From https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-net/en/news-8-0-17.html: > Connector/NET now supports the new `utf8mb4_0900_bin` collation added for the `utf8mb4` Unicode character set in MySQL 8.0.17.
From https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-net/en/news-8-0-17.html: