Hi @nchoudhu ,
Good to hear that you are upgrading to 8.9 LTS! Your upgrade path is 7.1 to 7.9.6 to 8.9.1. See Migration Path.
Here are good links to review:
- 7 more reasons to upgrade to SonarQube 8.9 LTS
- LTS to LTS Release Upgrade Notes
- 8.9 LTS Announcement
- 3 steps to a smooth upgrade guide
With regards to the plugins you listed, you won’t need to move them to your 8.9 plugins folder any longer:
There was a change starting in SonarQube 8.5 where first-party language analyzer, authentication, and SCM plugins are now bundled into the core of SonarQube, no longer provided as plugins.
For more details I recommend reading this community guide: SonarQube v8.5 and Beyond: Where did all the plugins go?.
Only the groovy plugin will need to be migrated from your list.
Joe