[7.1.2] Preview Release

Added

• Added support for JDK 11 #824 #837 #807
• Updated SQL keywords in DatabaseMetaData #829
• Improvements in DatabaseMetadata to prevent Statement leaks and enhance Statement caching #806

Fixed Issues

• Fixed slf4j warning message in tests #841
• Fixed potential NullPointerException in logException() #844
• Fixed intermittent failures in JUnit - LobsTest #827
• Fixed useBulkCopyForBatchInserts API to respect Statement timeout value #817

Changed

• Updated JUnit tests to remove hard-coded names #809
• Removed illegal reflection access in Kerberos Authentication #839
• Enabled non-running JUnit tests #847
• Updated Clobs to use StandardCharsets.US_ASCII instead of hard-coded string #855
• Code cleanup #821 #825

[7.1.1] Preview Release

Added

• Added streaming capabilities for Clob.getAsciiStream() #799

Fixed Issues

• Fixed a bug where calling length() after obtaining a stream would close the stream for Clobs/NClobs #799
• Fixed Clob/NClob encoding issues #799
• Fixed issues in Bulk Copy exception handling #801
• Fixed closeable resource leaks in Junit tests #797
• Fixed issues with apostrophe being passed in table name #780
• Fixed statement leaks and improved exception handling in SQLServerParameterMetadata #780

Changed

• Changed error message to be thrown when data out of range for DECIMAL/NUMERIC types #796

[7.1.0] Preview Release

Added

• Added support for LocalDate, LocalTime and LocalDateTime to be passed as 'type' in ResultSet.getObject() #749
• Added support to read SQL Warnings after ResultSet is read completely #785

Fixed Issues

• Fixed Javadoc warnings and removed obselete HTML tags from Javadocs #786
• Fixed random JUnit failures in framework tests #762

Changed

• Improved performance of readLong() function by unrolling loop and using bitwise operators instead of additions #763
• Removed logging logic which caused performance degradation in AE #773

[7.0.0] Stable Release

Added

• Added 'Automatic-Module-Name' manifest entry to jre10 Jar, allowing JDK 10 users to access driver module 'com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc' #732
• Added setUseBulkCopyForBatchInsert() to request boundary declaration APIs #739
• Added new test for validation of supported public APIs in request boundary declaration APIs #746

Fixed Issues

• Fixed policheck issue with 'Country' keyword #745
• Fixed issues reported by static analysis tools (SonarQube, Fortify) #747

Changed

• Reformatted code and updated mssql-jdbc-formatter #742
• Changed Sha1HashKey to CityHash128Key for generating PreparedStatement handle and metadata cache keys #717
• Changed order of logic for checking the condition for using Bulk Copy API #736
• Changed collation name in UTF8SupportTest #741
• Changed scope of unwanted Public APIs #757
• Changed behavior of Bulk Copy API for batch inserts to disallow non-parameterized queries #756
• Changed APIs and JavaDocs for Spatial Datatypes #752
• Improved Javadoc comments in driver #754, #760

[6.5.4] Preview Release

Added

• Added new connection property "useBulkCopyForBatchInsert" to enable Bulk Copy API support for batch insert operation #686
• Added implementation for Java 9 introduced Boundary method APIs on Connection interface #708
• Added support for "Data Classification Specifications" on fetched resultsets #709
• Added support for UTF-8 feature extension #722

Fixed Issues

• Fixed issue with escaping catalog name when retrieving from database metadata #718
• Fixed issue with tests requiring additional dependencies #729

Changed

• Made driver default compliant to JDBC 4.2 specifications #711
• Updated ADAL4J dependency version to 1.6.0 #711
• Cleaned up socket handling implementation to generalize functionality for different JVMs and simplified the logic for single address case #663

[6.5.3] Preview Release

Added

• Added removed constructor back to AKV Provider which supports authentication with a customized method to fetch accessToken #675
• Added support for JDK 10 for both Maven and Gradle #691
• Added a resource bundle to handle junit error strings #698

Fixed Issues

• Fixed the driver disposing user created credentials when using Kerberos Constrained Delegation #636
• Fixed an issue with HostnameInCertificate when redirected while connected to Azure #644
• Fixed an intermittent issue with Prepared Statement handle not found #648
• Fixed a conflict with JDBC Compliance where the driver was returning marked columns as SS_IS_COMPUTED instead of IS_GENERATED #695
• Fixed maven build warnings and deprecated Java API warnings #701
• Fixed some Javadoc related warnings #702

[6.5.2] Preview Release

Added

• Added new connection property "cancelQueryTimeout" to cancel QueryTimeout on Connection and Statement #674

Fixed Issues

• Improved performance degradation while maintaining JDBC compliance with results from sp_fkeys #677
• Fixed an issue where ResultSetMetaData instances created by a ResultSet that has been closed were not persisting #685
• Fixed an issue with PreparedStatement.setBigDecimal when no scale is passed #684
• Fixed an issue with Clobs/NClobs not persisting after ResultSet/Connection closes #682

Changed

• Updated the samples to be usable with Eclipse directly, and updated the driver version used by the samples to 6.4.0.jre9 #679
• Updated Gradle script for building JDBC Driver #689
• Updated Maven dependencies for test suite #676
• Updated multiple Maven dependency and plugin versions #688

[6.5.1] Preview Release

Added

• Test cases for Date, Time, and Datetime2 data types. #558

Fixed Issues

• Fixed an issue where ResultSetMetadata returned incorrect columnType for Geometry and Geography data types #657
• Fixed server side CPU Affinity problems caused by uneven connection distribution across NUMA Nodes when multiSubnetFailover is true #662
• Fixed an issue where Driver wasn't parsing TDS Packets completely to capture exceptions raised inside executed stored procedures #664
• Fixed an issue where driver throws exception when using setMaxRows() followed by query execution when SHOWPLAN_TEXT is ON #666

Changed

• Removed unused imports which forced users to import the ADAL4J library #652

[6.5.0] Preview Release

Added

• Support for spatial datatypes #642

Fixed Issues

• Fixed blobs becoming unavailable when the Result Set cursor moves or the Result Set closes #595
• Fixed an issue when attempting to insert an empty or null value into an encrypted column #632
• Fixed a misleading error message thrown by the driver when a user doesn't have execute permissions #635
• Fixed statements throwing SQLServerException instead of java.sql.SQLTimeoutException when the query times out #641

Changed

• Unit tests now use SQLException in most cases instead of SQLServerException.

[6.4.0] Stable Release for Java 8, 9

Added

• Support added for AAD Integrated Authentication with ADAL4J on Windows/Linux/Mac OS #603
• Enable Recover after MSDTC is restarted #581
• Added Version Update configuration rules to project #541
• JDK 9 Compatibility + JDBC 4.3 API support added to the driver [#601 (https://github.com//pull/601)

Fixed Issues

• Re-introduced Retry Logic for Prepared Statement Caching implementation and remove detect change context function #618 and #620
• Fixes for SonarQube Reported issues #599
• Fixes for Random Assertion Errors #597

Changed

• Updated Appveyor to use JDK9 building driver and running tests #619
• JDK 7 compilation support removed from the driver #601