AFAIK they will be for v10
Yes, otherwise that would be a breaking change
To give my two cents: I would avoid to list SQL Server versions that are out of mainstream support at the date when a specific version of DNN is released. And at the moment, there is only SQL Server 2019 (Support end date: 2025-01-07) and 2022 (Support end date: 2028-01-11) that get updates, all others are deprecated.
See Microsoft SQL Server Versions List (sqlserverbuilds.blogspot.com) for detailed information.
Happy DNNing! Michael
Just to give some more information, the reason I'm asking is because we have some legacy stuff in Forums that could potentially be removed and use SQL features if we can get to the correct SQL version as a minimum. The most obvious is that we still support our own "string split" function rather than adopting SQL's built-in function, added in SQL 2016. The Forums module currently has a minimum requirement of DNN 9.9, which means--if I go by the table on https://docs.dnncommunity...ments/index.html--we have to support back to SQL 2012 (because this table is only for DNN 9.4, and doesn't list newer versions):
If I use Michael's guidance of current mainstream support, it looks like this:
DNN Release Date
If we go with the more traditional extended support (expected in industry as meaning "kinda mainstream and if I throw extra $" I get support anyway).
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