Changelog

[Hardware] Increased minimum requirement for IOPS to 10k for all server types.

[Hardware] Increased minimum requirement for IOPS to 300k for TempDB disks.

[Hardware] Increased minimum requirement for IOPS to 100k on DB Data drives for users ip to 1999. Increased to 250k for 2000+ users.

[Hardware] Added note about requirement for NIC ressources to be dedicated to F2.

[Hardware] Increased NIC requirements to 10Gbit/s for all servers with less than 2000 users. For servers with 2000+ users it is increased to 2x10 Gbit/s.

[Hardware] Added latency requirements for database servers.

[Hardware] Added information about optional Buffer Pool Extension drive to database servers with less than 1000 users.

[Hardware] Increased all server CPU requirements to at least 3 Ghz.

[Hardware] Added minimum requirement of 100GB partition size for SQL installation drives.

[Hardware] Added information about AMD CPUs to comments for both client PC and servers.

[Software] Added support for Micorosft Windows Server 2025.

[Software] Removed support for Microsoft Office 2016 and 2019, as they reach end of life October 14th 2025.

[Software] Added support for Micorosft Windows Server 2025.

[Software] Client and Integration server: Added support for Office 2024.

[Software] Added section regarding F2 Add-ins for Microsoft Office.

[Software] Added note about planned deprecation of Microsoft Office 2016 and 2019 with the next major release, as they reach end of life October 14th 2025.

[Software] Across servers: Windows Server 2016 deprecated. Windows Server 2019 planned for deprecation in next major release. This is to keep up with Windows End of Life - https://endoflife.date/windows-server.

[Software] Database: Clarified need for newest CU and defined minimum. SQL Server 2022 at least CU12 (QueryStore can now be enabled) and SQL Server 2019 at least CU9.

Added IIS-WebSockets as required for ApplicationServer (In the user interface it’s located here: Web Server (IIS)\Web Server\Application Development\WebSocket Protocol) for optimal handling of SignalR requests from the F2 Desktop client.