Do LTS versions get updated rules with fixes for false positives and false negatives?

[samwise (Lelouch)]

Hello,

I just wanted to know whether LTS versions of SonarQube get updated rules with fixes for false positives and false negatives?

[Colin]

Hey there.

With very few exceptions – no. You can read about this decision here:

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 …