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Hi everyone,

In the last sprint, we took the time to reduce the noise by addressing some false positives and improving the handling of static local functions.

Special thanks to @Corniel for his contributions to improving our S4581 rule.

You can find the details below:

New Rules

• 5616 - [C#] Rule S4581: Add C# code fix
• 5615 - [VB.NET] Rule S4581: Guid.Empty is preferred for VB.NET

Improvements

• 5674 - Update rule documentation
• 5669 - S138: Exclude local static functions from the sum of lines when they are placed in other methods.
• 5668 - [C#] S3776: Exclude static local functions from complexity computation
• 5666 - [C#, VB.NET] S4159: Add support for System.Composition.ExportAttribute

False Positive

• 5264 - [C#] Fix S3242 FP: Don't raise on public methods in controllers
• 5245 - [C#] Fix S4581 FP: Cannot give method parameter a default value of an empty Guid.