6.8.4
- Fix for Entity Framework Inserts broken on tables with unsigned bigint as auto increment (MySql Bug #71242, Oracle Bug #18189217).
- Fix for code To SQL Generation Broken For Foreign Keys/Indexes On Table Create (MySQL #70079, Oracle Bug #18049272)
- Fix for DotNet Connector keepalive in milliseconds instead of seconds (MySql Bug #69484, Oracle Bug #17981275).
- Fix for EF SQL Generator, Union Syntax (Concat operator) is missing required parentheses (may cause semantic changes 
  when combined with Limit clause (Take operator)) (MySql bug #70828, Oracle bug #18049691).
- Fix for support for Entity Framework 4.3 Code first Identifiers for Migrations & EF6 (MySql Bug #67285, Oracle bug #16286397).
- Added threading and custom failover support for Replication & Load balancing (MySQL Bug #69832, Oracle Bug #18112966).
- Fix for maximumpoolsize and minimumpoolsize as invalid properties in connection string (Oracle Bug #18182246).
- Fix for 'default table cache age' connection string property, set default value to 60 seconds.
- Fix for MySqlDataTime.Millisecond to be a value between 0 and 999.
- Added Microsecond to MySqlDateTime for 6-digit precision support.
- Fix for open sockets connections left when connection open fails, the error happens when the client try to get a connection when the max number of connections is reached in the server. (MySql #72025, Oracle Bug #18665388).
- Fix for Exception of "duplicate entry" in MySqlSessionProvider (MySql Bug #70409, Oracle bug #18657550).
- Fix for Unable to read geometry column when it has been set with a SRID value. (MySql Bug #71869, Oracle Bug #19137999)
- Fix for Exception adding a new column to an existing model as identity and PK fails when applying the migration (MySql Bug #71418, Oracle bug #18923294).
- Fix for Error when Calling MySqlConnection.GetSchema("PROCEDURES WITH PARAMETERS", ...) (Oracle bug #19285959).
- Fix for EF provider reports ManifestProviderToken = 5.6 for server 5.7 (Oracle bug #19453814).
- Fix for Fluent API DbModelBuilder.HasColumnType is ignored in EF6 (Oracle bug #19456229).
- Fix for Setting a PK GUID identity in Code First in EF6 no longer works in Server 5.7 (Oracle bug #19456452).
- Non PKs declared as Identity GUID have no GUID autogenerated (Oracle bug #19456415).
- Disabled installation on-demand in Installer (Oracle Bug #19670596).
- Fix for Generated SQL requests column that doesn't exist in LINQ to Entities (MySql bug #72004, Oracle bug #19681348).
- Fix for MySQL Connector/NET generates incorrect SQL for LINQ 'StartsWith' queries (MySql bug #72058, Oracle bug #19680236).
- Fix for Exception when using IEnumerable.Contains(model.property) in Where predicate (MySql bug #73643, Oracle bug #19690370).
- Fix for Generated Sql does not contain ORDER BY statement whose is requested by LINQ (MySql bug #73549, Oracle bug #19698010).
- Fix for Error of "Every derived table must have an alias" in LINQ to Entities when using EF6 + DbFirst + View + Take
  (MySql Bug #72148, Oracle bug #19356006).
- Fix for 'the method or operation is not implemented' when using linq with orderby (MySQL Bug #70722, Oracle Bug #19681723).


6.8.3
- Fix for error using MySqlProviderFactoryResolver with NetFramework 4.0 and EF6 (Tracker Work Item #897)
- Fix for Case incorrect on table in SQL queries for MySqlSessionStateStore (MySql bug #69652, Oracle bug #17960855).
- Fix for rename column operation in Entity Framework migrations (MySQL Bug #71102, Oracle Bug #17959787). 
- Fix for WI #911 Installer failing when .Net Framework 4 is not installed.


6.8.2
- Fix for WI# 838, Model First is broken for string columns with unbounded length.
- Fix for NullReferenceException when try to save entity with TINYINY or BIGINT as PK (MySql bug #70888, Oracle bug #17866076).
- Fix for .Net connector does not add auto_increment to bigint columns (MySql Bug #70602).
- Fix for Entity Framework migration with Foreign Key fails. (MySql Bug #70795).
- Fix for fields of type TIME(3) don't read milliseconds (MySql bug #70377)
- Fix for Wrong milliseconds serialization (MySql bug #70686).
- Fix for Stack overflow exception on spatial types


6.8.1
- Changed EF migration history table to use a single column as primary key.
- Removed installer validation when MySql for Visual Studio is installed.
- Added idempotent script for Entity Framework 6 migrations.
- Fix for WI #824, Connector/NET writes wrong version for binding redirects.
- Fix for WI #825, Connector/NET 6.8.1 writes wrong namespace for binding redirects.


6.8.0
- Fix for bad query when using LINQ to Entities with a query using Take, OrderBy & Contains in Code First (MySql bug #69751, Oracle bug #17194945).
- Fix for LINQ to Entities error for bad aliasing in column for expression (MySql bug #69922, Oracle bug #17285548).
- Installer adds MySql data provider to machine.config and registers MySql.Data.dll to GAC.
- Fix for bug Connector 6.7.4 does not register as dataprovider in machine.config (MySql bug #69760 , Oracle bug #17601689).

