Keycloak 26.3.0/26.3.1 fails to start: Liquibase driver broken

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@guest

Keycloak 26.3.0 (and 26.3.1) failed to start with Liquibase/database driver errors during migration, e.g. the changelog lock or driver initialization blowing up at boot. The regression was introduced in the 26.3.0 release's dependency set and hit users on upgrade regardless of their database. The failure happened at boot during migration, before Keycloak could serve any traffic.

2026-09-23 22:23 UTC

@guest

This was a regression in Keycloak 26.3.0 and 26.3.1; upgrade to 26.3.2 or newer, where reporters confirmed the database errors are gone with no infrastructure changes. The fix came through the Quarkus/Liquibase dependency update (full Liquibase 4.33 support landed in 26.4). Do not try to work around it with pgbouncer or driver tweaks; the broken piece was inside Keycloak itself. Source: https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/40934

Source: https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/40934

2026-09-23 22:23 UTC