| title | SQL Server 2025 release notes |
|---|---|
| description | Find information about SQL Server 2025 (17.x) limitations, known issues, help resources, and other release notes. |
| author | MikeRayMSFT |
| ms.author | mikeray |
| ms.reviewer | randolphwest |
| ms.date | 04/20/2025 |
| ms.service | sql |
| ms.subservice | release-landing |
| ms.topic | release-notes |
| monikerRange | >= sql-server-2016 |
[!INCLUDEsqlserver2025]
This article describes requirements, limitations and known issues for [!INCLUDEsssql25-md].
For hardware and software requirements, see SQL Server 2025: Hardware and software requirements.
Issue: SQL Server instances on Windows might fail to start after the installation if the machine has more than 64 logical cores per NUMA node.
For more information, see Limit number of logical cores per NUMA node to 64.
[!INCLUDE sssql25-md] doesn't support in place upgrades from previous versions of [!INCLUDE ssnoversion-md], including SQL Server 2025 CTP releases.
| Build | Version number | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Preview | 17.0.700.9 | May 19, 2025 |