Trying to upgrade sonarqube to most recent version 25.7.0.110598-community in GCP

SonarQube Server / Community Build
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I previously successfully set up a sonarqube server and database set to version 24.12.0.100206-community. But attempting to run the custom helm chart with 25.7.0.110598-community is throwing error saying that the database was upgraded to higher version?

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  • Using SonarQube Community Build
  • how is SonarQube deployed: Helm
  • Trying to upgrade our SonarQube Community build to version 25.7.0.110598-community in namespace
  • what have you tried so far to achieve this: I’ve tried recreating the namespace in GCP and done fresh installations but still getting the same issue
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader@7f36662c-org.sonar.server.platform.DatabaseServerCompatibility': Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is Database was upgraded to a more recent version of SonarQube. A backup must probably be restored or the DB settings are incorrect.
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:628)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:542)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.lambda$doGetBean$0(AbstractBeanFactory.java:336)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:234)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:334)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:209)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:955)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:932)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:591)
	at org.sonar.core.platform.SpringComponentContainer.startComponents(SpringComponentContainer.java:225)
	at org.sonar.server.platform.platformlevel.PlatformLevel.start(PlatformLevel.java:80)
	at org.sonar.server.platform.platformlevel.PlatformLevel2.start(PlatformLevel2.java:111)
	at org.sonar.server.platform.PlatformImpl.start(PlatformImpl.java:217)
	at org.sonar.server.platform.PlatformImpl.startLevel2Container(PlatformImpl.java:189)
	at org.sonar.server.platform.PlatformImpl.init(PlatformImpl.java:81)
	at org.sonar.server.platform.web.PlatformServletContextListener.contextInitialized(PlatformServletContextListener.java:45)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4007)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:4448)
	at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:164)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1203)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1193)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.InlineExecutorService.execute(InlineExecutorService.java:75)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.AbstractExecutorService.submit(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.startInternal(ContainerBase.java:749)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.startInternal(StandardHost.java:721)
	at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:164)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1203)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1193)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.InlineExecutorService.execute(InlineExecutorService.java:75)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.AbstractExecutorService.submit(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.startInternal(ContainerBase.java:749)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.startInternal(StandardEngine.java:211)
	at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:164)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.startInternal(StandardService.java:415)
	at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:164)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.startInternal(StandardServer.java:878)
	at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:164)
	at org.sonar.server.app.EmbeddedTomcat.start(EmbeddedTomcat.java:72)
	at org.sonar.server.app.WebServer.start(WebServer.java:55)
	at org.sonar.process.ProcessEntryPoint.launch(ProcessEntryPoint.java:97)
	at org.sonar.process.ProcessEntryPoint.launch(ProcessEntryPoint.java:81)
	at org.sonar.server.app.WebServer.main(WebServer.java:104)
Caused by: org.sonar.api.utils.MessageException: Database was upgraded to a more recent version of SonarQube. A backup must probably be restored or the DB settings are incorrect.
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Hi,

Welcome to the community!

At a guess, you accidentally upgraded to 2025.4, which is indeed a higher version than (released subsequent to) 25.7. Your options here are to restore the DB backup you made before upgrade (you made one, right?) or to wait a day or to for 25.8 to be available.

 
HTH,
Ann

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Thank you for your response!

The solution that we eventually did was to completely delete our current sonarqube server and database and to do a complete 24.12.0.100206-community installation. From there we made sure to create backups and then did the upgrade to 25.8.

Once again, thank you so much for responding!