Community News: Latest PECL Releases (12.07.2021)

Latest PECL Releases:

• xmlrpc 1.0.0RC3
  PHP 8.1 compatibility (Jan Ehrhardt)

• sqlsrv 5.10.0beta2
  [Added] - Support for PHP 8.1 - Support for Ubuntu 21.10 [Fixed] - Issue [#1307](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1307) - added TVP support to non-procedure statements - Issue [#1310](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1310) - adjusted sql_data_type and column size for NULL parameters - pull request [#1311](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1311) by gjcarrette - Pull request [#1326](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1326) - php drivers simply pass Azure AD Authentication to ODBC driver, which will verify the settings - Issue [#1329](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1329) - reset sql type and column size for input params [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] - This preview release requires ODBC Driver 17.4.2 or above. Otherwise, a warning about failing to set an attribute may be suppressed when using an older ODBC driver. - 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)
• pdo_sqlsrv 5.10.0beta2
  [Added] - Support for PHP 8.1 - Support for Ubuntu 21.10 - Feature Request [#1320](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1320) - allow PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES to be set at the connection level [Fixed] - Issue [#1307](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1307) - added TVP support to non-procedure statements - Issue [#1310](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1310) - adjusted sql_data_type and column size for NULL parameters - pull request [#1311](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1311) by gjcarrette - Pull request [#1326](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1326) - php drivers simply pass Azure AD Authentication to ODBC driver, which will verify the settings - Issue [#1329](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1329) - reset sql type and column size for input params - Issue [#1331](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1331) - restore PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE if calling PDO::lastInsertId() call fails - pull request [#1330](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1330) by mpyw and pull request [#1332](https://github.com/microsoft/msphpsql/pull/1332) [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] - This preview release requires ODBC Driver 17.4.2 or above. Otherwise, a warning about failing to set an attribute may be suppressed when using an older ODBC driver. - 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 3.1.2
  Wed, Dec 01, 2021 - Xdebug 3.1.2

  = Fixed bugs:

  • Fixed issue #2036: Segfault on fiber switch in finally block in garbage collected fiber
  • Fixed issue #2037: Crash when profile file can not be created
  • Fixed issue #2041: __debugInfo is not used for var_dump output
  • Fixed issue #2046: Segault on xdebug_get_function_stack inside a Fiber
• swoole 4.8.3
  - Fixed compatibility of curl native hook with PHP-8.1 - Fixed compatibility of sockets hook with PHP-8 - Fixed the return value error of sockets hook function - Added CoroutineSocket::isClosed() - Fixed Http2Server sendfile cannot set content-type - Optimize performance of HttpServer date header
• amqp 1.11.0
  - PHP 8.1 compatibility (Lars Strojny <lars.strojny@internations.org>) (https://github.com/php-amqp/php-amqp/issues/405) - Install RabbitMQ from tarball instead of git to improve speed (Michele Locati <michele@locati.it>) (https://github.com/php-amqp/php-amqp/issues/392) - Improve release tooling (Lars Strojny <lars.strojny@internations.org>)

  For a complete list of changes see: https://github.com/php-amqp/php-amqp/compare/v1.11.0RC1...v1.11.0

• vld 0.17.2
  - Added preliminary support for PHP 8.1.