---
title: "DB24 | Docs - Version 2025.2"
url: https://db24.ai/docs/version-2025-2
description: "DB24 version 2025.2 release notes. Latest features, stability improvements, security updates, and migration guide for SQL Server automation platform."
lang: en
---

# Version 2025.2

Last updated: March 4, 2026 •

release-notes

security

v2025.2

powertake

## 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.

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## 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)
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## ➡️ 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
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### 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
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### 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
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### 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
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### 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
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### Extended Connection Details

Connection reports now include:

- Encryption status
- IP address, port, and protocol
- Authentication method
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### Smarter Backup Views

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

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### 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
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### 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
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## 🐞 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

Previous Version 2025.3: https://db24.ai/docs/version-2025-3
Next Version 2025.1: https://db24.ai/docs/version-2025-1

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