Latest SSDT vs. SqlPackage incompatibility for SQL Server 2014

Question

One of our build servers has just been updated to the latest \"Microsoft SQL Server Update for database tooling\" (version 12.0.60629.0) and is now incompatible with the ver

Answer 1

Install the latest DacFx on the build server or change from using the sqlpackage.exe in the msi to the nuget version of the DacFx usnig:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ssdt/2016/08/22/releasing-ssdt-with-visual-studio-15-preview-4-and-introducing-ssdt-msbuild-nuget-package/

If this makes dacpac's not backwards compatible then I would raise a connect item for it and see if it a bug, if not it would be good if there was notification of this sort of thing and a connect item should get that rolling.

Ed