SA1642 - fails to consider record structs and thinks it is a class

[smaillet]

SA1642 is a contentious rule (but important for consistency of docs). Thus, avoiding false positives is a really good thing. Unfortunately, it fails to do that on a record struct. It seems to think that is a "class" and the standard text should include "class" even though it is a struct. (In most other cases I've found it seems to get it right and handles things correctly (A struct gets 'struct' in the standard text and a class gets 'class'). the newish 'record' keyword seems to be throwing things off.

[bjornhellander]

My understanding is that this has already been fixed. Which version are you using?

[smaillet]

Version 1.1.118, which is the latest non-preview version. (We don't allow preview packages in production builds)

[bjornhellander]

That version is from 2019 and has many problems when used with newer c# versions. That combination will unfortunately not work well.

[smaillet]

@bjornhellander While that may be true it is the ONLY officially released version. Are there plans to update and release a new version? It's 2025 now...

[bjornhellander]

Judging by existing issues, unfortunately not. See for example #3500 and #3826.

Don't mistake that for low quality though. Around 7000 tests needs to pass per supported language/compiler version for any pull request to be accepted, so quality is high. The lack of official releases after 1.1.118 simply mean that no "organized" review of new language features has been made since then, instead adjustments have been made continuously when needs have been identified. This project's policy on official releases simply clashes with other companies/projects' policy on preview packages. It is unfortunate, but given the number of times this has been up during the last years, I don't think you should expect a new non-beta release anytime soon.