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This release contains 22 commits since the last release. It contains the following bug fixes:

[#217] Impossible to insert a Double.NaN value
[#179] NpgsqlCommandBuilder automatic sql commands configuration
[#158] NpgsqlCommand.Dispose() should execute "DEALLOCATE " for a prepared command
[#264] Mono.Security is outdated
[#296] parameter parsing fails (regression) and duplicate [#240] NpgSqlCommand does not substitute parameters when there is a string with escaped apostrophe

A complete list of commits for this release can be found here: v2.2.0-beta1...release-2.2.0

The Npgsql Development team is proud to announce that Npgsql 2.2.0 beta1 is now available!
This release has the following highlights:


Visual Studio DDEX support
Kenji Uno added support for DDEX. Now you can use Npgsql with Visual Studio data designer. This is a missing feature a lot of our users requested in the past. Kenji added a tutorial about how to use Npgsql with DDEX. You can find it here.


Support for EFMigration and Database creation in EF6+ David Karlaš added support for that. Now it is possible to start Code First projects without needing to create a database upfront. EntityFramework and Npgsql will take care of it.

Emil Lenngren added support for a lot of missing features of EntityFramework.

Check out this list containing fixes from David and Emil as well as others for EntityFramework.

SSLStream support
In this release, SSLStream is on by default.

If you want to use Mono.Security, you will need to use the following line in your code:

NpgsqlConnection.UseSslStream = false;

Not…

Achievement unlocked!
With the merge of Pull Request #213 (PR #213), Kenji Uno added support for Visual Studio Design Time also known as DDEX. 
A most wanted feature
From the statistics of pageviews I get from a previous post about design time support, I can affirm that this is a most wanted feature of Npgsql. And I'm very glad to say that Npgsql is finally having it. I'd like to thank Kenji Uno for all his hard work to make this happen. 
Npgsql DDEX support is done through an extension file which can be easily installed in Visual Studio. This is a much better situation than we had before where it was needed to use an experimental instance of Visual Studio. 

History
The code started with wwindcloud in PR #67 and Kenji started to play with it and said he was working to get it usable in VS2012 and 2013. 
Some time later, Kenji said he had some success to get Npgsql DDEX initially working and startedto fixthe bugs he was finding. 
In order to be able to add more fixes to the code, …

This version restores the @@ operator support removed in the previous version. Thanks Glen Parker who provided a fix.

Downloads can be found at the usual locations:

github download page
and
the nuget repository.

Pgfoundry will be updated soon.

Npgsql 2.1.2 is out!

This is a bug fix release. Two fixes are present:


KeyNotFoundException when setting ApplicationName on NpgsqlConnectionStringBuilder and A regression when using NHibernate with queries containing '<' operator. (Less Than' prepare failing). Unfortunately, this fix breaks previous support for @@ operators. So if you need this support, you will have to use the previous 2.1.1 version. Glen Parker is working in a permanent fix. Sorry for this big inconvenience. More info about that can be found at the link above.
Please, give it a try and let me know if you have any problems. Please, report your issues in our github issues page.

After a long time, Npgsql 2.1.0 is finally released! 
If you have been following my posts about Npgsql 2.1 beta and rc releases, you know we did a lot of changes since our last stable release.

The change log for this version is big. You can find a complete list of what has changed and the bugs fixed in the github project release page. It has a lot of information about the changes we made since our last stable 2.0.14 release. You should check it out to see what changed and what new features you will get when you use 2.1.
Developers using Npgsql 2.1 and Entity Framework should pay attention to the changes related to new configuration settings. More information about those changes can be checked here.

Downloads are available on Nuget, github. pgfoundry downloads will be made available soon.
Finally, I'd like to thank some people who did an incredible job and that without them this release wouldn't be possible!

Glen Parker has been working in the optimizations tasks since his fir…