Sonarqube 2025.4 JRE incompatibility

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Hi,

We recently update Sonar to Server 2025.4 Enterprise on prem version running on docker.

We jave a project update to Java 18 and have this error when try to execute Sonar scanner throw the pipeline en develop stage

RROR: Error during SonarScanner execution

java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/sonar/batch/bootstrapper/EnvironmentInformation has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 61.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 55.0

I don’t find any information about JRE supported version before Java 17.

Does anyone have the same problem? And how can yo solve this.

Thanks

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Hi,

Welcome to the community!

This error is telling you that you’re using too old a version of Java (11), not that you’re using a too new one.

Current versions of the scanner will actually run on Java 11. I suggest you upgrade SonarScanner CLI (if not your version of Java.)

 
HTH,
Ann