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MySQL Connector/NET 6.10.7 GA has been released

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/NET 6.10.7 is the fourth GA release with .NET Core
now supporting various connection-string options and MySQL 8.0 server
features.

To download MySQL Connector/NET 6.10.7 GA, see the “Generally Available
(GA) Releases” tab at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/

Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 6.10.7 (2018-04-30, General Availability)

Functionality Added or Changed

* Connections made to MySQL 8.0 (up to and including
version 8.0.3) and compatibility with the new data dictionary are
now supported. For information about the data dictionary, see
MySQL Data Dictionary
(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/data-dictionary.html).

* Support for the caching_sha2_password authentication
plugin through the classic MySQL protocol was added. In addition,
the sha256_password plugin was extended to support authentication
when RSA keys are available through non-secure connections.
Caching SHA-2 pluggable authentication offers faster
authentication than basic SHA-256 authentication.

* Support was added for the new caching_sha2_password
padding mechanism introduced in the MySQL 8.0 release series. The
new padding mechanism is enabled when all of the following
conditions apply:

+ The user account is set with the
caching_sha2_password authentication plugin.

+ SSL is disabled explicitly (SslMode=none).

+ The AllowPublicKeyRetrieval connection option is enabled
(AllowPublicKeyRetrieval=true).  When enabled, the new padding
mechanism is used to encode the password during RSA key
encryption, which applies the correct padding to match the
server.

Bugs Fixed

* Attempting to open the MySQL Web Configuration Tool, with
Connector/NET and MySQL for Visual Studio prerequisites installed
properly, displayed an error message instead of opening the tool.
(Bug #27457398, Bug #88544)

* The ADO.NET Entity Data Model wizard within Visual Studio
closed unexpectedly without producing the data model.  Thanks to
Laurents Meyer for the patch. (Bug #27420311, Bug #89338)

* An exception prevented MySQL.Data.Entity for Entity
Framework 6 from operating as expected. Thanks to Cédric Luthi
for the patch. (Bug #27360520, Bug #89134)

* MySQL Installer could not be installed with NuGet
packages from Microsoft Visual Studio 2015. (Bug #27251839,
Bug #88838)

* With valid references to the DLLs provided, using
DbConfiguration.SetConfiguration(new
MySql.Data.Entity.MySqlEFConfiguration()) to set up the DbContext
threw an exception. (Bug #25185319)

* Attempting to generate an Entity Framework model from a
MySQL 5.7 database using either EF5 or EF6 produced an exception
that prevented the operation from generating the expected model.
(Bug #22173048, Bug #79163)

Nuget packages are available at:

https://www.nuget.org/packages/MySql.Data/6.10.7
https://www.nuget.org/packages/MySql.Web/6.10.7
https://www.nuget.org/packages/MySql.Data.Entity/6.10.7
https://www.nuget.org/packages/MySql.Data.EntityFrameworkCore/6.10.7
https://www.nuget.org/packages/MySql.Data.EntityFrameworkCore.Design/6.10.7

Enjoy and thanks for the support!

On behalf of the MySQL Release Team,
Nawaz Nazeer Ahamed