Hello MySQL Connector/NET community,

Starting with the 8.0.23 release, our provider for Entity Framework Core has a new name. The main goal is to keep support for the different versions of Microsoft Entity Framework Core and to ensure those versions remain tighly coupled with our releases. Also, this new naming is more specific regarding the purpose of the package. Hence the Data part of the name was removed.

Before:

    MySql.Data.EntityFrameworkCore v8.0.x

Now:

    MySql.EntityFrameworkCore v8.0.x

Now that Microsoft maintains more than a single version of Entity Framework Core, we needed to find a way to name our packages and maintain the correlation between the versions of Entity Framework Core and MySQL. So that’s when we came up with using the metadata of the packages. The package version now consists of two parts, the …