Posit Professional Drivers 2024.03.0: Support for Apple Silicon

Apple Silicon Support

On macOS, the following ODBC connectors are now a Universal driver that natively supports Apple silicon (M1/M2/M3 ARM chips):

You can now start using the universal macOS drivers in RStudio Desktop Pro.

Apple silicon support is not available yet for the Athena, Hive, Impala, MongoDB, and Oracle drivers.

Included with this release

• FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) module support for Cassandra, MySQL, Netezza, and Oracle
• The Spark and Databricks drivers, which integrate with Posit Workbench

This release resolves the following issues:

• MySQL - When executing the LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE command, the connector loads the data incorrectly
• Oracle - When there is more than one bound parameter, the connector incorrectly reports the error
• SQL Server - When connecting to failover cluster with readonly Application_Intent, the connection fails

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

• Cassandra
• MySQL
• Netezza
• Oracle
• SQL Server
• Teradata

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

Installing and upgrading

Starting with the 2024.03.0 release of the Professional Drivers, installation using the legacy odbc-install.sh script is no longer supported.

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

• Install the Professional Drivers for use with Posit Connect and Posit Workbench
• Install the Professional Drivers in RStudio Desktop Pro

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.