This topic is discussed in this thread.
Basically, we’re going to reinstate the possibility to share the configuration via SCM; since we now want to support that as an official SonarLint functionality - we need some time to properly do the design and implementation, we expect to ship that within the next few releases (not in 7.2).
If you prefer to keep v6.16 or older in the meantime, you can disable automatic updates of the plugin.