mssql-python 1.0.0__cp314-cp314-win_amd64.whl

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+ChangeLog (Release Notes)
+
+18.5.1.1 - 2025-03-17
+
+Fixed:
+    - Fix connection recovery to obtain the active primary node when a server moves.
+    - Fix crashes under low-memory conditions.
+
+Added:
+    - Expose Packet Size as a connection string option.
+    - Support macOS 15
+    - Support Azure Linux 3.0
+    - Support Alpine Linux 3.20
+    - Support Oracle Linux 9
+
+
+18.4.1.1 - 2024-07-31
+
+Fixed:
+    - Fix crashes when receiving invalid data from server
+    - Fix sending of null data for fixed-length types using DAE
+    - Fix 10-minute delay upon disconnection after timeout
+    - Fix memory leak upon disconnection when an error occurs
+    - Fix memory leak upon reconnection with Strict encryption
+    - Fix intermittent crash when connecting with Strict encryption and TLS 1.3
+    - Fix crashes under low-memory conditions
+
+Added:
+    - Option to accept EULA via the presence of a file
+    - Renamed Azure Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID
+    - Support Ubuntu 24.04
+    - Support Alpine 3.19
+
+
+18.3.3.1 - 2024-04-09
+
+Fixed:
+    - Fix crashes when receiving invalid data from server
+    - Fix infinite loop when receiving invalid data from server
+    - Fix App Service Containers MSI Authentication
+    
+18.3.2.1 - 2023-10-10
+
+Fixed:
+    - Fix crashes when receiving invalid data from server
+    - Fix infinite loop when receiving invalid data from server
+    - Fix a crash when attempting to connect under low-memory conditions
+
+
+18.3.1.1 - 2023-07-31
+
+Fixed:
+    - Setting of Data Classification Version connection attribute
+
+Added:
+    - Improved performance via more efficient packet buffer memory allocation
+    - Add support for Managed Identity (MSI) Authentication for Azure Arc and Azure 
+      Cloudshell and updated to a newer Azure App Service API version
+    - Support Ubuntu 23.04
+    - Support Alpine 3.17 and 3.18
+
+18.2.2.1 - 2023-06-13
+
+Fixed:
+    - Fix a crash when retrieving data with AutoTranslate option off
+    - Fix partial writes on Linux in presence of signals
+    - Fix crashes when receiving invalid data from server
+    - Fix memory leak when processing encrypted columns
+    - Fix errors with long enclave queries
+
+18.2.1.1 - 2023-01-31
+
+Fixed:
+    - Fix VBS-NONE enclave attestation protocol
+    - Fix error when retrieving numeric column with Regional=Yes
+    - Fix intermittent lack of error when server is stopped during bcp out operation
+    - Fix error when stored procedure call contains unquoted string parameter
+    - Fix a memory leak upon reconnect
+
+Added:
+    - Add original and redirected server names to connect errors
+    - Support Ubuntu 22.10
+    - Support macOS 13
+    - Support Alpine 3.16
+
+18.1.2.1 - 2022-11-03
+
+Fixed:
+    - Fix VBS-NONE enclave attestation protocol
+    - Fix error when retrieving numeric column with Regional=Yes
+    - Fix intermittent lack of error when server is stopped during bcp out operation
+    - Fix error when stored procedure call contains unquoted string parameter
+
+
+18.1.1.1 - 2022-08-05
+
+Fixed:
+    - Fix polling for first successful connection with MultiSubnetFailover
+    - Fix connecting with Strict and non-Strict encryption modes simultaneously
+    - Allow Azure Active Directory authentication with Strict encryption mode
+    - Fix idle connection resiliency reconnection when using Kerberos authentication
+    - Fix rare hang when using SQLBulkOperations in async mode
+
+Added:
+    - Configurable retry of query execution
+    - Configurable preference of IPv4 or IPv6
+    - VBS-NONE enclave attestation protocol
+    - Wildcard matching of HostnameInCertificate
+    - Exact match for server certificate with ServerCertificate keyword
+    - TrustedConnection_UseAAD keyword controls use of Kerberos or Azure Active Directory
+      authentication modes
+    - Support TDS 8.0 ALPN
+    - Support TLS 1.3 (when using TDS 8.0)
+    - Support Ubuntu 22.04
+    - Support RedHat 9
+    - Support ARM64 Linux platforms: Debian 11, RedHat 8 and 9, Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04
+
+
+18.0.1.1 - 2022-02-15
+
+Fixed:
+    - Reduce excessive stack consumption when retrieving diagnostic records
+    - Fix Azure Active Directory Interactive authentication to re-prompt after the user
+      cancels the first dialog and a cached token already exists (Windows)
+    - More compatible federation metadata parsing
+    - Fix automatic idle reconnection when using Azure Active Directory authentication modes
+    - Remove database version check when using XA DTC to support SQL Managed Instance
+
+Added:
+    - Compatibility with OpenSSL 3.0
+    - Ability to send long types as max types
+    - Support for TDS8
+    - Compatibility extensions for SQLGetData
+    - Support Debian 11
+    - Support Ubuntu 21.10
+    - Support macOS 12
+
+
+17.8.1.1 - 2021/07/30
+
+Fixed:
+    - Fix for restrictions on connection string regarding usage of UID and PWD keywords
+    - Fix issue with having multiple connections with different AKV credentials
+
+Added:
+    - Replication option added to the connection string
+    - KeepAlive and KeepAliveInterval options added to the connection string
+    - Support Ubuntu 21.04
+    - Support Alpine 3.13
+
+17.7.2.1 - 2021-03-10
+
+Fixed:
+    - Fix issue with 404 Not Found errors when using Managed Service Identity authentication
+    - Fix for intermittent Encryption Not Supported errors under high multithreaded loads
+    - Fix for intermittent crash under high multithreaded loads
+
+17.7.1.1 - 2021/01/31
+
+Fixed:
+    - Fix character encoding of VARIANT columns in BCP NATIVE mode
+    - Fix setting of SQL_ATTR_PARAMS_PROCESSED_PTR under specific conditions
+    - Fix SQLDescribeParam in FMTONLY mode for statements containing comments
+    - Fix an issue with federated authentication when using Okta
+    - Fix excessive memory usage on multi-processor systems
+    - Fix Azure AD authentication for some variants of Azure SQL DB
+
+Added:
+    - Ability to insert into encrypted money and smallmoney columns
+    - Azure AD Interactive Authentication to Azure Key Vault
+    - Azure AD Service Principal Authentication to Azure SQL
+    - Trusted endpoints for Managed HSM Azure Key Vault
+    - Performance improvements when inserting data
+    - Support for installation with MacPorts package manager
+    - Support Oracle Linux 7
+    - Support Ubuntu 20.10
+    - Support macOS 11.0
+
+17.6.1.1 - 2020/07/31
+
+Known Issues:
+    - Integrated authentication with Azure AD is subject to system library limitations; see the documentation for details
+
+Fixed:
+    - Fix dependency version of libc6 on Ubuntu/Debian to increase portability
+    - Added additional definitions for BCP to msodbcsql.h
+
+Added:
+    - Caching of encryption metadata for prepared statements
+    - Connection attribute SQL_COPT_SS_AUTOBEGINTXN to control automatically beginning a transaction after ending a previous one
+    - Support for federated account authentication with Azure AD
+    - Support for Big5 and GB locales
+    - Support authentication with Managed Identity for Azure App Service
+    - Support for TLS SNI
+    - Support Ubuntu 20.04
+
+17.5.2.2 - 2020/04/20 (Alpine Linux only)
+
+Known Issues:
+
+Fixed:
+    - Fix a crash when using Always Encrypted with Secure Enclaves on Alpine Linux
+
+Added:
+
+17.5.2.1 - 2020/03/03
+
+Known Issues:
+
+Fixed:
+    - Added msodbcsql.h to Alpine Linux package
+
+Added:
+    - Support authentication with Managed Identity for Azure Key Vault
+
+17.5.1.1 - 2020/01/31
+
+Known Issues:
+    - Due to system library limitations, Alpine Linux supports fewer character encodings and locales
+
+Fixed:
+    - Fix AKV CMK metadata hash computation on Linux/Mac
+    - Fix error when loading OpenSSL 1.0.0
+    - Fix conversion issues when using ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-2 codepages
+    - Fix internal library name on Mac to include version number
+    - Fix setting of null indicator when separate length and indicator bindings are used
+
+Added:
+    - SQL_COPT_SS_SPID connection attribute to retrieve SPID without round-trip to server
+    - Support for indicating EULA acceptance via debconf on Debian/Ubuntu 
+    - Support Alpine Linux (3.10, 3.11)
+    - Support Oracle Linux 8
+    - Support Ubuntu 19.10
+    - Support macOS 10.15
+
+17.4.2.1 - 2019/09/19
+
+Known Issues:
+
+Fixed:
+    - Fix for an issue where process ID and application name would not be sent correctly to SQL Server (for sys.dm_exec_sessions analysis)
+    - Removed redundant dependency on libuuid
+    - Fix for a bug with sending UTF8 data to SQL Server 2019
+    - Fix for a bug where locales that end in "@euro" were not being correctly detected
+    - Fix for XML data being returned incorrectly when fetched as an output parameter while using Always Encrypted
+
+Added:
+    - Support for additional Azure Key Vault endpoints: vault.azure.cn, vault.usgovcloudapi.net, vault.microsoftazure.de
+    - Support for setting data classification version
+
+17.4.1.1 - 2019/07/17
+
+Known Issues:
+
+Fixed:
+    - Fix for intermittent hang when Multiple Active Results Sets (MARS) is enabled
+    - Fix connection resiliency hang when async notification is enabled
+    - Fix crash when retrieving diagnostic records for multithreaded connection attempts
+    - Fix 'Encryption not supported' upon reconnect after calling SQLGetInfo() with SQL_USER_NAME and SQL_DATA_SOURCE_READ_ONLY
+    - Fix COM initialization error during Azure Active Directory Interactive Authentication
+    - Fix SQLGetData() for multi-byte UTF8 data
+    - Fix retrieving length of sql_variant columns using SQLGetData()
+    - Fix importing of sql_variant columns containing more than 7992 bytes using bcp
+    - Fix sending of correct encoding to server for narrow character data
+
+Added:
+    - Support Always Encrypted with Secure Enclaves
+    - Support dynamic loading of OpenSSL
+    - Support insertion of UTF8 data for SQL Server 2019
+    - Support configurable TCP Keep Alive settings
+    - Support Debian 10
+    - Support RedHat 8
+    - Support Ubuntu 19.04
+    - Support connecting to named instances on Linux and Mac
+
+17.3.1.1 - 2019/02/15
+
+Known Issues:
+
+Fixed:
+    - Fix for detection of the current environment locale
+    - Fix AE streaming encryption for short data values
+    - Fix use-after-free for encrypted DAE parameters
+    - Fix race conditions with multiple threads and sending data.
+    - Fix SQLNumResultCols when SQLExecute returns SQL_NO_DATA_FOUND
+    - Fix infinite loop in comment parsing
+
+Added:
+    - Support Azure Active Directory Managed Service Identity (system and user-assigned) authentication mode
+    - Support SuSE 15
+    - Support Ubuntu 18.10
+    - Support macOS 10.14
+    - Minor optimizations
+
+17.3.0.1 - 2018/09/07
+
+Known Issues:
+
+Fixed:
+    - Fix for tcp send notification event handle memory leak
+    - Fix redefinition issue of enum _SQL_FILESTREAM_DESIRED_ACCESS in msodbcsql.h header file
+    - Fix missing ACCESS_TOKEN and AUTHENTICATION related definition in msodbcsql.h header file for Linux and MAC
+
+Added:
+    - Support AE input parameter streaming
+    - Support XA DTC
+
+17.2.0.1 - 2018/06/20
+
+Known Issues:
+
+Fixed:
+    - Fix Error Message about Azure Active Directory Authentication
+    - Fix encoding detection when locale environment variables are set differently
+    - Fix crash upon disconnect with connection recovery in progress
+    - Fix detection of connection liveness
+    - Fix incorrect detection of closed sockets
+    - Fix the infinite wait when attempting to release a statement handle during failed recovery.
+
+Added:
+    - Support Ubuntu 18.04
+    - Change the dependency to dynamic libcurl loading
+            The libcurl for OpenSSL or NSS is required when using the Azure Key Vault or Azure Active Directory authentication.
+            Manually install libcurl if it is not with the system by default.
+    - Support Idle Connection Resiliency with ConnectRetryCount and ConnectRetryInterval keywords in connection string:
+            Use the SQL_COPT_SS_CONNECT_RETRY_COUNT (read only) connection attribute to retrieve the number of connection retry attempts.
+            Use the SQL_COPT_SS_CONNECT_RETRY_INTERVAL (read only) connection attribute to retrieve the length of the connection retry interval.
+            Connection will be retried at least once by default.
+    - Support UTF8 server encoding
+    - Support Data Classification feature on Azure SQL Database and SQL Server
+    - Support SQLBrowseConnect
+
+17.1.0.1 - 2018/04/06
+
+Known Issues:
+    None
+
+Fixed:
+    - Fixed 1-second delay when calling SQLFreeHandle with MARS enabled and connection attribute "Encrypt=yes"
+    - Fixed truncated ADAL error messages
+    - Fixed an issue where inserting double into decimal field with Always Encrypted on would return data truncation error
+    - Fixed a warning on MacOS installer
+    
+Added:
+    - Support for SQL_COPT_SS_CEKCACHETTL and SQL_COPT_SS_TRUSTEDCMKPATHS connection attributes
+            SQL_COPT_SS_CEKCACHETTL Allows controlling the time that the local cache of Column Encryption Keys exists, as well as flushing it
+            SQL_COPT_SS_TRUSTEDCMKPATHS Allows the application to restrict AE operations to only use the specified list of Column Master Keys
+
+    - Support for loading the .rll from default location
+    
+17.0.1.0 - 2017/01/16
+Known Issues:
+    None
+
+Fixed:
+    Fixed SQLGetData for encrypted varbinary(max) returned data only on first call
+    Conversions to persian collation in column scenarios appears to result in data corruption.
+    Data corruption when streaming UTF-16 or UTF-8 using SQLPutData with split octets or surrogate pairs
+    With async notifications enabled, driver unable to recover from failure (Windows)
+    High cpu consumption when ODBC async execution mode is enabled (Windows)
+    Occasional crash during ODBC shutdown when async execution mode is enabled (Windows)
+	
+Added:
+    Performance improvement for when ODBC async execution mode is enabled
+
+17.0.0.5 - 2017/12/20
+
+Known Issues:
+    - macOS: Homebrew now filters out user set environment variables. You can now install the ODBC driver on macOS using the
+      following command line:
+        HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_FILTERING=1 ACCEPT_EULA=Y brew install --no-sandbox msodbcsql
+
+Fixed:
+    - Parameters bound with any convertable C type with the same precision & scale as a numeric/decimal column are now
+      correctly converted to the appropriate numeric type with the specified precision and scale, and execute successfully
+      instead of erroring our with Operand Type Clash.      
+    - Screen reader usability improvements in DSN Wizard and Login Dialog
+    - Encrypted numeric/decimal values now correctly normalize negative zeros
+    - Hebrew data (varchar) is no longer chopped when returned as wide chars on Linux platforms
+    - Fixed Invalid Descriptor Index error when using unencrypted XML column with AE in some scenarios
+    - Fixed function sequence error when using DAE, SqlPutData, and AE
+    - ODBC Driver on Windows now links directly to secur32.dll, instead of indirectly through security.dll
+
+Added:
+    - Support for macOS High Sierra
+    - Support for Ubuntu 17.10
+    - Always Encrypted support for BCP API
+    - Greater than 10x performance improvement when driver converts to/from UTF-8/16.
+    - New connection string attribute UseFMTOnly causes driver to use legacy metadata in special cases requiring temp tables.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+17.0.0.1 - 2017/10/06
+
+Known Issues:
+    None
+
+Fixed:
+    msodbcsql.h - Missing types and constants were added to Linux/Mac header
+    CP1252 encoded files over 32MB were failing to import correctly with bcp on Linux. This has been fixed.
+    Resolved an issue in Linux where system time changes could result in incorrect timeouts in the driver
+    macOS - SQLGetInfo with SQL_DRIVER_NAME retruns .so value instead of .dylib
+
+Added:
+    Support for Debian 9
+    Improved performance of driver character conversion from utf16
+    Changed narrow functions of ODBC API to be sensitive to platform encoding, and not assume UTF-8. Wide encoding is expected to be UTF-16LE
+    Removed Microsoft online service sign-in assistant check in ODBC driver for Windows
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+13.1.9.0 - 2017/06/14
+
+Known Issues:
+ None
+
+Fixed:
+#10274176: DSN Wizard Help does not load CHM
+#10034310: Fix buffer overrun upon UTF-8 character conversion - Now fully supports UTF-8
+
+Added:
+Support for Ubuntu 14.04.
+Configurable driver location on Linux.  Simply copy the whole driver install directory to the location of your choice after normal installation.
+  You must manually update the ODBCINST.INI file with the new location.
+
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+13.1.8.0 - 2017/05/18
+
+Known Issues:
+- Due to the buffer overrun fix (#10034310, see below), UTF-8 non-ASCII
+  characters may cause column truncation after conversion to UTF-16. In
+  particular, use of SQLBulkOperations with column bindings may cause
+  this to occur. A future release will fully support UTF-8. See
+  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/odbc/linux/known-issues-in-this-version-of-the-driver
+  for more information.
+
+Fixed:
+#10059224: Floating-point numbers formatted incorrectly in French locale
+#10144395: SQLBindParameter input/output parameters may truncate prematurely
+#10060645: Implicit cursor conversion due to comments
+#10034310: Fix buffer overrun upon UTF-8 character conversion
+#1080065: Fixed symbolic link creation for the RPM package
+
+Added:
+Support for SuSE 11 SP4 and Ubuntu 17.04.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+13.1.7.0 - 2017/04/11
+Preview Release with support for OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), macOS 10.12 (Sierra), RedHat 6, RedHat 7, Suse 12, Debian 8
+and Ubuntu 15.10, 16.04, and 16.10
+
+Known Issues:
+No new known issues. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/odbc/mac/known-issues-in-this-version-of-the-driver
+
+Fixed:
+
+
+Added:
+#1081223: Support for Azure Active Directory authentication
+#9861137: Add ODBC Docs section for TVP on Linux and Mac. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/
+native-client-odbc-table-valued-parameters/binding-and-data-transfer-of-table-valued-parameters-and-column-values
+_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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+
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+    LIMITATION DES DOMMAGES-INTÉRÊTS ET EXCLUSION DE RESPONSABILITÉ POUR LES DOMMAGES. Vous pouvez obtenir de Microsoft et de ses fournisseurs une indemnisation en cas de dommages directs uniquement à hauteur de 5,00 $ US. Vous ne pouvez prétendre à aucune indemnisation pour les autres dommages, y compris les dommages spéciaux, indirects ou accessoires et pertes de bénéfices. 
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+    Cette limitation concerne: 
+        • tout ce qui est relié au logiciel, aux services ou au contenu (y compris le code) figurant sur des sites Internet tiers ou dans des programmes tiers; et 
+        • les réclamations au titre de violation de contrat ou de garantie, ou au titre de responsabilité stricte, de négligence ou d’une autre faute dans la limite autorisée par la loi en vigueur. 
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+    Elle s’applique également, même si Microsoft connaissait ou devrait connaître l’éventualité d’un tel dommage. Si votre pays n’autorise pas l’exclusion ou la limitation de responsabilité pour les dommages indirects, accessoires ou de quelque nature que ce soit, il se peut que la limitation ou l’exclusion ci-dessus ne s’appliquera pas à votre égard. 
+    EFFET JURIDIQUE. Le présent contrat décrit certains droits juridiques. Vous pourriez avoir d’autres droits prévus par les lois de votre pays. Le présent contrat ne modifie pas les droits que vous confèrent les lois de votre pays si celles-ci ne le permettent pas.