Issue while executing Sonarqube scan - 8.9

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The version we are currently using is : SonarQube 8.9
We have been trying to run sonarqube scan on one of our applications and getting the below error:
Exception in thread “main” java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/sonarsource/scanner/cli/Main : Unsupported major.minor version
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:808)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)

Versions being used:
openjdk version “1.8.0_302”
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_302-b08)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.302-b08, mixed mode)

Could someone please help us out here?

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Could someone please look into my query? It would be really helpful.

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Hi,

You’ll need to upgrade the version of Java you’re running analysis with. Java 8 is no longer supported as a runtime. Docs. (Analyzing Java 8 code is, and will continue to be supported.)

 
HTH,
Ann