Hi with a local SonarQube (community 9 lts), I was correctly running mvn sonar:sonar with the SONAR_TOKEN environment variable correctly set. I was using org.sonarsource.scanner.maven sonar-maven-plugin 4.0.0.4121 After updating to 5.0.0.4389 , the sonar:sonar goal always fails with Failed to execute goal org.sonarsource.scanner.maven:sonar-maven-plugin:5.0.0.4389:sonar (default-cli) on project ...: Error status returned by url [https://api.sonarcloud.io/analysis/jres?os=linux&arch=x86_64]: 403 Reverting to the previous version of the Maven plugin makes it work again. Is that a known regression? Thanks in advance

Hey @LorenzoBettini It looks like the Scanner for Maven is defaulting to connecting to SonarQube Cloud. Are you specifying sonar.host.url? I suggest making sure it points to your local SonarQube instance.

Hi @Colin I confirm that specifying sonar.host.url to point to http://localhost:9000 makes it work again. Thanks! I’m a bit surprised that such a breaking change is not part of the release record of the scanner plugin unless I missed it.

I agree with you, but I’m honestly not sure where we would put it. Let me poke around on that.

403 after upgrading sonar-maven-plugin to 5.0.0.4389

SonarQube Server / Community Build

LorenzoBettini (Lorenzo Bettini) February 20, 2025, 12:51pm 8

Well, if you ask me, that’s be a great place: Release 5.0.0.4389 · SonarSource/sonar-scanner-maven · GitHub

I’d also highlight that as a “breaking change”

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403 after upgrading sonar-maven-plugin to 5.0.0.4389

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