ODBC Driver release notes for 2025¶

New features and updates¶

• None.

Bug fixes¶

• Fixed a bug with numeric data conversion when using bulk fetching.

New features and updates¶

• None.

Bug fixes¶

• Fixed a bug with numeric data conversion when using bulk fetching.

New features and updates¶

• None.

Bug fixes¶

• Fixed a bug with numeric data conversion when using bulk fetching.

New features and updates¶

• None.

Bug fixes¶

• Fixed a bug with numeric data conversion when using bulk fetching.

New features and updates¶

• None.

Bug fixes¶

• Fixed a bug with numeric data conversion when using bulk fetching.

New features and updates¶

• Improved performance of the multi-threaded bulk fetching workflow.

Bug fixes¶

• Fixed a bug that, during OIDC usage, the token was not required, causing errors.

• Fixed the MacOS release to include the x86_64 architecture.

• Fix a bug with DEFAULT_VARCHAR_SIZE in configuration of the default varchar length parameter.

• Fixed a bug with numeric data conversion when using bulk fetching.

New features and updates¶

• Added support for workload identity federation in the AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes platforms.

  • Added the workload_identity_provider connection parameter.

  • Added WORKLOAD_IDENTITY to the values for the authenticator connection parameter.

• Added the following configuration parameters:

  • DisableTelemetry to disable telemetry.

  • SSLVersionMax to specify the maximum SSL version.

• Added the PRIV_KEY_BASE64 and PRIV_KEY_PWD connection parameters that allow passing a base64-encoded private key.

Bug fixes¶

• Fixed an issue with the in-band telemetry event handler to properly reset the events.

• Fixed the HTTP headers used to authenticate via OKTA.

• Removed the trailing slash from the default RedirectUri within the OAuth Authorization process.

Private Preview (PrPr) features¶

• Added support for sovereign clouds for workload identity federation (WIF).

  • These features can only be accessed by setting the SF_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_AUTHENTICATION environment variable to true.

  • You should use these features only with non-production data.

  • Support is unavailable for these PrPr features. However, the Product and Engineering teams are available for consultation during PrPr.

  • Contact your account team for participation and documentation.

New features and updates¶

• Added support for configuring connection parameters in TOML files.

Bug fixes¶

• Fixed an issue with supporting virtual-style domains.

• Fixed an issue that could potentially cause a buffer overflow.

Private Preview (PrPr) features¶

• Added support for Workload Identity Federation in the AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes platforms.

  • These features can only be accessed by setting the SF_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_AUTHENTICATION environment variable to true.

  • You should use these features only with non-production data.

  • Support is unavailable for these PrPr features. However, the Product and Engineering teams are available for consultation during PrPr.

  • Contact your account team for participation and documentation.

New features and updates¶

• Added the LOCAL_APPLICATION default for the oauth_client_id and oauth_client_secret OAUTH parameters.

• Extended the Windows UI of the ODBC driver with key-pair authentication parameters PRIV_KEY_FILE and PRIV_KEY_FILE_PWD.

• Added support virtual-style domains.

• Added the DriverManagerOverride configuration parameter, which allows specifying the driver manager on Linux and MacOS.

• Upgraded the driver to SimbaSDK 10.3.

Bug fixes¶

• Fixed the incorrect error thrown by fetching the cancellation request.

• Fixed a possible crash triggered by using bulk fetching first (retrieve multiple rows per fetch call), then switching to single row mode.

• Fixed the issue when handling easy-logging configuration could break the connection.

• Fixed an OCSP validation issue on session resuming that could lead to out of memory problem.

New features and updates¶

• Added support for PAT (Programmatic Access Token), OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code Flow, OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Flow, and OAuth Token caching:

  • For PAT:

    • Added the PROGRAMMATIC_ACCESS_TOKEN parameter for the parameter authenticator.

  • For OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code Flow:

    • Added the oauth_client_id, oauth_client_secret, oauth_authorization_url, oauth_token_request_url, and oauth_scope DSN parameters.

    • Added the OAUTH_AUTHORIZATION_CODE parameter for the parameter authenticator.

  • For OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Flow:

    • Added the oauth_client_id, oauth_client_secret, oauth_token_request_url, and oauth_scope DSN parameters.

    • Added the OAUTH_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS parameter for the parameter authenticator.

  • For OAuth Token caching:

    • Passing the UID (username) to the driver configuration is required, and client_store_temporary_credential property cannot be set to false.

• Implemented and improved the file-based credentials cache for Linux, including enhanced token caching.

Bug fixes¶

• None.

Private Preview (PrPr) features¶

Added support for PAT (Programmatic Access Token), OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code Flow, OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Flow, and OAuth Token caching in Private Preview:

• For PAT:

  • Added the PROGRAMMATIC_ACCESS_TOKEN parameter for the parameter authenticator.

• For OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code Flow:

  • Added the oauth_client_id, oauth_client_secret, oauth_authorization_url, oauth_token_request_url, and oauth_scope DSN parameters.

  • Added the OAUTH_AUTHORIZATION_CODE parameter for the parameter authenticator.

• For OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Flow:

  • Added the oauth_client_id, oauth_client_secret, oauth_token_request_url, and oauth_scope DSN parameters.

  • Added the OAUTH_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS parameter for the parameter authenticator.

• For OAuth Token caching:

  • Passing the UID (username) to the driver configuration is required, and clientStoreTemporaryCredential property cannot be set to false.

Disclaimer:

• These features can only be accessed by setting the SF_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_AUTHENTICATION environment variable to true.

• You should use these features only with non-production data.

• Support is unavailable for these PrPr features. However, the Product and Engineering teams are available for consultation during PrPr.

• Contact your account team for participation and documentation.

New features and updates¶

• Updated the curl library (libcurl) from version 8.10.1 to 8.12.1.

Bug fixes¶

• Enabled the Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) security compiler option for Windows.

• Fixed an issue with certain code paths logging the entire SQL query text using the INFO level. For more information see CVE-2025-46614.

New features and updates¶

• Added support for regional Google Cloud Storage endpoints.

Bug fixes¶

• Fixed an issue with the driver crashing when basic_string::_M_construct is null or not valid or when a segmentation fault because the HOME environment variable is unset.

• Fixed an issue with the MacOS Secure Storage helper.

• Fixed issues with lowercasing URL when using OKTA authentication.

• Fixed a logging issue with the test button.

• Fixed an issue when a query response omits its length.

• Fixed an issue with the HTTP Date header format depending on the locale.