Maven artifact resolution does not work with non-semver versions

[pathob]

I tried to use a version "1.8", which resulted in the following error:

[WARNING] The POM for org.sonarsource.groovy:sonar-groovy-plugin:jar:%!s(float64=1.8) is missing, no dependency information available

[brettaufheber]

The target repository may not be configured in your project.
I could not find version 1.8 but the resolution of version 1.4 works for the Maven Central repository.

The download of the artifact "org.sonarsource.groovy:sonar-groovy-plugin:1.4" does work.

Here is the repo entry for the plugin: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/sonarsource/groovy/sonar-groovy-plugin/

[pathob]

It's not about the repo and version you mentioned, it's an artifact that has been downloaded from a GitHub release and deployed to Artifactory.