We suggest that you use the MD5 checksums and GnuPG signatures to verify the integrity of the packages you download. Connector/NET is a fully-managed ADO.NET driver for MySQL. MySQL Connector/NET 8.0 and higher is compatible with all MySQL versions starting with MySQL 5.7. Additionally, MySQL Connector/NET 8.0 and higher supports the new X DevAPI for development with MySQL Server 8.0 and beyond. O