SQL Server 2022

2022 (16.x) on Linux

This article describes the major features and services available for SQL Server 2022 (16.x) running

on Linux.

In addition to these capabilities in this article, cumulative updates (CUs) are released at regular

intervals. These cumulative updates provide many improvements and fixes. For detailed

information about the latest CU release, see

2022 build versions. For package

downloads and known issues, see the

Release notes.

2022 (16.x) Cumulative Update (CU) 23 provides support for configuring a custom

password policy. This feature was backported from SQL Server 2025 (17.x).

For more information, see

Set custom password policy for SQL logins in SQL Server on Linux.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 is supported in SQL Server 2022 (16.x) CU 10 and later versions.

For more information, see

Quickstart: Install SQL Server and create a database on Red Hat.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 is supported in SQL Server 2022 (16.x) CU 4 and later

versions. For more information, see

Quickstart: Install SQL Server and create a database on SUSE

Linux Enterprise Server.

Ubuntu 22.04 is supported in SQL Server 2022 (16.x) CU 10 and later versions. For more

information, see

Quickstart: Install SQL Server and create a database on Ubuntu.

The following updates are available in SQL Server 2022 (16.x) on Linux: