MySQL Connector/Net 5.1.4 GA has been released.

[Reggie Burnett]

Hi,

MySQL Connector/Net 5.1.4 a new version of the all-managed .NET driver 
for MySQL has been released.

************* IMPORTANT ********************
Connector/Net 5.1 represents a change in how we package our products. 
Until now, we've shipped our core provider and the Visual Studio 
integration bits as separate downloads. This has become a bit of a 
problem. Often we would fix a bug that involved changing code both in 
the VS package and in the core provider. This provided a versioning 
problem where users would need to upgrade both products to see the 
benefit of the bug fix. To solve this, we've decided to discontinue 
Tools for Visual Studio as a separate product and have, instead, 
integrated it into a new Connector/Net installer. We hope this provides 
a better "out of box" experience for our users.

All previous versions of Tools for Visual Studio should be uninstalled 
prior to installing this product.
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Version 5.1.4 works with all versions of MySQL including MySQL-4.1,  
MySQL-5.0, MySQL-5.1 beta or the MySQL-6.0 Falcon "Preview".

It is now available in source and binary form from 
[http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/5.1.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.)

== Issues fixed ==
  - Fixed issue where column name metadata was not using the charset 
given on the connection string
    (Bug #31185)
  - Fixed problem where closing the connection before the reader where 
the reader was
    opened with CloseConnection would cause a object disposed exception 
to be thrown
  - Fixed problem with installer where the installation would fail if 
the performance
    counter categories had already been removed for some reason     
  - Fixed problem with attempting to use a command with a connection 
that is not open.
    The problem was caused by the introduction of the internal method 
SoftClosed that is
    used with transactions.  (Bug #31262)     
  - Fixed problem where attempting to enlist in a distributed 
transaction would succeed
    even though Connector/Net doesn't currently support that. (Bug #31703)
  - Fixed problem with web providers not being usable on medium trust 
systems     
  - Fixed problem with installer where attempting to install over a 
failed uninstall could
    leave multiple clients registered in machine.config.  (Bug #31731)     
  - Marked MySqlDbType.Datetime obsolete; replaced with DateTime (just 
corrected capitalization) (Bug #26344)
  - fixed code where we were returning bit(1) as boolean but mysql 
treats tinyint(1) as boolean
    (bug #27959)
  - Added the Default Command Timeout connection string option to allow 
DDEX users to set
    an initial command timeout for very large databases (bug #27958) 

== Changes ported from 5.0 branch ==

  - Fixed problem where fields that were blobs but did not include the 
BLOB flag were treated
    as binary when they should have been treated as text.  (Bug #30233)   
  - Changed from using Array.Copy to Buffer.BlockCopy in 
MySqlDataReader.GetBytes.  This
    helps with memory usage as we expect the source and destination 
arrays to not be overlapping.
    (Bug #31090)
  - Fixed problem that prevented commands from being executed from the 
state change
    handler.  Not sure why you would want to do this but...  (bug #30964)
  - Fixed problem with connection string caching where our collection 
class was
    using case insensitive semantics and this causes cases where a user 
orginally
    used the wrong case for a user id and then fixed it to still get 
access denied
    errors. (Bug #31433)
  - improved the speed of load data local infile significantly  
  - fixed MySqlDateTime.ToString() to properly return the date value 
(Bug #32010)  
  - fixed problem where string parameters who have their size set after 
their value could cause exceptions
    (Bug #32094) 
  - fixed problem where old code was preventing creating parameter 
objects with non-input direction using
    just a constructor (Bug #32093) 
  - fixed problem where a syntax error in a set of batch statements 
could leave the data adapter in a state
    that appears hung (bug #31930)
  - fixed the MySqlException class to set the server error code in the 
Data[] hash so that
    DbProviderFactory users can access the server error code (Bug #27436)
  - fixed problem where changing the connection string of a connection 
to one that changes
    the parameter marker after the connection had been assigned to a 
command but before
    the connection is opened can cause parameters to not be found (bug 
#13991)
 
Enjoy and thanks for the support!
Reggie