Usage Advisor has been implemented. The Usage Advisor checks your queries and will report if you are using the connection inefficiently.

PerfMon hooks have been added to monitor the stored procedure cache hits and misses.

The MySqlCommand object now supports asynchronous query methods. This is implemented useg the BeginExecuteNonQuery and EndExecuteNonQuery methods.

Metadata from storaed procedures and stored function execution are cached.

The CommandBuilder.DeriveParameters function has been updated to the procedure cache.

The ViewColumns GetSchema collection has been updated.

Improved speed and performance by re-architecting certain sections of the code.

Support for the embedded server and client library have been removed from this release. Support will be added back to a later release.

The ShapZipLib library has been replaced with the deflate support provided within .NET 2.0.

SSL support has been updated.

Additional text added to error message (Bug#25178)

An exception would be raised, or the process would hang, if SELECT privileges on a database were not granted and a stored procedure was used. (Bug#25033)

When adding parameter objects to a command object, if the parameter direction is set to ReturnValue before the parameter is added to the command object then when the command is executed it throws an error. (Bug#25013)

Using Driver.IsTooOld() would return the wrong value. (Bug#24661)

When using a DbNull.Value as the value for a parameter value, and then later setting a specific value type, the command would fail with an exception because the wrong type was implied from the DbNull.Value. (Bug#24565)

Stored procedure executions are not thread safe. (Bug#23905)

Deleting a connection to a disconnected server when using the Visual Studio Plugin would cause an assertion failure. (Bug#23687)

Nested transactions (which are unsupported)do not raise an error or warning. (Bug#22400)