Hi,

MySQL Connector/Net 5.0.5 a new version of the all-managed .NET driver for MySQL has been released.

This is a bug fix release for the current production branch of Connector/Net.

Version 5.0.5 is suitable for use with any MySQL version including MySQL-4.1, MySQL-5.0, MySQL-5.1 beta or the MySQL-5.2 Falcon "Preview".

It is now available in source and binary form from the Connector/Net download pages at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/5.0.html and mirror sites (note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point of time - if you can't find this version on some mirror, please try again later or choose another download site.)

------------------------------------- What happened to 5.0.4?

------------------------------------- We had 5.0.4 packaged up and ready to go and then discovered that a previous bug fix was not complete. Rather than release 5.0.4 and then follow that up with a quick release of 5.0.5, we decided to not release 5.0.4 at all. This allowed us to roll in a couple of additional last minute bug fixes.

------------------------------------- Functionality Changes or Enhancements

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* Return parameters created with DeriveParameters now have the name RETURN_VALUE * Fixed problem with parameter name hashing where the hashes were not getting updated when parameters were removed from the collection. * Fixed problem with calling stored functions when a return parameter was not given * Fixed problem that prevented use of SchemaOnly or SingleRow command behaviors with sprocs or prepared statements * Assembly now properly appears in the Visual Studio 2005 Add/Remove Reference dialog * Added MySqlParameterCollection.AddWithValue and marked the Add(name, value) method as obsolete * Added "Use Procedure Bodies" connection string option to allow calling procedures without using procedure metadata. (see release notes) * Reverted behavior that required parameter names to start with the parameter marker. We apologize for this back and forth but we mistakenly changed the behavior to not match what SqlClient supports. We now support using either syntax for adding parameters however we also respond exactly like SqlClient in that if you ask for the index of a parameter using a syntax different than you added the parameter, the result will be -1.

------------- Bugs fixed:

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Bug #25443 ExecuteScalar() hangs when more than one bad result Bug #24802 Error Handling Bug #25614 After connection is closed, and opened again UTF-8 characters are not read well Bug #25625 Crashes when calling with CommandType set to StoredProcedure Bug #25458 Opening connection hangs Bug #25651 SELECT does not work properly when WHERE contains UTF-8 characters Bug #25726 MySqlConnection throws NullReferenceException and ArgumentNullException Bug #25609 MySqlDataAdapter.FillSchema Bug #25928 Invalid Registry Entries Bug #25912 selecting negative time values gets wrong results Bug #25906 Typo makes GetSchema with DataTypes collection throw an exception Bug #25907 DataType Column of DataTypes collection does'nt contain the correct CLR Datatype Bug #25950 DataSourceInformation collection contains incorrect values Bug #26430 Will not install under Vista Bug #26152 Opening a connection is really slow Bug #24373 High CPU utilization when no idle connection Bug #24957 MySql.Data.Types.MySqlConversionException is not marked as Serializable. Bug #25603 Critial ConnectionPool Error in Connector.Net 5.03 Bug #26660 MySqlConnection.GetSchema fails with NullReferenceException for Foreign Keys Bug #25605 BINARY and VARBINARY is returned as a string Bug #25569 UpdateRowSource.FirstReturnedRecord does not work

Reggie