v2.15.3

Release 2.15.3 (2023-11-22)

New features

• codeql database analyze now defaults to include markdown query help for all custom
  queries with help files available. To change the default behaviour you can pass the
  new flag --sarif-include-query-help, which provides the options always (which
  includes query help for all queries), custom_queries_only (the default) and never
  (which does not include query help for any query). The existing flag
  --sarif-add-query-help has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
• The new (advanced) command-line option --[no-]linkage-aware-import disables the
  linkage-awareness phase of codeql dataset import, as a quick fix (at the expense of
  database completeness) for C++ projects where this part of database creation consumes
  too much memory. This option is available in the commands database create,
  database finalize, database import, dataset import, test extract, and
  test run.
• The CodeQL language server now provides basic support for Rename, and you can now use
  the Rename Symbol functionality in Visual Studio Code for CodeQL. The current Rename
  support is less a refactoring tool and more a labor-saving device. You may have to
  perform some manual edits after using Rename, but it should still be faster and less
  work than renaming a symbol manually.

For more information about the changes included in this release, see the CodeQL CLI changelog.

You can download either the codeql-PLATFORM.zip for your platform, or the generic codeql.zip which contains binaries for all supported platforms. Please ignore the additional "source code" downloads below the .zip artifacts.

This release is compatible with the CodeQL language packs from github/codeql@codeql-cli/v2.15.3.