Early technical preview of JDBC Driver 11.1.2 for SQL Server released

We have released a new early technical preview of the JDBC Driver for SQL Server which contains several additions and changes.

Precompiled binaries are available on GitHub and also on Maven Central.

Below is a summary of the changes in 11.1.2 over version 11.1.1.

Added

• Added support for caching managed identity tokens 1825
• Added support for caching Always Encrypted parameter metadata 1845

Changed

• Switched from strings to char arrays for secure string use 1813
• Added check for negotiated ALPN 1818

Fixed

• Fixed double connection issue when enabling TDS 8.0 and SSL by reusing original socket connection 1817

• Fixed unknown token error 0xA3 when selectMethod cursor is used with data classification 1821

Getting the latest release

The latest bits are available on our GitHub repository, and Maven Central.

Add the JDBC preview driver to your Maven project by adding the following code to your POM file to include it as a dependency in your project (choose .jre8, .jre11, .jre17, or .jre18 for your required Java version).

<dependency> 
  <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId> 
  <artifactId>mssql-jdbc</artifactId> 
  <version>11.1.2.jre17</version> 
</dependency> 

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