RELEASE:1.5.0

Author: gargsaumya

PyPI_Description.md

@@ -35,22 +35,24 @@ PyBind11 provides:
 - Memory-safe bindings
 - Clean and Pythonic API, while performance-critical logic remains in robust, maintainable C++.
 
-## What's new in v1.4.0
+## What's new in v1.5.0
 
 ### Features
 
-- **Bulk Copy Support** - High-performance bulk data loading API is now publicly available with support for large-scale ETL workloads, configurable batch sizes, column mappings, and identity/constraint handling.
-- **Spatial Type Support** - Added support for geography, geometry, and hierarchyid spatial types.
-- **mssql-py-core Upgrade** - Upgraded to mssql-py-core version 0.1.0 with enhanced connection string parameter support.
-- **Type Annotations** - Added py.typed marker for improved type checking support.
-- **Azure SQL Database Testing** - Added Azure SQL Database to PR validation pipeline matrix.
+- **Apache Arrow Fetch Support** - Added high-performance Arrow-based data fetching via `cursor.arrow()`, `cursor.arrow_batch()`, and `cursor.arrow_reader()`, enabling zero-copy integration with pandas, Polars, and other Arrow-native data frameworks.
+- **sql_variant Type Support** - Added support for the `sql_variant` complex SQL Server data type.
+- **Native UUID Support** - Added native support for fetching and binding UUID/GUID values without manual string conversion.
+- **Row Class Export** - `Row` class is now publicly exported from the top-level `mssql_python` module for easier use in type annotations and downstream code.
 
 ### Bug Fixes
 
-- **VARCHAR Encoding Fix** - Fixed VARCHAR fetch failures when data length equals column size with non-ASCII CP1252 characters.
-- **Segmentation Fault Fix** - Fixed segmentation fault when interleaving fetchmany and fetchone calls.
-- **Date/Time Type Mappings** - Aligned date/time type code mappings with ODBC 18 driver source.
-- **Pipeline Updates** - Updated OneBranch pipelines for new 1ES images and pool selection.
+- **Qmark False Positive Fix** - Fixed false positive qmark (`?`) detection for `?` appearing inside bracketed identifiers, string literals, and SQL comments.
+- **NULL VARBINARY Parameter Fix** - Fixed NULL parameter type mapping for VARBINARY columns.
+- **Bulkcopy Auth Fix** - Fixed stale auth fields being retained in `pycore_context` after token acquisition during bulk copy operations.
+- **Explicit Module Exports** - Added explicit `__all__` exports from the main library module to prevent import resolution issues.
+- **Credential Cache Fix** - Fixed credential instance cache to correctly reuse and invalidate cached credential objects.
+- **datetime.time Microseconds Fix** - Fixed stored `datetime.time` values incorrectly having `microseconds` set to zero.
+- **Arrow Time Fractional Seconds Fix** - Fixed time handling in Arrow integration to correctly include fractional seconds.
 
 For more information, please visit the project link on Github: https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-python
 

mssql_python/__init__.py

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 from .helpers import Settings, get_settings, _settings, _settings_lock
 
 # Driver version
-__version__ = "1.4.0"
+__version__ = "1.5.0"
 
 # Exceptions
 # https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/#exceptions

setup.py

@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ def run(self):
 
 setup(
     name="mssql-python",
-    version="1.4.0",
+    version="1.5.0",
     description="A Python library for interacting with Microsoft SQL Server",
     long_description=open("PyPI_Description.md", encoding="utf-8").read(),
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",