This is just a quick post, but something I noticed when installing SQL Server 2025 Preview today; SQL Server Developer now has two options: Enterprise Developer and Standard Developer.
Honestly, this is great to finally see in SQL Server; as someone who works with a lot of Production servers using Standard Edition, being able to set up future Development environments that only support Standard feature is great. As an example, honestly I've lost count how many times I've been stung by lack of support for Meta-only updates in Standard, and a deployment has taken significantly in Production.
This is a greatly welcome feature to the new release, and something that I hadn't seen been spoken about, so I wanted to quickly post to celebrate it.