[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

[6.4.0] Stable Release for Java 7

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

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

[6.3.6] Preview Release

Added

• Added support for using database name as part of the key for handle cache #561
• Updated ADAL4J version to 1.3.0 and also added it into README file #564

Fixed Issues

• Fixed issues with static loggers being set by every constructor invocation #563

[6.3.5] Preview Release

Added

• Added handle for Account Locked Exception 18486 during login in SQLServerConnection #522

Fixed Issues

• Fixed the issues with Prepared Statement Metadata Caching implementation #543
• Fixed issues with static logger member in abstract class 'SQLServerClobBase' #537

[6.3.4] Preview Release

Added

• Added new ThreadGroup creation to prevent IllegalThreadStateException if the underlying ThreadGroup has been destroyed. #474
• Added try-with-resources to JUnit tests #520

Fixed Issues

• Fixed the issue with passing parameters names that start with '@' to a CallableStatement #495
• Fixed SQLServerDataTable creation being O(n^2) issue #514

Changed

• Changed some manual array copying to System.arraycopy() #500
• Removed redundant toString() on String objects #501
• Replaced literals with constants #502