Release notes for ODBC Driver for Salesforce

Last modified: July 7, 2025

Version 3.4

• Tokens and passwords are now stored in an encrypted form in the DSN record.
• Added metadata cache.
• Improved compatibility with FileMaker Server on Linux and macOS.

Version 3.3

• Added support for macOS ARM (Apple Silicon M1 and M2).
• Improved compatibility with 4D on macOS.

Version 3.2

• Added support for multilevel relations in SOQL queries.
• Added support for the SQL_ATTR_MAX_ROWS attribute.
• Improved compatibility with:
  • Visual Basic in Visual Studio
  • Linked Server in SQL Server
  • Alteryx

Version 3.1

• Added support for macOS 13 Ventura.
• Improved compatibility with:
  • Tableau Prep Builder
  • Crystal Reports

Version 3.0

• Added support for macOS 64-bit.
• Added support for Linux 64-bit.

Version 2.2

• Added support for Windows 11.
• Improved compatibility with:
  • Linked Server in SSMS
  • FICO Mosel
  • FileMaker
• Improved support for the ODBC installer on Windows 2000.

Version 2.1

• Added MSI installer for deployment via Group Policy (GPO).

Version 2.0

• Added support for OAuth authorization.
• Added support for executing SOQL queries.

Version 1.8

• Added the ReturnForeignKeys connection option to improve performance.
• Improved compatibility with Visual Studio.
• SQLProcedures now returns an empty recordset instead of an error.
• SQLProcedureColumns now returns an empty recordset instead of an error.

Version 1.7

• Improved metadata retrieval performance.
• Improved support for connection pooling.
• Activation no longer requires administrator privileges.
• Added the IncludeDeleted connection option to return deleted records in resultsets.
• Added the option to force ODBC 2.x behavior.

Version 1.6

• Added the option to return string types as ANSI or Unicode.
• Improved compatibility with:
  • Microsoft Access
  • Tableau
  • Omnis Studio
  • Power Pivot
  • DBeaver

Version 1.5

• Added environment selection.
• Added Connection Timeout and Query Timeout options.

Version 1.4

• Improved compatibility with:
  • SAS JMP
  • Microsoft Power Query
• Added support for:
  • OUTER JOIN macros in SQL queries
  • DateTime macros in SQL queries
  • Scalar function macros in SQL queries

Version 1.3

• Improved compatibility with:
  • Microsoft Visual Studio
  • Microsoft FoxPro
  • MapInfo
  • LibreOffice
  • Qlik
  • Delphi and C++Builder

Version 1.2

• Improved compatibility with Microsoft Excel.
• Improved support for linked tables in Microsoft Access.
• Improved backward compatibility of SQLExecDirect with ODBC 2.x.

Version 1.1

• Improved compatibility with:
  • SQL Server Management Studio
  • Microsoft Access
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro
• Improved support for columns with the Formula data type.

Version 1.0

• Fixed license validation.
• First release of the ODBC Driver for Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
• Added support for:
  • Windows 32-bit
  • Windows 64-bit