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Area

import-export

Describe the bug

We are using keycloak container, and what we do is to always run import to initalise master realm with some settings.

opt/keycloak/bin/kc.sh import --override=false

Then we do start using the start command

With latest version, we encountered this :

2025-10-28 18:29:10,327 INFO  [org.keycloak.url.HostnameV2ProviderFactory] (main) If hostname is specified, hostname-strict is effectively ignored
2025-10-28 18:29:35,018 INFO  [org.hibernate.orm.jdbc.batch] (JPA Startup Thread) HHH100501: Automatic JDBC statement batching enabled (maximum batch size 32)
2025-10-28 18:29:46,299 INFO  [com.arjuna.ats.jbossatx] (main) ARJUNA032014: Stopping transaction recovery manager
2025-10-28 18:29:46,620 ERROR [org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.cli.ExecutionExceptionHandler] (main) ERROR: Failed to start server in (nonserver) mode
2025-10-28 18:29:46,620 ERROR [org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.cli.ExecutionExceptionHandler] (main) ERROR: Database not up-to-date, please enable database migration
2025-10-28 18:29:46,624 ERROR [org.keycloak.quarkus.runtime.cli.ExecutionExceptionHandler] (main) For more details run the same command passing the '--verbose' option. Also you can use '--help' to see the details about the usage of the particular command.

Version

26.4.2

Regression

• The issue is a regression

Expected behavior

I would expect the import command to run database migration before doing the import.

Actual behavior

Database migration is not done when launching import, even with --spi-connections-jpa-quarkus-migration-strategy=update

How to Reproduce?

1- Setup keycloak on a previous version
2- Keep the database
3- Change the version and run import, before starting the server

Anything else?

I'm pretty sure this was working before, we are using keycloak since version 24.0.5, and I don't think we ever had any issues with db upgrade.