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We recently released the next beta of the Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server, version 5.11.0-beta1. This beta release has been built with PHP 8.0+ and tested on all supported platforms.
Notable items about this release over 5.10.0 include:
Added
- Support for ActiveDirectoryIntegrated authentication
- Support for PHP 8.2
- Support for Ubuntu 22.04, macOS 13
Removed
- Dropped support for PHP 7.3, Debian 9, macOS 10.15
Fixed
- Pull request #1374 - Fixed ActiveDirectoryMsi Authentication behavior when specified UID by laclefyoshi
- Pull request #1408 - Fixed right truncation issue, unit test added by talkinnl
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+
- Only Windows Certificate Store and Azure Key Vault are supported. Custom Keystores are not yet supported
- Issue #716 - With Always Encrypted enabled, named parameters in subqueries are not supported
- Issue #1050 - With Always Encrypted enabled, insertion requires the column list for any tables with identity columns
- Always Encrypted limitations
Known Issues
- This release requires ODBC Driver 17.4.2 or above. Otherwise, a warning about failing to set an attribute may be suppressed when using an older ODBC driver.
- Connection pooling on Linux or macOS is not recommended with unixODBC < 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
Install
- On Linux and macOS run the commands below:
- To download Windows DLLs for PHP 8.0 or above from the PECL repository, please navigate to SQLSRV or PDO_SQLSRV.
- Direct downloads for released binaries can also be found at the Github release tag.
David Engel