Binary breaking changes in NavigationEntry in EF Core 8.0

[kevinchalet]

EF Core 7.0 (and earlier) has the following NavigationEntry.LoadAsync(...) API:

efcore/src/EFCore/ChangeTracking/NavigationEntry.cs

Line 122 in 81a09d5

public abstract Task LoadAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken = default);

This API was removed in EF Core 8.0 (without being obsoleted first, BTW...) and replaced by:

efcore/src/EFCore/ChangeTracking/NavigationEntry.cs

Line 118 in 098cf04

public abstract Task LoadAsync(LoadOptions options = LoadOptions.None, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default);

The signature has changed in a breaking way (an optional parameter has been added), which causes MemberMissingExceptions when referencing EF Core 8.0 in a project that has dependencies built against EF Core 7.0 (or earlier).

System.MissingMethodException : 'Method not found: 'System.Threading.Tasks.Task Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.ChangeTracking.NavigationEntry.LoadAsync(System.Threading.CancellationToken)'.'

Since it was requested by @roji, I attached a simple repro.

(it's very likely other APIs - like Load - have the same issue)

NavigationEntryBreakingChange.zip