SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 2 is released. This SP2 release includes the hotfixes from all released 2016 cumulative updates: SQL Server 2016 CU1 through SP1 CU8.
SQL Server 2016 Updates
Each update is linked to its Microsoft knowledge base article with the download and the list of hotfixes included. The dates show the end of support date
SP2 2018/04/24 13.0.5026.0 2026/07/14
CU8 2018/03/19 13.0.4474.0 2019/04/24
CU7 2018/01/04 13.0.4466.4 2019/04/24
CU6 2017/11/22 13.0.4457.0 2019/04/24
CU5 2017/09/18 13.0.4451.0 2019/04/24
CU4 (w/MDS bug) 2017/08/08 13.0.4446.0 2019/04/24
CU3 2017/05/15 13.0.4435.0 2019/04/24
CU2 2017/03/20 13.0.4422.0 2019/04/24
CU1 2017/01/18 13.0.4411.0 2019/04/24
SP1 2016/11/16 13.0.4001.0 2019/04/24
CU9 2017/11/22 13.0.2216.0 2018/01/09 – out of support
CU8 2017/09/18 13.0.2213.0 2018/01/09 – out of support
CU7 2017/08/08 13.0.2210.0 2018/01/09 – out of support
CU6 2017/05/15 13.0.2204.0 2018/01/09 – out of support
CU5 2017/03/28 13.0.2197.0 2018/01/09 – out of support
CU4 2017/01/18 13.0.2193.0 2018/01/09 – out of support
CU3 2016/11/17 13.0.2186.6 2018/01/09 – out of support
CU2 (see note 1 and note 2) 2016/09/22 13.0.2164.0 2018/01/09 – out of support
CU1 2016/07/25 13.0.2149.0 2018/01/09 – out of support
None (RTM) 2016/06/01 13.0.1601.5 2018/01/09 – out of support
Note 1: CU2 has a known issue with Filestream not working when SecureBoot is enabled. If you’re on Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10, and using SecureBoot (which is enabled by default with Hyper-V Gen2 VMs), and your database has Filestream, then either need disable SecureBoot, or skip CU2 for now.
Note 2: columnstore index users should consider the on-demand hotfix update 13.0.2170.0, which includes serious performance and reliability fixes.
Warnin read the bottom note about “Uninstalling SQL Server 2016 SP2 (Not recommended): there some new features which once installed may give issues if you then try to uninstall.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=56836
