Early technical preview of JDBC Driver 12.1.0 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 12.1.0 over version 11.2.0.

Added

• Added support for access token callback 1940
• Added support for DefaultAzureCredential 1936
• Added support for Java 19 1929

Changed

• Make driver Loom friendly 1931
• Managed Identity authentication uses Azure Identity library instead 1936
  • This allows the driver to support Managed Identity authentication in all the Azure services supported by the Azure Identity library.
• Updated MSAL and jackson-databind versions 1947
• Updated Azure Identity version 1941
• Made MSAL an optional dependency 1893
• Added FINE logging for token expiry 1875
• Upgraded junit jupiter 1895

Fixed issues

• Ensure that batchParamValues is cleared in all cases when executing a batch 1869
• Fixed query cancellation bug 1897
• Fixed callable statement index out of bounds error 1898
• Fixed sonatype warnings 1950
• Fixed check for DONE token when fetching result sets 1943
• Fixed race condition in secure string utility 1948
• Fixed attestation NONE protocol bug to work with all servers and enclave types 1942
• Fixed signed byte comparison 1920

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 for Java 8 or .jre11 for Java 11 and up).

<dependency> 
  <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId> 
  <artifactId>mssql-jdbc</artifactId> 
  <version>12.1.0.jre11</version> 
</dependency> 

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