Sandbox is not disabled after upgrading to 2026.1

SonarQube Server / Community Build
1

Hello,

after upgrading from 2025.4.4 LTA to 2026.1 LTA (Docker), it seems these environment variables will be ignored:

SONAR_ISSUES_SANDBOX_ENABLED=false
SONAR_ISSUES_SANDBOX_OVERRIDE_ENABLED=false
SONAR_ISSUES_SANDBOX_DEFAULT=false

as the popup “Update without breaking your Quality Gate“ still occors after logging in as admin. How to make sure the Sandbox feature is properly disabled?

SonarQube Server 2026 Release 1 LTA
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Hi,

Have you (had you previously) disabled it through the UI?

The first version launched with a dual configuration: both pre-startup and in the UI to handle the bootstrap problem. But that was never a good long-term solution. So it looks like going forward we only honor what’s set in the UI.

 
HTH,
Ann