sql-server-linux-whats-new-2025.md

title	What's New for SQL Server 2025 on Linux
description	In this article, learn about the major features and services available for SQL Server 2025 running on Linux.
author	rwestMSFT
ms.author	randolphwest
ms.date	04/02/2026
ms.service	sql
ms.subservice	linux
ms.topic	whats-new
ms.custom	intro-whats-new linux-related-content ignite-2025

What's new for SQL Server 2025 on Linux

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This article describes the major features and services available for [!INCLUDE sssql25-md] running on Linux. For package downloads and known issues, see the Release notes.

Updates

This section describes updates for each release of [!INCLUDE sssql25-md].

• Cumulative Update 3
• Cumulative Update 1
• GA release

Cumulative Update 3

The following updates apply to [!INCLUDE sssql25-md] Cumulative Update (CU) 3.

• Bulk import operations without sysadmin. You can use the bulkadmin server role or the ADMINISTER BULK OPERATIONS permission to perform BULK INSERT and OPENROWSET(BULK...) operations on [!INCLUDE ssnoversion-md] on Linux, without requiring sysadmin permissions. An administrator must configure Linux file system permissions and approve directory paths using mssql-conf.

  For more information, see Configure bulk import operations for SQL Server on Linux (preview).

Cumulative Update 1

The following updates apply to [!INCLUDE sssql25-md] Cumulative Update (CU) 1.

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 support. [!INCLUDE sssql25-md] is fully supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10. For more information, see Quickstart: Install SQL Server and create a database on Red Hat.

• Ubuntu 24.04 support. [!INCLUDE sssql25-md] is fully supported on Ubuntu 24.04. For more information, see Quickstart: Install SQL Server and create a database on Ubuntu.

• Contained availability groups (AGs). Enable database create and restore operations directly through the contained AG listener. This improvement eliminates the need to connect to the physical replica, simplifying high availability automation on Linux.

  For more information, see Enable database creation or restoration in contained availability group sessions.

• New dynamic management views. Four new Linux‑specific dynamic management views (DMVs) provide insights into host and virtual memory resource utilization, aiding performance troubleshooting and diagnostics.

  • sys.dm_os_linux_cpu_stats
  • sys.dm_os_linux_disk_stats
  • sys.dm_os_linux_net_stats
  • sys.dm_os_linux_vm_stats

• Support for the adutil tool on Ubuntu 24.04 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. The adutil tool is available on Ubuntu 24.04 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10, expanding support for Active Directory authentication scenarios on Linux.

  For more information, see Introduction to adutil - Active Directory utility.

General availability

The following updates are available in [!INCLUDE sssql25-md] on Linux:

New feature or update	Details
TLS 1.3 enabled by default	Encrypt connections to SQL Server on Linux
Custom password policy	Set custom password policy for SQL logins in SQL Server on Linux
tmpfs support for tempdb	Enable and run tempdb on tmpfs for SQL Server 2025 on Linux
Generic ODBC data source support for PolyBase	Connect to ODBC data sources with PolyBase on SQL Server on Linux

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Related content

• Quickstart: Install SQL Server and create a database on Red Hat
• Quickstart: Install SQL Server and create a database on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
• Quickstart: Install SQL Server and create a database on Ubuntu
• Quickstart: Run SQL Server Linux container images with Docker
• Provision a Linux virtual machine running SQL Server in the Azure portal
• SQL Server on Linux FAQ
• What's new in SQL Server 2025

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