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FreeTDS 1.5 Release
Summary of Changes in release 1.5
User visible (not in a particular order):
- Generic:
- Do not write to stdout/stderr;
- (*) Fix certificate check for hostnames with wildcards;
- (*) Update to Autoconf 2.71;
- (*) Fix conversions of "-0" numeric;
- (*) Minor compatibility for 32 bit for bulk copy;
- Distribute OpenSSL libraries with Appveyour artifacts;
- Use Unicode and wide characters for file paths for Windows;
- Remove ANSI encoding code from SSPI code, always full Unicode;
- (*) Set control method for final OpenSSL BIO to avoid some errors;
- (*) Get Windows code page using Windows API for compatibility;
- (*) Do not try to use
pthread_cond_timedwait_relative_np on newer Android;
- Fix compatibility connecting to some old MSSQL 2000 server;
- (*) Support Sybase server not configured with UTF-8 charset;
- (*) Change some file license from GPL to LGPL;
- (*) Support very old Sybase ASE versions;
- (*) Ignore query errors during connection initial setup increase
compatibility with different servers like OpenServer;
Support strict encryption for naked TLS (TDS 8.0);(*) Don't leak allocations on syntax errors converting to binary;Accommodate FreeBSD/Citrus iconv;Fall back on unsupported address families locking for host address;Avoid potential hangs on short replies reading TDS packets;Add support for TDS 8.0;Reject invalid NULL data in tds7_send_record (bulk transfer);Allows freetds.conf to be stored in ~/.config (Unix).ODBC:
- Fixed some attribute size for 64 bit platforms (now more compatible
with MS driver);
- (*) Prevent setting some wrong type in internal decriptors;
- (*) Fix leak in
odbc_parse_connect_string;
- Fix an issue compiling bcp test on 32 systems with unixODBC;
- (*) Fix getting
SQL_ATTR_METADATA_ID attribute;
- Check for maximum value for
SQL_ATTR_QUERY_TIMEOUT;
- (*) Return better error for invalid character set;
- Check errors from
SQLInstallDriverExW and SQLRemoveDriver;
- Update some driver registration field for Windows;
- (*) Remove minor leak parsing connection string;
- Add
Encrypt and HostNameInCertificate settings;
- (*) Fix bug cancelling not active statements;
- Fix
SQLGetInfo SQL_DRIVER_HSTMT and SQL_DRIVER_HDESC;
- Avoid shared object version for ODBC driver;
- Allows
SERVER to override DSN or SERVERNAME settings;
- Allows to set version to
AUTO from Windows dialog;
- (*) Fix handling of
SQL_C_STINYINT;
- Fix return value when bulk operation not using status array fails;
- Implement
SQLDescribeParam using sp_describe_undeclared_parameters.
Applications:
- datacopy:
- Allows copy when
dest_collen > src_collen;
- Increase CREATE TABLE command buffer to accommodate larger queries.
- defncopy:
- (*) Use memory instead of temporary file;
- (*) Fix MS column length for N(VAR)CHAR types;
- (*) Quote strings and identifiers;
- (*) Handle correctly order of index recordset;
- (*) Quote key index names.
CT-Library:
- Error reporting more compatible with Sybase;
- Return CT-Library type values, not TDS ones;
- Fix
*resultlen for conversions to SYBIMAGE from cs_convert;
- Populate
datafmt->format to avoid not initialized values;
- More debugging on not implemented
bcp_colfmt_ps;
- Makes sure we don't use a negative number as string length;
- Use client type, not propagate TDS one;
- (*) Fix crash using
ct_command with CS_MORE option;
- (*)
_blk_get_col_data: Consistently return TDS_FAIL on failure;
- (*) Formally define
BLK_VERSION_{155,157,160};
- (*) Cap binary/image copying to the destination length;
- (*) Conditionally distinguish NULL and empty results;
- (*) Issue an error for unsupported server types from
ct_describe;
- Add support for setting hints for bulk copy using
blk_props;
- Support getting
CS_ENDPOINT (socket file descriptor) using ct_con_props;
- Support getting
CS_PRODUCT_NAME using ct_con_props;
- Introduce
CS_INTERRUPT_CB and corresponding return values: CS_INT_*;
- Better support new date/time types (DATETIME2, etc.) in bulk copy;
- Report system errors' descriptions.
DB-library:
- Improve error reporting;
- Allows to set port number with
DBSETLPORT;
- Allows encryption option;
- Fix
dbreadtext crash on NULL values;
- Allows to pass NULL to
dbsetifile.
pool:
- Disable Nagle algorithm on user socket for performance;
- (*) Ignore extension in login packet for compatibility.
server:
- Reply correct version for TDS 7.4;
- Avoid leaks in
tds_get_query_head;
- Set
SO_REUSEADDR option;
- Better support for string conversion and UTF-8;
- Improve sending data, fix sending metadata;
- Update prelogin reply allowing TDS 7.2;
- Fix
tds_send_login_ack product name length;
- Support no-ASCII characters in environment names;
- Return 0 rows during login;
- Pass correct packet size environment in test server;
- Do not overwrite error before displaying it;
- Improve message writing functions;
- Set
TCP_NODELAY after accepting connected sockets.
(*) Feature backported in stable 1.4 branch.
- Remove various minor leaks;
- Remove some potential
NULL dereference;
- (*) Add support for
SYBSINT1 type conversion;
- Improve GNU compatibility in CMake using
GNUInstallDirs;
- Remove many warnings compiling code with stricter options;
- Optimize numeric precision change;
- Use more
bool type for boolean instead of integer;
- Minor compatibility with tests and Sybase/SAP libraries;
- Avoid some warnings from CMake;
- Various improvements to bounce utility:
- Allows multiple connections;
- Allows to specify a server name;
- Allows to write dumps.
- Use 64 bit constants, add
(U)INT64_C macros;
- Move
tds_new macros to include/freetds/macros.h;
- Move
tds_strndup to utils;
- Add GitHub actions to CI;
- Allows
FREETDS_SRCDIR overrides for tests;
- Avoid potential zero-byte allocations (whose behavior is undefined)
in libTDS;
- Unify header guards definitions;
- Unify tests includes in ctlib;
- Accommodate Windows static builds;
- Inform CMake of some accidentally Autotools-only tests;
- Add Visual Studio 2022 to Appveyor test matrix;
- Add
tds_socket_set_nodelay utility;
- Change
TDSCOLUMN::column_bindlen field to signed type;
- Use
TDS server instead of Adaptive Server in error messages;
- Add and reuse
TDS_END_LEN_STRING utility;
- Acknowledge non-exhaustive
TDS_SERVER_TYPE switch statements;
- Use replacement
getopt in tests for more compatibility;
- Include
stdint.h in Visual Studio if available.
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