SQL Server 2022 Release Candidate 0 is now available on Linux

Following our release cadence, we are pleased to announce the release of SQL Server 2022 Release Candidate 0 (RC 0) for Linux. 

To download the latest RC 0 container images, please use the ‘2022-latest’ tags for both RHEL and Ubuntu based container images.

Please see SQL Server 2022 public preview is now available on Linux blog for detailed instructions on how to get started with the container images. 

To install the SQL Server 2022 RC 0 packages, follow these steps:

• For RHEL based installations see RHEL: Install SQL Server on Linux - SQL Server | Microsoft Docs  
• For Ubuntu based installations refer: Ubuntu: Install SQL Server on Linux - SQL Server | Microsoft Docs 

In addition to the new features added in RC 0, this release for Linux now supports the following features.

• Azure Synapse link - The integration runtime (IR) cannot be installed on Linux environment, so you will have to run the IR on a Windows based machine that is on the same network as the Linux machine running the SQL Server instance to which it connects. For more information, see Known limitations and issues with Azure Synapse Link for SQL (Preview) - Azure Synapse Analytics | Microsoft Docs.
• Azure Active Directory authentication (AAD) – SQL Server on Linux now includes AAD support. For the time being, SQL Server containers do not support this feature.

• For Distributed availability groups, changing REQUIRED SYNCHRONIZED SECONDARIES TO COMMIT is supported.

For more information on the features supported, see : Editions and supported features of SQL Server 2022 Preview - Linux - SQL Server | Microsoft Docs, and for release notes, see  Release notes for SQL Server 2022 Preview on Linux - SQL Server | Microsoft Docs.