Currently, the minimum supported version of SonarQube API is 9.9. See: https://github.com/SonarSource/sonar-dotnet/blob/master/sonar-csharp-plugin/pom.xml#L41
An older version of SonarQube will not start with the latest versions of sonar-dotnet plugins. Due to this, we can remove all the custom code that handles old versions of SQ API.
In the Java code search for Version.create( to find these cases.