ODBC Driver for Microsoft Excel Revision History

2.1.0 16-Apr-26

  • Added support for the CREATE RANGE statement to allow referring to a range of cells as a database object
  • Added the ExactFieldLength option, which sets the length of a string field to an exact value depending on the data
  • Improved compatibility with Attunity Qlik Replicate
  • Improved compatibility with the PDO_ODBC PHP extension
  • Improved compatibility with Node.js
  • Fixed several issues with reading tables and named ranges when opening a workbook
  • Fixed an issue with parsing a connection string when its value contained a sequence of SQL comment characters

2.0.0 10-Nov-25

  • Added a graphical interface for configuring the driver on macOS and Linux
  • Improved compatibility with Node.js
  • Improved compatibility with Tableau
  • Improved compatibility with Vectorworks
  • Improved column data type detection
  • Resolved an issue with opening Excel 97 (*.xls) files
  • Resolved an issue with quoting table names that contained a dollar sign
  • Fixed a bug that caused data loss in cells containing Unicode characters
  • Fixed an issue that caused incorrect connection string parsing on macOS

1.0.2 14-Apr-25

  • Improved compatibility with Microsoft Query
  • Fixed an issue with editing File DSN
  • Fixed an issue with reading sheet names from a workbook

1.0.1 13-Mar-25

  • Initial release of ODBC Driver for Microsoft Excel
  • Windows 32-bit and 64-bit is supported
  • Linux 32-bit and 64-bit is supported
  • macOS 64-bit and ARM (Apple Silicon M1 and M2) is supported