Used field marked as unused.
According to IntelliJ support the issue is on your side and related to SLI-2431 Rework highlighting processing by nquinquenel · Pull Request #1805 · SonarSource/sonarlint-intellij · GitHub
and more specifically:
“The plugin’s own follow-up fix in that same change may not cover your exact trigger, where a field gains a new usage after SonarQube already flagged it.”
Please see https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/38237556450194-Buggy-behavior-on-Mac-with-IntelliJ-IDEA-2026-2-1-and-SonarQube-plugin for more details, including a description and a screenshot of the observed behavior, together with the reply from IntelliJ support.
Thanks in advance for fixing this up. What follows is the copy of the ‘about’ dialog in IntelliJ IDEA:
IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2.1
Build #IU-262.9437.185, built on August 9, 2026
Source revision: 5ced7b0cd2861
Runtime version: 25.0.3+9-b508.16 x86_64
VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.
Toolkit: sun.lwawt.macosx.LWCToolkit
macOS 26.6.2
Exception reporter ID: 15112428524c2f1-1b88-4579-8dc8-4ef2edf3f7bb
JCEF version: 144.0.15-262-b37
GC: G1 Young Generation, G1 Concurrent GC, G1 Old Generation
Memory: 4096MiB
Cores: 12
Metal Rendering is ON
Registry:
ide.experimental.ui=true
code.provenance.chatter.analytics.enabled=false
trace.state.event.service.url=https://api.jetbrains.cloud/trace-status
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com.intellij.jsp (262.9437.22)
hg4idea (262.8665.173)
PerforceDirectPlugin (262.8665.176)
com.intellij.java (262.9437.185)
org.jetbrains.debugger.streams (262.8665.173)
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