2.5.0

• Support .NET 10: #1595.
• Possibly breaking MySqlConnection.State will be set to ConnectionState.Broken when there is a network error: #1599.
  • Previously it would have been set to ConnectionState.Closed but the connection wasn't truly closed.
  • Call MySqlConnection.Close() to fully close the connection before calling Open() again.
  • Better yet, call .Dispose() (ideally with a using declaration) and create a new MySqlConnection instance to recover from failure.
• Possibly breaking MySqlConnection.ResetConnectionAsync will consistently throw a MySqlException: #1602.
• Implement MariaDB PARSEC authentication: #1540, #1606.
• Support the VECTOR data type: #1549.
• Implement COM_STMT_SEND_LONG_DATA to stream large parameter values: #943.
• Add MySqlConnectorTracingOptions and builder APIs to configure tracing output: #1524.
• Read Guid values from stored procedure out parameters: #1528.
• Mark MySqlDbType with [DbProviderSpecificTypeProperty(true)]: #1557.
• Allow loopback connections (e.g., Google Cloud SQL Proxy) to use clear-text password or public key retrieval: #1534, #1542.
• Improve schema metadata with MariaDB by reading stored procedure metadata from mysql.proc: #1547.
• Improve XA transaction rollback handling: #1585, #1589.
• Free large cached payload buffers when returning sessions to the pool to reduce memory usage: #1587.
• Suppress error-level logging when a command is canceled: #1544.
• Fix MySqlBulkCopy auto-detected column mappings: #1568.
• Fix Foreign Keys schema SQL syntax: #1601.
• Fix extra roundtrip for caching_sha2_password: #1562.
• Fix cancellation with AWS RDS Proxy: #1581.
• Optimization: Use System.Threading.Lock for .NET 9.0+.
• Optimization: Use PemEncoding in .NET 5.0+ and UTF-8 methods in .NET 10.0+.
• Thanks to @djeman, @jnoordsij, @NETSphereSoft, @PatrickMNL, @petedishman, and @rusher for contributions to this release.