Upgrade 9.9.7 LTA to 2025.1 fails

[nifrr (Nicklas)]

Having also problem to upgrade LTA 9.9.7 to LTA 2025.1.

Log says I need to upgrade to 2024.12 first…..but I can not find that version to download

from log:

Caused by: org.sonar.api.utils.MessageException: The version of SonarQube you are trying to upgrade from is too old. Please upgrade to the 24.12 version first.

[Colin]

Hey there.

If you’re using Community Build, you won’t be able to upgrade to 2025.1 LTA as that version is only available for commercial editions.

Updates to Sonar’s Community Functionality

Along with the new SonarQube free tier, we’re making some changes to SonarQube Community Edition, which will now be known as SonarQube Community Build. With Community Build, we are accelerating the pace of releases, with monthly builds available to the community (twice as fast as today and more consistent with our cloud offering). As a result, SonarQube Community Build will adopt a new versioning scheme separate from our commercial versions. Starting with the upcoming release in December 2024, …

You should target:

9.9.8 → 24.12 → 25.9

You can find the 24.12 artifacts here.