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What's new in ODBC Driver for Oracle 5.1.1

Mar 28, 2024
  • Fixed the issue when establishing a connection with a connection string that contains unsupported parameters

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 5.1.0 (Mar 14, 2024)

  • Now passwords are stored in an encrypted form in the DSN record
  • Added Read Only mode for connection
  • Improved compatibility with FileMaker Server for Linux and macOS
  • Fixed connection timeout setting before opening connection

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 5.0.1 (Oct 4, 2023)

  • Fixed bug with driver license validation for Linked Server in MSSMS

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 5.0.0 (Aug 18, 2023)

  • Added support for Oracle 23c
  • Improved compatibility with 4D in macOS
  • Fixed bug with SQL executing timeout for HTTP/HTTPS tunneling
  • Fixed bug with getting data in DBeaver
  • Fixed Windows XP installation bug

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 4.3.1 (May 17, 2023)

  • Added support for Private App authorization
  • Added support for SQL_ATTR_MAX_ROWS attribute
  • Improved compatibility with Linked Server in SQL Server
  • Improved compatibility with Visual Basic in Visual Studio
  • Improved compatibility with Alteryx
  • Improve MS Access linked tables support
  • Fixed bug with SELECT that contains JOIN for Linked Tables in MS Access

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 4.3.0 (Nov 18, 2022)

  • Added support for macOS 13 Ventura
  • Improved compatibility with Tableau Prep Builder
  • Improved compatibility with Crystal Reports
  • Improved the SSH connection establishment
  • Reduced number of metadata calls
  • Fixed bug when a connection string parameter value contains a single quote
  • Fixed an issue with adding DSN in PowerShell
  • Fixed an issue with rows deleting

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 4.2.1 (Jan 5, 2022)

  • Added support for Windows 11
  • Improved compatibility with FICO Mosel
  • Improved compatibility with FileMaker
  • Improved support for an ODBC installer on Windows 2000
  • Fixed an issue with updating date and time fields in MS Access

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 4.1.1 (Jul 12, 2021)

  • MSI installer for deploying through GPO is added

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 4.0.1 (May 26, 2021)

  • Apple Silicon M1 is supported
  • Oracle 21c is supported
  • Compatibility with macOS Big Sur is improved
  • Bug with modifying data using the Linked Server is fixed

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 3.3.2 (Dec 16, 2020)

  • Bug with connection to RAC servers in the Direct mode is fixed

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 3.3.1 (Dec 9, 2020)

  • Oracle 20c is supported
  • Connection via SSL protocol is supported
  • Connection via SSH protocol is supported
  • Connection via HTTP tunnel is supported

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 3.2.3 (Apr 8, 2020)

  • Long database object names are supported
  • Possibility of mapping DATE time to SQL_TYPE_DATE rather than SQL_TYPE_TIMESTAMP is added
  • Compatibility with Power Pivot is improved
  • Compatibility with Visual Basic is improved
  • Compatibility with RStudio is improved
  • Bug with modifying data using SQLSetPos is fixed
  • Bug with fetching by Bookmark is fixed

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 3.1.2 (Oct 7, 2019)

  • Oracle 19c is supported
  • Now ODBC driver is thread-safe
  • Now ODBC driver activation does not require administrator privileges
  • Improved compatibility with sandboxed applications for macOS
  • Support for connection pooling is improved

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 3.0.1 (Jan 9, 2019)

  • Oracle 18c is supported
  • Now ODBC driver for macOS is distributed as a PKG package
  • Now ODBC driver for Linux is distributed as DEB and RPM packages
  • Possibility to force the ODBC 2.x behavior is added

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 2.50 (Jul 17, 2018)

  • Possibility to show used connection string in the connection dialog is added

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 2.49 (Jun 15, 2018)

  • Possibility to return String Types as Ansi or Unicode is added
  • Compatibility with MS Access is improved
  • Compatibility with Tableau is improved
  • Compatibility with Omnis Studio is improved
  • Compatibility with Power Pivot is improved
  • Compatibility with DBeaver is improved

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 2.3.8 (Feb 27, 2018)

  • Performance of batch operations is significantly improved

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 2.2.7 (Oct 24, 2017)

  • Compatibility with SAS JMP is improved
  • Compatibility with MS Power Query is improved
  • OUTER JOIN macros in SQL queries are supported
  • DateTime macros in SQL queries are supported
  • Scalar function macros in SQL queries are supported
  • NChar literal replacement is supported
  • Retrieving Metadata for Oracle 8 is improved

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 2.1.6 (Jun 22, 2017)

  • Compatibility with Adobe ColdFusion is improved
  • Oracle 12c authentication in the Direct mode is supported
  • Several issues with data modification in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio are resolved
  • Now "." is a decimal separator for numbers with floating point by default

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 2.1.5 (Dec 8, 2016)

  • Bug in DSN Configuration dialog is fixed

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 2.1.4 (Dec 8, 2016)

  • Compatibility with Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is improved

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 2.1.3 (Dec 8, 2016)

  • Oracle Cloud (DBaaS) in the Direct mode is supported
  • Option for showing meta data only for the current scheme is added
  • Compatibility with MS Visual Studio
  • Compatibility with MS FoxPro is improved
  • Compatibility with MapInfo is improved
  • Compatibility with Libre Office is improved
  • Compatibility with Qlik is improved
  • Compatibility with Delphi & C++Builder is improved
  • MS Access linked tables support is improved

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 2.0.2 (Apr 7, 2016)

  • Compatibility with MS Excel is improved
  • Compatibility with ODBC 2.x is improved
  • Bug with Trial expiration in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio is fixed
  • Bug with fetching big data amount is fixed

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 2.0.1 (Mar 23, 2016)

  • Support for stored procedures and functions is improved
  • Backward compatibility of SQLExecDirect with ODBC 2.x is improved

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 1.2.4 (Jan 9, 2016)

  • Compatibility with Microsoft Power BI Desktop is improved
  • Compatibility with Microsoft Visual FoxPro is improved

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 1.2.3 (Nov 20, 2015)

  • Compatibility with Microsoft Visual Studio is improved
  • Compatibility with Microsoft Office is improved
  • Compatibility with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio is improved
  • Compatibility with Crystal Reports is improved
  • Compatibility with ClikView is improved
  • Stored procedures metadata support is improved
  • Interval data types support is improved

New in ODBC Driver for Oracle 1.1.1 (Jun 17, 2015)

  • First release of ODBC Driver for Oracle
  • Windows 32-bit is supported
  • Windows 64-bit is supported