SonarQube Scanner Fails with NoSuchMethodError on Logger.atInfo() Despite Using SLF4J 2.0.7

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We recently upgraded to SonarQube Enterprise Edition 2025.1.1 (build 104738) and are using the Maven Sonar Scanner plugin version 3.9.1.2184.

Our project builds using Java 8 and is currently using SLF4J 2.0.7 in both dependencyManagement and dependencies. However, every attempt to run sonar:sonar results in the following error:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: ‘org.slf4j.spi.LoggingEventBuilder org.slf4j.Logger.atInfo()’
at org.sonarsource.scanner.api.internal.SLF4JLogger.info(SLF4JLogger.java:43)
…
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.sonarsource.scanner.maven:sonar-maven-plugin:3.9.1.2184:sonar

e’ve already tried:

  • Upgrading SLF4J to 2.0.7 across the project
  • Removing all transitive SLF4J 1.7.x dependencies
  • Running the scan with Java 17
  • Running sonar:sonar from a separate minimal POM to isolate scanner classpath
  • Verified that no SLF4J 1.7 JARs are present using mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=org.slf4j

Despite all this, the error persists.