Bradley Grainger

> I tried to run a new load test with the version 1.3.8 and it still reach the maximum pool size (200) Based on your connection counts, I think this...

> Currently we have the setting "ConnectionLifeTime=60" ... I suspect this setting is causing some spike of connections needed in the pool at the same time. Yes, I suspect that's...

See previous discussion in #506.

.NET Core 1.x support ended today: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/platform/support/policy/dotnet-core

> This is also a current advantage of MySqlConnector over MySql.Data: we support netstandard1.3 (vs netstandard1.6) and net45 (vs net452). As of MySql.Data 8.0.18, `netstandard1.6` has been dropped.

From https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector/issues/972: > I would suggest to consider dropping support for .NET Standard 1.3 and older .NET Framework versions in favor of a broader API set and a simplified dependency...

Note that MySqlConnector is eagerly adopting new framework features (e.g., `ZLibStream` in .NET 6: https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector/commit/1a20890c3ecd8d9d9842caa9a69e5402aa723c72) and this is not prevented by also supporting older frameworks. (Using the new preprocessor definitions...

My current thinking is that the 1.x series will continue supporting the current TFMs and that reducing TFM support (perhaps even as drastically to just `net6.0` based on the current...

@ViktorHofer Are you able to provide any internal support within Microsoft for https://github.com/NuGet/NuGetGallery/issues/3450? As this comment https://github.com/NuGet/NuGetGallery/issues/3450#issuecomment-372510244 indicates, it would be extremely useful for NuGet Package owners.

> Anytime, a package which targets .NET Standard < 2.0 is restored, all the transitive dependencies of the NETStandard.Library package are restored as well. To clarify: if I install `MySqlConnector`...