Trying to upgrade from 8.4 to SonarQube 8.5 but plugin directory jar files are missing

[Colin]

Hi there.

Short answer: All of these plugins are now analyzers that are built into SonarQube, and this directory is only for community-supported plugins (based on your screenshots, you have none). This is a change made in SonarQube v8.5.

Longer answer:

New language features now available exclusively in latest SonarQube versions

Hello SonarQube Community, Version after version, SonarQube offers new features and improvements for 27 languages. From now on, the future additions to languages will be available only in new releases of SonarQube. In practice, previous SonarQube versions, including the 7.9 LTS, will stop offering the ability to upgrade language analysis to benefit from features added in the future versions of the product. Why? We thought hard about this and, in the end, it came down to the choice …