What's new in this release?

Support and certification

Changes since 6.0.0

• Enhancements
  • The driver has been enhanced to support the Bearer token authentication. See Bearer token authentication for details.
• Changed Behavior
  • The default value of the AuthenticationMethod connection property has been changed to BearerToken.

Highlights of 6.0.0 Release

• The driver supports SQL read-only access to GitHub. See Supported SQL statements and extensions for details.

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

• The driver supports GitHub data types through data type inference. See Data types and getTypeInfo() for details.
• The driver supports OAuth 2.0 authentication. See OAuth 2.0 authentication for supported grant types and further details.
• The driver supports basic authentication.
• The driver supports the handling of large result sets with paging, and the FetchSize connection property.
• The driver includes the Progress DataDirect GitHub Configuration Manager for quick configuration and testing of your driver in a web browser. The tool allows you to:
  • Generate and edit connection URLs
  • Test connect your connection URLs
  • Execute SQL commands for testing
  • Fetch OAuth tokens
  For details, see Generating connection URLs with the Configuration Manager and Testing connections and queries.