sonarQube9 can't analyse on Java 8

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  • sonarQube9.1 CE（Java 11 ） + pgsql （docker install）
    my project is maven Java 8

24136 [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.sonarsource.scanner.maven:sonar-maven-plugin:3.9.1.2184:sonar (default-cli) on project dtop-codes: Execution default-cli of goal org.sonarsource.scanner.maven:sonar-maven-plugin:3.9.1.2184:sonar failed: An API incompatibility was encountered while executing org.sonarsource.scanner.maven:sonar-maven-plugin:3.9.1.2184:sonar: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/sonar/batch/bootstrapper/EnvironmentInformation has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 55.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 52.0

sonar-analyze:
  stage: test
  variables:
    SONAR_USER_HOME: "${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/.sonar"  # Defines the location of the analysis task cache
    GIT_DEPTH: "0"  # Tells git to fetch all the branches of the project, required by the analysis task
  cache:
    key: "${CI_JOB_NAME}"
    paths:
      - .sonar/cache
  script:
    - mvn verify org.sonarsource.scanner.maven:sonar-maven-plugin:3.9.1.2184:sonar -Dsonar.login=xx -Dsonar.password=xxx -Dsonar.host.url=http://xxx -Dsonar.java.source=1.8
  allow_failure: true
  tags:
    - sonar

It doesn’t work that is mentioned in docs.

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Hi,

Welcome to the community!

sonar.java.source doesn’t impact the version of Java analysis is run with. It only tells analysis which version of the language you’re writing.

Please read the section of the docs (sub)titled “Project’s specific JDK”.

 
Ann