Upgrade from 9.0.1 Community to latest Developer version issues

[linxit (Andy Wallace)]

We’ve been using SonarQube Community version 9.0.1, but we’ve now bought a Developer license and need to upgrade to Developer 2025.3. This is all using Docker builds on AWS ECS, with Postgres 14 DB.

I’ve looked at the documentation and can see that the upgrade path is 9.0.1 → 9.9 LTS → 2025.3 LTS, but if moving from Community the first thing to do is to fire up the Enterprise edition on the existing version (no license required) and run an export.

As I’ve not done this before I didn’t want to risk the live instance, so I set up a new 9.0.1 Community Server and got hold of an evaluation license to test the upgrade. I added a project and ran an analysis, then stopped the community instance and ran the 9.0.1-enterprise container against the same database. It started ok, I loaded the project ok and ran the export from the Project Settings menu. It failed within a few milliseconds, and the error in the logs isn’t very helpful!

2025.04.09 22:15:12 INFO  ce[AZYcnxo81MoK8fl-mD13][o.s.c.t.s.ComputationStepExecutor] Load project | status=SUCCESS | time=0ms
2025.04.09 22:15:12 INFO  ce[AZYcnxo81MoK8fl-mD13][o.s.c.t.s.ComputationStepExecutor] Initialize | status=FAILED | time=0ms
2025.04.09 22:15:12 INFO  ce[AZYcnxo81MoK8fl-mD13][o.s.c.t.CeWorkerImpl] Executed task | project=ActiveMQ | type=PROJECT_EXPORT | id=AZYcnxo81MoK8fl-mD13 | submitter=admin | status=FAILED | time=3ms
2025.04.09 22:15:12 INFO  ce[][o.s.c.t.CeWorkerImpl] Execute task | project=ActiveMQ | type=PROJECT_EXPORT | id=AZYcnxrs1MoK8fl-mD14 | submitter=admin

Can someone explain to me where I’m going wrong?

[linxit (Andy Wallace)]

I’ve figured it out - I needed to read the docs properly! It states that you need to run the enterprise edition of the TARGET version, not the current version. So I ran 9.9-enterprise on the existing db, followed the steps to migrate the db to the new version and then the export worked.