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    DB24 Release Notes – Version 2025.2

    Release Date: April 28, 2025

    The DB24 2025.2 release focuses on advancing platform-wide observability and security.
    The standout addition is the new Security PowerTake, offering deeper insights and proactive alerts around your SQL Server configurations, audits, and logins.

    We have also expanded our security-centered notifications and continued improving the platform with various reliability updates and UI enhancements.

    Key Updates

    • Security PowerTake for enriched visibility across configurations, audits, and login activity
    • Security Audit Alert Notifications
    • New SQL Error Log Analysis & Failed Login Detection
    • More intuitive Admin UI for managing SQL Server instances
    • Critical fixes for installer reliability and improved system validation
    • Gamification Engine (backend release)

    ➡️ New Features

    Security PowerTake – Proactive Security Observability

    A major step forward in security, DB24 now features a dedicated Security section in the Portal.

    • Enriched instance and database details, including login overviews and user-level access
    • Security audits highlighting login changes and role modifications
    • Combined with SQL Log integration to detect:
      • Failed logins
      • SQL dumps
      • Automatic failovers
    • Notification briefs now include:
      • Security summaries
      • TDE certificate expiry alerts

    Security Audit Alert & Failed Login Spike Detection

    • New trigger-based alerts send real-time notifications when critical audit events occur, such as:
      • Login changes
      • Server role modifications
    • Daily Briefs now highlight failed login spikes using log analysis, enabling faster response to threats or misconfigurations

    SQL Instance Error Log Analysis

    • Aggregates and categorizes error log data from all SQL Server instances
    • Includes:
      • Visual trend analysis
      • Filters for critical patterns (e.g. %login failed%, %deadlock%, %backup failed%)
      • Metadata tracking to improve troubleshooting

    Generic Log Tables & Centralized Logging

    • Unified logging for:
      • Datastore
      • Runtime
      • Portal
      • Audit
      • Installation
      • and more
    • Logs are accessible directly from the Portal, providing admins with a clearer view of overall system health

    Admin UI for Managing SQL Instances

    • Easily add, configure, or disable instance data collection
    • Manually trigger datastore jobs
    • Preview runtime readiness before installation
    • Significantly improves onboarding and instance lifecycle management

    Extended Connection Details

    Connection reports now include:

    • Encryption status
    • IP address, port, and protocol
    • Authentication method

    Smarter Backup Views

    • Offline databases no longer trigger false backup alerts
    • Offline databases are excluded by default from reports and other metrics

    Improved Installation and Validation Processes

    The installer now validates:

    • Remote SQL Agent account compatibility
    • Runtime prerequisites and instance health for existing runtimes

    Additional improvements include clearer reporting of installation failures on runtimes.

    Additional Platform Enhancements

    • Runtime Memory Tracking: Housekeeping now collects memory usage data 24/7
    • Enterprise Feature Usage Detection: Helps identify licensing risks and restricted feature usage
    • Patch Advisor Filters: Highlights only outdated instances to declutter upgrade views
    • Monthly Brief Enhancements: New section for upcoming TDE certificate expirations
    • Internal Runtime Cleanup: Removal of legacy test environments to streamline deployments
    • Security Patch: Addressed Next.js CVE-2025-29927 affecting the authentication system
    • Improved Data Collection Frequency: Datastore collection interval reduced from 60 minutes to 30 minutes

    Gamification Engine (Backend Foundation)

    • Introduced scoring logic with 70+ parameters to evaluate instance health and best practices
    • Lays the groundwork for upcoming:
      • Performance benchmarking
      • Health scoring visualizations
    • Future releases will expand on insights and reporting capabilities

    🐞 Bug Fixes

    Installer and Runtime Reliability

    • Fixed a race condition where environment variables were not ready before DB24.Api service startup
    • Prevented excessive log noise from the Runtime Housekeeping job
    • Resolved an issue that truncated Operating System information in Instance details