MySQL Connector/NET 6.8.5 has been released (no replies)

Dear MySQL users,

 MySQL Connector/Net 6.8.5 is a maintenance release for the 6.8.x
 series of the .NET driver for MySQL. It can be used for production
 environments.

 It is appropriate for use with MySQL server versions 5.5-5.7.

 It is now available in source and binary form from
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/#downloadsandmirrorsites
 (note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point-if you
 can't find this version on some mirror, please try again later or choose
 another download site.)

 Changes in MySQL Connector/Net 6.8.5       (2015-03-03)

    Bugs Fixed

     * With Entity Framework 6, passing in a string reference to
       the StartWith clause would return incorrect results. (Bug
       #20129927, Bug #20334228, Bug #20334274, Bug #74918)

     * The GetTimeZoneOffset method would return an incorrect
       value depending on the server Time and TimeZone, as it
       did not take into account the day into the context of the
       time difference. (Bug #20065691, Bug #20362040, Bug
       #20362036, Bug #74905)

     * A memory leak was fixed. (Bug #19467233, Bug #19474480,
       Bug #19474510, Bug #73122)

     * The CreateUser function did not trim whitespace before
       storing values into the database, while MembershipUser
       did return trimmed values. The trimming is now performed
       before the data is stored. (Bug #19453313, Bug #19459461,
       Bug #19459436, Bug #73411)

     * Queries with collations using the _utf16le character set
       were not read correctly and instead yielded a "not
       presented key in dictionary" error. (Bug #19446614, Bug
       #19355906, Bug #19446571, Bug #72737)

     * MySQL Connector/Net would sometimes attempt to call
       stored procedures when it should not. (Bug #19446554, Bug
       #19446523, Bug #19325120, Bug #72736)

     * A connection string that included Chinese characters for
       a database or uid property would emit the following
       exception; "MySqlException: Unknown database '???'". (Bug
       #18141356, Bug #20508130, Bug #70041)

     * Loading two nested collections could be reported as an
       invalid SQL query as MySQL Connector/Net only generated a
       partial query. (Bug #18049862, Bug #20409538, Bug
       #20409528, Bug #70941)

 The documentation is available at:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-net/en/

 Nuget packages are available at:
https://www.nuget.org/packages/MySql.Data/6.8.5
https://www.nuget.org/packages/MySql.Data.Entity/6.8.5
https://www.nuget.org/packages/MySql.Web/6.8.5

 Enjoy and thanks for the support!

 On behalf of the MySQL Connector/NET and the MySQL/ORACLE RE Team.

 Sreedhar S