ODBC Driver for SAS Xpt

Build 25.0.9434

Changelog

General Changes

DateBuild
Number		Change
Type		Description
10/06/20259410GeneralAdded
  • Support for parsing datetime formats using ".S" and ",S" for milliseconds and nanoseconds.
09/12/20259386GeneralAdded
  • Added the IsInsertable, IsUpdateable, and IsDeleteable columns to the sys_tables table.
09/10/20259384GeneralChanged
  • All columns in statically defined Views are now reported as read-only.
09/03/20259377GeneralChanged
  • Corrected the behavior when IN criteria with NULL values are used in the projection part. It now returns NULL instead of 0. For example, "NULL IN (1,2)" returns "NULL".
09/01/20259375GeneralAdded
  • Added support for using the CAST function with infinity values. This function can cast "inf" and "-inf" to DOUBLE, FLOAT, or REAL.
08/28/20259371SAS XptAdded
  • Added the TestConnectionBehavior connection property. The default is LIST_FILES.
08/21/20259364GeneralChanged
  • Report behavior change:
    • Fixed inconsistent string value comparisons in non-table queries.
    • For example, "SELECT 'A' = 'a'" previously returned false, but it now returns true.
08/13/20259356GeneralChanged
  • Changed the maximum number of pages held in memory from 15 to 5 for the page providers to decrease heap usage.
08/12/20259355SAS XptAdded
  • Added the Scope connection property.
07/18/20259330SAS XptRemoved
  • Removed the OAuthGrantType property. The grant type is now set implicitly through the 'AuthScheme' property. For example, you can use the 'OAuthPassword' AuthScheme instead of AuthScheme=OAuth with OAuthGrantType=Password.
07/03/20259315ODBCChanged
  • ODBC for Mac now works out-of-the-box on ARM64. However, x86_64 users must configure the NativeFolder to load the Oracle OCI libraries from <INSTALL ROOT>/lib/x86_64.
06/25/20259307GeneralRemoved
  • Removed the "ADLS Gen 1" value from the ConnectionType property.
06/20/20259302GeneralAdded
  • Created the following functions:
    • TEXT_ENCODE: encodes a string into a different charset (UTF8 → UTF7 and returns a binary array as the result).
    • TEXT_DECODE: takes a binary array and decodes it back into a string when provided the charset.
    • BASE64_ENCODE: takes a binary array and encodes it as a base64 string (varchar).
    • BASE64_DECODE: takes a base 64-encoded string and decodes it into a binary array.
06/18/20259300GeneralChanged
  • The internal code for exception handling has been refactored. Exception messages returned during certain error conditions may now have different wording or formatting.
06/12/20259294SAS XptAdded
  • Added the following stored procedures: UploadFile, DownloadFile, and DeleteFile. These stored procedures accept only file paths that are relative to the connection URI. Note that UploadFile and DownloadFile are not available for ConnectionType=Local.
06/09/20259291SAS XptRemoved
  • Removed the ProjectId property for the Google Cloud Storage ConnectionType.
05/27/20259278GeneralRemoved
  • Removed the "Proprietary" enum option from ProxyAuthscheme.
05/27/20259278ODBCRemoved
  • Removed support for the C# implementation of SQLite. Features that previously used this implementation by default, such as AutoCache and EF6 schema caching, now require the native SQLite driver.
05/15/20259266SAS XptAdded
  • Added support for reading .7z (7-Zip) archive files.
05/12/20259263ODBCChanged
  • Updated embedded JRE to jre-17.0.15+6 (Linux x64 / MacOS x64) and jre-17.0.15+6 (MacOS aarch64).
04/07/20259228SAS XptAdded
  • Added support for the IAMSecretKey AuthScheme for cloud storage connections that use access and secret key credentials. This naming better reflects the underlying authentication method and aligns with terminology used by cloud storage providers.

Deprecated
  • Deprecated the HMAC AuthScheme. While it remains supported for backward compatibility, it is no longer recommended due to naming ambiguity.
02/15/20259177GeneralAdded
  • Added support for converting unsigned integer types to the nearest signed data type that has enough precision to hold the unsigned value.This is done for JDBC only because it does not have support for unsigned data types.
12/24/20249124ODBCAdded
  • Added support for ARM64 on Windows.
11/27/20249097GeneralAdded
  • Added ThreadId to LogModule output. Logfile lines now include the Thread ID associated with the action being performed.
08/23/20249001SAS XptAdded
  • Added OAuthPKCE as an authentication option when ConnectionType is set to Google Cloud Storage and Google Drive.
  • Added OAuthClient as an authentication option when ConnectionType is set to Box.
08/20/20248998SAS XptAdded
  • Added support for the following AWS regions: HYDERABAD, MELBOURNE, CALGARY, SPAIN, ISOLATEDUSEAST, ISOLATEDUSEASTB, and ISOLATEDUSWEST.
06/28/20248945SAS XptRemoved
  • Removed the value "Auto" from the ConnectionType connection property. The default value is now "Local".
06/18/20248935GeneralAdded
  • Added support for the "TELAVIV" region (Israel) in the AWSRegion connection property.
05/09/20248895GeneralChanged
  • The ROUND function previously did not accept negative precision values. That feature has now been restored.
03/15/20248840GeneralAdded
  • Created a new SQL function called STRING_COMPARE that provides java's String.compare() ability to SQL queries. Returns a number representative of the compared value of two strings
11/29/20238733GeneralChanged
  • The ROUND function doesn't accept the negative precision values anymore.

Changed
  • The returning types of the FDMonth, FDQuarter, FDWeek, LDMonth, LDQuarter, LDWeek functions are changed from Timestamp to Date.
  • The return type of the ABS function will be consistent with the parameter value type.
11/28/20238732GeneralAdded
  • Added the HMACSHA256 formatter to allow for secrets to be decoded if it is in base64 format
08/14/20238626SAS XptAdded
  • Added AzureServicePrincipalCert as a separate AuthScheme to be used for Azure Service Principal authentication with a Certificate.
06/20/20238571GeneralAdded
  • Added the new sys_lastresultinfo system table.
04/25/20238515GeneralRemoved
  • Removed support for the SELECT INTO CSV statement. The core code doesn't support it anymore.
12/14/20228383GeneralChanged
  • Added the Default column to the sys_procedureparameters table.
11/11/20228350ODBCChanged
  • Updated embedded JRE to jre8u345-b01 (Linux x64 / MacOS x64) and jre-17.0.5+8 (MacOS aarch64).
09/30/20228308GeneralChanged
  • Added the IsPath column to the sys_procedureparameters table.
08/30/20228277SAS XptAdded
  • Added support for uploading server-side encrypted objects for Amazon S3 storage source via ServerSideEncryption connection property.
05/27/20228182SAS XptAdded
  • Added the ConnectionType connection property to determine the storage type of specified URI.
05/24/20228179SAS XptChanged
  • Changed provider name to SAS Xpt.
05/17/20228172ODBCChanged
  • Updated VC++ redistributable Libraries to Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable 14.32
04/27/20228152ODBCChanged
  • The installer now installs .NET 4.0 instead of .NET 2.0 during default installation when both are present.
03/10/20228104SAS XptAdded
  • Added support for Apache HDFS (webhdfs://) as a storage source.
03/09/20228103SAS XptChanged
  • Changed the default method for submitting client_credentials grants with OAuth. Before, client_credentials would submit OAuthClientId and OAuthClientSecret using the HTTP Authorization header. Now the OAuthPasswordGrantType controls this setting and it defaults to OAuthPasswordGrantType=Post. The previous behavior is still available by setting OAuthPasswordGrantType=Basic.
01/13/20228048SAS XptAdded
  • Added support for IBM Cloud Object Storage (ibmobjectstorage://) as a storage source.
12/22/20218026ODBCAdded
  • Added support for transactions.
10/07/20217950SAS XptAdded
  • Added support for excluding files based on the ExcludeFiles connection property.
  • Added support for datetime filters in IncludeFiles and ExcludeFiles connection properties. We currently support CreatedDate and ModifiedDate. Ex: 
    ExcludeFiles="TXT,CreatedDate<='2020-11-26T07:39:34-05:00'" 
ExcludeFiles="TXT,ModifiedDate<=DATETIMEFROMPARTS(2020, 11, 26, 7, 40, 50, 000)"
ExcludeFiles="ModifiedDate>=DATETIMEFROMPARTS(2020, 11, 26, 7, 40, 49, 000),ModifiedDate<=CURRENT_TIMESTAMP()"
  • Only the following storage sources will have support for filtering by CreatedDate:
    • Box (box://)
    • GCloudStorage (gs://)
    • GoogleDriveStorageSource (gdrive://)
    • OneDrive (onedrive://)
    • SharePoint (sp://)
    • SharePointREST (sprest://)
09/02/20217915GeneralAdded
  • Added support for the STRING_SPLIT table-valued function in the CROSS APPLY clause.
08/07/20217889GeneralChanged
  • Added the KeySeq column to the sys_foreignkeys table.
08/06/20217888GeneralChanged
  • Added the new sys_primarykeys system table.
07/29/20217880ODBCAdded
  • Added support for the Array data type for the input parameters in stored procedures.
07/23/20217874GeneralChanged
  • Updated the Literal Function Names for relative date/datetime functions. Previously, relative date/datetime functions resolved to a different value when used in the projection as opposed to the predicate. For example: SELECT LAST_MONTH() AS lm, Col FROM Table WHERE Col > LAST_MONTH(). Formerly, the two LAST_MONTH() methods would resolve to different datetimes. Now, they will match.
  • As a replacement for the previous behavior, the relative date/datetime functions in the criteria may have an 'L' appended to them. For example: WHERE col > L_LAST_MONTH(). This will continue to resolve to the same values that were previously calculated in the criteria. Note that the "L_" prefix will only work in the predicate - it not available for the projection.
06/24/20217845SAS XptAdded
  • Added support for the GOOGLEJSONBLOB JWT certificate type. This works like the existing GOOGLEJSON certificate type except that the certificate is provided as JSON text instead of as a file path.
06/08/20217829SAS XptAdded
  • Added support for the AzureServicePrinciple authentication scheme, which will support both using an OAuthClientSecret, or alternatively using a JWT cert.
06/05/20217826SAS XptAdded
  • Added support to authenticate submitting JWT certs instead of the OAuthClientSecret for the AzureAD authentication scheme.
05/29/20217819ODBCAdded
  • Exposed the InitiateOAuth connection property.
05/26/20217816ODBCAdded
  • Added support for the JAVA_HOME setting in the configuration file.
04/29/20217789ODBCAdded
  • Added the SqlMaxColumnNameLen connection property.
04/23/20217783GeneralChanged
  • Updated how display sizes are determined for varchar primary key and foreign key columns so they will match the reported length of the column.
04/16/20217776GeneralChanged
  • Reduced the length to 255 for varchar primary key and foreign key columns.

Changed
  • Updated index naming convention to avoid duplicates.
04/16/20217776GeneralChanged
  • Updated implicit and metadata caching to improve performance and support for multiple connections. Old metadata caches are not compatible - you need to generate new metadata caches if you are currently using CacheMetadata.
04/16/20217776ODBCChanged
  • ODBC Drivers on Linux and Mac now depend on the JRE, which brings improved stability and performance.
04/15/20217775GeneralChanged
  • Kerberos authentication is updated to use TCP by default, but will fall back to UDP if a TCP connection cannot be established.

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