We're excited to announce that the release candidate for Mac OS X (Sierra and El Capitan), Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 16, Debian 8, CentOS 7, and Windows supporting PHP 7.0 and PHP 7.1 is now available.

Notable items about 4.3.0-RC1 release,

Added

• Transparent Network IP Resolution (TNIR) feature.

Fixed

• Fixed a memory leak in closing connection resources.
• Fixed load ordering issue in MacOS (issue #417)

Limitation

• No support for inout / output params when using sql_variant type

Known Issues

• When pooling is enabled in Linux or MAC
  • unixODBC <= 2.3.4 (Linux and MAC) might not return proper diagnostics 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

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Install

• On Linux and Mac run the commands below: sudo pecl install sqlsrv-4.3.0RC1 sudo pecl install pdo_sqlsrv-4.3.0RC1
• On Windows, download the DLLs from SQLSRV or PDO_SQLSRV PECL repository.