8.0.0

Issues

• Feature | Async friendly Always Encrypted support

  Approved
  Feature

  dotnet/SqlClient#3672 · Filter by author cheenamalhotra opened on Oct 8, 2025 · 8.0.0
  4

  

• Feature | Implement async transaction begin/commit/rollback methods

  Approved
  Feature

  dotnet/SqlClient#113 · Filter by author roji opened on May 22, 2019 · 8.0.0
  10

  

• Feature | Cancelling an async SqlClient operation throws SqlException, not TaskCanceledException

  Breaking Change 🔨
  Feature

  dotnet/SqlClient#26 · Filter by author roji opened on Jun 8, 2016 · 8.0.0
  41

• Audit Best-effort Cleanup Code

  Code Health 💊
  Task

  dotnet/SqlClient#3581 · Filter by author benrr101 opened on Aug 22, 2025 · 8.0.0
  3

• Bump dependency versions for 8.0.0

  Task

  dotnet/SqlClient#4879 · Filter by author mdaigle opened on Oct 20, 2026 · 8.0.0
  5

• Enable UseOverallConnectTimeoutForPoolWait by default in 8.1

  Area\Connection Pooling
  Task

  dotnet/SqlClient#4642 · Filter by author mdaigle opened on Sep 3, 2026 · 8.0.0
  4

• Validate TDS parser prerequisites and invalidate malformed responses

  Code Health 💊Hotfix Candidate 🚑
  Unread
  dotnet/SqlClient#4941·paulmedynski opened Oct 29, 2026 · Updated Oct 30, 2026
  9

  

• Fix Corrupted text from SqlDataReader.GetTextReader with SequentialAccess on big-endian platforms

  Hotfix Candidate 🚑
  Unread
  dotnet/SqlClient#4945·shreyarao4 opened Oct 29, 2026 · Updated Oct 29, 2026
  10