The Update Center is The Update Center is the place for keeping Sonar the SonarQube platform up to date. It allows to:

• List already installed plugins
• Check and install plugins plugin updates
• List available plugins and install desired new ones
• Check Sonar platform SonarQubeplatform updates

To take effect, most actions taken in the Update Center (updating a plugin...) will require Sonar the SonarQube server to be restarted. The Update Center is only accessible to administrator through "Configuration" serviceSystem Administrators: Settings > System > Update Center.

Installed Plugins

This tab displays the list of installed plugins and the list of system plugins. System plugins are the one ones that are built in Sonar SonarQube core. They cannot be update updated nor un-installeduninstalled. Non-system plugins can be uninstalled by clicking on the "Uninstall" button:

Available Plugins

This tab displays available plugins for your instance of SonarSonarQube version. They are grouped by category such as "'Additional Languages"', "'Visualization/Reporting"', etc. .. and can be install through installed by a simple click onto "on 'Install" ':

Plugins Updates

This tab shows new versions of installed plugins. When an update is available, it can be installed through by a simple click to "Upgrade To" on 'Upgrade to...':

System Updates

This tab shows new version versions available for Sonar and path to SonarQubeand steps of migration in terms of plugins update plugin updates (plugins need to be upgraded, uninstalled, etc...) to the new version of SonarSonarQube. Installation of the new Sonar SonarQube version is manual.

Pending Operations

When taking an action in the update center (installing, updating or uninstalling a plugin), a yellow area appears in on each tab. The area contains pending operations that will be executed when restarting Sonarthe server. Pending operations can be canceled until Sonar the server is restarted:

Using the Update Center behind a Proxy

Update Center uses HTTP connection to external servers to provide those these services. If Sonar SonarQube is located behind a proxy, additional information must be provided in the SONAR_HOME/conf/sonar.properties configuration file:

http.proxyHost=<your.proxy.host>
http.proxyPort=<yout.proxy.port>