Final touches for CTP 1.3 release

Author: rothja

docs/linux/TOC.md

@@ -45,4 +45,4 @@
 # [Security](sql-server-linux-security-overview.md)
 ## [Get started with security features](sql-server-linux-security-get-started.md)
 # [Optimize Performance](sql-server-linux-performance-get-started.md)
-# [Troubleshoot](sql-server-linux-troubleshooting-guide.md)
+# [Troubleshoot](sql-server-linux-troubleshooting-guide.md)

docs/linux/sql-server-linux-whats-new.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ description: This topic highlights what's new for the current release of SQL Ser
 author: rothja 
 ms.author: jroth 
 manager: jhubbard
-ms.date: 01/20/2017
+ms.date: 02/17/2017
 ms.topic: article
 ms.prod: sql-linux
 ms.technology: database-engine
@@ -30,38 +30,40 @@ This topic describes what's new for SQL Server vNext running on Linux.
 
 ## CTP 1.3
 The CTP 1.3 release contains the following improvements and fixes:
-- Enabled Full-text Search feature.
-- Enabled Always On Availability Groups functionality for High Availability.
-- Additional functionality in mssql-conf:
-    - First time set-up using mssql-conf. See [installation topic](sql-server-linux-setup.md).
+
+- Enabled [Full-text Search](sql-server-linux-setup-full-text-search.md) feature.
+- Enabled Always On [Availability Groups functionality](sql-server-linux-availability-group-overview.md) for High Availability.
+- Additional functionality in **mssql-conf**:
+    - First time set-up using **mssql-conf**. See the use of mssql-conf in the [installation guides](sql-server-linux-setup.md#platforms).
     - Enabling Availability Groups. See the [Availability Groups topic](sql-server-linux-availability-group-overview.md).
 - Fixed native Linux path support for In-memory OLTP filegroups.
 - Enabled dm_os_host_info DMV functionality.
 
 ## CTP 1.2
 The CTP 1.2 release contains the following improvements and fixes:
-- Support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server v12 SP2
+
+- Support for [SUSE Linux Enterprise Server v12 SP2](sql-server-linux-setup-suse-linux-enterprise-server.md).
 - Bug fixes for core engine and stability improvements.
 - Docker image: 
     - Fixed [issue #1](https://github.com/Microsoft/mssql-docker/issues/1) by adding Python to the image.
     - Removed `/opt/mssql/data` as the default volume.
 - Updated to .NET 4.6.2.
 
 ## CTP 1.1
-
 The CTP 1.1 release contains the following improvements and fixes:
-- Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7.3
-- Support for Ubuntu 16.10
-- Upgraded Docker OS layer to Ubuntu 16.04
-- Fixed telemetry issues in Docker image
-- Fixed SQL Server Setup script related bugs
+
+- Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7.3.
+- Support for Ubuntu 16.10.
+- Upgraded Docker OS layer to Ubuntu 16.04.
+- Fixed telemetry issues in Docker image.
+- Fixed SQL Server Setup script related bugs.
 - Enhanced performance for natively compiled T-SQL modules, including:
-    - **OPENJSON**, **FOR JSON**, **JSON** built-ins
-    - Computed Columns (Only indexes are allowed on persisted computed columns, but not on non-persisted computed columns for in-memory tables)
-    - **CROSS APPLY** operations
+    - **OPENJSON**, **FOR JSON**, **JSON** built-ins.
+    - Computed Columns (Only indexes are allowed on persisted computed columns, but not on non-persisted computed columns for in-memory tables).
+    - **CROSS APPLY** operations.
 - New language features:
-    - String functions: **TRIM**, **CONCAT_WS**, **TRANSLATE** and **STRING_AGG** with support for **WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY)**
-    - **BULK IMPORT** now supports CSV format and Azure Blob Storage as File Source
+    - String functions: **TRIM**, **CONCAT_WS**, **TRANSLATE** and **STRING_AGG** with support for **WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY)**.
+    - **BULK IMPORT** now supports CSV format and Azure Blob Storage as File Source.
 
 Under compatibility mode 140:
 
@@ -70,21 +72,21 @@ Under compatibility mode 140:
 - Improved performance in batch mode parallelism by ignoring trivial plan for batch mode plans to allow for parallel plans to be picked instead against columnstores. 
 
 [Improvements from Service Pack 1](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlreleaseservices/sql-server-2016-service-pack-1-sp1-released/) in this CTP1.1 release:
-- Database cloning for CLR, Filestream/Filetable, In-memory and Query Store objects
-- **CREATE** or **ALTER** operators for programmability objects
-- New **USE HINT** query option to provide hints for the query processor. Learn more here: [Query Hints](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181714.aspx)
-- SQL service account can now programmatically identify Enable Lock Pages in Memory and Instant File Initialization permissions
-- Support for TempDB file count, file size and file growth settings 
-- Extended diagnostics in showplan XML
-- Lightweight per-operator query execution profiling
-- New Dynamic Management Function **sys.dm_exec_query_statistics_xml**
-- New Dynamic Management Function for incremental statistics 
-- Removed noisy In-memory related logging messages from errorlog
-- Improved AlwaysOn Latency Diagnostics
-- Cleaned up Manual Change Tracking
-- **DROP TABLE** support for replication
-- **BULK INSERT** into heaps with **AUTO TABLOCK** under TF 715
-- Parallel **INSERT..SELECT** changes for local temp tables
+- Database cloning for CLR, Filestream/Filetable, In-memory and Query Store objects.
+- **CREATE** or **ALTER** operators for programmability objects.
+- New **USE HINT** query option to provide hints for the query processor. Learn more here: [Query Hints](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181714.aspx).
+- SQL service account can now programmatically identify Enable Lock Pages in Memory and Instant File Initialization permissions.
+- Support for TempDB file count, file size and file growth settings.
+- Extended diagnostics in showplan XML.
+- Lightweight per-operator query execution profiling.
+- New Dynamic Management Function **sys.dm_exec_query_statistics_xml**.
+- New Dynamic Management Function for incremental statistics.
+- Removed noisy In-memory related logging messages from errorlog.
+- Improved AlwaysOn Latency Diagnostics.
+- Cleaned up Manual Change Tracking.
+- **DROP TABLE** support for replication.
+- **BULK INSERT** into heaps with **AUTO TABLOCK** under TF 715.
+- Parallel **INSERT..SELECT** changes for local temp tables.
 
 Learn more about these fixes in the [Service Pack 1 Release description](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlreleaseservices/sql-server-2016-service-pack-1-sp1-released/).