jTDS JDBC Driver 1.2 released

The jTDS Project has released version 1.2 of the open source JDBC driver for
Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase. jTDS 1.2 is a major bugfix release, improving
over the very successful jTDS 1.1. A few new features, such as support for
Sybase ASE 15, SQL Server 2005 and improved exceptions also made it into the
release.

New features:
o Support for Sybase ASE 15
o Improved support for SQL Server 2005 varchar(max) and varbinary(max)
o Complete handling of cursor exceptions and downgrading
o Better handling of cancels and timeouts
o Configurable socket timeout
o Subclasses of basic JDBC types recognized as setObject() values

Major bug fixes (out of over 30 fixes):
o Statement pool memory leak
o Java 1.5 BigDecimal problems
o Possible synchronization problems
o setAutoCommit() behavior not according to specification
o getTimestamp() returns invalid value after calling getString()
o Cursor opens fails when cursor threshold <> -1
o iso_1 charset and Sybase
o "All pipe instances are busy" not handled properly
o SSL fails with SQL Server 2005
o Sybase: insert UTF8 string fails when length is 255

Make sure to check the changelog for detailed listings of the bugfixes and new
features.

jTDS is the most performant JDBC driver for both Microsoft SQL Server and
Sybase. It is a complete implementation of JDBC 3.0, it passes the J2EE 1.3
certification and Hibernate test suites and is the preferred SQL Server/Sybase
driver for JBoss, Hibernate, Atlassian JIRA and Confluence, DbVisualizer and
Compiere.

For more information on jTDS see http://jtds.sourceforge.net/

The release can be downloaded from:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=33291