What's New in this Release?

Support and certification

Changes Since the 5.1.4 Release

Driver Enhancements

• The driver has been enhanced to support Kerberos authentication. See Configuring the driver for Kerberos authentication for details.
• The driver has been enhanced to support SSL data encryption. See Data Encryption and Data Encryption Properties for details.
• The driver no longer registers the Statement Pool Monitor as a JMX MBean by default. To register the Statement Pool Monitor and manage statement pooling with standard JMX API calls, the new RegisterStatementPoolMonitorMBean connection property must be set to true. See RegisterStatementPoolMonitorMBean for details.

  Refer to Statement Pool Monitor in the Progress DataDirect for JDBC Drivers Reference for an overview of statement pooling.

Highlights of the 5.1.4 Release

Driver Enhancements

• The driver has been enhanced to support the Char and Vachar data type with Cloudera Impala 2.1 and higher. See Data Types for details.
• Support for result set holdability has been added to the driver.

Release Features

• The driver supports standard SQL query language for read-write access to Cloudera Impala data stores. See Supported SQL Functionality for details.

• The driver supports JDBC core functions. For details, refer to JDBC support in the Progress DataDirect for JDBC Drivers Reference.

• Supports Cloudera Impala data types. See Data Types for details.