https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/6.0.2#dependencies-body-tab Lists Azure.Identity >= 1.11.4 but only >= 1.14.2 is not deprecated Reason is "This version takes a dependency on a deprecated version of MSAL .NET (Microsoft.Identity.Client)." And the version used in main is >=1.13.2 i.e also deprecated (unexpected that Directory.Packages.props is not used for version handling took some searching to find where the version was coming from.) https://github.com/dotnet/SqlClient/blob/main/tools/specs/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.nuspec#L57 And 6.1.0 lists 1.13.2 which is also deprecated. Maybe there are some other dependencies that could get an update as well?