---
title: "DB24 | Docs - Version 2025.4"
url: https://db24.ai/docs/version-2025-4
description: "DB24 v2025.4 release notes - AiQ scoring system for SQL Server instance health, new dashboard design, and multiple stability improvements."
lang: en
---

# Version 2025.4

Last updated: March 4, 2026 •

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## DB24 Release Notes - Version 2025.4

_Release Date: September 8, 2025_

The DB24 2025.4 release marks a major milestone with the introduction of **AiQ (Aggregated Instance Quality)**, a scoring system that helps you understand the health of your SQL Server environments in one clear, unified view.

**Key updates:**

- **New AiQ (Aggregated Instance Quality) scoring system** with baselines, trends, and actionable insights
- Reworked Portal Dashboard with modular widgets and performance-focused navigation
- Multiple fixes across Runtime, Portal, and Core for better accuracy and resilience

### New DB24 License Key system

Existing customers must update to the new license key model – contact DB24 Support if you haven't received yours yet.

## 🌟 Spotlight: AiQ (Aggregated Instance Quality)

**Aggregated Instance Quality (AiQ)** provides a clear, unified score for each of your SQL Server instances.

- **Daily Scoring**: Once per day, DB24 calculates an AiQ score for every instance
- **Wide-Ranging Metrics**: Scores are based on grouped parameters across subcategories
- **Action-Oriented**: AiQ highlights where improvements can be made
- **Baseline & Trends**: 4-week deltas show whether an instance is improving or regressing

## ➡️ New Features

### **New Reworked Dashboard**

- Redesigned with modular widgets and a cleaner, more modern layout
- Tag-based filtering enables focus on relevant subsets of instances

### **Enriched Instance & Database information**

- **InstanceInfo**: Added fields such as language, date format, default paths, HADR status
- **DBInfo**: Added visibility for Service Broker enablement

## 🐞 Bug Fixes

- **Runtime - SQL Server Version Parser**: Fixed inconsistencies with older SQL Server builds
- **Portal - Memory Usage Report**: Corrected data sourcing issues
- **Runtime - Instance Information Stability**: Replaced truncation with merge updates
- **Runtime - Filespace Check on wrong volume**: Corrected disk-space validation logic

Previous Version 2025.5: https://db24.ai/docs/version-2025-5
Next Version 2025.3: https://db24.ai/docs/version-2025-3

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