The inclusion of dynamic script automation names in ‘Preview Database Updates’ while updating a database and resolution of missing role issues for ‘Add an Account’ – both of which are improvements to screen reader mechanism demonstrate a commitment to making the tool more user-friendly and accessible to a broader audience. This is in coherence with the rebranding of Azure Active Directory to Microsoft Entra. Read more about this change in the documentation and its potential impact in our documentation. Most importantly, this update changes the default connection setting of encryption to on (true), improving the standard security posture of your environments. This update brings some changes to the way we connect to a database in SSDT.
The update has enabled support for TDS 8.0 which provides enhanced security and brings SSDT in sync with the latest SqlClient release. MDS 3 to MDS 5 update: One of the headline features involves a significant shift to (MDS) 5.1.2.
