Changes
Added
- Support for PHP 8.4 and PHP 8.5
- Support for Windows Server 2025
- Support for Ubuntu 24.04
- Support for Debian 11, 12, and 13
- Support for Red Hat 9 and 10
- Support for Alpine 3.20, 3.21, 3.22, and 3.23
- Support for macOS 14, 15, and 26
Removed
- Support for PHP 8.1 and 8.2
- Support for Windows 10, Server 2012, and Server 2012 R2
- Support for Ubuntu 20.04
- Support for Debian 10
- Support for macOS 11, 12, and 13
- Support for Red Hat 7
- Support for SUSE Linux 12
- Support for Alpine 3.16, 3.17, 3.18, and 3.19
Changed
- Refactored build scripts for safety, error handling, and command injection prevention ([PR #1551](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1551), [PR #1552](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1552))
Fixed
- Fixed segfault when connecting to Fabric ([PR #1549](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1549))
- Enhanced error reporting in PDO driver when ODBC diagnostic retrieval fails ([PR #1549](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1549))
- Fixed critical memory safety bugs in encoding conversion - NULL pointer dereference and uninitialized pointer return ([PR #1555](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1555))
- Removed lingering error2 reference from failure block in CI pipeline ([PR #1568](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1568))
- Fixed PHP 8.5 compatibility issues in tests and CI pipeline ([PR #1569](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1569))
Limitations
- No support for inout / output params when using sql_variant type
- No support for inout / output params when formatting decimal values
- In Linux and macOS, setlocale() only takes effect if it is invoked before the first connection. Attempting to set the locale after connecting will not work
- Always Encrypted requires [MS ODBC Driver 17+](https://docs.microsoft.com/sql/connect/odbc/linux-mac/installing-the-microsoft-odbc-driver-for-sql-server)
- Only Windows Certificate Store and Azure Key Vault are supported. Custom Keystores are not yet supported
- Issue [#716](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/716) - With Always Encrypted enabled, named parameters in subqueries are not supported
- Issue [#1050](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1050) - With Always Encrypted enabled, insertion requires the column list for any tables with identity columns
- [Always Encrypted limitations](https://docs.microsoft.com/sql/connect/php/using-always-encrypted-php-drivers#limitations-of-the-php-drivers-when-using-always-encrypted)
Known Issues
- Connection pooling on Linux or macOS is not recommended with [unixODBC](http://www.unixodbc.org/) < 2.3.7
- When pooling is enabled in Linux or macOS
- unixODBC <= 2.3.4 (Linux and macOS) might not return proper diagnostic information, such as error messages, warnings and informative messages
- due to this unixODBC bug, fetch large data (such as xml, binary) as streams as a workaround. See the examples [here](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/wiki/Features#pooling)