Brian Vivas
Products and Technology

Posit Professional Drivers 2025.07.0

2025-08-01
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We’re excited to announce the 2025.07.0 update to the Posit Professional Drivers, a set of ODBC data connectors for some of the most popular databases. Posit Professional Drivers are free to use with other professional products like Posit Workbench, Posit Connect, and Posit Package Manager.

Some features included with this release include:

  • Athena – Updated Driver and DriverIam support (10.3)
  • Cassandra – Upgraded Windows Server 2025 support
  • Redshift – Group Federation Support in JwtIamAuthPlugin
  • Snowflake – Added support for private key base64, now supports Windows Server 2025 & Ubuntu 24.04

This release addresses several issues, including:

  • Cassandra – For null table name value in the Catalog function, the latest connector returned it as an empty string.
  • Redshift – On Windows, when authenticating with AWS IAM Credentials, the connector returns a “Encountered network error when sending http request” error message.
  • Snowflake – Enabled the Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) security compiler option for Windows.
  • SQL Server – Fixed a bug using Windows Integrated Security (NTLMv2) for authentication

It also includes enhancements, security updates, and bug fixes for:

  • Athena
  • Cassandra
  • Redshift
  • Snowflake
  • SQL Server

For a complete list of changes, please refer to the release notes.

 

Installing and Upgrading

 

To install the most recent version of the ODBC drivers, please use a supported installation method:

We strongly encourage all customers to install the latest release of the Posit Professional Drivers.

Upgrading drivers takes minutes and can help prevent security and administrative issues.

 

About

 

Posit offers ODBC drivers for many common data sources at no additional cost to current paying customers. The drivers are commercially licensed and are covered by the Posit Support Program.

Posit Professional Drivers may only be used with other Posit professional software and may not be used on a standalone basis or with other software.

We do not sell or offer Posit Professional Drivers for use with our free and open-source server or desktop software, and our license doesn’t permit the drivers to be used with these products.

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