---
title: "DB24 | Docs - Version 2025.1"
url: https://db24.ai/docs/version-2025-1
description: "DB24 version 2025.1 release notes. New features, performance improvements, bug fixes, and upgrade instructions for SQL Server database automation."
lang: en
---

# Version 2025.1

Last updated: March 4, 2026 •

release-notes

v2025.1

## DB24 Release Notes – Version 2025.1

**Release Date:** February 20, 2025

The DB24 **2025.1** release introduces new features with a strong focus on **performance, usability, and security enhancements**.

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## Key Updates

- **Instance Metadata**
- **Monthly Brief Notification**
- **Database Engagement Report**
- **New instance statuses** and improved Datastore collection
- **Enhanced and more stable hosting model**
- **DB24 Environment Readiness Wizard**
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## ➡️ New Features

### Portal – Enhanced Monitoring and Visualization

- **Stacked Memory Chart with MaxMemory Threshold**
  Improved visibility of total memory usage across all databases, including critical threshold indicators.
- **Network Pressure Graph on Dashboard**
  Replaces the previous report with interactive graphs, providing deeper insight into network performance.
- **Display Failed Backups**
  New portal feature that highlights failed database backups, improving troubleshooting and monitoring.

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### Datastore – System Insights and Security

- **Monthly Email Briefs**
  Users can now receive detailed summaries of their SQL environment, including:
  - Current inventory
  - SQL Server patch advisories
  - Security changes
  - Disk space alerts
  - And more
- **Database Engagement Insights**
  The former _Rarely Used Databases_ report has been reworked to provide comprehensive usage trends across **all databases**.
- **New Instance Status Categories**
  Enhanced instance management with more granular statuses:
  - **New** – Recently added but not yet verified
  - **OK** – Fully functional
  - **Connectivity Issues** – Connection failures detected
  - **Not Installed** – DB24 Runtime missing
  - **Dysfunctional Runtime** – Agent errors or outdated version
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### Installer – Improved Deployment and Validation

- **Pre-Installation Check Application**
  A standalone validation tool that ensures environments meet system requirements before installation.
- **SQL Server 2012 Compatibility**
  Adjustments now allow full support for SQL Server 2012 runtimes and Datastore.
- **Run DB24.Api as a Windows Service**
  Improves security, isolation, and deployment flexibility by removing reliance on IIS hosting and installed .NET versions.
- **Validate Mixed Mode Authentication**
  Ensures SQL Server Authentication is enabled for DB24.Api connectivity.
- **Service Account Format Validation**
  Enforces correct NetBIOS format (`domainName\loginName`) to prevent installation errors.

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### Portal – Usability and Performance Enhancements

- **Add Metadata to Instances**
  Allows custom notes, tags, and key-value pairs to be attached to instances.
- **Remove User Also Removes Email Subscriptions**
  Automatically deletes notification settings when a user is removed.
- **Dashboard Pie Charts with Report Links**
  Pie charts now link directly to detailed reports.
- **Improved Chart Performance**
  Optimized rendering for large datasets with a strong focus on performance.
- **Improved UI for Instances with Many Databases**
  New functionality enhances organization and performance for instances with a large number of databases.

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## 🐞 Bug Fixes

### Installer Stability Improvements

- **Installer Failure When `wwwroot` Defaults to Another Drive**
  The installer now dynamically detects and adjusts the `wwwroot` location.
- **Preserve Existing Portal-App IIS Site During Upgrade**
  Prevents accidental removal of custom IIS configurations during upgrades.
- **Runtime Update Failure with Non-English Default Language**
  Fixed date conversion issues that caused `UpdateInstanceInfo` failures.

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### Core and Datastore Reliability Fixes

- **Changes with NULL `DatabaseName` Excluded from Collection**
  Fix ensures all changes are properly audited.
- **JobLog Collection Excluding “In-Progress” Jobs**
  A 24-hour margin was added to ensure active jobs are collected and tracked correctly in the Datastore.

Previous Version 2025.2: https://db24.ai/docs/version-2025-2
Next Version 2024.5: https://db24.ai/docs/version-2024-5

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