Added
- Support for PHP 8.0
Removed
- Dropped support for PHP 7.2
Fixed
- Pull Request #1205 - minimized compilation warnings on Linux and macOS
- Pull Request #1209 - fixed a bug in fetching varbinary max fields as char or wide chars
- Issue #1210 - switched from preview to beta terminology to enable Pickle support
- Issue #1213 - the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET in config files caused linker errors in macOS Big Sur - Pull Request #1215
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 preview 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
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Install
- On Linux and macOS run the commands below:
sudo pecl install sqlsrv-5.9.0beta2
sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv-5.9.0beta2 - To download Windows DLLs for PHP 7.3 or above from the PECL repository, please navigate to SQLSRV or PDO_SQLSRV.