Version 5.0.1 has major memory retention problem but is not marked as deprecated

[Timo-Weike]

The version 5.0.1 has the memory retention problem discussed in #1810, but dispite multiple comments suggesting that the version should be marked as deprecated or having a bug, the version is still up and unmarked on NuGet.

I just took some days to "rediscover" this problem and am grateful for it being already solved. However I think it would be very helpful for all users of the version.

And as you can see on the nuget stats page for the package, version 5.0.1 was downloaded over 3 million times in the last 6 weeks

So version 5.0.1 is far from not being used, but IMHO should be with this kind of problem.

[ErikEJ]

A lot of downloads of this package come via EF Core 7 and the latest version of EF Core 7 was just Updated to use 5.11

[DavoudEshtehari]

Thank you for providing the feedbacks, we'll look into it and try to improve it on NuGet.org.

[Timo-Weike]

A lot of downloads of this package come via EF Core 7 and the latest version of EF Core 7 was just Updated to use 5.11

As of now the version 5.0.1 was still downloaded over 3 million times in the last 6 weeks

I think a deprecation flag would improve these numbers.

[David-Engel]

I marked it as deprecated with a recommendation to update to at least 5.0.2: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/5.0.1