2.3.0

• Support .NET 8.0.
  • Mark some serialization APIs as [Obsolete].
  • Implement DbBatchCommand.CreateParameter: #1352.
  • Optimizations: Use IUtf8SpanFormattable, Ascii.FromUtf16, Guid(bigEndian: true) constructor, argument-throwing helpers, etc.
• Support .NET Framework 4.8 (net48) TFM: #1355.
  • This allows TlsVersion = TLSv1.3 to be used on .NET Framework 4.8.
• Drop support for .NET 4.6.1 and .NET Core 3.1: #636, #1273.
  • .NET 4.6.1 support ended on 26 April 2022, and .NET Core 3.1 on 13 December 2022.
  • The minimum supported versions are now .NET Framework 4.6.2 and .NET 6.0, although other frameworks should be supported via netstandard2.0.
• MySqlDataSource is now available for all TFMs, not just .NET 7.0: #1269.
  • This provides a single place to configure a MySQL connection and makes it easier to register MySqlConnection with dependency injection.
  • Add MySqlDataSourceBuilder class to configure MySqlDataSource instances.
  • Add MySqlDataSource.Name and MySqlDataSourceBuilder.UseName.
• Microsoft.Extensions.Logging is now used as the core logging abstraction: #1110.
  • MySqlConnectorLogManager.Provider can still be used to add a logging destination, but it is now deprecated.
  • Use MySqlDataSourceBuilder.UseLoggerFactory to configure logging.
• Add new MySqlConnector.DependencyInjection package: #1271.
  • MySqlDataSource and MySqlConnection can be registered with dependency injection by using builder.Services.AddMySqlDataSource(connectionString).
  • This also configures logging automatically.
• Expose connection pool metrics: #491.
• Remove COM_MULTI protocol support: #946.
• Support ZEROFILL columns in MySqlDecimal: #1354.
• Support higher-precision DateTime values: #1379.
• Use ValueTask in MySqlBulkCopy API for all TFMs: #1364.
  • Breaking This changes the return type of WriteToServerAsync from Task<MySqlBulkCopyResult> to ValueTask<MySqlBulkCopyResult> on .NET Framework
• Support skipping metadata for prepared statements with MariaDB 10.6 and later: #1301.
• Support multiple authentication methods when connecting: #1303.
• Support per-query variables for CommandBehavior.SchemaOnly and SingleRow: #1312.
• Recycle MySqlDataReader objects: #1277.
• Perform XA rollback when preparing a transaction fails: #1348.
• Implement faster parsing for result sets with multiple rows: #1330.
• Optimize parameter encoding for ASCII strings: #1296.
• Use TcpClient.ConnectAsync overload with CancellationToken on .NET 5.0 and later: #1291.
• Fix cancellation when using a redirected connection: #1305.
• Fix MySqlConnection.CloneWith for connections created from a MySqlDataSource: #1306.
• Work around ephemeral PEM bug on Windows: #1278.
• Reduce allocations on common code paths.
• Fix bug when column name begins with @ in MySqlBulkCopy: #1365.
• Ignore MySqlDbType when serializing enum values: #1384.
• Fix bug that didn't copy MySqlDataSource in MySqlConnection.Clone: #1267.
• Fix version parsing for MariaDB 11.0 and later: #1311.
• Fix potential error in reallocating an internal buffer when writing ASCII text.
• Update handling of ActivityStatus to latest conventions: #1334.
• Reduce overhead of CommandTimeout: #1338.
• Reword end-of-stream message to be more generic: #1383.
• Thanks to @gboucher90, @JackBOBO, @Kielek, @rusher, and @stilettk for contributions to this release.