• Opening a connection from the pool is now twice as fast: Implement pipelining #1089.
  • This may fail with Amazon Aurora RDS; to explicitly disable this, set Pipelining = False; in the connection string.
• Add support for query attributes: Support query attributes #930.
  • This requires MySQL Server 8.0.23 (or later) for regular commands, and MySQL Server 8.0.26 (or later) for prepared commands.
  • Add attributes to the MySqlCommand.Attributes collection to send them to the server when the command is executed.
• Add MySqlDecimal support: Implement MySqlDecimal #1070.
• Improve MySqlDataReader.GetX exceptions for NULL values: Unhelpful exception message when reading NULL value #1092.
• Improve detection of Azure Database for MySQL proxies: Improve proxy detection for Azure MySQL Flexible Server #1093.
• Update Microsoft.SourceLink.GitHub.
• Thanks to @ejball and @sumitdvlp for contributions to this release.

MySqlConnector.Logging.Microsoft.Extensions.Logging

• Logger names are now prefixed with MySqlConnector. by default: MySqlConnector.Logging.Microsoft.Extensions.Logging is not prefixing the category name like other loggers #1080.
  • To return to the previous behavior, use MicrosoftExtensionsLoggingLoggerProvider(loggingFactory, omitMySqlConnectorPrefix: true).
• Added .UseMySqlConnectorLogging() extension method to add logging easily.