MySqlConnector

• Breaking Remove BufferResultSets connection string option: #378
• The assembly is now strong-named: #224

• Fix exception in MySqlTransaction.Dispose if the underlying connection is closed or faulted: #383

• Remove System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation dependency on full framework: #381

• Fix an exception if MySqlDataReader.GetOrdinal was called before Read: #379

• Work around Amazon Aurora DateTime conversion issue: #364
• Fix NotSupportedException in MySqlParameter: #367
• Breaking Remove a number of MySqlErrorCode enum values (to reduce library size).
• Thanks to @dgilbert and @Naragato for contributions to this release.

• Breaking Implement MySqlConnectionStringBuilder.DefaultCommandTimeout and MySqlCommand.CommandTimeout with a default of 30 seconds: #67
  • This may cause long-running queries to throw an exception instead of succeeding; as a workaround, increase CommandTimeout.
• Expose MySqlDbType and MySqlCommand.MySqlDbType: #362
  • MySqlConnector adds MySqlDbType.Bool to represent a TINYINT(1) column.
  • Return correct values for ProviderType in GetColumnSchema/GetSchemaTable.
• Implement MySqlConnection.GetSchema: #361
• Update documentation for .NET Core 2.0: #372
• Fix information disclosure vulnerability related to LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE: #334
• Improve async performance.
• Throw exception for unexpected API use: #308
• Thanks to @Drake103, @Thorium, and @dustinsoftware for contributions to this release.

• Allow the auth plugin name in the initial handshake to be EOF-terminated: #351

0.28.1 (unreleased)

• Fix garbage data being returned by GetColumnSchema/GetSchemaTable: #354
• Fix incorrect NumericPrecision for decimal(n,0) columns: #356

• Support caching_sha2_password authentication for MySQL 8.0: #329.
• Fix inconsistent return value of MySqlDataReader.HasRows: #348.
• Thanks to @Drake103 for contributions to this release.

• Implement MySqlDataReader.GetColumnSchema: #182.
• Implement MySqlDataReader.GetSchemaTable: #307,
• Support MySQL Server 8.0.3 and MariaDB 10.2 collations: #336, #337, #338.
• Reduce allocations to improve performance: #342, #343.
• Thanks to @elemount and @ddunkin for contributions to this release.

• Fix hang closing connection with ClearDB on Azure: #330.
• Thanks to @ktos for contributions to this release.

• Fix overly-broad exception handler introduced in 0.26.3.
• Improve efficiency of code added in 0.26.3.

• Fix HasRows incorrectly returning false after all rows have been read: #327.
• Fix EndOfStreamException when reusing a pooled connection with Amazon Aurora.
• Reduce network roundtrips when opening a pooled connection (with the default settings of Pooling=True;Connection Reset=true); see #258.
• Update System.* dependencies to 4.3.0 for .NET 4.5 and .NET 4.6 packages.
• Thanks to @bnabholz for contributions to this release.

• Support CLIENT_DEPRECATE_EOF flag: #322
• Throw better exception when a malformed packet is detected.
• Don't allow sessions in an error state to be put back into the pool.
• Remove unsupported CLIENT_PS_MULTI_RESULTS flag (sent during connection handshaking).

• Throw better exception when MySQL Server sends an old authentication method switch request packet: #316
• Capture InnerException in ActivateResultSet.
• Thanks to kobake for contributions to this release.

• Add convenience methods that return derived types: #313

• Prevent exception being thrown from MySqlSession.DisposeAsync, which could cause leaked connections: #305

• Add netstandard2.0 compile target: #270.

• Fix leaked session when a MySqlException is thrown because a query contains a user-defined variable and Allow User Variables=false: #305

• Recover leaked sessions when MySqlDataReader isn't disposed: #306

• Breaking Add AllowPublicKeyRetrieval connection string setting, defaulted to false: #286
  • Add ServerRSAPublicKeyFile connection string setting.
• Fix hang in MySqlDataReader.Dispose if function threw an exception: #299
• Fix InvalidOperationException if MySqlBulkLoader is used inside a transaction: #300