We have released a new early technical preview of the JDBC Driver for SQL Server which contains a few additions and changes.
Precompiled binaries are available on GitHub and also on Maven Central.
Encrypt = true, by default
There is one major breaking change in the 10.1 preview over previous releases. Similar to the HTTP to HTTPS default changes made in web browsers a few years back (and the security reasons for them), we are changing the default value of the `Encrypt` connection option from `false` to `true`. With the increased emphasis on secure-by-default, the growing use of cloud databases, and