Microsoft Drivers 5.10 for PHP for SQL Server Released

We have released Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server, version 5.10.0. This production release of the SQLSRV and PDO_SQLSRV drivers has been built with PHP 7.4, 8.0, and 8.1 and tested on all supported platforms.

Notable items about this release since the previous production release include:

Added

• Support for PHP 8.1
• Support for macOS Monterey, Debian 11, Ubuntu 21.04 and 21.10, Alpine 3.13, 3.14 and 3.15
• Support for Apple M1 ARM64 hardware -- requires MS ODBC Driver 17.8+
• Adjusted connection keyword and value validation for more flexibility
• Feature Request #795 - adding support for Table-valued parameters
• Feature Request #1320 - allow PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES to be set at the connection level

Removed

• Support for PHP 7.3
• Support for Ubuntu 16.04, Alpine 3.11 and Alpine 3.12

Fixed

• Issue #1244 - use lower case for object names for PDO::lastInsertId() - pull request #1245 by morozov
• Pull request #1251 - simplified implementations of last insert id and quote
• Issue #1258 - updated pdo_sqlsrv_get_driver_methods as per documentation - pull request #1259
• Pull request #1260 - cleaned up redundant code
• Issue #1261 - simplified get_field_as_string and made it more robust - pull request #1265
• Pull request #1262 - simplified parse_param_array in sqlsrv
• Pull request #1267 - replaced the obsolete MACRO ZVAL_NEW_ARR with array_init
• Pull request #1275 - fixed warning compiling core_stmt.cpp by mlocati
• Pull request #1288 - applied mask to pdo quote for binary inputs
• Pull request #1290 - updated list of supported processor architecture
• Issue #1307 - added TVP support to non-procedure statements
• Issue #1310 - adjusted sql_data_type and column size for NULL parameters - pull request #1311 by gjcarrette
• Pull request #1326 - php drivers simply pass Azure AD Authentication to ODBC driver, which will verify the settings
• Issue #1329 - reset sql type and column size for input params
• Issue #1331 - restore PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE if calling PDO::lastInsertId() call fails - pull request #1330 by mpyw and pull request #1332

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

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Install

• On Linux and macOS run the commands below:

sudo pecl install sqlsrv
sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv

• Windows DLLs for PHP 7.4 or above can be downloaded as a package from Microsoft, or from the PECL repository for SQLSRV or PDO_SQLSRV.
• Direct downloads for released binaries can also be found at the Github release tag.

David Engel