I have just updated SonarQube from 5.3 to 5.6.3 Running a first analysis I realized that the rule squid:CycleBetweenPackages has been removed from the "Sonar way with Findbugs" Java quality profile.
Is there a specific reason this rule has been removed from the default profile? If I add it manually to the quality profile, it is ignored and not added to the ruleset.
Well there is indeed a pretty good reason, this rule was dropped in version 4.0 of the java plugin as mentioned by this ticket : https://jira.sonarsource.com/browse/SONARJAVA-1717
Main reason to remove that rule is that it is out of scope of the core feature SonarQube Analyzers aim to provide.