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Changes for 8.0.2 GA

  • Driver Enhancements
    • The default version of the OpenSSL library has been upgraded to 3.5.6. As part of this upgrade, earlier version of the OpenSSL 3.0 library continues to be supported to provide the best protection for your data. The upgrade is available in the following OpenSSL library files:
      • Windows: ivopenssl.dll and ddopenssl.dll
      • Unix: ivopenssl.so and ddopenssl.so
    • The driver is now compiled with Visual Studio 2022 compiler for 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 support Sybase Extended Password Encryption and Sybase Extended Plus Encrypted Password, which use an asymmetrical key type. This provides stronger password encryption for the secure transmission of public key passwords over networks. See Authentication Method for details.
    • The driver has been enhanced to support binary and varbinary data types when using the bulk load protocol.
    • 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.
    • 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. See Password Encryption Tool (UNIX/Linux only) for details.
    • The driver supports the QUERY_TIMEOUT statement attribute on all UNIX/Linux platforms. This was formerly supported only on Windows.
  • Changed Behavior
    • The TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.0 cryptographic protocols are now disabled by default and have been removed as selectable options for the Crypto Protocol Version (CryptoProtocolVersion) option on the Setup dialog. These protocols are no longer considered secure and, therefore, are no longer recommended for use. However, the driver still supports them for legacy servers that do not support more secure protocols. For details, see Crypto Protocol Version.
    • The driver has been updated to return Adaptive Server Enterprise as the DBMS name, instead of SQL Server, for the following:
      • SQLGetInfo calls
      • Error messages