MySQL Connector/NET Release Notes
Added support for snapshot change-tracking by recording the
original values of an entity when it is retrieved from the
database, and support to access the tracked state of entities
through DbContext.Entry and
DbContext.ChangeTracker.
Added concurrency tokens and shadow properties to the set of conventions used to build an Entity Framework Core model based on the shape of entity classes.
The .NET Core version of the driver now supports connections to
MySQL servers configured to use SSL (TSL for 5.7) through the
MySqlConnection class or a
DbContext with Entity Framework 6.x or Entity
Framework Core.
Entity Framework Core support for eager loading can be used to load related data from MySQL as part of the initial query.
Added support for following X Protocol connection options:
ssl-enable: enables the use of SSL as required.
mysqlx://user:password@192.2.0.1/?ssl-enable
ssl-ca: path to a local file that contains a list of trusted TLS/SSL CAs as PFX file. This option uses an implicit ssl-enable.
mysqlx://user:password@server.example.com/?ssl-ca=(c:\cas.pfx)
ssl-ca-pwd: specifies the CA certificate password.
mysqlx://user:password@server.example.com/?ssl-ca=(c:\cas.pfx)&ssl-ca-pwd=password