Microsoft has a new release candidate:
Currently SQL Server 2025 (17.x) Preview includes features available through release candidate (RC) 1.
In addition to features announced previously, RC 1:
- Fixes known issues that were present in previous preview releases.
- Introduces feature improvements.
Click through for the changes. There aren’t a huge number of updates in this candidate, and it came out a bit quicker than I thought it would, with RC0 dropping on August 25th. Given that Ignite isn’t until November 18th, that does still give a fair amount of time for an RC2 to come out, and it’ll be interesting to see if they go that long or release SQL Server 2025 RTM earlier than Ignite.