Standard upgrade procedure

Coverity Documentation

Version
latest

To upgrade Coverity Analysis:

  1. Install Coverity Analysis 2026.9.0 into a new directory. Do not upgrade over an existing installation directory.
  2. Recreate a configuration for each compiler and programming language of the source code you intend to analyze.
    Important: Coverity recommends that you run the following command for Java:
    > cov-configure --java 
  3. Move your manual configuration changes (if any) from the configuration files in your previous version of Coverity Analysis to the configuration files for 2026.9.0. Additionally, for C/C++, move your customization changes (if any) in the install_dir/config/user_nodefs.h file for a previous version, to the user_nodefs.h file for 2026.9.0.
    Note: Do not move .xmldb files (located in install_dir/config) that were generated by the previous version of Coverity Analysis. You will instead regenerate them for the latest version of Coverity Analysis in the next step.
  4. Compile your custom models (if any) from the previous version with the cov-make-library command for the latest version.
  5. Delete all old intermediate directories.
  6. Update your existing scripts and paths to point to the new Coverity Analysis location.