Admission Control Available on SQL Writes
Added support for replication admission control on SQL writes, allowing writes and background cluster operations to be paced to prevent overloading the cluster during node restarts or joins.
Improved Leaseholder Management (Preview)
This release introduces Leader Leases (now in preview) which are a new lease type designed to removes the dependency on node liveness in favor of a distrbuted store liveness fabric, making all nodes and ranges more resilient to node failures and partitions.