SonarQube Server Update Docs
The documentation hub has a ton of valuable details for guiding you through your update or helping resolve anything holding you up.
SonarQube LTA Update Hub
Find everything you need to stay up-to-date on an actively supported version of SonarQube, including guidance resources and detailed benefits of updating.
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Thank you for using SonarQube!
A quick and simple update to the latest LTA of SonarQube ensures you maximize the reliability and security of your codebase at no additional cost. By updating you keep up with the Agent Centric Development Cycle (AC/DC) with SonarQube's new agentic stack: Sonar Vortex, SonarQube Remediation Agent, and SonarQube Hunter Agent. The release also includes new languages, code quality updates, code security updates, and critical fixes, while also optimizing the user experience.
Stay current in one of three ways...
cloud migration
1. Migrate to SonarQube Cloud
With SonarQube Cloud, our Enterprise-ready SaaS offering, you get automatic updates to the latest features and improvements with no maintenance cost.
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2. Update to the latest version
Updating to the latest version gives you access to the most current capability available in SonarQube Server ensuring your teams are ready for the hottest development trends.
How to update
LTA update
3. Update to the current LTA
By updating to the current Long-Term Active (LTA) release, you get a balance between recent features and exceptional stability with extended longevity.
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Benefits
Top benefits of updatings
Learn how 2026.5 helps your teams verify code in all three development loops of the AC/DC.
What’s new
What’s new in the 2026.5 LTA
Sonar broadens SonarQube’s agentic AI code verification, fully inside the infrastructure you manage.
The agentic stack in SonarQube:
- Sonar Vortex works inside the agent’s loop. Before your agent writes a line, it guides and constrains the agent with your project’s rules, architecture, and dependency policies, then verifies every change in seconds. Your agent understands your codebase and creates better results for fewer tokens.
- SonarQube Remediation Agent delivers code repair you can trust. It autonomously generates fixes for the issues in your tech debt backlog and proves each fix correct before opening a pull request.
- SonarQube Hunter Agent hunts the flaws pattern-based scanners were never built to catch: broken access control, business logic, and authentication gaps. It surfaces confirmed findings as SonarQube issues.
- Plus there’s much more. The result is a single platform where AI-assisted development, verification you can explain and repeat, and enterprise AI governance operate as one system, powered by SonarQube.
Ace your update
As an administrator, you are probably wondering how to update your organization's SonarQube Server. We've assembled a guide and checklist and this 10-minute video to help ensure you've covered all the bases for a smooth update.
This video covers:
- To update or not update?
- Planning your update path
- What to expect during your update
- How an update works
- Testing your update
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Check our docs, the community, or reach out to support for any assistance.