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Release notes for the Microsoft SQL Server tools on Linux and macOS

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This article lists and describes what's new in the versioned releases of the Microsoft SQL Server Tools on Linux and macOS.

18.4.1.1, July 2024

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Sqlcmd AAD rename Renamed Azure Active Directory to Entra ID.
BCP AAD rename Renamed Azure Active Directory to Entra ID.

18.3.1.1, July 2023

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Alpine ARM64 Only released for Alpine Linux. This version now supports the ARM64 platform on Alpine Linux.

18.2.1.1, January 2023

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Sqlcmd Bugfix Fixed issue with command line parameters not being hidden

18.1.1.1, August 2022

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Sqlcmd Bugfix Fixed issue where -M option required an argument.
Sqlcmd Bugfix Fixed issue where nohup and SIGHUP can cause it to hang in certain situations.
Sqlcmd Bugfix Fixed specifying input codepage with -f option.
Sqlcmd Bugfix Fixed detection of current character encoding.
Sqlcmd Bugfix Fixed input file codepage option.

17.10.1.1, June 2022

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Sqlcmd Bugfix Fixed issue where -M option required an argument.
Sqlcmd Bugfix Fixed issue where nohup and SIGHUP can cause it to hang in certain situations.

18.0.1.1, February 2022

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Sqlcmd Bugfix Fixed extraneous trailing bytes after encoding conversion.
TDS 8.0 Add support for TDS 8.0 strict encryption
Secure by default Following the change in Microsoft ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server to default Encrypt to yes, sqlcmd and bcp both require encryption and validate certificates, by default. In sqlcmd, use -No to connect with optional encryption. In bcp, use -Yo to connect with optional encryption. For more information, see Connecting with sqlcmd and Connecting with bcp.

17.9.1.1, February 2022

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Sqlcmd Bugfix Fixed extraneous trailing bytes after encoding conversion.

17.8.1.2, October 2021

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Package update Updated RPM packages for Red Hat 7, Red Hat 8, SUSE 12, and SUSE 15 to use SHA256 RPM signing.

17.8.1.1, July 2021

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Sqlcmd Token Authentication Now supported. See Connecting with sqlcmd
BCP Token Authentication Now supported. See Connecting with bcp

17.7.1.1, January 2021

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Sqlcmd Bugfix Fixed input redirection bug and empty lines leading to repeated execution.
Sqlcmd Bugfix Fixed mistaken error reporting for r, p, X and k options under certain formatting.
Sqlcmd -z/-Z "Password" Option Now supported.

17.6.1.1, July 2020

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Sqlcmd Command Line Parser Updated Fixed bugs where unexpected behavior occurred when using certain options in different orders.
Sqlcmd Error Messages Updated Fixed various inconsistencies in how errors in sqlcmd were returned.
Sqlcmd -Y Option Fixed Fixed issue where -Y option was ineffective
Sqlcmd Column Name Truncation Fixed Fixed issue where column names would be truncated incorrectly
Sqlcmd Linux Exit Codes Fixed issue where process exit code was missing on Linux

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