RELEASE:1.4.0

Author: gargsaumya

PyPI_Description.md

@@ -35,11 +35,22 @@ PyBind11 provides:
 - Memory-safe bindings
 - Clean and Pythonic API, while performance-critical logic remains in robust, maintainable C++.
 
-## What's new in v1.3.0
+## What's new in v1.4.0
+
+### 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.
 
 ### Bug Fixes
 
-- **Segmentation Fault Fix** - Fixed segmentation fault in libmsodbcsql-18.5 during SQLFreeHandle() (#415).
+- **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.
 
 For more information, please visit the project link on Github: https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-python
 

mssql_python/__init__.py

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 from .helpers import Settings, get_settings, _settings, _settings_lock
 
 # Driver version
-__version__ = "1.3.0"
+__version__ = "1.4.0"
 
 # Exceptions
 # https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/#exceptions

setup.py

@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ def run(self):
 
 setup(
     name="mssql-python",
-    version="1.3.0",
+    version="1.4.0",
     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",