For the latest certifications and enhancements, refer to the following:

Changes for 8.0.2 GA

  • Driver Enhancements
    • The driver is now compiled with a Visual Studio 2022 compiler for the Windows platforms. As a result, you must have Microsoft Visual C/C++ runtime version 14.40.33810 or higher on your machine to run the driver.
    • The driver has been enhanced to include timestamp in the internal packet logs by default. If you want to disable the timestamp logging in packet logs, set PacketLoggingOptions=1. The internal packet logging is not enabled by default. To enable it, set EnablePacketLogging=1.
    • The Driver Manager for UNIX/Linux has been enhanced to support setting the Unicode encoding type for applications on a per connection basis. By passing a value for the SQL_ATTR_APP_UNICODE_TYPE attribute using SQLSetConnectAttr, your application can specify the encoding at connection. This allows your application to pass both UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoded strings with a single environment handle. The valid values for the SQL_ATTR_APP_UNICODE_TYPE attribute are SQL_DD_CP_UTF8 and SQL_DD_CP_UTF16. The default value is SQL_DD_CP_UTF8.
    • For UNIX/Linux, a Password Encryption Tool, called ddencpwd, is now included with the product package. It encrypts passwords for secure handling in connection strings and odbc.ini files. At connection, the driver decrypts these passwords and passes them to the data source as required. Passwords can be encrypted for any option. See Password Encryption Tool (UNIX/Linux only) for details.
  • Changed Behavior
    • Support has been deprecated for the following versions of Informix:
      • Informix 11.0 and higher
      • Informix 10.0 and higher
      • Informix 9.2 and higher
    • 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)