Version 11.2 of the Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server has been released. Version 11.2.0 brings several added features, changes, and fixed issues over the previous production release.
**BREAKING CHANGE**
Encrypt = strict
There is one breaking change in the 11.2 release over previous production releases. To support the new TDS 8.0 protocol where TLS encryption is negotiated before TDS, a new Encrypt option has been added, « strict ». This required changing the getEncrypt() API to return a string instead of just a Boolean. Setting Encrypt to « strict » causes the driver to negotiate a TLS connection to the server first,