Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 6.7.6 (2014-11-11, General Availability)

Bugs Fixed

• While MySqlDateTime.Millisecond already allowed a value between 0 and 999 (3 digit precision), a new MySqlDateTime.Microsecond property was added to handle microseconds (6 digit precision) on DateTime values. (Bug #20019257)

• Generated code that matched against the start of a VARCHAR/CHAR column now correctly uses "LIKE" instead of location functions for the LINQ to Entity operators "StartsWith", "Contains", and "EndsWith". Locate functions do not make use of indexes placed on the VARCHAR/CHAR columns, which caused significant performance degradation. (Bug #19783747, Bug #19680236, Bug #19944400, Bug #72058)

• Creating a Geometry Column with an SRID value would not save the value to the table. (Bug #19783444, Bug #19137999, Bug #19476721, Bug #71869)

• Generated SQL was missing several clauses, such as OrderBy, GroupBy, and Skip), in cases that involved the "let" keyword, or in other scenarios that were translated into a DbApplyExpression. (Bug #19698010, Bug #19783760, Bug #19944549, Bug #73549)

• LINQ to Entities queries failed for the cases that contained a predicate using IList.Contains with an argument of "DbCastExpression, DbConstantExpression, DbParameterReferenceExpression". (Bug #19690370, Bug #19783755, Bug #19944528, Bug #73643)

• A SELECT query that had a nullable DATETIME field in a child .Any() clause with an .OrderBy() would fail and emit a NotImplementedException exception. (Bug #19681723, Bug #19795751, Bug #70722)

• The query optimization routine would return statements with invalid table aliases when nested queries were being optimized. This would throw an "Unknown column" exception. (Bug #19681348, Bug #19934324, Bug #72004)

• The "Feature will be installed when required" option was removed from the features list in the Connector/NET installer due to it not supporting on-demand installations because of dependencies with the assemblies. (Bug #19670596, Bug #19681113)

• The fluent API DbModelBuilder.HasColumnType had no effect in Entity Framework 6. (Bug #19476922, Bug #19456229, Bug #19462808)

• Setting a Primary Key GUID identity in "Code First" in Entity Framework 6 did not function with MySQL server 5.7. Inserting a row with a valid value for the GUID generated an error, even when it had a trigger set to the correct value.

  As a workaround, it was necessary to redeclare the column definition to accept a dummy default, such as "default ''". (Bug #19456452, Bug #19462811, Bug #19476995)

• Non Primary Keys declared as "Identity GUID" did not have their GUID's automatically generated. (Bug #19456415, Bug #19461919, Bug #19477029)

• Creating a "Model First" or "Database First" model using MySQL 5.7 would set ProviderManifestToken to 5.6. (Bug #19453814, Bug #19475012)

• "LINQ to Entities" queries that used Views with the Take operator were not correctly generated. This problem affected EF "Database First" scenarios. (Bug #19356006, Bug #19789288, Bug #72148)

• Calling >MySqlConnection.GetSchema("PROCEDURES WITH PARAMETERS", ...) would generate an error about a nonexistent index. This affected Intellisense when completing stored procedures. (Bug #19289402)

• When using Entity Framework 4.3 Code first Identifiers for Migrations and Entity Framework 6, generated foreign key identifiers could be longer than 64 characters, causing MySQLException errors. The fix renames any too-long identifiers using the name format FK_guid, where guid is a global unique identifier generated at runtime. (Bug #19211564, Bug #19483128)

  References: This issue is a regression of: Bug #67285.

• When the connection limit was exceeded, MySqlConnection.Open() would leave the TCP connections in a CLOSE_WAIT state, but now closes them. (Bug #18665388, Bug #72025)

• When a client refreshed a web page associated with an expired session and if the ASP.NET project was using <SessionState ... regenerateExpiredSessionId="true" ...>, a "duplicate entry" exception was generated from the MySqlSessionProvider. (Bug #18657550, Bug #19783515, Bug #70409)