What's new in this release?

Support and certification

Changes Since 6.0.0 GA

• Enhancements
  • The driver has been enhanced to comply with FIPS standards for data encryption. As part of this enhancement, the driver was tested with FIPS 140-3 enabled using a Red Hat OpenJDK 21 on a Red Hat Universal Base Image 9 instance. See FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) for details.
• Changed behavior
  • The connection property SpyAttributes has been updated to exclude the attribute load=classname, which was previously used to load the driver specified by the given class name. See SpyAttributes for details.

Highlights of 6.0.0 Release

• The driver supports SQL read-only access to Google Analytics using Google Analytics 4 (GA4) Data and Admin API. 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 Google Analytics data types. See Data types and getTypeInfo() for details.
• The driver supports OAuth 2.0 authentication. See OAuth 2.0 Authentication for further details.
• The driver supports the handling of large result sets with paging, and the FetchSize connection property.
• The driver includes the Progress DataDirect Google Analytics 4 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
  • Add tables to a relational view of Google Analytics data
  • Execute SQL commands for testing
  For details, see Generating connection URLs with the Configuration Manager and Testing connections and queries.