Overview

Steps you have to perform to update your SonarQube Server installation.

Reasons to update immediately

In SonarQube Server, you need to perform an update in the following situations:

1. If you are on a version of SonarQube Server that is no longer active.

2. If you are on the latest version of SonarQube Server and there is a new update available.

3. If you are on the latest version or Long-Term-Active (LTA) for which there is a new patch version available (security and bug fixes).

Update steps

Follow these steps to perform an update of your SonarQube Server:

1. Read Release cycle model.

2. Determining the update path.

3. Read the Release update notes between the old and new version.

4. Pre-update steps.

5. Back up the SonarQube Server database.

6. Performing the update.

7. Performing the post-update steps.

Check out this video on how to ace your SonarQube Server update.

Related pages

• Upgrading from SonarQube Community Build

• Moving to another SonarQube Server edition

• Other migration-related tasks