Fixes: Describes the issues resolved since general availability.
Version 8.0.1
Enhancements
The installer program has been enhanced to support Azul Zulu JRE 11. As a result of this change, the installer has ended support for platforms that do not support Java SE 8 or higher. The installer supports the following operating systems after the
enhancement:
Windows 8.1 or higher
Windows Server 2012 RC2 or higher
UNIX/Linux: Any operating system on a machine using a JRE that is Java SE 8 or higher (LTS version), including Oracle JDK, OpenJDK, and IBM SDK (Java) distributions.
Important: These changes do not affect the operating system requirements of the driver.*
The driver has been enhanced to support SAP BW/4HANA and other SAP ODATA V2 services exposed through the SAP NetWeaver Gateway.
The driver has been enhanced to support CDS views that require parameters.
The driver has been enhanced to support HTTP Header authentication for use with the S/4HANA sandbox hosted at https://api.sap.com.
The driver has been enhanced to determine the maximum size of VARCHAR columns within the result set metadata using the new Maximum Varchar Size connection option.
The driver has been enhanced to support a default value of 100000 for the Web Service Fetch Size connection option.
The curl library files that are installed with the product have been upgraded to version 7.75.0, which fixes a number of potential security vulnerabilities. For more information on the vulnerabilities resolved by this enhancement, refer to:
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/vulnerabilities.html. This upgrade is available starting in build 08.02.0239 of the curl library files.
Version 8.0.0
Features
The driver supports SQL read and write access to SAP S/4HANA Cloud instances.
The driver supports all ODBC Core and Level 1 functions and some Level 1 and Level 2 features.
The driver supports SAP S/4HANA data types through data type inference.
The driver supports basic authentication.
The driver supports the handling of large result sets with paging and the Fetch Size (FetchSize) Web Service Fetch Size (WSFetchSize) connection options.
The driver supports optimizing insert, update, and delete operations with the Batch Update Chunk Size (BatchUpdateChunkSize) connection option.
On Windows platforms, the driver includes the DataDirect ODBC Driver Configuration Manager for quick configuration and testing of your driver. This Configuration Manager allows you to:
Configure data sources
Generate and edit connection URLs
Test connect data sources and connection URLs
Execute SQL commands for testing;
Fetch OAuth tokens
Access connection property descriptions and the full product documentation