Hi everyone,

We wanted to give everyone an update on our support for SQLServer 2008R2. We've long listed it as deprecated (since at least version 14.2), but we're shifting starting in 15.3 to actively encourage administrators to upgrade. In version 16.1, we will no longer support 2008R2.

This is in line with our standard approach of dropping support for versions of third-party software that are no longer supported by their vendor. Microsoft's end-of-life for 2008R2 is complicated by the vast number of versions, but has been largely unsupported for a couple of years already:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle?c2=1044

We encourage everyone to plan ahead with their upgrade schedule.

Thanks,
Josh