5.11.0 for PHP Driver for SQL Server

Added

• Support for PHP 8.2

Removed

• Support for PHP 7.4

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

Survey

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Install

• On Linux and macOS run the commands below:
  sudo pecl install sqlsrv-5.11.0
sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv-5.11.0
• Windows DLLs can be found in Assets

5.11.0-beta1 for PHP Driver for SQL Server

Added

• Support for PHP 8.2

Fixed

• 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

Survey

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Install

• On Linux and macOS run the commands below:
  sudo pecl install sqlsrv-5.11.0beta1
sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv-5.11.0beta1
• Windows DLLs can be found in Assets

5.10.1 for PHP Driver for SQL Server

Added

• Pull request #1382 - Support for ActiveDirectoryIntegrated authentication

Fixed

• Pull request #1374 - Fixed ActiveDirectoryMsi Authentication behavior when specified UID by laclefyoshi

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

Survey

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Install

• On Linux and macOS run the commands below:
  sudo pecl install sqlsrv-5.10.1
sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv-5.10.1
• To download Windows DLLs for PHP 7.4 or above from the PECL repository, please navigate to SQLSRV or PDO_SQLSRV.

5.10.0 for PHP Driver for SQL Server

Added

• Support for PHP 8.1
• Support for macOS Monterey, Debian 11, Ubuntu 21.04 and 21.10, Alpine 3.13, 3.14 and 3.15
• Support for Apple M1 ARM64 hardware -- requires MS ODBC Driver 17.8+
• Adjusted connection keyword and value validation for more flexibility
• Feature Request #795 - adding support for Table-valued parameters
• Feature Request #1320 - allow PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES to be set at the connection level

Removed

• Support for PHP 7.3
• Support for Ubuntu 16.04, Alpine 3.11 and Alpine 3.12

Fixed

• Issue #1244 - use lower case for object names for PDO::lastInsertId() - pull request #1245 by morozov
• Pull request #1251 - simplified implementations of last insert id and quote
• Issue #1258 - updated pdo_sqlsrv_get_driver_methods as per documentation - pull request #1259
• Pull request #1260 - cleaned up redundant code
• Issue #1261 - simplified get_field_as_string and made it more robust - pull request #1265
• Pull request #1262 - simplified parse_param_array in sqlsrv
• Pull request #1267 - replaced the obsolete MACRO ZVAL_NEW_ARR with array_init
• Pull request #1275 - fixed warning compiling core_stmt.cpp by mlocati
• Pull request #1288 - applied mask to pdo quote for binary inputs
• Pull request #1290 - updated list of supported processor architecture
• Issue #1307 - added TVP support to non-procedure statements
• Issue #1310 - adjusted sql_data_type and column size for NULL parameters - pull request #1311 by gjcarrette
• Pull request #1326 - php drivers simply pass Azure AD Authentication to ODBC driver, which will verify the settings
• Issue #1329 - reset sql type and column size for input params
• Issue #1331 - restore PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE if calling PDO::lastInsertId() call fails - pull request #1330 by mpyw and pull request #1332

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

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Install

• On Linux and macOS run the commands below:
  sudo pecl install sqlsrv-5.10.0
sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv-5.10.0
• To download Windows DLLs for PHP 7.4 or above from the PECL repository, please navigate to SQLSRV or PDO_SQLSRV.

5.10.0-beta2 for PHP Driver for SQL Server

Added

• Support for PHP 8.1
• Support for Ubuntu 21.10
• Feature Request #1320 - allow PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES to be set at the connection level

Fixed

• Issue #1307 - added TVP support to non-procedure statements
• Issue #1310 - adjusted sql_data_type and column size for NULL parameters - pull request #1311 by gjcarrette
• Pull request #1326 - php drivers simply pass Azure AD Authentication to ODBC driver, which will verify the settings
• Issue #1329 - reset sql type and column size for input params
• Issue #1331 - restore PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE if calling PDO::lastInsertId() call fails - pull request #1330 by mpyw and pull request #1332

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

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Install

• On Linux and macOS run the commands below:
  sudo pecl install sqlsrv-5.10.0beta2
sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv-5.10.0beta2
• To download Windows DLLs for PHP 7.3 or above from the PECL repository, please navigate to SQLSRV or PDO_SQLSRV.

5.10.0-beta1 for PHP Driver for SQL Server

Added

• Support for PHP 8.1 RC 1
• Support for Ubuntu 21.04 and Alpine 3.13
• Support for Apple M1 ARM64 hardware (requires MS ODBC Driver 17.8+)
• Feature Request #795 - adding support for Table-valued parameters

Removed

• Support for Ubuntu 16.04

Fixed

• Issue #1244 - use lower case for object names for PDO::lastInsertId() - pull request #1245 by morozov
• Pull request #1251 - simplified implementations of last insert id and quote
• Issue #1258 - updated pdo_sqlsrv_get_driver_methods as per documentation - pull request #1259
• Pull request #1260 - cleaned up redundant code
• Issue #1261 - simplified get_field_as_string and made it more robust - pull request #1265
• Pull request #1262 - simplified parse_param_array in sqlsrv
• Pull request #1267 - replaced the obsolete MACRO ZVAL_NEW_ARR with array_init
• Pull request #1275 - fixed warning compiling core_stmt.cpp by mlocati
• Pull request #1288 - applied mask to pdo quote for binary inputs
• Pull request #1290 - updated list of supported processor architecture

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

Survey

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Install

• On Linux and macOS run the commands below:
  sudo pecl install sqlsrv-5.10.0beta1
sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv-5.10.0beta1
• To download Windows DLLs for PHP 7.3 or above from the PECL repository, please navigate to SQLSRV or PDO_SQLSRV.

5.9.0 for PHP Driver for SQL Server

Added

• Support for PHP 8.0
• Support for macOS Big Sur, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10 and Alpine 3.12
• Support for GB18030 locale #1115
• Feature Request #924 - extended PDO errorinfo to include additional odbc messages if available - pull request #1133
• Data Classification with rank info, which requires MS ODBC Driver 17.4.2+ and SQL Server 2019 or an Azure SQL instance that supports it
• Azure Active Directory Service Principal authentication support, which requires MS ODBC Driver 17.7+

Removed

• Dropped support for PHP 7.2
• Dropped support for macOS High Sierra, Ubuntu 19.10 and Debian 8

Fixed

• Pull Request #1127 - removed TSRMLS macros in preparation for PHP 8 by remicollet
• Pull Request #1136 - improved performance when handling decimal numbers as inputs or outputs and removed unnecessary conversions for numeric values
• Pull Request #1143 - if an exception occurs when executing a query, it will not change the output parameters
• Pull Request #1144 - use the correct C types when binding output parameters with integer values
• Pull Request #1146 - improved performance when fetching numbers using client buffers
• Pull Request #1165 - set query timeout without using LOCK TIMEOUT, which saves an extra trip to the server
• Issue #1170 - when fetching large data types such as ntext, check more than only the display size - pull request #1172
• Pull Request #1205 - minimized compilation warnings on Linux and macOS
• Pull Request #1209 - fixed a bug when 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
• Pull Request #1226 - replaced the problematic strlen function
• Pull Request #1227 - addressed static code analyis issues

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

Survey

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Install

• On Linux and macOS run the commands below:
  sudo pecl install sqlsrv-5.9.0
sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv-5.9.0
• To download Windows DLLs for PHP 7.3 or above from the PECL repository, please navigate to SQLSRV or PDO_SQLSRV.

5.9.0-beta2 for PHP Driver for SQL Server

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

Survey

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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.

5.9.0-preview1 for PHP Driver for SQL Server

We are pleased to announce the next preview release for the Microsoft PHP Drivers for SQL Server, version 5.9.0-preview1. This preview release has been built with PHP 7.2+ and tested on all supported platforms.

Notable items about this release include:

Added

• Support for PHP 8.0 RC 1
• Support for Ubuntu 20.04 and Alpine 3.12
• Support for GB18030 locale #1115
• Feature Request #924 - extended PDO errorinfo to include additional odbc messages if available - pull request #1133
• Data Classification with rank info, which requires MS ODBC Driver 17.4.2+ and SQL Server 2019 or an Azure SQL instance that supports it

Removed

• Dropped support for Ubuntu 19.10 and Debian 8.

Fixed

• Pull Request #1127 - removal of TSRMLS macros in preparation for PHP 8 by remicollet
• Pull Request #1136 - improved performance when handling decimal numbers as inputs or outputs and removed unncessary conversions for numeric values
• Pull Request #1143 - if an exception occurs when executing a query, will not change the output parameters
• Pull Request #1144 - use the correct C types when binding output parameters with integer values
• Pull Request #1146 - improved performance when fetching numbers using client buffers
• Pull Request #1165 - setting query timeout without using LOCK TIMEOUT, which saves an extra trip to the server
• Issue #1170 - when fetching large data types such as ntext will check more than only the display size - pull request #1172

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

Survey

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Install

• On Linux and macOS run the commands below:
  sudo pecl install sqlsrv-5.9.0preview1
sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv-5.9.0preview1
• To download Windows DLLs for PHP 7.2 or above from the PECL repository, please navigate to SQLSRV or PDO_SQLSRV.

Hotfix Release for the PHP drivers Version 5.8.1 for SQL Server

This release only applies to Linux and macOS.

Fixed

• Pull Request #1094 - Fixed default locale issues in Alpine Linux
• Pull Request #1095 - Removed unnecessary data structure to support Client-Side Cursors feature in Alpine Linux
• Pull Request #1107 - Fixed logging issues when both drivers are enabled in Alpine Linux

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

• 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

Survey

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Install

• On Linux and macOS run the commands below:
  sudo pecl install sqlsrv-5.8.1
sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv-5.8.1
• You may download Windows DLLs for PHP 7.2 or above from the PECL repository, please navigate to SQLSRV or PDO_SQLSRV.