Allow upgrade rules without upgrading SonarQube itself

[Chien_Ming_Lee]

Our team is evalating if SonarQube can help us to improve code quality.
We are now testing version 9.8 and deploy it by zip file (for evaluation purpose).

Due to the stability and security reasons, we hope newer rules (within newer version of SonarQube) can be imported/updated in older version of SonarQube.
We are curious if we can upgrade new rules only without upgrading SonarQube to newer version.
Thanks.

[Colin]

Hey there.

You must update SonarQube itself.

New language features now available exclusively in latest SonarQube versions

Hello SonarQube Community, Version after version, SonarQube offers new features and improvements for 27 languages. From now on, the future additions to languages will be available only in new releases of SonarQube. In practice, previous SonarQube versions, including the 7.9 LTS, will stop offering the ability to upgrade language analysis to benefit from features added in the future versions of the product. Why? We thought hard about this and, in the end, it came down to the choice …

And, take care to evaluate SonarQube v9.9 LTS – the currently supported LTS version of SoanrQube. v9.8 is EOL.

[Chien_Ming_Lee]

Got it. Thanks for your kindly response.