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title: "SQL Server 2022 Release Notes"
description: Find information about SQL Server 2019 (16.x) limitations, known issues, help resources, and other release notes.
ms.date: 09/22/2022
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# [!INCLUDE[SQL Server 2022](../includes/sssql22-md.md)] release notes

[!INCLUDE[SQL Server 2022](../includes/applies-to-version/sqlserver2022.md)]

This article describes requirements, limitations and known issues for [!INCLUDE[SQL Server 2022](../includes/sssql22-md.md)].

Complete details about licensing are in `License Terms` folder on the installation media.

## Hardware and software requirements

This release has the same hardware and software requirements as [SQL Server 2019](install/hardware-and-software-requirements-for-installing-sql-server-2019.md), except as noted below:

- .NET Framework: 4.7.2. [Download](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-framework/net472).

## Feature notes

This section identifies known issues you may experience with this product:

- If you choose to add the Azure extension for SQL Server to an existing instance, Setup currently requires that you also add at least 1 other feature from the **Feature Selection** page in order to complete adding the Arc extension feature.

- When you install Azure extension for SQL Server during setup, in some cases a timeout may occur. In this case, setup returns a timeout exception but setup should succeed and the extension should be installed.

- When you set encryption to **Force Encryption** with SQL Server Configuration Manager, the setting won't change the encryption and may cause errors.

- [Query Store for secondary replicas](../relational-databases/performance/monitoring-performance-by-using-the-query-store.md#query-store-for-secondary-replicas) is available for preview. It isn't available for use in production environments.

## Build number

| Preview build | Version number | Date |
|:--|:--|:--|
| General release to market (RTM) | 16.0.1000.6  | November 16, 2022 |
| RC 1    | 16.0.950.9 | September 22, 2022|
| RC 0    | 16.0.900.6 | August 23, 2022|
| CTP 2.1 | 16.0.700.4 | July 27, 2022 |
| CTP 2.0 | 16.0.600.9 | May 20, 2022 |

## Next steps

For related information about new features and capabilities in this version of SQL Server, see:

[What's new in [!INCLUDE[sql-server-2022](../includes/sssql22-md.md)]](what-s-new-in-sql-server-2022.md).