The new PECL package sqlsrv-5.4.0preview (devel) has been released at 
http://pecl.php.net/.

Release notes
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[Added]
- Added support for PHP 7.3.0 RC 1
- Added support for Azure AD Access Token (in Linux / macOS this requires [MS 
ODBC Driver 
17+](https://docs.microsoft.com/sql/connect/odbc/linux-mac/installing-the-microsoft-odbc-driver-for-sql-server)
 and [unixODBC](http://www.unixodbc.org/) 2.3.6+)
- Feature Request [#844](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/pull/844) - add 
ReturnDatesAsStrings option to statement level for sqlsrv
- Compatible with [ODBC Driver 17.3 
CTP](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlnativeclient/2018/09/24/odbc-driver-17-3-preview-for-sql-server-released/)
[Removed]
- Dropped support for Ubuntu 17.10
- Dropped support for PHP 7.0 - [Version 
5.3](https://docs.microsoft.com/sql/connect/php/system-requirements-for-the-php-sql-driver?view=sql-server-2017)
 is the last to support PHP 7.0.
[Fixed]
- Pull Request [#836](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/pull/836) - 
Modified the config files to enable Spectre Mitigations (use /Qspectre switch) 
for PHP 7.2
- Pull Request [#833](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/pull/833) - 
Streamlined the error handling to remove a potential cause of crash
[Limitations]
- No support for inout / output params when using sql_variant type
- 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/en-us/sql/connect/odbc/linux-mac/installing-the-microsoft-odbc-driver-for-sql-server?view=sql-server-2017)
  - 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
  - [Always Encrypted 
limitations](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/php/using-always-encrypted-php-drivers?view=sql-server-2017#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/) < 2.3.6
- 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)
- With ColumnEncryption enabled, calling stored procedure with XML parameter 
does not work (Issue [#674](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/674))
- With ColumnEncryption enabled, fetching varbinary(max), varchar(max) or 
nvarchar(max) may fail with ODBC Driver 17.3 CTP

Package Info
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The Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server are PHP extensions that allow for 
the reading and writing of SQL Server data from within PHP scripts. The SQLSRV 
extension provides a procedural interface while the PDO_SQLSRV extension 
implements PDO for accessing data in all editions of SQL Server 2008 R2 and 
later (including Azure SQL DB). These drivers rely on the Microsoft ODBC Driver 
for SQL Server to handle the low-level communication with SQL Server.
*This package contains only the SQLSRV driver.*

Related Links
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Package home: http://pecl.php.net/package/sqlsrv
   Changelog: http://pecl.php.net/package-changelog.php?package=sqlsrv
    Download: http://pecl.php.net/get/sqlsrv-5.4.0preview.tgz

Authors
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Meet Bhagdev <me...@microsoft.com> (lead)
Jay Kint <jayk...@microsoft.com> (lead)
Marie Barwin (lead)
Jenny Tam (lead)


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