Challenges migrating off Bitnami image

Hi!

We are running into an upgrading issue.
We are currently running SonarQube 2025.5 (BitnamiLegacy) and want to upgrade and move to Docker Hardened Images.
Unfortunately only version 2026.4 is currently available on DHI.

I managed to get it all running but during restore of the old database sonarqube tells me;
Please upgrade to the 25.12 version first.

I went on an endeavour to create a seperate sonarqube instance with that version so that i can upgrade using that, and than upgrade to the next one.
Unfortunately i cannot seem to find a version that i can deploy on my cluster.

the docker images jump from 2025.4 → 2026.1 and am missing the 2025.12 version because of that. sonarqube - Official Image | Docker Hub
as mentioned DHI only has the latest 2026 verson; Hardened Images catalog | SonarQube | Images | Docker Hub
And artifact hub has the same issue as docker hub; sonarqube 2025.6.1 · sonarsource/sonarqube

What are the best steps forward to upgrade to the newest version?

Hi,

I’m a bit confused. Are you running SonarQube Server, as indicated by the 2025.5 version number, or SonarQube Community Build, as indicated by the 25.12 version number?

If you’re really on Server and you got a message about 25.12, then I would guess you pulled the wrong image flavor.

 
Ann