Release notes
Version 5.7.0preview
(devel)
|
[Added]
- Support for PHP 7.4 RC 1
- Support for Linux Ubuntu 19.04 and Debian 10
- Feature Request [#929](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/929) - new [Language option](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/wiki/Features#language) - Pull Request [#930](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/930)
- [Data Classification Sensitivity Metadata Retrieval](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/wiki/Features#data-classification-sensitivity-metadata), which requires [MS ODBC Driver 17.2+](https://docs.microsoft.com/sql/connect/odbc/linux-mac/installing-the-microsoft-odbc-driver-for-sql-server) and [SQL Server 2019 release candidate](https://docs.microsoft.com/sql/sql-server/sql-server-ver15-release-notes?view=sqlallproducts-allversions#-release-candidate-rc)
[Removed]
- Dropped support for Ubuntu 18.10
[Fixed]
- Issue [#570](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/570) - Fixed fetching varbinary data using client buffer with sqlsrv
- Pull Request [#972](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/972) - Removed redundant calls to retrieve the number of columns or rows in the current query result set
- Pull Request [#979](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/979) - Added support for data classification sensitivity metadata retrieval
- Pull Request [#985](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/985) - Fixed memory issues with data classification data structures
- Issue [#432](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/432) - Having any invalid UTF-8 name in the connection string will no longer invoke misleading error messages
- Issue [#909](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/909) - Fixed potential exception with locale issues in macOS
- Pull Request [#992](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/992) - Produced the correct error when requesting Data Classification metadata with ODBC drivers prior to 17
- Pull Request [#1001](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1001) - Fixed compilation issue with PHP 7.4 alpha
- Pull Request [#1004](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1004) - Fixed another compilation issue with PHP 7.4 alpha
- Pull Request [#1008](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1008) - Improved data caching when fetching datetime objects
- Pull Request [#1011](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1011) - Fixed a potential buffer overflow when parsing for escaped braces in the connection string
- Pull Request [#1015](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1015) - Fixed compilation issues and addressed various memory leaks detected by PHP 7.4 beta 1
[Limitations]
- No support for inout / output params when using sql_variant type
- No support for inout / output params when formatting decimal values
- In Linux and macOS, setlocale() only takes effect if it is invoked before the first connection. Attempting to set the locale after connecting will not work
- Always Encrypted requires [MS ODBC Driver 17+](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/odbc/linux-mac/installing-the-microsoft-odbc-driver-for-sql-server?view=sql-server-2017)
- Only Windows Certificate Store and Azure Key Vault are supported. Custom Keystores are not yet supported
- Issue [#716](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/716) - With Always Encrypted enabled, named parameters in subqueries are not supported
- [Always Encrypted limitations](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/php/using-always-encrypted-php-drivers?view=sql-server-2017#limitations-of-the-php-drivers-when-using-always-encrypted)
[Known Issues]
- Data Classification metadata retrieval is not compatible with ODBC Driver 17.4.1
- Connection pooling on Linux or macOS is not recommended with [unixODBC](http://www.unixodbc.org/) < 2.3.7
- When pooling is enabled in Linux or macOS
- unixODBC <= 2.3.4 (Linux and macOS) might not return proper diagnostic information, such as error messages, warnings and informative messages
- due to this unixODBC bug, fetch large data (such as xml, binary) as streams as a workaround. See the examples [here](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/wiki/Features#pooling)
- With ColumnEncryption enabled, calling stored procedure with XML parameter does not work (Issue [#674](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/674))
- In SUSE 15, Azure Active Directory connections may fail if PHP is installed from packages (Issue [#934](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/934)) |
