Release Notes

Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 5.1.6 released 27 August 2024

This update includes the following changes over the previous release:

Contributors

Thanks to the following public contributors. Their efforts toward this project are very much appreciated.

Fixed

Fixed Transient fault handling issue with OpenAsync. #1983 #2508
Fixed AcquireTokenAsync timeout handling for edge cases in ActiveDirectoryAuthenticationProvider. #2706
Fixed pending data with SqlDataReader against an encrypted column. #2618 #2818

Changed

Upgraded Azure.Identity version from 1.11.3 to 1.11.4 [#2649] (dotnet#2649) [#2529] (dotnet#2529) to address CVE-2024-35255.
Upgraded Microsoft.Identity.Client version from 4.60.0 to 4.61.3 [#2649] (dotnet#2649) [#2529] (dotnet#2529) to address CVE-2024-35255.
Added caching to TokenCredential objects to take advantage of token caching. #2776
Code health improvements: [#2490] (dotnet#2490)

Target Platform Support

.NET Framework 4.6.2+ (Windows x86, Windows x64)
.NET 6.0+ (Windows x86, Windows x64, Windows ARM64, Windows ARM, Linux, macOS)
.NET Standard 2.0+ (Windows x86, Windows x64, Windows ARM64, Windows ARM, Linux, macOS)

Dependencies

.NET Framework

Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SNI 5.1.1
Azure.Identity 1.11.4
Microsoft.Identity.Client 4.61.3
Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens 6.35.0
Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.OpenIdConnect 6.35.0
System.Buffers 4.5.1
System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager 6.0.1
System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation 4.3.0
System.Text.Encodings.Web 6.0.0

.NET

Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SNI.runtime 5.1.1
Azure.Identity 1.11.4
Microsoft.Identity.Client 4.61.3
Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens 6.35.0
Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.OpenIdConnect 6.35.0
Microsoft.SqlServer.Server 1.0.0
System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager 6.0.1
System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource 6.0.0
System.Runtime.Caching 6.0.0
System.Text.Encoding.CodePages 6.0.0
System.Text.Encodings.Web 6.0.0
System.Security.Cryptography.Cng 5.0.0
System.Security.Principal.Windows 5.0.0

.NET Standard

Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SNI.runtime 5.1.1
Azure.Identity 1.11.4
Microsoft.Identity.Client 4.61.3
Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.OpenIdConnect 6.35.0
Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens 6.35.0
Microsoft.SqlServer.Server 1.0.0
Microsoft.Win32.Registry 5.0.0
System.Buffers 4.5.1
System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager 6.0.1
System.Runtime.Caching 6.0.0
System.Text.Encoding.CodePages 6.0.0
System.Text.Encodings.Web 6.0.0
System.Runtime.Loader 4.3.0
System.Security.Cryptography.Cng 5.0.0
System.Security.Principal.Windows 5.0.0