We are currently running SonarQube Cloud and SonarQube Server v2025.5 on premise via Azure
Our cloud versions offers the ability to distinguish between Long and Short life branches ( main versus feature for example )
This feature doesn’t seem to be available on our SQ Server version. We’ve looked at upcoming versions to the current 2026 LTA without luck. Am I missing something ? Do I need to switch it on via Settings ?
Thanks.
Hi,
In fact SonarQube Cloud is several years behind Server in this regard. When we first introduced branch analysis, it was with the concept of long-lived and short-lived branches. Then we added PR analysis and realized that once you can analyze PRs and decorate them in-situ there’s no good use case left for short-lived branches. So Server got rid of them, but Cloud never got around to it.
So no, there are no plans to add short-lived branches (back) to SonarQube Server.
HTH,
Ann