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What's New in this Release?

For the latest certifications and enhancements, refer to the following:
*Release Notes
*Supported Configurations
*DatatDirect Support Matrices

Changes since 8.0.0 GA

*Enhancements:
*The driver has been enhanced to support the following new paging parameters in the input REST file: fieldListParameter, hasMoreElement, pageSizeElement, totalPagesElement, and totalRowsElement. See Paging for details.
*The driver has been enhanced to allow you to define custom authentication requests, including the new Custom Auth Params (CustomAuthParams) connection option. If your service does not support one of the standard authentication methods supported by the driver, you can modify the input REST file to define token-based authentication flows. See Paging for details.
*The driver has been enhanced to allow you to customize how HTTP response status codes are processed by the driver. By configuring the input REST file, you can define error responses for codes that are returned by the service, including driver actions and error messages. See HTTP response code processing for details.
*The driver has been enhanced to support OAuth 2.0 authentication. See OAuth 2.0 Authentication for details.
*The driver has been enhanced to support requests for endpoints that use custom HTTP-headers. See Requests with custom HTTP headers for details.

Highlights of the 8.0.0 Release

*The driver supports SQL read-only access to REST API endpoints that return JSON payloads. See Supported SQL statements and extensions for details.
*The driver supports all ODBC Core and Level 1 functions and some Level 1 and Level 2 features. See ODBC Compliance for details.
*The driver supports standard JSON data types and additional data types through data type inference. See Data Types for details.
*The driver supports using internal memory or a configurable REST file to define REST responses and relational mapping. See Configuring the Relational Map for details.
*The driver heuristically maps data types, eliminating the need to define native data types in most scenarios. See Data Types for more information about data type mapping.
*The driver supports basic, HTTP-header based, URL-Parameter based and no authentication. See Authentication for details.
*The driver supports the handling of large result sets with configurable paging and the Fetch Size connection option. See Configuring the Relational Map for more information on configuring paging.
*The driver includes a new Tableau data source file (Windows only) that provides improved functionality when accessing your data with Tableau. Refer to the Windows Quick Start for details.