The Sonar team is pleased to announce the availability of the release 2.5. Sonar is an open platform to manage code quality.

The new release brings the following features :
* inheritance of quality profiles : share rules configuration into a common quality profile.
* tracking of violations over time : detects new violations
   * since the previous analysis
   * over a predefined number of days
   * since a given version
   * since a given date
* changes of measures throughout time : displays measures variation on
   period (identical to above)
* new Java rules :
   * instruction "break" should not be used outside a switch statement
   * instruction "continue" should not be used
   * total class complexity should not exceed a predefined threshold
   * depth of inheritance should not exceed a predefined threshold
* new database cleanup job to remove unused data
* new web service to get history of measures (time machine)
* support the annotation @SuppressWarnings in order to improve the comment //NOSONAR

Many thanks to all the contributors for their feedback and their patch.

Download: http://www.sonarsource.org/downloads/