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Latest PECL Releases:protobuf 3.11.3 GA release. decimal 2.0.0 - Default decimal precision changed from 28 to 34. - Decimal operations now use the **minimum** precision of all operands. - Added `DecimalRational` implementation for rational numbers (fractions). - Added `DecimalNumber` abstract class. - Performance improvements, reduced object allocations. - Private constructors, static initializers via `valueOf`. decimal 1.3.1 - Fixed abs affected by precision. zip 1.17.1 - add ZipArchive::RDONLY constant (since libzip 1.0.0) - fix #73119 Wrong return for ZipArchive::addEmptyDir method datadog_trace 0.39.0 ### Changed: - Bring background sender to feature parity #738 pdo_sqlsrv 5.8.0 [Added] - Support for PHP 7.4 - Support for [Microsoft ODBC Driver 17.5]( https://docs.microsoft.com/sql/connect/odbc/download-odbc-driver-for-sql-server?view=sql-server-ver15) on all platforms - Support for Debian 10 and Red Hat 8 - require MS ODBC Driver 17.4+ - Support for macOS Catalina, Alpine Linux 3.11 and Ubuntu 19.10 - require ODBC Driver 17.5+ - Feature Request [#929](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/929) - new [Language option](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/wiki/Features#language) - Pull Request [#930](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/930) - [Data Classification Sensitivity Metadata Retrieval](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/wiki/Features#data-classification-sensitivity-metadata) - requires ODBC Driver 17.4.2+ and [SQL Server 2019](https://www.microsoft.com/sql-server/sql-server-2019) - Feature Request [#1018](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1018) - support for [PHP extended string types](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/wiki/Features#natlTypes) - Pull Request [#1043](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1043) - [Always Encrypted with secure enclaves](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/wiki/Features#alwaysencryptedV2) - requires ODBC Driver 17.4+ and [SQL Server 2019](https://www.microsoft.com/sql-server/sql-server-2019) - Feature Request [#1063](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1063) - add configurable options for locale settings in Linux and macOS - Pull Request [#1069](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1069) [Removed] - Dropped support for [PHP 7.1](https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php) - Dropped support for SQL Server 2008 R2, macOS Sierra, Ubuntu 18.10 and Ubuntu 19.04. [Fixed] - Pull Request [#972](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/972) - Removed redundant calls to retrieve the number of columns or rows in the current query result set - Pull Request [#978](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/978) - PDO_SQLSRV implementation of PDO::getColumnMeta now references cached metadata rather than making an ODBC call every time - Pull Request [#979](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/979) - Added support for Data Classification Sensitivity metadata retrieval - Pull Request [#985](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/985) - Fixed memory issues with Data Classification data structures - Issue [#432](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/432) - Having any invalid UTF-8 name in the connection string will no longer invoke misleading error messages - Issue [#909](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/909) - Fixed potential exception with locale issues in macOS - Pull Request [#992](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/992) - Produced the correct error when requesting Data Classification metadata with ODBC drivers prior to 17 - Pull Request [#1001](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1001) - Fixed compilation issue with PHP 7.4 alpha - Pull Request [#1004](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1004) - Fixed another compilation issue with PHP 7.4 alpha - Pull Request [#1008](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1008) - Improved data caching when fetching datetime objects - Pull Request [#1011](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1011) - Fixed a potential buffer overflow when parsing for escaped braces in the connection string - Pull Request [#1015](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1015) - Fixed compilation issues and addressed various memory leaks detected by PHP 7.4 beta 1 - Issue [#1027](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1027) - Fixed how drivers handle query timeout settings - Pull Request [#1049](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1049) - Performance improvement for fetching from tables with many columns - cached the derived php types with column metadata to streamline data retrieval - Pull Request [#1068](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1068) - Some cosmetic changes to source code as per suggestions from a static analysis tool - Issue [#1079](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1079) - Support sql_variant types when using client buffers [Limitations] - No support for inout / output params when using sql_variant type - No support for inout / output params when formatting decimal values - 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/sql/connect/odbc/linux-mac/installing-the-microsoft-odbc-driver-for-sql-server) - 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 - Issue [#1050](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1050) - With Always Encrypted enabled, insertion requires the column list for any tables with identity columns - [Always Encrypted limitations](https://docs.microsoft.com/sql/connect/php/using-always-encrypted-php-drivers#limitations-of-the-php-drivers-when-using-always-encrypted) [Known Issues] - In Alpine Linux, the Client-Side Cursors feature may cause an access violation if both sqlsrv and pdo_sqlsrv are enabled. Either enable only sqlsrv or pdo_sqlsrv, or build PHP from source by compiling the drivers statically. - Connection pooling on Linux or macOS is not recommended with [unixODBC](http://www.unixodbc.org/) < 2.3.7 - 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) sqlsrv 5.8.0 [Added] - Support for PHP 7.4 - Support for [Microsoft ODBC Driver 17.5]( https://docs.microsoft.com/sql/connect/odbc/download-odbc-driver-for-sql-server?view=sql-server-ver15) on all platforms - Support for Debian 10 and Red Hat 8 - require MS ODBC Driver 17.4+ - Support for macOS Catalina, Alpine Linux 3.11 and Ubuntu 19.10 - require ODBC Driver 17.5+ - Feature Request [#929](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/929) - new [Language option](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/wiki/Features#language) - Pull Request [#930](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/930) - [Data Classification Sensitivity Metadata Retrieval](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/wiki/Features#data-classification-sensitivity-metadata) - requires ODBC Driver 17.4.2+ and [SQL Server 2019](https://www.microsoft.com/sql-server/sql-server-2019) - [Always Encrypted with secure enclaves](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/wiki/Features#alwaysencryptedV2) - requires ODBC Driver 17.4+ and [SQL Server 2019](https://www.microsoft.com/sql-server/sql-server-2019) - Feature Request [#1063](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1063) - add configurable options for locale settings in Linux and macOS - Pull Request [#1069](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1069) [Removed] - Dropped support for [PHP 7.1](https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php) - Dropped support for SQL Server 2008 R2, macOS Sierra, Ubuntu 18.10 and Ubuntu 19.04. [Fixed] - Issue [#570](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/570) - Fixed fetching varbinary data using client buffer with sqlsrv - Pull Request [#972](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/972) - Removed redundant calls to retrieve the number of columns or rows in the current query result set - Pull Request [#979](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/979) - Added support for Data Classification Sensitivity metadata retrieval - Pull Request [#985](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/985) - Fixed memory issues with Data Classification data structures - Issue [#432](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/432) - Having any invalid UTF-8 name in the connection string will no longer invoke misleading error messages - Issue [#909](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/909) - Fixed potential exception with locale issues in macOS - Pull Request [#992](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/992) - Produced the correct error when requesting Data Classification metadata with ODBC drivers prior to 17 - Pull Request [#1001](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1001) - Fixed compilation issue with PHP 7.4 alpha - Pull Request [#1004](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1004) - Fixed another compilation issue with PHP 7.4 alpha - Pull Request [#1008](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1008) - Improved data caching when fetching datetime objects - Pull Request [#1011](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1011) - Fixed a potential buffer overflow when parsing for escaped braces in the connection string - Pull Request [#1015](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1015) - Fixed compilation issues and addressed various memory leaks detected by PHP 7.4 beta 1 - Issue [#1027](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1027) - Fixed how drivers handle query timeout settings - Pull Request [#1049](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1049) - Performance improvement for fetching from tables with many columns - cached the derived php types with column metadata to streamline data retrieval - Pull Request [#1068](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1068) - Some cosmetic changes to source code as per suggestions from a static analysis tool - Issue [#1079](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1079) - Support sql_variant types when using client buffers [Limitations] - No support for inout / output params when using sql_variant type - No support for inout / output params when formatting decimal values - 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/sql/connect/odbc/linux-mac/installing-the-microsoft-odbc-driver-for-sql-server) - 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 - Issue [#1050](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1050) - With Always Encrypted enabled, insertion requires the column list for any tables with identity columns - [Always Encrypted limitations](https://docs.microsoft.com/sql/connect/php/using-always-encrypted-php-drivers#limitations-of-the-php-drivers-when-using-always-encrypted) [Known Issues] - In Alpine Linux, the Client-Side Cursors feature may cause an access violation if both sqlsrv and pdo_sqlsrv are enabled. Either enable only sqlsrv or pdo_sqlsrv, or build PHP from source by compiling the drivers statically. - Connection pooling on Linux or macOS is not recommended with [unixODBC](http://www.unixodbc.org/) < 2.3.7 - 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) xdebug 2.9.2 Fri, Jan 31, 2020 - xdebug 2.9.2 = Fixed bugs: Fixed issue #1735: DBGp eval warning promoted to Exception can cause out-of-sync responses Fixed issue #1736: Segmentation fault when other extensions run PHP in RINIT Fixed issue #1739: Tracing footer not written zip 1.17.0 - add ZipArchive::registerProgressCallback() method (since libzip 1.3.0) - add ZipArchive::registerCancelCallback() method (since libzip 1.6.0) - drop support for old PHP versions gRPC 1.27.0RC2 - gRPC Core 1.27.0 update zip 1.16.1 - add ZipArchive::CM_XZ constant (since libzip 1.6.0) - add ZipArchive::ER_* missing constants - fix Windows build datadog_trace 0.38.1 ### Fixed - MessagePack serialization with a reference #730 uploadprogress 1.1.3 - Improved documentation and examples included in the release package

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