Hi,

MySQL Connector/Net 1.0.6, a new version of the fully-managed, ADO.Net provider for the MySQL database system has been released. This release is the latest production release of the 1.0 series and is suitable for use with any MySQL version including MySQL 4.1 or 5.0.

It is now available in source and binary form from the Connector/Net download pages at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/1.0.html and mirror sites (note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point in time - if you can't find this version on some mirror, please try again later or choose another download site.)

This release corrects a major problem that caused version 1.0.5 to not function with Mono. While this release has been tested with Mono, our test suite doesn't complete successfully on Mono. We have not yet identified the problem but it seems to be an issue in the Mono runtime since the test suite completes successfully on .NET 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0. We are continuing to examine this issue and expect to have a resolution for 1.0.7.

This release also includes a substantial change in previous functionality. In prior versions, connections pulled from a connection pool were "pinged" to make sure the server was still listening. These connections were also "reset" so that any temporary tables or user variables were cleaned out and pending transactions rolled back. This had the effect of giving you a clean slate for that connection. These operations are important but do take time. With this release, we have added two new connection string options. cache server configuration=yes will prevent a connection from updating server status variables when it comes out of the pool. Reset pooled connections=no will prevent the connection from being reset when it comes out of the pool. This will also prevent the "ping" from being sent to the server. The effect of this is that turning on server config caching and turning off connection reset will cause connection opens from the pool to be _very_ fast but the pool may give you a dead connection. As always, it is important for your code to be prepared to handle any exceptions that may arise from the use of this connection. Please see the documentation for these options along with synonyms.

Known Issues

------------ 1. Packets larger than 16 megabytes still do not function correctly over compressed connections. We are still looking at this issue.

2. The problems with shared memory connections in the server have been corrected and we hope to resume testing of these connections with 1.0.7.

ChangeLog

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9-27-05 - Version 1.0.6

Bugs fixed or addressed ------------------------- Bug #13036 Returns error when field names contain any of the following chars %<>()/ etc [fixed] Bug #12835 1.0.5 won't install on system with 1.0.4 installed [fixed] Bug #12978 Fatal Error C# Compilation [fixed] Bug #13276 Exception on serialize after inserting null value [fixed] Bug #13345 Connecting from mono 1.1.8 to MySQL 5.0 using MySQL Connector/Net 1.0.5

Other changes ------------------------- Changed SocketStream and StreamCreator to be compatible with Mono Added options to not reset and reconfigure connections pulled from the pool Connections pulled from the pool that are not reset are also not pinged

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