@@VERSION and SERVERPROPERTY – What changed?

Geschrieben von Database Magician am Montag, 21. März 2016

'With the recent release of SQL Server 2014 SP1 CU3 and SQL Server 2014 RTM CU10, you will notice another change in the output @@VERSION.

The motivation to introduce this change in the @@VERSION output string is completeness of the string information itself. This has been true over the years, as we have been introducing changes since at least SQL Server 2008 – when we added Service Pack labels. We then also added hypervisor related information in SQL Server 2008R2. Now, for SQL Server 2012 and 2014 we are adding Cumulative Update information.'...

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sql_server_team/version-and-serverproperty-what-changed/