SonarQube: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for SonarQube from SonarSource

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-04-14

What is SonarQube?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementSonarQube is an open-source platform developed by SonarSource for continuous inspection of code quality to perform automatic reviews with static analysis of code to detect bugs and code smells on 29 programming languages. SonarQube offers reports on duplicated code, coding standards, unit tests, code coverage, code complexity, comments, bugs, and security recommendations.
 

The entire lifecycle of SonarQube

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of SonarQube. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
SonarQube (SonarSource) release, version and end-of-life information
XSonarQube (SonarSource) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product SonarQube (SonarSource)
 

What is the SonarQube release strategy?

Active versions are defined as the following: * Latest version of SonarQube * Latest - 1 version of SonarQube * Long-term Active (LTA) version * Long-term Active (LTA) - 1; up to 6 months after the new LTA is released.

Facts and figures about SonarQube

Product
SonarQube
Vendor
SonarSource
Latest version
26.4.0.121862
Number of releases
89
Number of versions
182
Number of unstable versions
22
Number of versions affected by CVE
147
Licence
LGPL-3.0 license
Licence details
https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube?tab=LGPL-3.0-1-ov-file#readme
 
 

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