Registration for the 2006 MySQL Users Conference is now open.  This is the place to be for all things MySQL and to hear from some of the great innovators out there today!  We'll have several good .NET and Mono presentations.  If you're planning on attending, drop me a line and we'll share an IPizza.  :-)

Shortly after release, it became clear that Connector/Net 1.0.5 was broken on Mono.  We were also getting some requests to increase the speed of pulling connections from the connection pool.  With the release of 1.0.6, these issues have been addressed.  Users should be aware that disabling the reset and config that happens by default when a connection is opened from a pool can be dangerous and should only be used when the user is fully aware of exactly how that connection will be used.

The new release can be found at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/1.0.html.

MySQL Connector/Net 1.0.5, a new version of the fully-managed, ADO.Net provider for the MySQL database system has been released. This release is the latest production release of the 1.0 series and is suitable for use with any MySQL version including MySQL-4.1 or MySQL-5.0.

It is now available in source and binary form from the Connector/Net download pages at

 and mirror sites (note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point of time - if you can't find this version on some mirror, please try again later or choose another download site.)

The forum announcement (along with …