SonarQube server Migration – Community Edition to Developer Edition

Hello Team,

We need help regarding community edition to developer edition migration.

Current Scenario:
We are currently using SonarQube Community Edition, Version 8.0 (build 29455) with an embedded database. We are planning to install SonarQube Developer Edition and would like to migrate the existing data from our current Community Edition server to the new Developer Edition server.

Challenge:
On our existing Community Edition server, we see the following banner:

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Based on the above, we have the following queries:

  1. Is it possible to migrate data from SonarQube Community Edition to a newly provisioned SonarQube Developer Edition server?

  2. If yes, what are the available approaches or recommended methods to perform such a migration?

  3. Are there any official documents, knowledge base articles, or tools available to support this migration? If so, could you please share them?

For update from SonarQube Community Build to SonarQube Server there exists a specific help page in the docs.

Independent of all other questions, you cannot update your current setup without loss of data. You are using the embedded database H2 which is not officially supported for production and updates. You need to restart from scratch. This was also several times asked in the forum, e.g. here where also an user proposed a migration procedure from H2 to another database system.

By the way, you would have to go all the way of the upgrade path from 8.0 → 8.9 LTA > 9.9 LTA > 2025.1 LTA (and maybe to the latest 2025.x).