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MySQL Connector/NET 6.10.0 alpha has been released
MySQL Connector/Net 6.10.0 alpha is the first release to provide Entity
Framework Core 1.1 support and to enable compression in the .NET Core
version of the driver for enhanced cross-platform application
development.To download MySQL Connector/Net 6.10.0 alpha, see the “Development
Releases” tab at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/

Note

Known limitation of this release: DbContext within an application can
emit an unhandled exception. Due to this limitation,

MySQL Connector/Net 6.9.9 is the preferred version to use with EF6.

Functionality Added or Changed

  • Support for compression was extended to the .NET Core version of the driver.
  • Added support for Entity Framework (EF) Core 1.1.

Nuget

Packages are available at:

https://www.nuget.org/packages/MySql.Data/6.10.0-alpha
https://www.nuget.org/packages/MySql.Web/6.10.0-alpha
https://www.nuget.org/packages/MySql.Data.Entity/6.10.0-alpha
https://www.nuget.org/packages/MySql.Data.EntityFrameworkCore/6.10.0-alpha

Enjoy and thanks for the support!

On behalf of the MySQL/Oracle Release Engineering Team
Prashant Tekriwal