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v5.9.2

05 Dec 17:24
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5.9.2 (2023-11-16)

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 5.9.2 of the mongodb package!

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Fix connection leak when serverApi is enabled

When enabling serverApi the driver's RTT mesurment logic (used to determine the closest node) still sent the legacy hello command "isMaster" causing the server to return an error. Unfortunately, the error handling logic did not correctly destroy the socket which would cause a leak.

Both sending the correct hello command and the error handling connection clean up logic are fixed in this change.

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We invite you to try the mongodb library immediately, and report any issues to the NODE project.

v4.17.2

05 Dec 17:22
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4.17.2 (2023-11-16)

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 4.17.2 of the mongodb package!

Release Notes

Fix connection leak when serverApi is enabled

When enabling serverApi the driver's RTT mesurment logic (used to determine the closest node) still sent the legacy hello command "isMaster" causing the server to return an error. Unfortunately, the error handling logic did not correctly destroy the socket which would cause a leak.

Both sending the correct hello command and the error handling connection clean up logic are fixed in this change.

Bug Fixes

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We invite you to try the mongodb library immediately, and report any issues to the NODE project.

v6.3.0

16 Nov 16:32
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6.3.0 (2023-11-15)

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 6.3.0 of the mongodb package!

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New client option serverMonitoringMode

For users that want to control the behaviour of the monitoring connection between each node in the topology, a new option, serverMonitoringMode, has been added. This defaults to auto but can be forced into a specific mode by providing a value of poll or stream. When the setting is auto the monitoring mode will be determined by the environment the driver is running in, specifically, FaaS environments prefer "polling" mode and all others prefer "streaming".

A polling monitor periodically issues a hello command to the node at an interval of heartbeatFrequencyMS. A streaming monitor sends an initial hello and then will automatically get a response from the Node when a change in server configuration occurs or at a maximum time of heartbeatFrequencyMS. The value of that option defaults to 10000 milliseconds.

This new option can be provided in the connection string or as an option to the MongoClient.

// In the connection string.
new MongoClient('mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/?serverMonitoringMode=stream');

// In the options
new MongoClient('mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/', { serverMonitoringMode: 'stream' });

Fix connection leak when serverApi is enabled

When enabling serverApi the driver's RTT measurement logic (used to determine the closest node) still sent the legacy hello command "isMaster" causing the server to return an error. Unfortunately, the error handling logic did not correctly destroy the socket which would cause a leak.

Both sending the correct hello command and the error handling connection clean-up logic are fixed in this change.

GridFS fields deprecated

The GridFS contentType and aliases options are deprecated. According to the GridFS spec, applications wishing to store contentType and aliases should add a corresponding field to the metadata document instead.

Remove deprecation warning about punycode

The mongodb-connection-string-url package which parses connection strings relied on Node's punycode module, the package now imports the community package removing the deprecation warning on Node.js 20+.

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We invite you to try the mongodb library immediately and report any issues to the NODE project.

v6.2.0

20 Oct 15:05
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6.2.0 (2023-10-19)

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 6.2.0 of the mongodb package!

Release Notes

Updated to BSON 6.2.0

BSON now prints in full color! 🌈 🚀

See our release notes for BSON 6.2.0 here for more examples!

insertedIds in bulk write now contain only successful insertions

Prior to this fix, the bulk write error's result.insertedIds property contained the _id of each attempted insert in a bulk operation.

Now, when a bulkwrite() or an insertMany() operation rejects one or more inserts, throwing an error, the error's result.insertedIds property will only contain the _id fields of successfully inserted documents.

Fixed edge case leak in findOne()

When running a findOne against a time series collection, the driver left the implicit session for the cursor un-ended due to the way the server returns the resulting cursor information. Now the cursor will always be cleaned up regardless of the outcome of the find operation.

Removed client-side collection and database name validation

Database and collection name checking will now be in sync with the MongoDB server's naming restrictions. Specifically, users can now create collections that start or end with the '.' character.

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We invite you to try the mongodb library immediately, and report any issues to the NODE project.

v5.9.1

20 Oct 15:03
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5.9.1 (2023-10-18)

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 5.9.1 of the mongodb package!

Release Notes

insertedIds in bulk write now contain only successful insertions

Prior to this fix, the bulk write error's result.insertedIds property contained the _id of each attempted insert in a bulk operation.

Now, when a bulkwrite() or an insertMany() operation rejects one or more inserts, throwing an error, the error's result.insertedIds property will only contain the _id fields of successfully inserted documents.

Fixed edge case leak in findOne()

When running a findOne against a time series collection, the driver left the implicit session for the cursor un-ended due to the way the server returns the resulting cursor information. Now the cursor will always be cleaned up regardless of the outcome of the find operation.

Bug Fixes

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We invite you to try the mongodb library immediately, and report any issues to the NODE project.

v6.1.0

14 Sep 20:53
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6.1.0 (2023-09-14)

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 6.1.0 of the mongodb package!

Release Notes

Bump bson version to expose new Decimal128.fromStringWithRounding() method

In this release, we have adopted the changes made to Decimal128 in bson version 6.1.0. We have added a new fromStringWithRounding() method which exposes the previously available inexact rounding behaviour.

See the bson v6.1.0 release notes for more information.

Use region settings for STS AWS credentials request

When using IAM AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity AWS authentication the driver uses the @aws-sdk/credential-providers package to contact the Security Token Service API for temporary credentials. AWS recommends using Regional AWS STS endpoints instead of the global endpoint to reduce latency, build-in redundancy, and increase session token validity. Unfortunately, environment variables AWS_STS_REGIONAL_ENDPOINTS and AWS_REGION do not directly control the region the SDK's STS client contacts for credentials.

The driver now has added support for detecting these variables and setting the appropriate options when calling the SDK's API: fromNodeProviderChain().

Important

The driver will only set region options if BOTH environment variables are present. AWS_STS_REGIONAL_ENDPOINTS MUST be set to either 'legacy' or 'regional', and AWS_REGION must be set.

Fix memory leak with ChangeStreams

In a previous release, 5.7.0, we refactored cursor internals from callbacks to async/await. In particular, the next function that powers cursors was written with callbacks and would recursively call itself depending on the cursor type. For ChangeStreams, this function would call itself if there were no new changes to return to the user. After converting that code to async/await each recursive call created a new promise that saved the current async context. This would slowly build up memory usage if no new changes came in to unwind the recursive calls.

The function is now implemented as a loop, memory leak be gone!

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We invite you to try the mongodb library immediately, and report any issues to the NODE project.

v5.9.0

14 Sep 21:26
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5.9.0 (2023-09-14)

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 5.9.0 of the mongodb package!

Release Notes

Bumped bson version to make use of new Decimal128 behaviour

In this release, we have adopted the changes made to Decimal128 in bson version 5.5. The Decimal128 constructor and fromString() methods now throw when detecting a loss of precision (more than 34 significant digits). We also expose a new fromStringWithRounding() method which restores the previous rounding behaviour.

See the bson v5.5.0 release notes for more information.

Use region settings for STS AWS credentials request

When using IAM AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity AWS authentication the driver uses the @aws-sdk/credential-providers package to contact the Security Token Service API for temporary credentials. AWS recommends using Regional AWS STS endpoints instead of the global endpoint to reduce latency, build-in redundancy, and increase session token validity. Unfortunately, environment variables AWS_STS_REGIONAL_ENDPOINTS and AWS_REGION do not directly control the region the SDK's STS client contacts for credentials.

The driver now has added support for detecting these variables and setting the appropriate options when calling the SDK's API: fromNodeProviderChain().

Important

The driver will only set region options if BOTH environment variables are present. AWS_STS_REGIONAL_ENDPOINTS MUST be set to either 'legacy' or 'regional', and AWS_REGION must be set.

Fix memory leak with ChangeStreams

In a previous release, 5.7.0, we refactored cursor internals from callbacks to async/await. In particular, the next function that powers cursors was written with callbacks and would recursively call itself depending on the cursor type. For ChangeStreams, this function would call itself if there were no new changes to return to the user. After converting that code to async/await each recursive call created a new promise that saved the current async context. This would slowly build up memory usage if no new changes came in to unwind the recursive calls.

The function is now implemented as a loop, memory leak be gone!

Features

Bug Fixes

Documentation

We invite you to try the mongodb library immediately, and report any issues to the NODE project.

v6.0.0

28 Aug 20:16
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6.0.0 (2023-08-22)

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 6.0.0 of the mongodb package!

The main focus of this release was usability improvements and a streamlined API. Read on for details!

Release Notes

Important

This is a list of changes relative to v5.8.1 of the driver. ALL changes listed below are BREAKING.
Users migrating from an older version of the driver are advised to upgrade to at least v5.8.1 before adopting v6.

🛠️ Runtime and dependency updates

Minimum Node.js version is now v16.20.1

The minimum supported Node.js version is now v16.20.1. We strive to keep our minimum supported Node.js version in sync with the runtime's release cadence to keep up with the latest security updates and modern language features.

BSON version 6.0.0

This driver version has been updated to use [email protected]. BSON functionality re-exported from the driver is subject to the changes outlined in the BSON V6 release notes.

Optional peer dependency version bumps

  • kerberos optional peer dependency minimum version raised to 2.0.1, dropped support for 1.x
  • zstd optional peer depedency minimum version raised to 1.1.0 from 1.0.0
  • mongodb-client-encryption optional peer dependency minimum version raised to 6.0.0 from 2.3.0 (note that mongodb-client-encryption does not have 3.x-5.x version releases)

Note

As of version 6.0.0, all useful public APIs formerly exposed from mongodb-client-encryption have been moved into the driver and should now be imported directly from the driver. These APIs rely internally on the functionality exposed from mongodb-client-encryption, but there is no longer any need to explicitly reference mongodb-client-encryption in your application code.

Allow socks to be installed optionally

The driver uses the socks dependency to connect to mongod or mongos through a SOCKS5 proxy. socks used to be a required dependency of the driver and was installed automatically. Now, socks is a peerDependency that must be installed to enable socks proxy support.

☀️ API usability improvements

findOneAndX family of methods will now return only the found document or null by default (includeResultMetadata is false by default)

Previously, the default return type of this family of methods was a ModifyResult containing the found document and additional metadata. This additional metadata is unnecessary for the majority of use cases, so now, by default, they will return only the found document or null.

The previous behavior is still available by explicitly setting includeResultMetadata: true in the options.

See the following blog post for more information.

// This has the same behaviour as providing `{ includeResultMetadata: false }` in the v5.7.0+ driver
await collection.findOneAndUpdate({ hello: 'world' }, { $set: { hello: 'WORLD' } });
// > { _id: new ObjectId("64c4204517f785be30795c92"), hello: 'world' }

// This has the same behaviour as providing no options in any previous version of the driver
await collection.findOneAndUpdate(
  { hello: 'world' },
  { $set: { hello: 'WORLD' } },
  { includeResultMetadata: true }
);
// > {
// >  lastErrorObject: { n: 1, updatedExisting: true },
// >  value: { _id: new ObjectId("64c4208b17f785be30795c93"), hello: 'world' },
// >  ok: 1
// > }

session.commitTransaction() and session.abortTransaction() return void

Each of these methods erroneously returned server command results that can be different depending on server version or type the driver is connected to. These methods return a promise that if resolved means the command (aborting or commiting) sucessfully completed and rejects otherwise. Viewing command responses is possible through the command monitoring APIs on the MongoClient.

withSession and withTransaction return the value returned by the provided function

The await client.withSession(async session => {}) now returns the value that the provided function returns. Previously, this function returned void this is a feature to align with the following breaking change.

The await session.withTransaction(async () => {}) method now returns the value that the provided function returns. Previously, this function returned the server command response which is subject to change depending on the server version or type the driver is connected to. The return value got in the way of writing robust, reliable, consistent code no matter the backing database supporting the application.

Warning

When upgrading to this version of the driver, be sure to audit any usages of withTransaction for if statements or other conditional checks on the return value of withTransaction. Previously, the return value was the command response if the transaction was committed and undefined if it had been manually aborted. It would only throw if an operation or the author of the function threw an error. Since prior to this release it was not possible to get the result of the function passed to withTransaction we suspect most existing functions passed to this method return void, making withTransaction a void returning function in this major release. Take care to ensure that the return values of your function match the expectation of the code that follows the completion of withTransaction.

Driver methods throw if a session is provided from a different MongoClient

Providing a session from one MongoClient to a method on a different MongoClient has never been a supported use case and leads to undefined behavior. To prevent this mistake, the driver now throws a MongoInvalidArgumentError if session is provided to a driver helper from a different MongoClient.

// pre v6
const session = client1.startSession();
client2.db('foo').collection('bar').insertOne({ name: 'john doe' }, { session }); // no error thrown, undefined behavior

// v6+
const session = client1.startSession();
client2.db('foo').collection('bar').insertOne({ name: 'john doe' }, { session });
// MongoInvalidArgumentError thrown

Callbacks removed from ClientEncryption's encrypt, decrypt, and createDataKey methods

Driver v5 dropped support for callbacks in asynchronous functions in favor of returning promises in order to provide more consistent type and API experience. In alignment with that, we are now removing support for callbacks from the ClientEncryption class.

MongoCryptError is now a subclass of MongoError

Since MongoCryptError made use of Node.js 16's Error API, it has long supported setting the Error.cause field using options passed in via the constructor. Now that Node.js 16 is our minimum supported version, MongoError has been modified to make use of this API as well, allowing us to let MongoCryptError subclass from it directly.

⚙️ Option parsing improvements

useNewUrlParser and useUnifiedTopology emit deprecation warnings

These options were removed in 4.0.0 but continued to be parsed and silently left unused. We have now added a deprecation warning through Node.js' warning system and will fully remove these options in the next major release.

Boolean options only accept 'true' or 'false' in connection strings

Prior to this change, we accepted the values '1', 'y', 'yes', 't' as synonyms for true and '-1', '0', 'f', 'n', 'no' as synonyms for false. These have now been removed in an effort to make working with connection string options simpler.

// Incorrect
const client = new MongoClient('mongodb://localhost:27017?tls=1'); // throws MongoParseError

// Correct
const client = new MongoClient('mongodb://localhost:27017?tls=true');

Repeated options are no longer allowed in connection strings

In order to avoid accidental misconfiguration the driver will no longer prioritize the first instance of an option provided on the URI. Instead repeated options that are not permitted to be repeated will throw an error.

This change will ensure that connection strings that contain options like tls=true&tls=false are no longer ambiguous.

TLS certificate authority and certificate-key files are now read asynchronously

In order to align with Node.js best practices of keeping I/O async, we have updated the MongoClient to store the file names provided to the existing tlsCAFile and tlsCertificateKeyFile options, as well as the tlsCRLFile option, and only read these files the first time it connects. Prior to this change, the files were read synchronously on MongoClient construction.

Note

This has no effect on driver functionality when TLS configuration files are properly specified. However, if there are any issues with the TLS configuration files (invalid file name), the error is now thrown when the MongoClient is connected instead of at construction time.

const client = new MongoClient(CONNECTION_STRING, {
  tls: true,
  tlsCAFile: 'caFileName',
  tlsCertificateKeyFile: 'certKeyFile',
  tlsCRLFile: 'crlPemFile'
}); // Files are not read here, but file names are stored on the MongoClient

await client.connect(); // Files are now read and their contents stored
await client.close();

await client.connect(); // Since the file contents have already been cached, the files will not be read again.

Take a look at our [TLS documentation](https://www....

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v5.8.1

23 Aug 19:03
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5.8.1 (2023-08-23)

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 5.8.1 of the mongodb package!

Release Notes

Import of saslprep updated to correct library.

Fixes the import of saslprep to be the correct @mongodb-js/saslprep library.

Bug Fixes

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We invite you to try the mongodb library immediately, and report any issues to the NODE project.

v4.17.1

23 Aug 19:02
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4.17.1 (2023-08-23)

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 4.17.1 of the mongodb package!

Release Notes

Import of saslprep updated to correct library.

Fixes the import of saslprep to be the correct @mongodb-js/saslprep library.

Bug Fixes

Documentation

We invite you to try the mongodb library immediately, and report any issues to the NODE project.