Bradley Grainger

https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/190: > For .NET 6 ... we're dropping anything older than: `net461`, `netcoreapp3.1`, `netstandard2.0`

Split `netstandard1.3` removal to https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector/issues/1031.

Removing `netcoreapp2.1`: https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector/issues/1067.

Per https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector/issues/1205, .NET Framework 4.5.2 and 4.6.1 reached end of support on 26 April 2022: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-framework-4-5-2-4-6-4-6-1-will-reach-end-of-support-on-april-26-2022/ However: > Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2015 shipped with .NET Framework 4.6 built into...

Split `net45` removal to https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector/issues/1209.

Related cases (that could probably all be solved with a well-designed plugin API): * Custom data types - https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector/issues/123 * Spatial data types: https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector/issues/70 * Utf8String - https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector/issues/618

The `ConnectTimeout` is not per-server, but applies to the entire connection process. Failover will happen if the `ConnectTimeout` doesn't elapse when attempting to connect to the first server. (This might...

> is this a limitation of MySqlConnector, or a limitation of the MySQL wire protocol itself? A little bit of both. 😀 MySqlConnector doesn't have support for it, hence the...

> That does mean it would crash out if someone tries to insert a massive blob, but most folks don't have the max packet size for MySQL set to a...

Updated ADO.NET tests; it appears that SqlClient is the only other library that supports using a `Stream` as a parameter value. Npgsql has decided not to support it (and throws...