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Release Notes for Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server on Windows

This release notes article describes what's new for the Microsoft ODBC driver for SQL Server on Windows.

18.4

Version number: 18.4.1.1
Released: July 31, 2024

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New item Details
Microsoft Entra ID Renamed all occurrences of "Azure Active Directory" to "Microsoft Entra ID". See New name for Azure Active Directory for more information.
Bug fixes. Bug fixes.

18.3.3

Version number: 18.3.3.1
Released: April 9, 2024

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Feature added Details
Bug fixes Bug fixes.
Security updates KB5037571

17.10.6

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Version number: 17.10.6.1
Released: April 9, 2024

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Feature added Details
Bug fixes Bug fixes.
Security updates KB5037570

Previous Releases

18.3.2

Version number: 18.3.2.1
Released: October 10, 2023

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Bug fixes Bug fixes.

17.10.5

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Version number: 17.10.5.1
Released: October 10, 2023

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Feature added Details
Improved Performance More efficient packet buffer memory allocation
New Managed Identity (MSI) Authentication Support Support for MSI authentication for Azure Arc and Azure Cloud Shell and updated to a newer Azure App Service API version
Bug fixes Bug fixes.

18.3.1

Version number: 18.3.1.1
Released: July 31, 2023

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Feature added Details
Improved Performance More efficient packet buffer memory allocation
New Managed Identity (MSI) Authentication Support Support for MSI authentication for Azure Arc and Azure Cloud Shell and updated to a newer Azure App Service API version
Bug fixes Bug fixes.

18.2.2

Version number: 18.2.2.1
Released: June 15, 2023

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Feature added Details
Bug fixes Bug fixes.

17.10.4.1

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Version number: 17.10.4.1
Released: June 15, 2023

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Bug fixes Bug fixes.

18.2

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Version number: 18.2.1.1
Released: January 31, 2023

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Feature added Details
New distribution supported Windows ARM64(Preview)
Bug fixes Bug fixes.

17.10.3

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Version number: 17.10.3.1
Released: January 26, 2023

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18.1.2

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Version number: 18.1.2.1
Released: November 3, 2022

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Bug fixes Bug fixes.

17.10.2

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Version number: 17.10.2.1
Released: November 28, 2022

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Feature added Details
Fix custom action DLL signing Fix custom action DLL signing
Bug fixes Bug fixes.

18.1

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Version number: 18.1.1.1
Released: August 8, 2022

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Feature added Details
IpAddressPreference option See DSN and Connection String Attributes and Keywords.
RetryExec option See DSN and Connection String Attributes and Keywords.
VBS-NONE enclave attestation protocol New enclave attestation option to not attest the enclave. See Using Always Encrypted
Wildcard matching of HostnameInCertificate Now able to use wildcard for specifying hostname, if different from default value found in Addr/Address/Server.
ServerCertificate option See DSN and Connection String Attributes and Keywords.
TrustedConnection_UseAAD option Now only Kerberos integrated authentication is enabled when specifying Trusted_Connection=yes. Use the TrustedConnection_UseAAD option to enable the previous behavior of using either Kerberos or Azure Active Directory integrated. For more information, see Using Azure Active Directory.
Bug fixes Bug fixes.

17.10

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Version number: 17.10.1.1
Released: June 30, 2022

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Feature added Details
TrustedConnection_UseAAD option Now only Kerberos integrated authentication is enabled when specifying Trusted_Connection=yes. Use the TrustedConnection_UseAAD option to enable the previous behavior of using either Kerberos or Azure Active Directory integrated.
Bug fixes Bug fixes.

18.0

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Version number: 18.0.1.1
Released: February 15, 2022

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Feature added Details
Added compatibility with OpenSSL 3.0 See Connection String Keywords and Data Source Names.
Ability to send long types as max types See DSN and Connection String Attributes and Keywords.
Secure by default BREAKING CHANGE
Default Encrypt to Yes/Mandatory. Changed certificate validation behavior to validate when encryption is negotiated from either the client or the server side, not just the client side. For more information, see the ODBC Driver 18.0 release announcement.
Support for TDS 8.0 See Features of the Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server on Windows.
Compatibility extensions for SQLGetData See Features of the Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server on Windows.
Bug fixes Bug fixes.

17.9

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Version number: 17.9.1.1
Released: February 17, 2022

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Feature added Details
Added compatibility with OpenSSL 3.0 See Connection String Keywords and Data Source Names.

17.8

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Version number: 17.8.1.1
Released: July 30, 2021

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Feature added Details
Ability to modify KeyStoreAuthentication and KeyStorePrincipalId in DSN configuration UI See Using Always Encrypted.
Replication option added to the connection string See DSN and Connection String Attributes and Keywords.
KeepAlive and KeepAliveInterval options added to the connection string See DSN and Connection String Attributes and Keywords.
Bug fixes Bug fixes.

17.7.2

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Version number: 17.7.2.1
Released: March 10, 2021

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Feature added Details
Bug fixes Bug fixes.

17.7

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Version number: 17.7.1.1
Released: January 29, 2021

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Feature added Details
Azure Key Vault Interactive Authentication See Using Always Encrypted.
Service Principal Authentication See DSN and Connection String Attributes and Keywords.
Ability to insert into encrypted money and smallmoney columns See Using Always Encrypted.
Bug fixes Bug fixes.

17.6

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Version number: 17.6.1.1
Released: July 31, 2020

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Feature added Details
Metadata caching for prepared statements See Using Always Encrypted.
SQL_COPT_SS_AUTOBEGINTXN connection attribute to control whether automatic BEGIN TRANSACTION happens after ROLLBACK or COMMIT See DSN and Connection String Attributes and Keywords.
Bug fixes Bug fixes.

17.5.2

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Version number: 17.5.2.1
Released: March 6, 2020

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Features added in 17.5.2

Feature added Details
Support authentication with Managed Identity for Azure Key Vault See Using Always Encrypted with the ODBC Driver.
Support for more Azure Key Vault endpoints See Using Always Encrypted with the ODBC Driver.
Bug fixes See Bug fixes.

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17.5

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Version number: 17.5.1.1
Released: January 31, 2020

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Features added in 17.5

Feature added Details
SQL_COPT_SS_SPID connection attribute to retrieve SPID without round trip to server See DSN and Connection String Attributes and Keywords.
Bug fixes See Bug fixes.

17.4.2

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Version number: 17.4.2.1
Released: October 2019

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Features added in 17.4.2

Feature added Details
Support for more Azure Key Vault endpoints See Using Always Encrypted with the ODBC Driver.
Support for setting data classification version See Data Classification.
Include Azure Active Directory Authentication Library (adal.dll) in the installer Now included in the base driver installation, the ODBC installer upgrades existing installations of the Microsoft Active Directory Authentication Library for SQL Server, removing it from the list of installed applications in Windows.
Bug fixes See Bug fixes.

17.4

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Version number: 17.4.1.1
Released: July 2019

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Features added in 17.4

Feature added Details
Always Encrypted with secure enclaves. See Using Always Encrypted with the ODBC Driver.
Configurable TCP Keep Alive settings. See Connecting to SQL Server.
Bug fixes See Bug fixes.

17.3

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Version number: 17.3.1.1
Released: February 2019

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Features added in 17.3

Feature added Details
Azure Active Directory Managed Identity (system and user-assigned) authentication mode. See Using Azure Active Directory with the ODBC Driver.
Ability to stream input parameters against Always Encrypted columns. See Limitations of the ODBC driver when using Always Encrypted.
XA distributed transactions. Using XA Transactions.
Updated Visual C++ Redistributable Upgraded the runtime dependency to the Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable (x64 Download, x86 Download)
Bug fixes See Bug fixes.

17.2

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Version number: 17.2.0.1
Released: July 2018

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Features added in 17.2

Feature added Details
Data Classification for Azure SQL Database and SQL Server. See Data Classification.
Support for UTF-8 server encoding.  
Bug fixes See Bug fixes.

17.1

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Version number: 17.1.0.1
Released: March 2018

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Features added in 17.1

Feature added Details
Support for SQL_COPT_SS_CEKCACHETTL and SQL_COPT_SS_TRUSTEDCMKPATHS connection attributes. •   SQL_COPT_SS_CEKCACHETTL
Allows controlling the time that the local cache of Column Encryption Keys exists, and flushing it.

•   SQL_COPT_SS_TRUSTEDCMKPATHS
Allows the application to restrict AE operations to only use the specified list of Column Master Keys.

For more information, see Using Always Encrypted with the ODBC Driver for SQL Server.
Azure Active Directory Interactive Authentication Support  
Bug fixes See Bug fixes.

17.0

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Version number: 17.0.1.1
Released: February 2018

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Features added in 17.0

Feature added Details
Always Encrypted support for BCP API.  
New connection string attribute UseFMTOnly. Causes the driver to use legacy metadata in special cases that require temporary tables.
Support for Azure SQL Managed Instance. See the following list of Differences when using Managed Instance (ODBC version 17).
Dependency changed Details
Removed Microsoft online service sign-in assistant The dependency is removed.

Differences when using Managed Instance (ODBC version 17)

This version of ODBC contains support for Azure SQL Managed Instance. See the following noted list of differences when using Managed Instance.

Note

There are a number of differences when using Managed Instance:

  • FILESTREAM is not supported.
  • Local filesystem access is not supported, but is required for things like trace files.
  • Create UDT from local path is not supported.
  • Windows Integrated Authentication is not supported.
  • DTC is not supported.
  • sa account is not present (default account is called cloudSA).
  • TDS token ERROR (0xAA) returns incorrect server name.
  • Special characters in database name are not supported.
  • ALTER DATABASE [dbname1] MODIFY NAME = [dbname2] is not supported.
  • The error messages are always shown in English, regardless of language settings (same as Azure).

13.1

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Version number: 13.1

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Features added in 13.1

Feature added Details
ODBC Driver 13.1 for SQL Server adds support for Always Encrypted and Azure Active Directory. These added supports are available when connecting to Microsoft SQL Server 2016, or to a later version.
There are connection pooling keywords and attributes that correspond to the supports for Always Encrypted and Azure Active Directory. These keywords and attributes are described in Driver Aware Connection Pooling in the ODBC Driver for SQL Server.

13

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Version number: 13

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Features added in 13

Feature added Details
Adds support for Microsoft SQL Server 2016. Retains the functionality of ODBC driver version 11.

11

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Version number: 11

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Features added in 11

Feature added Details
Contains new features. See Features of the Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server on Windows.
Contains all the features that shipped with ODBC in SQL Server 2012 Native Client.