ODBC Driver 18.6 for SQL Server Released

Version 18.6 of the Microsoft ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server has been released. Version 18.6 brings some minor changes and fixes to the driver.

Added

• Support for the new vector data type (float32)
• Support for ConcatNullYieldsNull as a connection string property
• x86 support on Windows Arm64
• Support for Azure Linux 3.0 ARM, Debian Linux 13, RedHat Linux 10, Ubuntu Linux 25.10

Fixed

• Show the negotiated TDS packet size in BID traces

Next steps

For Windows installations, you can directly download the Microsoft ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server.

Linux and macOS packages are also available. For installation details see the online instructions.

David Engel