableCode - #6624
• Fix by adding last method call to the set - #6567

Housekeeping & Refactorings

• Opt in to ExperimentalCompilerApi in all compilations in compiler-plugin - #6534

Contributors

We would like to thank the following contributors that made this release possible: @3flex, @TWiStErRob, @atulgpt, @matejdro

1.23.4 - 2023-11-26

This is a point release for Detekt 1.23.0, where we added support for Kotlin 1.9.21 and fixed several bugs that
got reported by the community.

Notable Changes

• fix(deps): update kotlin monorepo to v1.9.21 - #6642
• fix(deps): update kotlin monorepo to v1.9.20 - #6572

Changelog

• Update the ruleset regex to allow numbers - #6635
• Show deprecation message - #6614
• Add io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt.generator.Main to the jar manifest - #6613
• Don't report FunctionNaming when the function's name equals to the return type's name with type arguments - #6605
• Fix issues related to kotlin-stdlib's Gradle module metadata in Kotlin 1.9.20 - #6590
• MethodSignature - Add the condition of receiver should be null - #6570
• Remove check for deprectated functions toUpperCase and toLowerCase - #6548
• Fixes false positive of trailing whitespaces in kdoc - #6370

Dependency Updates

• Update tested AGP version to 8.1.3 - #6610
• Switch to kctfork for Kotlin compilation testing - #6589

Contributors

We would like to thank the following contributors that made this release possible: @3flex, @BraisGabin, @Gosunet, @atulgpt, @t-kameyama

1.23.3 - 2023-10-31

This is a point release for Detekt 1.23.0, where we added support for Kotlin 1.9.10 and fixed several bugs that
got reported by the community.

NOTE: This is a republishing of 1.23.2 which was accidentally published against Kotlin 1.9.0 instead of 1.9.10

Changelog

• Consider deprecated rules as inactive when running allRules #6381
• Fix inputstream leaking file descriptor in Gradle - #6519
• ForbiddenMethodCall - Handle sequence of overridden methods - #6478
• Function to return supported Kotlin version - #6472
• Fix false negative IgnoredReturnValue with scope functions - #6446
• UnconditionalJumpStatementInLoop: don't report a conditional break in a single body expression - #6443
• Fix reporting unused imports at file level - #6390
• OutdatedDocumentation - Detect param which private property documented as property - #6372
• NullableToStringCall: fix false negative in lambda - #6352
• Correctly set scheme for URIs in the SARIF report output - #6331
• SleepInsteadOfDelay - Find the parent for suspend check - #6191

Dependency Updates

• Update kotlin monorepo to v1.9.10 - #6423
• Update dependency gradle to v8.4 - #6522
• Update dependency gradle to v8.3 - #6406
• Update com.android.tools.build to 8.1.1 - #6419
• update dependency org.jetbrains.dokka to v1.9.10 - #6549

Contributors

We would like to thank the following contributors that made this release possible: @3flex, @arturbosch, @atulgpt, @kkocel, @marschwar, @pablobaxter, @t-kameyama

1.23.2 - 2023-10-29

NOTE: Please use version 1.23.3 instead - Version 1.23.2 was accidentally built against Kotlin 1.9.0 instead of 1.9.10
https://github.com/detekt/detekt/releases/tag/v1.23.3

This is a point release for Detekt 1.23.0, where we added support for Kotlin 1.9.10 and fixed several bugs that
got reported by the community.

Changelog

• Consider deprecated rules as inactive when running allRules #6381
• Fix inputstream leaking file descriptor in Gradle - #6519
• ForbiddenMethodCall - Handle sequence of overridden methods - #6478
• Function to return supported Kotlin version - #6472
• Fix false negative IgnoredReturnValue with scope functions - #6446
• UnconditionalJumpStatementInLoop: don't report a conditional break in a single body expression - #6443
• Fix reporting unused imports at file level - #6390
• OutdatedDocumentation - Detect param which private property documented as property - #6372
• NullableToStringCall: fix false negative in lambda - #6352
• Correctly set scheme for URIs in the SARIF report output - #6331
• SleepInsteadOfDelay - Find the parent for suspend check - #6191

Dependency Updates

• Update kotlin monorepo to v1.9.10 - #6423
• Update dependency gradle to v8.4 - #6522
• Update dependency gradle to v8.3 - #6406
• Update com.android.tools.build to 8.1.1 - #6419
• update dependency org.jetbrains.dokka to v1.9.10 - #6549

Contributors

We would like to thank the following contributors that made this release possible: @3flex, @arturbosch, @atulgpt, @kkocel, @marschwar, @pablobaxter, @t-kameyama

1.23.1 - 2023-07-30

This is a point release for Detekt 1.23.0, where we added support for Kotlin 1.9.0 and fixed several bugs that
got reported by the community.

Notable Changes

• Bumped Kotlin to v1.9.0 - #6258
• Bumped KtLint to v0.50.0 - #6239
• Updated CLI to reflect Java 20 support - #6277

Changelog

• Add missing jdkHome and languageVersion properties to DetektCreateBaselineTask - #6284
• Make InvalidRange aware of rangeUntil operator - #6264
• MaxChainedCallsOnSameLine: don't count class references as chained calls - #6224
• CanBeNonNullable: Fix false positive when property is defined after assignment - #6210
• Add ..< and rangeTo in the ForEachOnRange rule - #6197
• Don't report UseDataClass if class contains non-property parameters - #6173
• Allow documenting public fun name when same private variable is present - #6165
• Find range call using recursion - #6164
• StringShouldBeRawString: Ignore replaceIndent and prependIndent - #6154
• UnusedPrivateProperty: Fix false postive by ignoring data classes - #6151
• PropertyUsedBeforeDeclaration: fix false positive in nested/inner class - #6139

Dependency Updates

• Update dependency gradle to v8.2.1 - #6274
• Switch to SLF4J 2.x - #6266
• Update kotlin monorepo to v1.8.22 - #6192

Contributors

We would like to thank the following contributors that made this release possible: @3flex, @Goooler, @Hexcles, @PoisonedYouth, @TWiStErRob, @VirtualParticle, @atulgpt, @cortinico, @dzirbel, @eygraber, @marschwar, @rmarquis, @segunfamisa, @severn-everett, @t-kameyama

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