Yes, that's right.  You can start looking for airborne swine!  We have released the first drop of Connector/Net 5.0!  While there were reasons why this release took so long to get out, I'll take a page from Ballmer's book and commit to you that it won't happen again.  In any case, this release has lots of goodies baked in.

• ADO.Net 2.0 support
• Usage Advisor
• PerfMon hooks
• Completely virtualized execution pipeline (this will support use of the client library and embedded server later)
• Faster execution
• Type safe methods on MySqlDataReader completely avoid value boxing
• Procedure metadata caching
• New option for not resetting the connection on pool checkout
• And much more!

There are a few things broken or missing in this first code drop.  Here is the current list.

• Connecting via shared memory or using compression …