Release Notes

What's New

• User accounts and cloud-stored settings are now discontinued
• Compile and Tidy on (*.ixx) modules
• Support for additional compiler options: /external:env:var and /external:I path
• Vcpkg support for both classic and manifest modes

Bug Fixes

• Clang Format Editor crashes when the Style Detector is run
• Animated building icon in the status bar never clears

Important Notice: User accounts and cloud-stored settings are going to be discontinued after May 1st 2023

What's New

• Add LLVM 16.0.0
• Updated clang-format to v16.0.0
• Updated clang-format from Clang Format Editor to v16.0.0
• Added new option to set preferred end-of-line characters in Clang Format Editor

Bug Fixes

• Incorrect v140 path detection
• Option "Use checks from" is reset to default
• External Include Paths using -I instead of -isystem

Bug Fixes

• Extension causes unexpected behavior and corrupts Cmake generated solution/projects files
• External include paths are ignored
• Tidy Custom Checks edit field from CPT Settings is not disabled when Use check from combo not set to CustomChecks

What's New

• Change core low limit to 20%
• Tidy Custom Checks edit field from CPT Settings now disabled when Use check from combo not set to CustomChecks

Bug Fixes

• An unexpected token parse error when running clang-tidy with cmake
• Clang Power Tools crashes while analysing file
• Illegal two backslash characters in path on add cpt alias in Powershell
• Launching ClangFormatEditor fails because of mismatched .NET prerequisite
• Status bar is set to command stopped, after tidy finished
• Closing CPT Settings screen causes the Output pane to get focus

What's New

• Updated Clang-Format from Clang Format Editor to v15.0.7

Bug Fixes

• After using clang Tidy, the animated building icon in the status bar never clears
• Incorrect PCH detection when project setting contains directories in path
• Properties incorrectly set for ItemDefinitionGroup children excluded by condition
• Clang-Format detector broken code view
• Clang-Format Editor .Net prerequisite falsely triggered

What's New

• Add 30 new Tidy Checks
• Add LLVM 15.0.7
• Updated clang-format to v15.0.7
• Updated clang-format from Clang Format Editor to v15.0.6

Bug Fixes

• Hyperlinks in Tidy Checks Not Found for clang-analyzer-* links
• Wrong default value cpp-standard in Clang Format Editor
• Incorrect detections on some inputs in Clang Format Editor
• Update cpt scripts for Visual Studio 2015
• Getting error on compile command after script update
• Cpp-specific force include headers not working correctly
• Clang Format Editor doesn't update

Bug Fixes

• New version popup keeps appearing on first build after opening Visual Studio

What's New

• Option to limit number of cores, check in Settings → Compiler → CPU Limit
• Add .ixx to default file extensions in format Settings
• Enable format on .ixx file extension

Bug Fixes

• Unexpected exit from tidy/tidy-fix process because of parallel running

What's New

• Optimized Tidy / Tidy-Fix performance, now runs in parallel on all available CPU cores
• Support for PowerShell 7, activate from Settings → Compiler → PowerShell 7

Bug Fixes

• No output during compile
• Crashes on Visual Studio when running find command

Bug Fixes

• No output during compile

Bug Fixes

• Format on save causes crashes on Visual Studio v17.4

What's New

• Optimised CPT Find performance when running repeatedly on the same file
• Display full output for CPT Find with verbose mode activated
• LLVM 15.0.4

Bug Fixes

• If you don't have LLVM installed manually, the process of auto-install fails
• Invalid link to tidy checks description

What's New

• CPT Find: bringing the power of clang-query to your codebase
  1. Trigger find when pressing enter on custom matches filed
  2. Navigate through the matches history
  3. Complete the custom matches field with a selected matcher
• Add .inl to default file extensions in format Settings
• Display the matching result code in the message description

Bug Fixes

• Disabling all predefined checks still results in some checks being performed
• The cpt alias in Powershell button is cut off from the settings

Bug Fixes

• Format on save ignores its own ON/OFF switch

Bug Fixes

• Format on save doesn't work on the latest Visual Studio version 17.3.4

What's New

• CPT Find: bringing the power of clang-query to your codebase
  1. Keep history of custom matchers
  2. Autocomplete with ast matchers and history
  3. Pin your favorite matcher and return to it easier
  4. Don't need to write "m" or "match" keyword no more
• LLVM 15.0.0

Bug Fixes

• Clang-format fails even if Fallback Style is set

What's New

• CPT Find: bringing the power of clang-query to your codebase
  1. Write your own custom match
  2. Select where to run find command
  3. Open Find tool window from View menu

Bug Fixes

• Not displaying full AST in verbose mode
• Can't update scripts on Visual Studio 2015

What's New

• Introducing CPT Find: bringing the power of clang-query to your codebase
  1. Invocations of functions using default argument(s)
• LLVM 14.0.6

Bug Fixes

• PCH directory was not automatically included when compiling only one cpp

What's New

• Add setting for enabling Tidy-Fix to be applied directly.

(Settings → Tidy → 1-step Tidy-Fix)

What's New

• Support for LLVM 14.0.3
• Generate html, markdown and yaml documentation based on source code and comments

What's New

• Support for LLVM 14.0.0 (Read about changes on Windows)

What's New

• Download ready-to-use LLVM binaries when none is installed
• Use esc key to exit from settings window

Bug Fixes

• Visual Studio is blocked if settings window is behind it

What's New

• After Tidy fix you can make diff and discard fix on affected headers

What's New

• LLVM 13.0.1

Bug Fixes

• False triggers for PowerShell script auto-updater

Bug Fixes

• Dialogs stay on top of every window in the system
• Can't run tidy or compile in offline mode

What's New

• Run tidy, format and compile on files with extension .cu

Bug Fixes

• Crash after tidy on long file paths
• Application crash unexpectedly when trying to discard fix from denied file path
• CLI script-update download progress remains on-screen throughout execution on Powershell 6+

What's New

• New interactive UI for Tidy operations, quickly visualize fixes and changes and decide on which ones to keep
• Fine-grained file selection after running Tidy on a filter, project, or solution
• Updated Clang-Format to version 13
• Visual Studio extension warm-up time is improved
• Project data is now cached, faster compile/tidy operations on opened projects during a Visual Studio instance

Bug Fixes

• Qt5 project include directories were not loaded correctly
• Projects with long disk paths caused an error

What's New

• Clang Power Tools now supports Visual Studio 2022 as well as 2019 and 2017

What's New

• Tidy and Compile much faster now, when running on solution explorer filters
• Ignored projects are now skipped quicker

Bug Fixes

• An error when running commands on a project that contains single quotes in its path
• An error when current user name contains spaces

What's New

• LLVM 13.0.0
• Added custom LLVM path directly from settings

Bug Fixes

• Error on before save due to file type

What's New

• Updated clang-tidy checks
• Easy access to clang-tidy checks documentation
• Improved UI in the clang-tidy checks window

Bug Fixes

• Deprecated clang-tidy flags found in the list
• Error due to Open Project type check

What's New

• Support for LLVM 12.0.1
• PowerShell script updater
• New format options added to the Format Editor
• IMPORTANT: This is the final release that supports Visual Studio 2015

Bug Fixes

• Projects are not added in the Projects to ignore section
• Certain format options don't work due to the new value type
• Handle MSBuild expression calling member functions of uninitialized variables

Bug Fixes

• Clang-Format Editor crash due to text padding
• Certain Clang-Format Editor options don't have the correct default value

What's New

• Support for LLVM 12.0.0

Bug Fixes

• MSBuildThisFileDirectory evaluates to wrong value in some cases

Bug Fixes

• Fix Visual Studio drop-down issue

Bug Fixes

• Clang compile is not launched after a successful MSVC compilation
• The Tidy on save option is not working properly
• Error when project path contains square brackets
• Conditions for item group elements not evaluated
• C file type detection not working correctly for 'Default' or empty CompileAs setting

What's New

• Diff is now available in the Configurator Output
• Configurator Output is displayed side-by-side
• Resizable split panels for Detector and Configurator diff

Bug Fixes

• Certain clang-format flags are deprecated
• Crash when setting incompatible input values to clang-format options

Bug Fixes

• Crash when project path contains square brackets
• Access error when PCH header file is readonly

What's New

• Support for LLVM 11.1.0
• Clang-Format support for .inl files

Bug Fixes

• File paths from Error List are not using the same separator character
• Login message is displayed when the user is already logged in

What's New

• Support for LLVM 11.0.1

Bug Fixes

• Settings crash when a pre-built LLVM version is installed
• Fixed regression on Windows 8 / PowerShell 3
• Clang-Format Editor cannot locate clang-format.exe

Bug Fixes

• Clang-Format Editor process doesn't stop in certain conditions

What's New

• Clang Power Tools is entirely free
• Clang Format Editor offers a better experience by incorporating the Style Detector and the Format Configurator
• Now you can use the Clang Format Editor as a stand-alone tool. Visual Studio is not needed
• Import your own .clang-format file in our Format Editor
• Enable all checks option is available for predefined Clang Tidy check

Bug Fixes

• Last Clang Format flag is ignored
• Footer component overlaps with the settings window
• Several format flags are ignored during the lookup
• Settings view is resized in certain situations

What's New

• Possibility to select a custom path for LLVM
• Detect the LLVM version updates from disk
• Share your experience more quickly with the new Feedback tab

Bug Fixes

• Stopping a clang command sometimes left unhandled temporary files

What's New

• Easier access to Clang functionality. No account needed

Bug Fixes

• Clang-Tidy command does not work on TidyFile mode
• Fix configuration file warnings for Clang-Tidy

What's New

• Support for LLVM 11.0

Bug Fixes

• Clang-tidy doesn't run when too many flags are checked

What's New

• Clang-Format Detector helps you to discover the best format style for your projects

Bug Fixes

• Not all selected clang-tidy checks are applied
• Local settings import is not applied on the entire compiler tab
• The tidy process is not triggered when the 'Tidy on save' option is enabled

What's New

• Export JSON Compilation Database

Bug Fixes

• Always focus on the active document after running a command
• Context Menu selection issue due to 'Track Active Item in Solution Explorer'

What's New

• Team Cloud Settings - a faster way to store and share your configuration
• Quick access to your profile information from the settings panel
• Clang-Format can be used to format C# files
• Microsoft style integration for Clang-Format
• Possibility to select multiples Clang-Tidy predefined checks at once
• Clang-Format can be configured using the '_clang-format' file

Bug Fixes

• Exported Clang Tidy checks do not disable the default ones
• Reset Settings does not refresh the panels; it requires a window reload
• Tooltip information is shown just over the option name
• The output window is not cleared after running Clang-Format
• Fallback style is enabled for all the Clang-Format Style options
• Editor focus is lost when displaying a log message

Bug Fixes

• Directory.Build.Props is ignored when it contains the PlatformConfigurations node

What's New

• Search functionality in the Clang-Format editor
• Detect .clang-tidy configuration file when any Tidy command is launched
• Option to display the output window after running a command
• Run Clang-Format on files that don't belong to the opened project
• Option to enable only the recommended default Clang-Tidy checks

Bug Fixes

• Focus changes to the error output after running a command
• Crash when deselecting all Tidy checks
• Export Tidy file doesn't include checks
• Select button is active even when PredefinedChecks is not selected

Bug Fixes

• Predefined tidy checks are not initialized

Bug Fixes

• Crash when config file is missing

What's New

• Feedback message when running Format on ignored files
• Detect if the .clang-format is missing when using file style

Bug Fixes

• The export confirmation dialog appears even when canceling the operation
• Missing LLVM message is not displayed properly

Bug Fixes

• Background Tidy error when reloading solution

Bug Fixes

• Fix Visual Studio version detection for projects using vcpkg

Bug Fixes

• Clang IntelliSense crash due to external dependency files
• Clang tidy export confirmation is missing

Bug Fixes

• File locked when saving
• Clang runs on other project types

What's New

• Clang Style Options Editor to create and customize clang-format files
• Clang-tidy IntelliSense shows squiggles automatically

Bug Fixes

• Squiggles don't work properly on large files
• Closing the active file after running a command may cause a crash
• Stop command doesn't work after using its shortcut
• Stop command crash in certain scenarios
• Custom tidy executable path containing white spaces doesn't work
• Clang doesn't run after MSVC successfully compiles

What's New

• LLVM 9.0.1

Bug Fixes

• Visual Studio editor focus is lost when using clang-format on save
• No feedback when running Clang commands on ignored files or projects

Bug Fixes

• Format on save doesn't work when the config file is missing
• Adding files to ignore list from context menu doesn't work
• Crash when running clang commands for files without a Visual Studio Solution
• Logging out doesn't refresh the UI

What's New

• Settings option to always show Error List if clang compile/tidy finishes with errors
• Redesign UI buttons

Bug Fixes

• The format command runs on ignored files
• No feedback when .clang-format config file is missing

What's New

• Clang errors after compilation are highlighted using squiggle
• LLVM version is automatically set as active after installation
• Completely redesigned input data window
• Small UI improvements

Bug Fixes

• Clang-tidy flags are missing
• Alt+tab locks up Visual Studio while in the input data window
• LLVM version 8.0.1 is missing from the download list

What's New

• Side-by-side LLVM installation and selection directly from Settings
• Pre-initialize configuration and platform properties

Bug Fixes

• Fix predefined checks initialization
• Clear button doesn't work for predefined checks search
• GetPathOfFileAbove didn't function properly in some cases

Bug fixes

• Sign up not working from account window

What's New

• 14-days free trial support
• Now you can ignore an entire project at clang compile time
• Ignore folder support for compile and format commands
• Possibility to convert incompatible clang encoding files to UTF-8
• Commands are now disabled for unrelated C++ projects

Bug Fixes

• Handle corrupt JSON config file
• Fix import for tidy predefined checks
• UI uniformization for predefined checks view

What's New

• CMake support for open file
• Complete UI redesign
• Export/Import settings configuration
• Settings are now saved as JSON
• Support to export .clang-tidy config file
• Improve the email and password validation
• Offline support

Bug Fixes

• Crash on Visual Studio 2019 when running clang commands
• Crash on Visual Studio 2015 when running clang-tidy
• Crash when Tidy on save is active
• Calibrate focus between Error List and Output window
• Clang compile warnings detection

Bug fixes

• Visual Studio 2015 crash after login
• Account validation is too slow

What's New

• Export clang-tidy config file
• Commands shortcut
• Clang Power Tools account
• Support for the latest Windows 10 SDK project setting

Bug fixes

• Compile shortcut doesn't run the command on the proper file

Bug fixes

• Format command doesn't work when used from the context menu
• Fix include order of project directories

Bug fixes

• Stop command doesn't work properly on multiple files
• Error when running toolbar commands with no open file in the Visual Studio editor
• Output log messages are not displayed correctly

Bug fixes

• Wrong default project runtime library (MT instead of MD)
• Not compiling any files when -file-ignore contains headers
• MSBuild conditional elements not loaded correctly

Bug fixes

• Fix crash when running Clang command from the toolbar with no active document
• _AFXDLL preprocessor macro not set for projects with _dynamic_ MFC usage

Bug fixes

• Running a command from the toolbar is sometimes run on other files when Track Active Item in Solution Explorer is off

Breaking changes

• The -literal PowerShell parameter has been removed. This means that the regex is no longer applied by default to PowerShell Clang Power Tools parameters. Regular expression matching can now be done using the [regex] prefix. Example: [regex]company_.*\.vcxproj, [regex]ui_components_.*\.cpp

What's New

• Support for partial file paths as project/files to compile or ignore, e.g. ignore or compile all files from a directory hierarchy
• Support for LLVM 8.0

Bug fixes

• Fix deprecated APIs for Visual Studio 2019 Preview
• Visual Studio crashes when Clang Tidy is executed
• _AFXDLL builds triggering error due to missing DLL preprocessor definition
• MSBuild::GetPathOfFileAbove() calls not working
• CompileAs configuration for project items not working correctly

What's New

• Powershell scripts now using strict-mode -latest for increased safety

Bug fixes

• Format on save does not apply the Fallback-Style option
• Clang Tidy settings are set back to default values when Visual Studio is open
• Item definition groups evaluation loaded incorrectly for some projects
• Expression expansion not working correctly for some expressions on machines with PS 3.0
• HOME environment variable triggering error when present on machine
• MSBuild::Utilities::ToolLocationHelper was not accessible
• Default user-specific property sheets (microsoft.cpp.user.props) not loaded automatically

Bug fixes

• Fix location detection when multiple versions of Visual Studio are installed

What's New

• Visual Studio 2019 Preview support
• Keyboard shortcut for Clang Compile

Bug fixes

• User settings are sometimes set back to default values when closing Visual Studio
• Compile or Tidy commands force saves the solution
• When running Clang after the MSVC compile, Visual Studio does not switch to the Clang Power Tools log window

What's New

• Support for custom Clang Tidy executable path

Bug fixes

• The custom path for Clang Format cannot be changed after it was set
• Output window did not display the Clang output properly
• Unhandled exception in the status-bar caused errors

What's New

• Select files to ignore at compile and format from the Context Menu

Bug fixes

• Wrong format applied when clang-tidy and clang-format on save are checked
• Access rights of the PowerShell script caused warning messages
• Clang Format didn’t properly handle selected source
• Crash when some options are missing from the config file

What's New

• Status bar support for Clang Format
• Support for expanding Project Item Groups

Bug fixes

• Clang commands saving event caused changes on .sln level
• Clang Format formats CMakeLists.txt file
• System.IO.Directory::GetDirectories() calls not working

What's New

• Speed up the errors detection by sending refresh signals to the VS Error List
• Include the new LLVM 7.0 clang tidy checks

Bug fixes

• The checks from .clang-tidy config file are ignored
• Clang Tidy on save does not respond after a VS Solution is reopened
• Extension upgrade is not detected

Bug fixes

• New extension dependencies caused crashes

Bug fixes

• Fix bug triggering regex error when using absolute paths in command line args

What's New

• Support for apply Clang-Format on VS Projects
• Support for apply Clang-Format on VS Solution

Bug fixes

• Asynchronous writing in the Output Pane caused crashes
• Sometimes crash when clang commands are executed

Bug fixes

• After closing and reopening a VS Solution the clang commands did not work as expected
• Clang-Format works just for files that are included in a VS project
• Format after tidy option is not responding
• VS Services are not registered in the right order

What's New

• Support for PCH configuration at file-level

Bug fixes

• VS Extension is not completely registered immediately after the VS solution was loaded
• Wrong detection of VS 2015 when VS 2013 toolset is being used
• Parallel processing causing file corruption for Tidy Fix

What's New

• Optimize the VS services access
• Improve clang commands loading

Bug fixes

• Double quotes incorrectly escaped in preprocessor definitions (v4.0 regression)
• …\ include directories not being correctly included (v4.0 regression)
• Preprocessor definition characters being mistaken for comparison operators (v4.0 regression)
• PCH detection not working when project force includes header directly at pch cpp level
• Crash when VS services are not available
• Clang commands registration does not always work
• Project field from Error List sometimes is empty

What's New

• Support for CPT configuration files (see sample cpt.config in github repository)

Bug fixes

• Changed files are permanently open in the editor after clang-tidy command
• Crash when changing the Show issues generated option from Visual Studio
• Preprocessor definitions for raw string literals containing escaped quotes not working
• Calls to Exists() using single quotes not resolved correctly

Bug fixes

• Directory.Build.props global property sheet not loaded
• Unicode project character set detection not working for some projects
• Output Window does not display the entire output
• Clang commands are not disabled when the VS build is running
• Selecting system include directories did not worked for Treat additional includes as option

Bug fixes

• Crash when showing output window notifications

New features

• Project / File to ignore support for directory matching

Improvements

• Display names of ignored projects at beginning of log

Bug fixes

• MSBuild directory properties malfunctioning in some property sheets
• Project specific variables not cleared when compilation failed
• Newly created projects not detected by VS Extension
• Clang output sometimes formatted wrong in the VS Output Window
• Crash when switching Error List between Build Only, Build + IntelliSense and IntelliSense Only

Improvements

• Improved error detection

Bug fixes

• Projects with large number of include directories could not be compiled
• Closed files remained closed after the clang-tidy fix command caused changes
• Error List displayed duplicates errors
• Output Window did not displayed the entire content
• VS reload file mechanism for external changes remains disabled after the clang-tidy fix command

Bug fixes

• Missing trailing slashes for MakeRelative() special cases

New features

• Dedicated command for Clang Tidy-Fix action

Improvements

• Optimize loading speed of the VS Extension
• Optimize UI responsiveness when a command is executed
• (Powershell Script) -file script parameter now accepts header files (.H), alongside source files This triggers compilation for all source files (.CPP) that include them

Bug fixes

• vcpkg package include directories not being detected
• MSBuild::MakeRelative() property function not working
• C99 was disabled in PCH file error when compiling .C files
• v140 projects not compiled using appropriate VS2017 toolset

New features

• (Powershell Script) Automatically detect Visual Studio SK when not passed as script argument
• Quick search support for the Predefined checks option page

Bug fixes

• Error when compiling projects without preprocessor definitions
• Regex matching broken for File Ignore and Project Ignore filters
• The clang-format custom path property did not persisted
• Fix the check mechanism of the Use custom executable file checkbox

New features

• Support for compiling C files

Bug fixes

• The File Ignore and Project Ignore filters didn’t worked
• Clang Compile and Clang Tidy commands crashed when extra white spaces and extra delimitaters were added in UI text fields
• Buttons have overlapped the text in the UI fields

Bug fixes

• Selecting elements from the Tidy > Predefined Checks page has caused crashes

Bug fixes

• Auto clang-format on save did not work for upgraded installs

New features

• Support to use different version of clang-format.exe from the one in the box

Improvements

• Updated clang-format.exe to the latest version 6.0.0
• Support to use different version of clang-format.exe from the one in the box
• Redesigned settings panel

Bug fixes

• Errors in headers were shown multiple times if different folder delimiters were used

Bug fixes

• Clang output text was separated into multiple lines
• Source files with ExcludedFromBuild child property set to true were compiled
• Empty project files were not correctly handled

New features

• Support for filter errors by Project field in the Error List
• Cleanup errors when closing a project
• Use the whole file name of PCH cpp to detect PCH header directory

Improvements

• Improved responsiveness during lengthy operations
• Use the whole file name of PCH cpp to detect PCH header directory

Bug fixes

• Clang compile fails when project has no Additional Include Directories
• Error line number from error list was displayed wrong

New features

• Support for VS status bar

Improvements

• Clang-tidy checker for output window messages

Bug fixes

• Last error message couldn’t be detected
• Consecutive error messages couldn’t be detected
• Did not work on Visual Studio 2017 Update 2 because vswhere does not support the -prerelease switch
• Did not work when stdafx.cpp contained commented #include lines
• Couldn’t detect default Configuration Platform if comment nodes were present in the <ItemGroup> XML element
• PCH header couldn’t be detected when in a different physical location than that of PCH cpp
• PCH header couldn’t be detected if not present in project <ClInclude> XML element
• Compilation stopped on PCH-creation errors even if -continue switch was present

New features

• Support for MSBuild::GetDirectoryNameOfFileAbove
• Support for clang format selection

Bug fixes

• /MD and /MT project settings not propagated to clang