diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index b6b5ea66c..6ff5a7898 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
         "doctrine/collections": "^1.6 || ^2.0",
         "doctrine/common": "^3.1",
         "doctrine/persistence": "^3.0.2",
-        "sonata-project/doctrine-extensions": "^1.13 || ^2.0",
         "sonata-project/form-extensions": "^1.4 || ^2.0",
         "sonata-project/twig-extensions": "^1.3 || ^2.0",
         "symfony/config": "^5.4 || ^6.2",
diff --git a/src/Entity/BaseUser3.php b/src/Entity/BaseUser3.php
index 1969326b4..73caa18c1 100644
--- a/src/Entity/BaseUser3.php
+++ b/src/Entity/BaseUser3.php
@@ -13,18 +13,10 @@
 
 namespace Sonata\UserBundle\Entity;
 
-use Sonata\UserBundle\Model\User as AbstractedUser;
-
-class BaseUser3 extends AbstractedUser
+/**
+ * This class is used to avoid error for users that have installed the version
+ * 5.12.0 of the SonataUserBundle and have not updated the User class.
+ */
+class BaseUser3 extends BaseUser
 {
-    public function prePersist(): void
-    {
-        $this->createdAt = new \DateTime();
-        $this->updatedAt = new \DateTime();
-    }
-
-    public function preUpdate(): void
-    {
-        $this->updatedAt = new \DateTime();
-    }
 }
diff --git a/src/Listener/DoctrineMappingListener.php b/src/Listener/DoctrineMappingListener.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1230a4c28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Listener/DoctrineMappingListener.php
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+<?php
+
+declare(strict_types=1);
+
+/*
+ * This file is part of the Sonata Project package.
+ *
+ * (c) Thomas Rabaix <thomas.rabaix@sonata-project.org>
+ *
+ * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
+ * file that was distributed with this source code.
+ */
+
+namespace Sonata\UserBundle\Listener;
+
+use Doctrine\ORM\Event\LoadClassMetadataEventArgs;
+
+/**
+ * @internal
+ */
+final class DoctrineMappingListener
+{
+    private bool $isArrayTypeAvailable;
+
+    public function __construct(private string $userClass)
+    {
+        $this->isArrayTypeAvailable = class_exists('Doctrine\DBAL\Types\ArrayType');
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @throws \Doctrine\DBAL\Exception
+     */
+    public function loadClassMetadata(LoadClassMetadataEventArgs $event): void
+    {
+        $metadata = $event->getClassMetadata();
+
+        if (!$this->isArrayTypeAvailable) {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        if ($metadata->getName() !== $this->userClass) {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        $metadata->fieldMappings['roles']['type'] = 'array'; // BC compatibility with ORM < 4
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/Resources/config/doctrine/BaseUser.orm.xml b/src/Resources/config/doctrine/BaseUser.orm.xml
index 92ae3d230..11d5ec41f 100644
--- a/src/Resources/config/doctrine/BaseUser.orm.xml
+++ b/src/Resources/config/doctrine/BaseUser.orm.xml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
         <field name="lastLogin" column="last_login" type="datetime" nullable="true"/>
         <field name="confirmationToken" column="confirmation_token" type="string" length="180" unique="true" nullable="true"/>
         <field name="passwordRequestedAt" column="password_requested_at" type="datetime" nullable="true"/>
-        <field name="roles" column="roles" type="array"/>
+        <field name="roles" column="roles" type="json"/>
         <field name="createdAt" type="datetime" column="created_at"/>
         <field name="updatedAt" type="datetime" column="updated_at"/>
         <lifecycle-callbacks>
diff --git a/src/Resources/config/doctrine/BaseUser3.orm.xml b/src/Resources/config/doctrine/BaseUser3.orm.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6ebf323c6..000000000
--- a/src/Resources/config/doctrine/BaseUser3.orm.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<doctrine-mapping xmlns="http://doctrine-project.org/schemas/orm/doctrine-mapping" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="https://doctrine-project.org/schemas/orm/doctrine-mapping https://www.doctrine-project.org/schemas/orm/doctrine-mapping.xsd">
-    <mapped-superclass name="Sonata\UserBundle\Entity\BaseUser3">
-        <field name="username" column="username" type="string" length="180"/>
-        <field name="usernameCanonical" column="username_canonical" type="string" length="180" unique="true"/>
-        <field name="email" column="email" type="string" length="180"/>
-        <field name="emailCanonical" column="email_canonical" type="string" length="180" unique="true"/>
-        <field name="enabled" column="enabled" type="boolean"/>
-        <field name="salt" column="salt" type="string" nullable="true"/>
-        <field name="password" column="password" type="string"/>
-        <field name="lastLogin" column="last_login" type="datetime" nullable="true"/>
-        <field name="confirmationToken" column="confirmation_token" type="string" length="180" unique="true" nullable="true"/>
-        <field name="passwordRequestedAt" column="password_requested_at" type="datetime" nullable="true"/>
-        <field name="roles" column="roles" type="json"/>
-        <field name="createdAt" type="datetime" column="created_at"/>
-        <field name="updatedAt" type="datetime" column="updated_at"/>
-        <lifecycle-callbacks>
-            <lifecycle-callback type="prePersist" method="prePersist"/>
-            <lifecycle-callback type="preUpdate" method="preUpdate"/>
-        </lifecycle-callbacks>
-    </mapped-superclass>
-</doctrine-mapping>
diff --git a/src/Resources/config/orm.php b/src/Resources/config/orm.php
index ed65e6768..1c1c04983 100644
--- a/src/Resources/config/orm.php
+++ b/src/Resources/config/orm.php
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 namespace Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Loader\Configurator;
 
 use Sonata\UserBundle\Entity\UserManager;
+use Sonata\UserBundle\Listener\DoctrineMappingListener;
 use Sonata\UserBundle\Listener\UserListener;
 
 return static function (ContainerConfigurator $containerConfigurator): void {
@@ -37,5 +38,13 @@
             ->args([
                 service('sonata.user.util.canonical_fields_updater'),
                 service('sonata.user.manager.user'),
+            ])
+
+        ->set('sonata.user.doctrine.mapping_listener', DoctrineMappingListener::class)
+            ->tag('doctrine.event_listener', [
+                'event' => 'loadClassMetadata',
+            ])
+            ->args([
+                param('sonata.user.user.class'),
             ]);
 };