ODBC Driver release notes for 2026¶

Deprecated support for CentOS 7. The minimum supported operating systems are now Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 and Rocky Linux 8.

Added the WORKLOAD_IDENTITY_IMPERSONATION_PATH connection parameter to support GCP and AWS Workload Identity Federation (WIF) impersonation.

Added the singleAuthenticationPrompt connection parameter to control the authentication flow.

Added the following operating system details from the /etc/os-release file as telemetry during the login request:

• NAME

• PRETTY_NAME

• ID

• BUILD_ID

• IMAGE_ID

• IMAGE_VERSION

• VERSION

• VERSION_ID

Updated curl to version 8.16.0.

Updated OpenSSL to version 3.0.18.

Set LOCAL_APPLICATION as the default value for client_id and client_secret in the OAuth authorization code flow.

Fixed the expired file lock on Linux for secure storage.

Removed the username requirement for WIF authentication.

Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 for x86 and ARM64 architectures.

Introduced a shared library for extended telemetry to identify and prepare a testing platform for native Rust extensions.

Introduced warning log messages when HTTP is used for OAuth authorization and token endpoints.

Added support for injecting the SPCS service identifier token (SPCS_TOKEN) into login requests when present in SPCS containers.

• Introduced the token_file_path parameter in the TOML configuration to specify the path to the file containing the token.

• Introduced the SKIP_TOKEN_FILE_PERMISSIONS_VERIFICATION parameter. If set to true, the file permission check is omitted.

Introduced a specific error when exceeding the parameter limit in a query.

Improved logging.

Added support for specifying the Azure client ID.

Enabled handling of the 307 and 308 HTTP redirect codes.

Fixed duplicate error message codes.

Fixed the default session scope for OAuth authentication.

Fixed the default CRL cache path creation on Windows.

Fixed session token leakage in the logs.