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Building Confidence and Trust in AI-Generated Code

To tackle the accountability and ownership challenge accompanying AI-generated code, we are introducing Sonar AI Code Assurance

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Software and AI in 2025 — Sonar Perspectives on What’s to Come in the New Year

Several Sonar leaders share their perspectives on what to expect in 2025 with AI and software development.

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Never Underestimate CSRF: Why Origin Reflection is a Bad Idea

CORS misconfigurations are often overlooked, but they can have severe consequences. We demonstrate how reflecting the origin header leads to code execution in Whistle.

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The new SonarQube Free tier is here - get started today!

Announcing a new free tier of SonarQube, hosted in the cloud. This tier goes beyond our current community offering and gives individual developers and small teams many of the features of our commercial SonarQube offering.

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SonarQube Server 10.8 Release Announcement

This release includes stronger AI Code Assurance and AI CodeFix capabilities. Choose from two new operating modes to run the server in a way that best suits your business needs. Exciting things continue to happen with our language support, like new architecture rules, support for Ansible IaC, and full support of our Dart/Flutter coverage. Find out what’s in store for you.

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A better (free) SonarQube experience

Announcing a new free tier of SonarQube, hosted in the cloud. This tier goes beyond our current community offering and gives individual developers and small teams many of the features of our commercial SonarQube offering.

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How to trust AI contributions to your codebase

In a world where AI generates code, code ownership and trust become increasingly obscure. Many enterprises already find this situation untenable, and they are looking for ways to solve it. But where do you start?

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Our commitment to you – and an update on severity ratings for software quality

The speed of software development and product delivery is increasing for organizations everywhere – including here at Sonar. In this blog, we decided to put our guiding engineering principles in writing and share them with you.

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Sanitize Client-Side: Why Server-Side HTML Sanitization is Doomed to Fail

HTML sanitization has long been touted as a solution to prevent malicious content injection. However, this approach faces numerous challenges. In this blog post, we'll explore the limitations of server-side HTML sanitization and discuss why client-side sanitization is the better approach.

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The Power of Taint Analysis: Uncovering Critical Code Vulnerability in OpenAPI Generator

This blog post explains how taint analysis tracks all data flows in an application’s source code to unveil deeply hidden vulnerabilities and showcases a critical vulnerability in the OpenAPI Generator discovered by SonarQube Cloud.

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Why Code Security Matters - Even in Hardened Environments

This blog post showcases why fundamental code security is essential for an application despite all hardening measures applied in the underlying infrastructure.

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Announcing Sonar's Support for Dart: Elevate Your Code Quality

Sonar now supports the Dart programming language

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