CodeQL, a semantic code analysis engine and query tool for finding security vulnerabilities across a codebase, has been made available for free by GitHub for anyone to use in research or to ...

CodeQL Action This action runs GitHub's industry-leading semantic code analysis engine, CodeQL, against a repository's source code to find security vulnerabilities. It then automatically uploads the ...

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Developers can now scan their code with GitHub's CodeQL analysis engine for free and without manual setup.

Image Credits: GitHub In the background, this new feature uses the CodeQL engine, GitHub’s semantic analysis engine to find vulnerabilities in code, even before it has been executed.

GitHub introduced a new option to set up code scanning for a repository known as "default setup," designed to help developers configure it automatically with just a few clicks.

GitHub’s code scanning is powered by its CodeQL engine, and while it supports a wide variety of compilers, so far the feature is only available for Python, JavaScript, and Ruby.

The tool is powered by CodeQL ---an open-source semantic code analyzer. The scanner can work in real-time as code is entered, so flaws never get to the software's final production version.

Fourteen companies unite get together to search, find, and fix security flaws in GitHub-hosted open source projects.

One year after acquiring software security scanning specialist Semmle, and following a successful five-month beta process, GitHub is making its CodeQL code scanning capabilities available publicly ...