Performing GetValue() on a field TINYINT(1) returned a BOOLEAN. While not a bug, this caused problems in software that expected an INT to be returned. A new connection string option Treat Tiny As Boolean has been added with a default value of true. If set to false the provider will treat TINYINT(1) as INT. (Bug #34052)

Added ClearPool and ClearAllPools features.

DDEX provider now works under Visual Studio 2008 beta 2.

Added support for DbDataAdapter UpdateBatchSize. Batching is fully supported including collapsing inserts down into the multi-value form if possible.

In an open connection where the server had disconnected unexpectedly, the status information of the connection would not be updated properly. (Bug #33909)

The status of connections reported through the state change handler was not being updated correctly. (Bug #34082)

When accessing tables from different databases within the same TransactionScope, the same user/password combination would be used for each database connection. MySQL Connector/Net does not handle multiple connections within the same transaction scope. An error is now returned if you attempt this process, instead of using the incorrect authorization information. (Bug #34204)

Some speed improvements have been implemented in the TokenizeSql process used to identify elements of SQL statements. (Bug #34220)

Incorporated some connection string cache optimizations sent to us by Maxim Mass. (Bug #34000)

Using compression in the MySQL connection with MySQL Connector/Net would be slower than using native (uncompressed) communication. (Bug #27865)

Commands executed from within the state change handler would fail with a NULL exception. (Bug #30964)

Memory usage could increase and decrease significantly when updating or inserting a large number of rows. (Bug #31090)

Column name metadata was not using the character set as defined within the connection string being used. (Bug #31185)

Data cached from the connection string could return invalid information because the internal routines were not using case-sensitive semantics. This lead to updated connection string options not being recognized if they were of a different case than the existing cached values. (Bug #31433)

When running a stored procedure multiple times on the same connection, the memory usage could increase indefinitely. (Bug #30116)

The MySqlDbType.Datetime has been replaced with MySqlDbType.DateTime. The old format has been obsoleted. (Bug #26344)