Adding Coverity Desktop updates

Coverity Documentation

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If an incremental release of the Coverity Desktop product becomes available, you can update the central download page with the new packages by completing the following:

  1. Go to the <install_dir>/server/base/webapps/ directory.

  2. Remove the following files:

    1. In the downloads directory, remove the following files:
      • cov-desktop-eclipse-2026.9.0.zip

      • cov-desktop-windriver-2026.9.0.zip

      • cov-desktop-qnx-2026.9.0.zip

      • cov-desktop-microsoft-visual-studio-2026.9.0.zip (for Visual Studio versions 2008-2010)

      • Coverity.Desktop.vsix (for Visual Studio 2013-2017)

    2. Remove the following directories:
      • coverity-desktop-eclipse/update

      • coverity-desktop-windriver/update

      • coverity-desktop-qnx/update

      • coverity-desktop-visual-studio/gallery

  3. Download updated Eclipse, Wind River WorkBench, QNX Momentics, and Visual Studio .zip packages.

  4. For Eclipse, Wind River, QNX, and Visual Studio versions 2008-2010, save the .zip packages in the <install_dir>/server/base/webapps/downloads directory.

    For Visual Studio 2013-2017, extract the cov-desktop-microsoft-visual-studio-gallery-2026.9.0.zip file. Then copy Coverity.Desktop.vsix into the downloads directory.
    Note: Coverity.Desktop.vsix is found in the extracted .zip package, under coverity-desktop-vs/gallery.
  5. For Eclipse, unpack cov-desktop-eclipse-2026.9.0.zip, then move the extracted directories to coverity-desktop-eclipse/update.

    For Wind River, unpack cov-desktop-windriver-2026.9.0.zip, then move the extracted directories to coverity-desktop-windriver/update.

    For QNX, unpack cov-desktop-qnx-2026.9.0.zip, then move the extracted directories to coverity-desktop-qnx/update.

    For Visual Studio 2013-2017, copy the extracted gallery directory to coverity-desktop-visual-studio/gallery.

The user can now download the new versions of the plug-in files and also point at a new version of the Eclipse update or Visual Studio 2013-2017 gallery site.