{"id":677,"date":"2013-04-03T15:12:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T22:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/glenn\/?p=677"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:43:08","slug":"how-to-find-out-about-the-latest-sql-server-service-packs-and-cumulative-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/how-to-find-out-about-the-latest-sql-server-service-packs-and-cumulative-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Find Out About the Latest SQL Server Service Packs and Cumulative Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since someone asked me about this today, I thought I would write about it.  Aaron Bertrand (blog<\/a>|twitter<\/a>) and I sort of have a friendly competition to be the first to blog when a new SQL Server CU is released.  I don\u2019t know of any e-mail notification service for Service Packs and Cumulative Updates from Microsoft. There used to be RSS feeds that you could subscribe to, but I don\u2019t think they are working anymore. One valuable resource is the SQL Server Release Services Blog, but it is not always updated in a timely fashion. <\/p>\n

SQL Server Release Services Blog<\/a> <\/p>\n

The Update Center shows the latest release for each major version going back to SQL Server 2000. <\/p>\n

Update Center for Microsoft SQL Server<\/a> <\/p>\n

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These KB articles listed below are updated whenever a new CU is released, and it usually happens pretty quickly. There won\u2019t be any more Cumulative Updates for the KB articles that are marked (retired branch). <\/p>\n

SQL Server 2012<\/b> <\/p>\n

The SQL Server 2012 builds that were released after SQL Server 2012 was released<\/a> <\/p>\n

The SQL Server 2012 builds that were released after SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 was released<\/a> <\/p>\n

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SQL Server 2008 R2<\/b> <\/p>\n

The SQL Server 2008 R2 builds that were released after SQL Server 2008 R2 was released<\/a>  (retired branch) <\/p>\n

The SQL Server 2008 R2 builds that were released after SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 was released<\/a> <\/p>\n

The SQL Server 2008 R2 builds that were released after SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 was released<\/a> <\/p>\n

  <\/p>\n

SQL Server 2008<\/b> <\/p>\n

The SQL Server 2008 builds that were released after SQL Server 2008 was released<\/a>  (retired branch) <\/p>\n

The SQL Server 2008 builds that were released after SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 was released<\/a>  (retired branch) <\/p>\n

The SQL Server 2008 builds that were released after SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 was released<\/a>  (retired branch) <\/p>\n

The SQL Server 2008 builds that were released after SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 was released<\/a> <\/p>\n

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To be honest, what I typically do to discover new Cumulative Updates is that I set a calendar reminder for seven weeks after the last Cumulative Update, and then I start checking those updating KB articles for the next week or so after that to find out when a new CU has been released. Microsoft is pretty mysterious when it comes to announcing new Service Packs and Cumulative Updates. Sometimes there is a big announcement, and sometimes you have to do some detective work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since someone asked me about this today, I thought I would write about it.  Aaron Bertrand (blog|twitter) and I sort of have a friendly competition to be the first to blog when a new SQL Server CU is released.  I don\u2019t know of any e-mail notification service for Service Packs and Cumulative Updates from Microsoft. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,26,29,30,31],"tags":[318],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sql-server-cumulative-updates","category-sql-server-service-packs","category-sql-server-2008","category-sql-server-2008-r2","category-sql-server-2012","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}