Ulli Hafner I just saw the "Use rank as severity" checkbox right after i post my previous comment. I will uncheck it and try again. Many thanks

Ulli Hafner Thanks for your comment. 

I found some similar issue in the past. There is a tool call pipeline, is this is the way to configure UseRankAsPriority properties you are talking about? Something like this?

recordIssues {   
    tools {          
        spotBugs { 
            id('bugs')             
            name('SpotBugs Warnungen')             
            pattern('**/spotbugsXml.xml')             
            reportEncoding('UTF-8')             
            useRankAsPriority(true)          
        }         
    }      
}

Below is my current configuration, it is a maven job

There is no fix required. It already works by using a property. How did you configure your job?

Ulli Hafner thanks for your comment. Actually, this is the first time i came here, I use jenkins for a while and i just found this weird behaviour today.  Could you include your mention fix in next version or can you give me a way to workaround it? I'm not familiar with jenkins's source code

What value are you using for setUseRankAsPriority? The parser maps the rank to the severity if this value is true. You need to set to false if you want to map by priority.