Product news

SonarQube Server 2026.5 shows product news in the global navigation. As an instance administrator, you can turn it off for every user.

The news widget in the global navigation shows news items about new features and product updates, with a count of the unread ones. Items are targeted at specific audiences, and the widget also lists the full history.

A third-party service hosts the content, and each signed-in user's browser fetches it directly from api.getbeamer.com. SonarQube Server makes no outbound call for news, which means a server egress rule does not cover this traffic. To keep product news working on a restricted network, allow that host from user workstations.

Data transmitted for product news

When product news is enabled, each request sent directly from the user's browser to api.getbeamer.com includes the following metadata:

• User context: A unique user identifier and role (administrator or standard user).
• System metadata: Product name, edition, version, and enabled feature flags.
• License usage (administrators): high-level license metrics, such as lines-of-code allocation.

This data is sent only while product news is turned on, and only as long as the feature is enabled instance-wide. Administrators who do not want this data transmitted can disable product news entirely.

Turning off product news

Product news is on by default. To turn it off for every user on the instance, go to Administration > Configuration > General settings > General > Product news, and switch off Enable product news. The setting key is sonar.news.enabled.

With the setting off, nothing news-related is rendered: the widget and its unread count are gone from the global navigation, and no browser connects to the news service. Switch the setting back on to restore the widget for everyone.