From c396ddbbce8ce12e3631fb4487bfcb3a588eef6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "dependabot[bot]" <49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:52:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Bump Microsoft.Data.SqlClient from 6.1.4 to 7.0.0

---
updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient
  dependency-version: 7.0.0
  dependency-type: direct:production
  update-type: version-update:semver-major
...

Signed-off-by: dependabot[bot] <support@github.com>
---
 Directory.Packages.props | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Directory.Packages.props b/Directory.Packages.props
index d6d77dd9..749559ca 100644
--- a/Directory.Packages.props
+++ b/Directory.Packages.props
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
     <PackageVersion Include="System.Composition" Version="7.0.0" />
 
     <!-- Database Providers -->
-    <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.Data.SqlClient" Version="6.1.4" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.Data.SqlClient" Version="7.0.0" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.Data.Sqlite" Version="10.0.5" />
     <PackageVersion Include="MySqlConnector" Version="2.5.0" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Npgsql" Version="10.0.2" />

From 55891ba79fd9ace3c8a10e47eb46f63fc36429b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James A Sutherland <j@sutherland.pw>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:33:16 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add CHANGELOG note about new
 Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.Extensions.Azure separation

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8e0df505..d5c9b06f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Changes
+
+- Bump MSSQL client to 7.0.0 which moves Azure AD/Entra support to a separate package; anyone needing that should now add `Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.Extensions.Azure` as an explicit dependency.
+
 ## [3.6.3] - 2025-12-10
 
 ### Fixed