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- Any API must be deprecated before being dropped
- A deprecated API is fully supported until its drop
- A deprecated API is dropped during the first release of the n+1 major version. Example: an API deprecated in 4.1 is supported in 4.2+, 5.x and is dropped in 6.0.
- A major version contains generally 4 minor versions (4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3) , released every two months. An That means that an API is deprecated from 8 months to 16 14 months.
- Any release of plugin must depend on at least the last x.0 version of Sonar API
- No usage of deprecated API is accepted when releasing a plugin. It raises a critical issue in Sonar analysis. This issue can't be postponed.
- An API is marked as deprecated with:
- the annotation @Deprecated
the javadoc tag @deprecated. The message must start with "in x.y", for example
Code Block language java /** * @deprecated in 4.2. Replaced by {@link #newMethod()}. */ @Deprecated public void foo() {
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