We have an issue which existed for a while, which is logged as which shows the issue is 24 days old:

In the next build, a change has been made to this file which moved this method to a new line, but the method remained unchanged. It is now logged as:

Are the new issues identified by line number or the line of code? The latter would be better as it is not a new issue even though it has moved lines.

This issue is a check style issue but this probably applies to all plugins.