ODBC Driver for xBase Changelog

What's new in ODBC Driver for xBase 5.0.0

Mar 14, 2024
  • Added support for the UTF8 encoding
  • Added support for tables with duplicate column names
  • Improved compatibility with Quantum GIS
  • Improved compatibility with ETL Informatica PowerCenter
  • Improved MS Access linked tables support
  • Improved error handling when using the IgnoreDataErrors option
  • Improved compatibility with FileMaker Server for Linux and macOS
  • Fixed bug with editing tables where there are nullable columns in MS Access

New in ODBC Driver for xBase 4.1.0 (Oct 4, 2023)

  • Added support for the CREATE TABLE AS SELECT statement
  • Fixed bug with driver license validation for Linked Server in MSSMS

New in ODBC Driver for xBase 4.0.0 (Aug 19, 2023)

  • Improved significantly the performance of DML operations
  • Improved compatibility with Power BI Desktop
  • Improved compatibility with 4D in macOS
  • Added support for CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS and DROP TABLE IF EXISTS statements
  • Fixed bug with data conversion when using YEAR, MONTH and DAY functions
  • Fixed bug with getting data in DBeaver
  • Fixed Windows XP installation bug

New in ODBC Driver for xBase 3.3.1 (May 17, 2023)

  • Added support for SQL_ATTR_MAX_ROWS attribute
  • Improved compatibility with Visual Basic in Visual Studio
  • Fixed an issue with Assertion Failure when using the ROUND() function
  • Fixed an issue with incorrect results of a SELECT statement with JOIN of a table to itself
  • Fixed an issue with incorrect results of a SELECT statement with WHERE on a character field

New in ODBC Driver for xBase 3.3.0 (Nov 18, 2022)

  • Added support for macOS 13 Ventura
  • Added support for VisualFoxPro CANDIDATE indexes
  • Added support for NOT function in index expressions
  • Improved compatibility with Microsoft Power BI Desktop
  • Improved compatibility with Tableau Prep Builder
  • Improved compatibility with Crystal Reports
  • Fixed bug with writing MEMO field values on Linux
  • Fixed bug with Memo fields values comparison
  • Fixed bug with a "Can not find a memo file" after dropping the last memo field
  • 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 xBase 3.2.1 (Jan 5, 2022)

  • Added support for Windows 11
  • Improved compatibility with FICO Mosel
  • Improved compatibility with FileMaker
  • Improved compatibility with JMP on macOS
  • Improved support for an ODBC installer on Windows 2000
  • Added support for the Autoinc data type in Visual FoxPro tables
  • Added support for the YEAR, MONTH and DAY functions in index expressions
  • Fixed an issue with reading logical fields that contain Y/N values
  • Fixed an issue with updating date and time fields in MS Access

New in ODBC Driver for xBase 3.1.1 (Jul 12, 2021)

  • MSI installer for deploying through GPO is added

New in ODBC Driver for xBase 3.0.1 (Jul 12, 2021)

  • Apple Silicon M1 is supported
  • Compatibility with macOS Big Sur is improved
  • Compatibility with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio is improved
  • Compatibility with Microsoft Access is improved
  • Suport for Out values in Numeric fields is added
  • Work with tables of type dBaseV and dBaseVII with the DBFFormat option set to dfAuto is improved
  • Several bugs with handling fields of type MEMO, BLOB, BINARY and VARBINARY are fixed
  • Bug with the missing libmongoc and libbson libraries on the macOS and Linux platforms is fixed
  • Bug with the TRANSFORM function is fixed
  • Bug with AV when an index expression is empty is fixed

New in ODBC Driver for xBase 2.3.1 (Jul 12, 2021)

  • Native dBase functions in an SQL statement are supported
  • The AllFieldsAsNullable connection option is added
  • The IgnoreBrokenTables connection option is added
  • Bug with indexes containing date fields is fixed
  • Bug with VisualFoxPro indexes containing double fields is fixed
  • Bug with using tables whose fields match SQL keywords is fixed
  • Bug with incorrect results of date functions is fixed

New in ODBC Driver for xBase 2.2 (Dec 9, 2020)

  • The IgnoreIndexErrors connection option is added
  • Access to table files when performing queries is optimized
  • Improved compatibility with RStudio, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, Microsoft Power BI Desktop, Power Pivot, Visual Basic

New in ODBC Driver for xBase 2.1.3 (Oct 7, 2019)

  • Now ODBC driver activation does not require administrator privileges
  • Support for connection pooling is improved
  • Improved compatibility with sandboxed applications for macOS
  • The IgnoreDataErrors connection option is added
  • The IdentifierCase connection option is added
  • Bug with invalid selection of deleted records is fixed
  • Bug with storing numeric values is fixed
  • Bug with using CTOD, DTOS, TTOC, TTOD and EMPTY functions in index expressions is fixed
  • Bug with using a field named RECNO in index expressions is fixed
  • Bug with inserting records with empty fields is fixed
  • Bug with executing a CREATE TABLE statement is fixed
  • Bug with executing a CREATE INDEX statement is fixed
  • Bug with reading floating-point values is fixed
  • Bug with reading MEMO field values is fixed
  • Bug with detecting dBaseIV file format is fixed

New in ODBC Driver for xBase 2.0.2 (Jan 11, 2019)

  • Bug with wrong selection of deleted records is fixed
  • Bug with storing numeric values is fixed
  • Bug with using CTOD, DTOS, TTOC, TTOD and EMPTY functions in index expressions is fixed
  • Bug with using a field named RECNO in index expressions is fixed

New in ODBC Driver for xBase 2.0.1 (Jan 9, 2019)

  • 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
  • Bug with using the DTOC function in index expressions is fixed
  • Bug with using fields that have null values in conditional expressions is fixed
  • Bug with opening some VisualFoxPro tables is fixed

New in ODBC Driver for xBase 1.3.4 (Jul 17, 2018)

  • Support for Clipper/Harbour is added
  • Possibility to show used connection string in the connection dialog is added

New in ODBC Driver for xBase 1.2.3 (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
  • Compatibility with Codebase is improved
  • Bug with importing data in Microsoft Excel using Microsoft Query is fixed
  • Bug with getting the "Key fields not found" error is fixed

New in ODBC Driver for xBase 1.1.2 (Feb 27, 2018)

  • Performance of batch operations is significantly improved
  • The IndexOnReading connection parameter is added
  • Bug with opening some dBaseVII tables is fixed
  • Bug with reading Visual FoxPro Double fields is fixed