What's New in this Release?

Release Notes (includes the latest OpenSSL support information)

Supported Configurations

DataDirect Support Matrices

Driver Enhancements

The driver has been enhanced to support the following data types: Float, Tinyint, Wchar, and Wvarchar.

The new AllowedOpenSSLVersions option allows you to determine which version of the OpenSSL library file the driver uses for data encryption. See AllowedOpenSSLVersions or Designating an OpenSSL Library for details.

Changed Behavior

The following Windows platforms have reached the end of their product lifecycle and are no longer supported by the driver:

Windows 8.0 (versions 8.1 and higher are still supported)

Windows Vista (all versions)

Windows XP (all versions)

Windows Server 2003 (all versions)

Platform Certifications

Certified with Windows Server 2016

Certified with Debian Linux 7.11, 8.5 (driver version 07.16.0106)

Certified with Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04 (driver version 07.16.0106)

Driver Enhancements

The driver is now compiled using Visual Studio 2015 for improved security.

Support for connecting to a proxy server through an HTTP connection. HTTP proxy support is configurable with five new connection options. See Proxy Host, Proxy Mode, Proxy Password, Proxy Port, and Proxy User for details.

The driver has been enhanced to support the TimestampTZ data type. See Data Types and Fetch TSWTZ as Timestampfor details.

The new Fetch TSWTZ as Timestamp option allows you to determine whether the driver returns column values of the TimestampTZ data type as the ODBC data type SQL_TYPE_TIMESTAMP or SQL_VARCHAR. See Fetch TSWTZ as Timestamp for details.

The driver has been enhanced to support the HOUR, MINUTE, MONTH, QUARTER, SECOND, WEEK, and YEAR ODBC functions for improved support of third-party applications such as Tableau.

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.

The driver and Driver Manager have been enhanced to support UTF-8 encoding in the odbc.ini and odbcinst.ini files. See Character Encoding in the odbc.ini and odbcinst.ini Files for details.

Changed Behavior

The default value for Crypto Protocol Version has been updated to TLSv1.2,TLSv1.1,TLSv1. This change improves the security of the driver by employing only the most secure cryptographic protocols as the default behavior. See Crypto Protocol Version for details.