Bugs fixed:
- Invalid query string when using inout parameters (Bug#7133) 
- Inserting - DateTimecauses- System.InvalidCastExceptionto be thrown. (Bug#7132)
- MySqlDateTimein Datatables sorting by Text, not Date. (Bug#7032)
- Exception stack trace lost when re-throwing exceptions. (Bug#6983) 
- Errors in parsing stored procedure parameters. (Bug#6902) 
- InvalidCast when using - DATE_ADD-function. (Bug#6879)
- Int64 Support in - MySqlCommandParameters. (Bug#6863)
- Test suite fails with MySQL 4.0 because of case sensitivity of table names. (Bug#6831) 
- MySqlDataReader.GetChar(int i)throws- IndexOutOfRangeexception. (Bug#6770)
- Integer "out" parameter from stored procedure returned as string. (Bug#6668) 
- An Open Connection has been Closed by the Host System. (Bug#6634) 
- Fixed Invalid character set index: 200. (Bug#6547) 
- Connections now do not have to give a database on the connection string. 
- Installer now includes options to install into GAC and create items. 
- Fixed major problem with detecting null values when using prepared statements. 
- Fixed problem where multiple resultsets having different numbers of columns would cause a problem. 
- Added - ServerThreadproperty to- MySqlConnectionto expose server thread id.
- Added Ping method to - MySqlConnection.
- Changed the name of the test suite to - MySql.Data.Tests.dll.
- Now - SHOW COLLATIONis used upon connection to retrieve the full list of charset ids.
- Made MySQL the default named pipe name.