diff --git a/jjb/global-defaults.yaml b/jjb/global-defaults.yaml
index 1dd35a8..e29f278 100644
--- a/jjb/global-defaults.yaml
+++ b/jjb/global-defaults.yaml
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
     # SonarCloud
     sonarcloud_project_organization: onap
     sonarcloud_api_token: da97604dfdc36ec82488a97ebea96ad01f7b10ff
-    sonar_mvn_goal: "org.sonarsource.scanner.maven:sonar-maven-plugin:3.7.0.1746:sonar"
+    sonar_mvn_goal: "org.sonarsource.scanner.maven:sonar-maven-plugin:3.8.0.2131:sonar"
 
     # Nexus3 docker registries
     container-public-registry: nexus3.onap.org:10001
diff --git a/jjb/sdc/sdc.yaml b/jjb/sdc/sdc.yaml
index 79c7224..de4ece0 100644
--- a/jjb/sdc/sdc.yaml
+++ b/jjb/sdc/sdc.yaml
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
     sonarcloud-project-organization: '{sonarcloud_project_organization}'
     sonarcloud-api-token: '{sonarcloud_api_token}'
     sonarcloud-project-key: '{sonarcloud_project_organization}_{project-name}'
-    sonar-mvn-goal: "org.sonarsource.scanner.maven:sonar-maven-plugin:3.7.0.1746:sonar"
+    sonar-mvn-goal: '{sonar_mvn_goal}'
     cron: '@daily'
     build-node: ubuntu1804-docker-8c-16g
     project: 'sdc'