diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 3c68729d..828a0cce 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+# 8.2.1
+* Updated SqlClient to 5.2.3 (thanks to @cancakar35)
+* Fixes in .editorconfig (thanks to @cancakar35)
+* Convert AppConfigDemo to SDK style (thanks to @cancakar35)
+* Removed obsolete SourceLink package references
+* Small code style fixes
+
 # 8.2.0
 * Added `ConnectionConfiguration` sink option to customize SqlConnection before use (thanks to @nhart12)
 
diff --git a/Directory.Packages.props b/Directory.Packages.props
index d24d377b..ea880d78 100644
--- a/Directory.Packages.props
+++ b/Directory.Packages.props
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json" Version="8.0.1" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting" Version="8.0.1" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Options.ConfigurationExtensions" Version="8.0.0" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="Microsoft.SourceLink.GitHub" Version="8.0.0" />
     <PackageVersion Include="coverlet.collector" Version="3.2.0" />
     <PackageVersion Include="FluentAssertions" Version="6.12.1" />
     <PackageVersion Include="Dapper.StrongName" Version="2.1.35" />
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 686abcc4..e9a7091a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 A Serilog sink that writes events to Microsoft SQL Server. This sink will write the log event data to a table and can optionally also store the properties inside an XML or JSON column so they can be queried. Important properties can also be written to their own separate columns.
 
 **Package** - [Serilog.Sinks.MSSqlServer](http://nuget.org/packages/serilog.sinks.mssqlserver)
-| **Minimum Platforms** - .NET Framework 4.6.2, .NET 6.0, .NET Standard 2.0
+| **Minimum Platforms** - .NET Framework 4.6.2, .NET 8.0, .NET Standard 2.0
 
 #### Topics
 
diff --git a/src/Serilog.Sinks.MSSqlServer/Serilog.Sinks.MSSqlServer.csproj b/src/Serilog.Sinks.MSSqlServer/Serilog.Sinks.MSSqlServer.csproj
index d0a22573..8cccba2a 100644
--- a/src/Serilog.Sinks.MSSqlServer/Serilog.Sinks.MSSqlServer.csproj
+++ b/src/Serilog.Sinks.MSSqlServer/Serilog.Sinks.MSSqlServer.csproj
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
-    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.SourceLink.GitHub" PrivateAssets="All" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Data.SqlClient" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration" />
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Options.ConfigurationExtensions" />
diff --git a/src/Serilog.Sinks.MSSqlServer/Sinks/MSSqlServer/Output/XmlPropertyFormatter.cs b/src/Serilog.Sinks.MSSqlServer/Sinks/MSSqlServer/Output/XmlPropertyFormatter.cs
index 98551e09..7adc2003 100644
--- a/src/Serilog.Sinks.MSSqlServer/Sinks/MSSqlServer/Output/XmlPropertyFormatter.cs
+++ b/src/Serilog.Sinks.MSSqlServer/Sinks/MSSqlServer/Output/XmlPropertyFormatter.cs
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ namespace Serilog.Sinks.MSSqlServer.Output
 {
     internal class XmlPropertyFormatter : IXmlPropertyFormatter
     {
-        private static readonly Regex _invalidXMLChars = new Regex(
+        private static readonly Regex _invalidXmlChars = new Regex(
             @"(?<![\uD800-\uDBFF])[\uDC00-\uDFFF]|[\uD800-\uDBFF](?![\uDC00-\uDFFF])|[\x00-\x08\x0B\x0C\x0E-\x1F\x7F-\x9F\uFEFF\uFFFE\uFFFF]",
             RegexOptions.Compiled);
 
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ private static string SimplifyScalar(object value)
         {
             if (value == null) return null;
 
-            return new XText(_invalidXMLChars.Replace(value.ToString(), m => "\\u" + ((ushort)m.Value[0]).ToString("x4", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture))).ToString();
+            return new XText(_invalidXmlChars.Replace(value.ToString(), m => "\\u" + ((ushort)m.Value[0]).ToString("x4", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture))).ToString();
         }
 
         private string SimplifyDictionary(ColumnOptions.PropertiesColumnOptions options, DictionaryValue dict)
diff --git a/src/Serilog.Sinks.MSSqlServer/Sinks/MSSqlServer/Platform/SqlCreateTableWriter.cs b/src/Serilog.Sinks.MSSqlServer/Sinks/MSSqlServer/Platform/SqlCreateTableWriter.cs
index 12fe0581..e1ce1026 100644
--- a/src/Serilog.Sinks.MSSqlServer/Sinks/MSSqlServer/Platform/SqlCreateTableWriter.cs
+++ b/src/Serilog.Sinks.MSSqlServer/Sinks/MSSqlServer/Platform/SqlCreateTableWriter.cs
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ public string GetSql()
                 {
                     var common = (SqlColumn)column.ExtendedProperties["SqlColumn"];
 
-                    sql.Append(GetColumnDDL(common));
+                    sql.Append(GetColumnDdl(common));
                     if (dataTable.Columns.Count > i++) sql.Append(',');
                     sql.AppendLine();
 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ public string GetSql()
         // Examples of possible output:
         // [Id] BIGINT IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL
         // [Message] VARCHAR(1024) NULL
-        private static string GetColumnDDL(SqlColumn column)
+        private static string GetColumnDdl(SqlColumn column)
         {
             var sb = new StringBuilder();