v12

• Updated the SDK to .NET8
• Updated the service layer to 5.0.20250402.1
• RestoreCommand: improved batch performance
• RestoreCommand: change --batch-size to be defined as a number of bytes

v11

• Improved help output when required arguments are missing
• Extracted the commands into separate objects

v10

• Reverted to .NET6 due to massive performance regressions in .NET8.

v9

• Implemented a restore command.
• Removed the bundled Microsoft.SqlTools.ServiceLayer DLLs. They are downloaded at compile-time instead.
• Upgraded Microsoft.SqlTools.ServiceLayer to version 5.0.20241003.1.
• Upgraded to .NET8.

v8

• Changed the argument names to harmonize with sqlcmd.
• Merged the dump-database and dump-schema commands into backup. A new argument --schema-only has been added instead.
• Removed support for --connection-string.
• The script filename now includes the database name, unless explicitly overridden.
• The script now includes code to disable table constraints before the data is inserted.

v7

• Fixed a bug where dump-database would output multiple byte order marks.
• Windows builds are now distributed as zip archives instead of tarballs.

v6

• Added an option --exclude-table to exclude data from specific tables. Only applies to dump-database.
• Renamed --out-file to --output.