Changes in MySQL Connector/NET 6.8.7 (2015-10-21, General Availability)
Functionality Added or Changed
The GB18030 Chinese character set is now supported, a character
set that was added in MySQL 5.7.4.
(Bug #21098546, Bug #21803306, Bug #21803300, WL #4024)
The JSON type is now supported, a type that was added in MySQL
5.7.8.
(WL #8132)
Generated columns (GENERATION_EXPRESSION) are now supported, a
feature added in MySQL 5.7.6.
(WL #411)
A connection string that included Chinese characters for a
database or uid property would emit the following exception;
"MySqlException: Unknown database '???'". To solve this, the
handshake process was changed to use bytes instead of encoded
strings.
(Bug #18141356, Bug #70041)