[ANNOUNCE] New Cloudera ODBC 2.6.12 Driver for Apache Impala Released

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We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera ODBC 2.6.12 driver for Apache Impala.  

This release has the following enhancements and fixes:

Enhancements and New Features

• [IMP-782][00189899] Updated support for the HTTP transport mode
• [IMP-801] Updated logging configurations
• [IMP-802] Updated OpenSSL support
• [IMP-780][IMP-819][IMP-821][IMP-825][IMP-827] [IMP-835] Updated platform support (for a list of supported platform versions, see the Installation and Configuration Guide)
• [IMP-807] Updated CDP support.

Resolved Issues

• [IMP-806][00265194] When the server returns 0 rows, the driver stops fetching results.

Known Issues

The following are known issues that you may encounter due to limitations in the data source, the driver, or an application. 

• BINARY is not a supported data type in Impala. 

• DATE is supported only when you connect to Impala version 3.3 or later. 

• As a result of the limitations above, some values of TIME data types are also not supported.

Getting Started with the Cloudera Driver

• Read the Cloudera Impala ODBC 2.6.12 Driver for  Apache Impala Release Notes and Installation Guide. 
• Download the connector from the Cloudera Connectors page. 

As always, we welcome your feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to the user group through our community forums. You can also file bugs through our external Jira projects on issues.cloudera.org.