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Release notes for SQL Server 2017 on Linux

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Applies to: SQL Server (all supported versions) - Linux

The following release notes apply to SQL Server 2017 (14.x) running on Linux. This article is broken into sections for each release. The GA release has detailed supportability and known issues listed. Each cumulative update (CU) or general distribution release (GDR) has a link to a support article describing the CU changes as well as links to the Linux package downloads.

Tip

These release notes are specifically for SQL Server 2017 (14.x) releases. For more information about the new SQL Server 2019 (15.x), see Release notes for SQL Server 2019 on Linux.

Supported platforms

Platform File System Installation Guide
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 - 7.9, or 8.0 - 8.5 Server XFS or EXT4 Installation guide
SUSE Enterprise Linux Server v12 SP3 - SP5 XFS or EXT4 Installation guide
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1, 18.04 LTS XFS or EXT4 Installation guide
Docker Engine 1.8+ on Linux N/A Installation guide

1 Support for SQL Server on Ubuntu 16.04 is limited. At the end of April 2021, Ubuntu 16.04 transitioned from its standard five-year maintenance window for long term support (LTS) releases, into extended security maintenance (ESM) support. For more details, see Ubuntu 16.04 LTS transitions to Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) | Ubuntu.

Tip

For more information, review the system requirements for SQL Server on Linux. For the latest support policy for SQL Server, see the Technical support policy for Microsoft SQL Server.

Tools

Most existing client tools that target SQL Server can seamlessly target SQL Server running on Linux. Some tools might have a specific version requirement to work well with Linux. For a full list of SQL Server tools, see SQL Tools and Utilities for SQL Server.

Release history

The following table lists the release history for SQL Server 2017 (14.x).

Release Version Release date
CU30 14.0.3451.2 2022-07-13
CU29-GDR 14.0.3445.2 2022-06-14
CU29 14.0.3436.1 2022-03-30
CU28 14.0.3430.2 2022-01-13
CU27 14.0.3421.10 2021-10-27
CU26 14.0.3411.3 2021-09-14
CU25 14.0.3401.7 2021-07-12
CU24 14.0.3391.2 2021-05-10
CU23 14.0.3381.3 2021-02-24
CU22-GDR 14.0.3370.1 2021-01-12
CU22 14.0.3356.20 2020-09-10
CU21 14.0.3335.7 2020-07-01
CU20 14.0.3294.2 2020-04-10
CU19 14.0.3281.6 2020-02-05
CU18 14.0.3257.3 2019-12-09
CU17 14.0.3238.1 2019-10-08
CU16 14.0.3223.3 2019-08-01
CU15 14.0.3162.1 2019-05-23
CU14 14.0.3076.1 2019-03-25
CU13 14.0.3048.4 2018-12-18
CU12 14.0.3045.24 2018-10-24
CU11 14.0.3038.14 2018-09-20
CU10 14.0.3037.1 2018-08-27
CU9-GDR2 14.0.3035.2 2018-08-18
GDR2 14.0.2002.14 2018-08-18
CU9 14.0.3030.27 2018-07-18
CU8 14.0.3029.16 2018-06-21
CU7 14.0.3026.27 2018-05-24
CU6 14.0.3025.34 2018-04-19
CU5 14.0.3023.8 2018-03-20
CU4 14.0.3022.28 2018-02-20
CU3 14.0.3015.40 2018-01-03
GDR1 14.0.2000.63 2018-01-03
CU2 14.0.3008.27 2017-11-28
CU1 14.0.3006.16 2017-10-24
GA 14.0.1000.169 2017-10-02

How to install updates

If you have configured the CU repository (mssql-server-2017), then you will get the latest CU of SQL Server packages when you perform new installations. The CU repository is the default for all package installation articles for SQL Server on Linux. If you have configured the GDR repository (mssql-server-2017-gdr), you will only get critical security updates released since GA. If you require Docker container CU or GDR updates, please see official images for Microsoft SQL Server on Linux for Docker Engine. For more information about repository configuration, see Configure repositories for SQL Server on Linux.

If you are updating existing SQL Server packages, run the appropriate update command for each package to get the latest CU. For specific update instructions for each package, see the following installation guides:

CU30 (July 2022)

This is the Cumulative Update 30 (CU30) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3451.2. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/5013756.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 8.x RPM packages

(Get RHEL 7.x RPM packages)		 14.0.3451.2-1 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3451.2-1 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 18.04 Debian packages

(Get Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages)		 14.0.3451.2-1 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU29-GDR (June 2022)

This is the Cumulative Update 29-GDR (CU29-GDR) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3445.2. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/5014553.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 8.x RPM packages

(Get RHEL 7.x RPM packages)		 14.0.3445.2-4 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3445.2-4 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 18.04 Debian packages

(Get Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages)		 14.0.3445.2-4 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU29 (March 2022)

This is the Cumulative Update 29 (CU29) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3436.1. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/5010786.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 8.x RPM packages

(Get RHEL 7.x RPM packages)		 14.0.3436.1-1 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3436.1-1 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 18.04 Debian packages

(Get Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages)		 14.0.3436.1-1 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU28 (January 2022)

This is the Cumulative Update 28 (CU28) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3430.2. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/5008084.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 8.x RPM packages

(Get RHEL 7.x RPM packages)		 14.0.3430.2-1 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3430.2-1 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 18.04 Debian packages

(Get Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages)		 14.0.3430.2-1 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU27 (October 2021)

This is the Cumulative Update 27 (CU27) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3421.10. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/5006944.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 8.x RPM packages

(Get RHEL 7.x RPM packages)		 14.0.3421.10-2 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3421.10-2 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 18.04 Debian packages

(Get Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages)		 14.0.3421.10-2 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU26 (September 2021)

This is the Cumulative Update 26 (CU26) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3411.3. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/5005226.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 8.x RPM packages

(Get RHEL 7.x RPM packages)		 14.0.3411.3-16 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3411.3-16 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 18.04 Debian packages

(Get Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages)		 14.0.3411.3-16 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU25 (July 2021)

This is the Cumulative Update 25 (CU25) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3401.7. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/5003830.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 8.x RPM packages

(Get RHEL 7.x RPM packages)		 14.0.3401.7-2 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3401.7-2 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 18.04 Debian packages

(Get Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages)		 14.0.3401.7-2 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU24 (May 2021)

This is the Cumulative Update 24 (CU24) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3391.2. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/5001228.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 8.x RPM packages

(Get RHEL 7.x RPM packages)		 14.0.3391.2-12 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3391.2-12 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 18.04 Debian packages

(Get Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages)		 14.0.3391.2-12 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU23 (February 2021)

This is the Cumulative Update 23 (CU23) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3381.3. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/5000685.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 8.x RPM packages

(Get RHEL 7.x RPM packages)		 14.0.3381.3-2 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3381.3-2 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 18.04 Debian packages

(Get Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages)		 14.0.3381.3-2 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU22-GDR (January 2021)

This is the Cumulative Update 22-GDR (CU22-GDR) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3370.1. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4577467.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 8.x RPM packages

(Get RHEL 7.x RPM packages)		 14.0.3370.1-23-18 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3370.1-18 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 18.04 Debian packages

(Get Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages)		 14.0.3370.1-18 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU22 (September 2020)

This is the Cumulative Update 22 (CU22) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3356.20. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4577467.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 8.x RPM packages

(Get RHEL 7.x RPM packages)		 14.0.3356.20-23 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3356.20-23 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 18.04 Debian packages

(Get Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages)		 14.0.3356.20-23 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU21 (July 2020)

This is the Cumulative Update 21 (CU21) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3335.7. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4557397.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 8.x RPM packages

(Get RHEL 7.x RPM packages)		 14.0.3335.7-17 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3335.7-17 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 18.04 Debian packages

(Get Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages)		 14.0.3335.7-17 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU20 (April 2020)

This is the Cumulative Update 20 (CU20) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3294.2. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4541283.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Note

Ubuntu 18.04 and RHEL 8 are now supported on SQL Server 2017 starting with CU20.

The offline package installation links for Ubuntu are pointing to Ubuntu 18.04 packages, except for the SSIS package (which isn't available for Ubuntu 18.04). If you are looking for Ubuntu 16.04 packages, refer to the download path https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/16.04/mssql-server-2017/pool/main/m/.

The offline package installation links for Red Hat are pointing to RHEL 8 packages, except for the SSIS package (which isn't available for RHEL 8). If you are looking for RHEL 7 packages, refer to the download path https://packages.microsoft.com/rhel/7/mssql-server-2017/.

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 8.x RPM packages

(Get RHEL 7.x RPM packages)		 14.0.3294.2-27 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3294.2-27 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 18.04 Debian packages

(Get Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages)		 14.0.3294.2-27 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU19 (February 2020)

This is the Cumulative Update 19 (CU19) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3281.6. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4535007.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 7.x RPM packages 14.0.3281.6-2 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3281.6-2 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages 14.0.3281.6-2 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU18 (December 2019)

This is the Cumulative Update 18 (CU18) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3257.3. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4527377.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 7.x RPM packages 14.0.3257.3-13 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3257.3-13 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages 14.0.3257.3-13 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

Added support

  • Change Data Capture (CDC) is supported with SQL Server 2017 on Linux starting with CU18.
  • Transactional Replication is supported with SQL Server 2017 on Linux starting with CU18.

Remarks

SQL Server 2017 containers now have a new tagging pattern as described below with examples.

  • mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:<SQL Server Version>-<update>-<Linux Distribution>-<Linux Distribution Version>

    This will pull the container image with the combination described in the tag.

  • mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:<SQL Server Version>-latest

    This will pull the latest SQL Server version on the latest supported Ubuntu version.

Examples:

mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:2017-CU18-ubuntu-16.04

This will pull SQL Server 2017 CU18 based on the Ubuntu 16.04 container.

mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:2017-latest

This will pull the latest SQL Server 2017 version (CU18 as the time of this writing) based on the Ubuntu 16.04 container.

Note

We will no longer be publishing containers with other tagging patterns for SQL Server 2017 containers in the future.

CU17 (October 2019)

This is the Cumulative Update 17 (CU17) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3238.1. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4515579.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 7.x RPM packages 14.0.3238.1-19 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3238.1-19 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages 14.0.3238.1-19 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU16 (August 2019)

This is the Cumulative Update 16 (CU16) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3223.3. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4508218.

What's New

New feature or update Details
MSDTC support Support for the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) for SQL Server 2017. For more information, see How to configure the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) on Linux.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 7.x RPM packages 14.0.3223.3-15 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3223.3-15 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages 14.0.3223.3-15 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU15 (May 2019)

This is the Cumulative Update 15 (CU15) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3162.1. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4498951.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 7.x RPM packages 14.0.3162.1-1 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3162.1-1 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages 14.0.3162.1-1 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU14 (March 2019)

This is the Cumulative Update 14 (CU14) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3076.1. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4484710.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 7.x RPM packages 14.0.3076.1-2 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3076.1-2 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages 14.0.3076.1-2 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU13 (December 2018)

This is the Cumulative Update 13 (CU13) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3048.4. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4466404.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 7.x RPM packages 14.0.3048.4-1 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3048.4-1 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages 14.0.3048.4-1 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU12 (October 2018)

This is the Cumulative Update 12 (CU12) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3045.24. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4464082.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 7.x RPM packages 14.0.3045.24-1 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3045.24-1 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages 14.0.3045.24-1 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU11 (September 2018)

This is the Cumulative Update 11 (CU11) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3038.14. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4462262.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 7.x RPM packages 14.0.3038.14-2 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3038.14-2 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages 14.0.3038.14-2 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU10 (August 2018)

This is the Cumulative Update 10 (CU10) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3037.1. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4342123.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 7.x RPM packages 14.0.3037.1-2 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3037.1-2 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages 14.0.3037.1-2 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU9-GDR2 (August 2018)

This is a security update that also includes the previously released CU (CU9) for SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3035.2. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4293805.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 7.x RPM packages 14.0.3035.2-1 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3035.2-1 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages 14.0.3035.2-1 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package

GDR2 (August 2018)

This is a security update that only includes the GDR2 (and GDR1) security fixes for SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.2002.14. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4293803.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 7.x RPM packages 14.0.2002.14-1 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.2002.14-1 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages 14.0.2002.14-1 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package

CU9 (July 2018)

This is the Cumulative Update 9 (CU9) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3030.27. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4341265.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 7.x RPM packages 14.0.3030.27-1 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3030.27-1 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages 14.0.3030.27-1 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU8 (June 2018)

This is the Cumulative Update 8 (CU8) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3029.16. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4338363.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 7.x RPM packages 14.0.3029.16-1 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3029.16-1 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages 14.0.3029.16-1 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU7 (May 2018)

This is the Cumulative Update 7 (CU7) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3026.27. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4229789.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 7.x RPM packages 14.0.3026.27-2 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3026.27-2 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages 14.0.3026.27-2 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU6 (April 2018)

This is the Cumulative Update 6 (CU6) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3025.34. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4101464.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 7.x RPM packages 14.0.3025.34-3 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3025.34-3 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages 14.0.3025.34-3 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU5 (March 2018)

This is the Cumulative Update 5 (CU5) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3023.8. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4092643.

Known upgrade issue

When you upgrade from a previous release to CU5, SQL Server might fail to start with the following error:

Error: 4860, Severity: 16, State: 1.
Cannot bulk load. The file "C:\Install\SqlTraceCollect.dtsx" does not exist or you don't have file access rights.
Error: 912, Severity: 21, State: 2.
Script level upgrade for database 'master' failed because upgrade step 'msdb110_upgrade.sql' encountered error 200, state

To resolve this error, enable SQL Server Agent and restart SQL Server with the following commands:

sudo /opt/mssql/bin/mssql-conf set sqlagent.enabled true
sudo systemctl start mssql-server

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 7.x RPM packages 14.0.3023.8-5 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3023.8-5 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages 14.0.3023.8-5 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

CU4 (February 2018)

This is the Cumulative Update 4 (CU4) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3022.28. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4056498.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Note

As of CU4, SQL Server Agent is no longer installed as a separate package. It is installed with the Engine package and must be enabled to use.

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 7.x RPM packages 14.0.3022.28-2 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3022.28-2 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages 14.0.3022.28-2 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SSIS package

GDR1 (January 2018)

This is a security update that only includes the GDR1 security fixes for SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.2000.63. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4057122.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 7.x RPM packages 14.0.2000.63-3 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.2000.63-3 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages 14.0.2000.63-3 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package

CU3 (January 2018)

This is the Cumulative Update 3 (CU3) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3015.40. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4052987.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 7.x RPM packages 14.0.3015.40-1 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SQL Server Agent RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3015.40-1 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SQL Server Agent RPM package
Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages 14.0.3015.40-1 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SQL Server Agent Debian package
SSIS package

CU2 (November 2017)

This is the Cumulative Update 2 (CU2) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3008.27. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4052574.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 7.x RPM packages 14.0.3008.27-1 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SQL Server Agent RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3008.27-1 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SQL Server Agent RPM package
Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages 14.0.3008.27-1 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SQL Server Agent Debian package
SSIS package

CU1 (October 2017)

This is the Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.3006.16. For information about the fixes and improvements in this release, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/KB4053439.

Package details

For manual or offline package installations, you can download the RPM and Debian packages with the information in the following table:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 7.x RPM packages 14.0.3006.16-3 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SQL Server Agent RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.3006.16-3 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SQL Server Agent RPM package
Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages 14.0.3006.16-3 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SQL Server Agent Debian package
SSIS package

GA (October 2017)

This is the General Availability (GA) release of SQL Server 2017 (14.x). The SQL Server Database Engine version for this release is 14.0.1000.169.

Package details

Package details and download locations for the RPM and Debian packages are listed in the following table. You don't need to download these packages directly if you use the steps in the following installation guides:

Package Package version Downloads
RHEL 7.x RPM packages 14.0.1000.169-2 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SQL Server Agent RPM package
SSIS package
SLES v12 RPM packages 14.0.1000.169-2 Database Engine RPM package
High Availability RPM package
Full-Text Search RPM package
SQL Server Agent RPM package
Ubuntu 16.04 Debian packages 14.0.1000.169-2 Database Engine Debian package
High Availability Debian package
Full-Text Search Debian package
SQL Server Agent Debian package
SSIS package

Known issues

The following sections describe known issues with SQL Server 2017 (14.x) on Linux.

General

  • The length of the hostname where SQL Server is installed needs to be 15 characters or less.

    • Resolution: Change the name in /etc/hostname to something 15 characters long or less.

  • Manually setting the system time backwards in time will cause SQL Server to stop updating the internal system time within SQL Server.

    • Resolution: Restart SQL Server.

  • Only single instance installations are supported.

    • Resolution: If you want to have more than one instance on a given host, consider using VMs or Docker containers.

  • SQL Server Configuration Manager can't connect to SQL Server on Linux.

  • The default language of the sa login is English.

    • Resolution: Change the language of the sa login with the ALTER LOGIN statement.

Databases

  • The master database can't be moved with the mssql-conf utility. Other system databases can be moved with mssql-conf.

  • When restoring a database that was backed up on SQL Server on Windows, you must use the WITH MOVE clause in the Transact-SQL statement.

  • Certain algorithms (cipher suites) for Transport Layer Security (TLS) don't work properly with SQL Server on Linux. This results in connection failures when attempting to connect to SQL Server, and problems establishing connections between replicas in high availability groups.

    • Resolution: Modify the mssql.conf configuration script for SQL Server on Linux to disable problematic cipher suites, by doing the following:

      1. Add the following to /var/opt/mssql/mssql.conf.

        [network]
tlsciphers=AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA:AES128-SHA:!ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:!ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:!ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:!ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:!ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:!ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:!ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:!ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:!ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:!ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:!ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:!ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:!DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:!DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:!DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:!DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:!DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA256:!DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA256:!DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:!DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA:!DHE-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA:!NULL-SHA256:!NULL-SHA

        Note

        In the preceding code, ! negates the expression. This tells OpenSSL to not use the following cipher suite.

      2. Restart SQL Server with the following command.

        sudo systemctl restart mssql-server

  • SQL Server 2014 (12.x) databases on Windows that use In-memory OLTP can't be restored to SQL Server on Linux. To restore a SQL Server 2014 (12.x) database that uses In-memory OLTP, first upgrade the databases to a newer version of SQL Server on Windows, before moving them to SQL Server on Linux, via backup/restore or detach/attach.

  • User permission ADMINISTER BULK OPERATIONS is not supported on Linux at this time.

Network

Features that involve outbound TCP connections from the sqlservr process, such as linked servers or availability groups, might not work if both the following conditions are met:

  1. The target server is specified as a hostname and not an IP address.

  2. The source instance has IPv6 disabled in the kernel. To verify if your system has IPv6 enabled in the kernel, all the following tests must pass:

    • cat /proc/cmdline will print the boot cmdline of the current kernel. The output must not contain ipv6.disable=1.
    • The /proc/sys/net/ipv6/ directory must exist.
    • A C program that calls socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) should succeed - the syscall must return an fd != -1 and not fail with EAFNOSUPPORT.

The exact error depends on the feature. For linked servers, this manifests as a login timeout error. For availability groups, the ALTER AVAILABILITY GROUP JOIN DDL on the secondary will fail after 5 minutes with a download configuration timeout error.

To work around this issue, do one of the following:

  1. Use IPs instead of host names to specify the target of the TCP connection.

  2. Enable IPv6 in the kernel by removing ipv6.disable=1 from the boot command line. The way to do this depends on the Linux distribution and the bootloader, such as grub. If you want IPv6 to be disabled, you can still disable it by setting net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 in the sysctl configuration (for example, /etc/sysctl.conf). This will still prevent the system's network adapter from getting an IPv6 address, but allow the sqlservr features to work.

Network File System (NFS)

If you use Network File System (NFS) remote shares in production, note the following support requirements:

  • Use NFS version 4.2 or higher. Older versions of NFS don't support required features, such as fallocate and sparse file creation, common to modern file systems.

  • Locate only the /var/opt/mssql directories on the NFS mount. Other files, such as the SQL Server system binaries, aren't supported.

  • Ensure that NFS clients use the nolock option when mounting the remote share.

Localization

  • If your locale isn't English (en_us) during setup, you must use UTF-8 encoding in your bash session/terminal. If you use ASCII encoding, you might see an error similar to the following:

    UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf1' in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)

    If you can't use UTF-8 encoding, run setup using the MSSQL_LCID environment variable to specify your language choice.

    sudo MSSQL_LCID=<LcidValue> /opt/mssql/bin/mssql-conf setup

  • When running mssql-conf setup, and performing a non-English installation of SQL Server, incorrect extended characters are displayed after the localized text, "Configuring SQL Server...". Or, for non-Latin based installations, the sentence might be missing completely. The missing sentence should display the following localized string:

    The licensing PID was successfully processed. The new edition is [<Name> edition].

    This string is output for information purposes only, and the next SQL Server Cumulative Update will address this for all languages. This doesn't affect the successful installation of SQL Server in any way.

Full-Text Search

Not all filters are available with this release, including filters for Microsoft Office documents. For a list of supported filters, see Install SQL Server Full-Text Search on Linux.

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

The mssql-server-is package isn't supported on SUSE in this release. It's currently supported on Ubuntu and on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

Integration Services packages can use ODBC connections on Linux. This functionality has been tested with the SQL Server and the MySQL ODBC drivers, but is also expected to work with any Unicode ODBC driver that observes the ODBC specification. At design time, you can provide either a DSN or a connection string to connect to the ODBC data; you can also use Windows authentication. For more info, see the blog post announcing ODBC support on Linux.

The following features aren't supported in this release when you run SSIS packages on Linux:

  • Integration Services Catalog database
  • Scheduled package execution by SQL Agent
  • Windows Authentication
  • Third-party components
  • Change Data Capture (CDC)
  • Integration Services Scale Out
  • Azure Feature Pack for SSIS
  • Hadoop and HDFS support
  • Microsoft Connector for SAP BW

For a list of built-in SSIS components that aren't currently supported, or that are supported with limitations, see Limitations and known issues for SSIS on Linux.

For more info about SSIS on Linux, see the following articles:

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

The following limitations apply to SQL Server Management Studio on Windows connected to SQL Server on Linux.

  • Maintenance plans aren't supported.

  • Management Data Warehouse (MDW) and the data collector in SQL Server Management Studio aren't supported.

  • SQL Server Management Studio UI components that have Windows Authentication or Windows event log options don't work with Linux. You can still use these features with other options, such as SQL logins.

  • Number of log files to retain can't be modified.

See also

Next steps

To get started, see the following quickstarts: