MySQL Connector/Net 5.2.4 has been released

[Reggie Burnett]

MySQL Connector/Net 5.2.4, a new version of the all-managed .NET driver for MySQL has been released. This release is of GA quality and is suitable for use in production environments. We strongly urge you to review the change log that is shipped with the product for a thorough review of the changes.

We have a ton of fixes in this release so please review the changelog and see if your favorite bug has been fixed. Version 5.2.4 works with all versions of MySQL including MySQL-4.1, MySQL-5.0, MySQL-5.1, and the MySQL-6.0 beta.

It is now available in source and binary form from [http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/5.2.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.)

** Changes since 5.2.3 **
- fixed web providers autogenerateschema option where it would fail if no schema
is present at all (bug #39072)
- backported fix for lingering problem related to bug #37239. If two columns
had the same name but different case then an exception would be thrown.
- fixed stored procedure parameter parsing when used inside server explorer.
(bug #39252)
- fixed time data type so that negative values are handled properly (bug #39275)
- added runtime check for the mono platform to our Membership provider.
The mono runtime as of 1.9.1 did not support the methods needed for hashed
passwords (bug #38895)
- fixed problem where negative time values with a zero hour would return as
positive values (bug #39294)
- fixed problem where using a stored procedure with parameters with a table
adapter was no longer working after our parameter schema changes (bug #39252)
- fixed problem with profile provider where INSERT .. ON DUPLICATE UPDATE syntax
would not work correctly with some older server versions (bug #39330)
- Defaulting max allowed packet to 1024 to account for the possible case where the
value doesn't come in as a server variable
- fixed bug #39728 by making MySqlConnectionStringBuilder.GetConnectionString an
internal method. It should not have been publicly available anyway. It is used
internally by the MySqlConnection.ConnectionString property
- implemented Disposable pattern on MySqlTransaction class so including one in a
using statement and then not calling commit will cause a rollback when the using
exits (bug #39817)
- fixed MySqlScript object so that it handles scripts with user variables
- fixed bug where specifying 'functions return string=yes' would cause strings to
be returned using the 'binary' charset which would not properly render some
characters. Now the connection character set is used. (bug #40076)
- fixed problem that caused in use connection strings to be modified when a pooled
connection timed out and was cancelled. (bug #40091)
- fixed problem where using respect binary flags would not use the connection char
set and therefore return strings with a bad encoding.
- fixed bug where provider was attempting to use the new parameters I_S view on
servers that didn't have it (bug #40382)
- fixed problem where CharSetMap.GetDefaultCollation and CharSetMap.GetMaxLengths
might have a thread sync issue on high load systems. They were not locking
the static collections there were initializing. (bug #40231)
- added GetSByte to the reader for returning tinyint columns (bug #40571)

Enjoy and thanks for the support!