Microsoft Drivers 5.11.0 Beta 1 for PHP for SQL Server Released

We recently released the next beta of the Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server, version 5.11.0-beta1. This beta release has been built with PHP 8.0+ and tested on all supported platforms.

Notable items about this release over 5.10.0 include:

Added

• Support for ActiveDirectoryIntegrated authentication
• Support for PHP 8.2
• Support for Ubuntu 22.04, macOS 13

Removed

• Dropped support for PHP 7.3, Debian 9, macOS 10.15

Fixed

• Pull request #1374 - Fixed ActiveDirectoryMsi Authentication behavior when specified UID by laclefyoshi
• Pull request #1408 - Fixed right truncation issue, unit test added by talkinnl

Limitations

• No support for inout / output params when using sql_variant type
• No support for inout / output params when formatting decimal values
• In Linux and macOS, setlocale() only takes effect if it is invoked before the first connection. Attempting to set the locale after connecting will not work
• Always Encrypted requires MS ODBC Driver 17+
  • Only Windows Certificate Store and Azure Key Vault are supported. Custom Keystores are not yet supported
  • Issue #716 - With Always Encrypted enabled, named parameters in subqueries are not supported
  • Issue #1050 - With Always Encrypted enabled, insertion requires the column list for any tables with identity columns
  • Always Encrypted limitations

Known Issues

• This release requires ODBC Driver 17.4.2 or above. Otherwise, a warning about failing to set an attribute may be suppressed when using an older ODBC driver.
• Connection pooling on Linux or macOS is not recommended with unixODBC < 2.3.7
• When pooling is enabled in Linux or macOS
  • unixODBC <= 2.3.4 (Linux and macOS) might not return proper diagnostic information, such as error messages, warnings and informative messages
  • due to this unixODBC bug, fetch large data (such as xml, binary) as streams as a workaround. See the examples here

Install

• On Linux and macOS run the commands below:

sudo pecl install sqlsrv-5.11.0beta1
sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv-5.11.0beta​1

• To download Windows DLLs for PHP 8.0 or above from the PECL repository, please navigate to SQLSRV or PDO_SQLSRV.
• Direct downloads for released binaries can also be found at the Github release tag.

David Engel