### Sonar Plugin API
The `sonar-plugin-api` is a Java API that is used to develop plugins for SonarQube, SonarCloud and SonarLint.
-This API used to be part of SonarQube and released with it, but it is a separate component since v9.5, with its own releases. You can find it here: [sonar-plugin-api](https://github.com/SonarSource/sonar-plugin-api).
-*The groupId was relocated from `org.sonarsource.sonarqube` to `org.sonarsource.api.plugin`*. These are the new coordinates:
+
+[[warning]]
+| The API used to be part of SonarQube and released with it, but it is a separate component since v9.5, with its own releases. You can find it here: [sonar-plugin-api](https://github.com/SonarSource/sonar-plugin-api).
+*The groupId was relocated from `org.sonarsource.sonarqube` to `org.sonarsource.api.plugin`*.
+
+These are the new coordinates of the dependency:
```
-org.sonarsource.api.plugin:sonar-plugin-api:9.8.0.203
+org.sonarsource.api.plugin:sonar-plugin-api:<version>
```
### Create a Maven Project
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## API Changes
+[[warning]]
+| Starting with v9.5, the API is released independently of SonarQube. You can find the changes for newer releases in its [code repository](https://github.com/SonarSource/sonar-plugin-api/releases).
### Release 9.3
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