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Here is the rational: Sonar need needs a Maven plugin to perform analysis of your project. This plugin is part of Sonar project so the name of this plugin is org.codehaus.sonar:sonar-maven-plugin because codehaus is hosting the project. Each time there is a new version of Sonar, there is a new version of the Sonar plugin. For a given version of the Sonar server, you MUST run the same version of the Sonar Maven plugin. It means that you would have to run
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