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v6.1.0

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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!

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Bug Fixes

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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 bson@6.0.0. 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

Documentation

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.

v5.8.0

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5.8.0 (2023-08-21)

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 5.8.0 of the mongodb package!

Release Notes

The AutoEncrypter interface has been deprecated

The AutoEncrypter interface was used internally but accidentally made public in the 4.x version of the driver. It is now deprecated and will be made internal in the next major release.

Kerberos support for 1.x and 2.x

Moves the kerberos dependency back to ^1.0.0 || ^2.0.0 to indicate support for both 1.x and 2.x. Support for 1.x is removed in 6.0.

Fixed accidental deprecation warning

Because of internal options handling, a deprecation was emitted for tlsCertificateFile when using tlsCertificateKeyFile. That has been corrected.

Remove credential availability on ConnectionPoolCreatedEvent

In order to avoid mistakenly printing credentials the ConnectionPoolCreatedEvent will replace the credentials option with an empty object. The credentials are still accessble via MongoClient options: client.options.credentials.

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

v4.17.0

17 Aug 21:58
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4.17.0 (2023-08-17)

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 4.17.0 of the mongodb package!

Release Notes

mongodb-js/saslprep is now installed by default

Until v6, the driver included the saslprep package as an optional dependency for SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication. saslprep breaks when bundled with webpack because it attempted to read a file relative to the package location and consequently the driver would throw errors when using SCRAM-SHA-256 if it were bundled.

The driver now depends on mongodb-js/saslprep, a fork of saslprep that can be bundled with webpack because it includes the necessary saslprep data in memory upon loading. This will be installed by default but will only be used if SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication is used.

Remove credential availability on ConnectionPoolCreatedEvent

In order to avoid mistakenly printing credentials the ConnectionPoolCreatedEvent will replace the credentials option with an empty object. The credentials are still accessble via MongoClient options: client.options.credentials.

Features

Bug Fixes

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

v5.7.0

06 Jul 20:07
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5.7.0 (2023-07-06)

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 5.7.0 of the mongodb package!

Release Notes

Write Concern legacy options deprecated

wtimeout, j, and fsync options have been deprecated, please use wtimeoutMS and journal instead.

Legacy SSL options deprecated

In an effort to simplify TLS setup and use with the driver we're paring down the number of custom options to the ones that are common to all drivers. This should reduce inadvertent misconfiguration due to conflicting options.

The legacy "ssl-" options have been deprecated, each has a corresponding "tls-" option listed in the table below (except for sslCRL, you may directly use the Node.js crl option instead). tlsCertificateFile has also been deprecated, please use tlsCertificateKeyFile or pass the cert directly to the MongoClient constructor.

In addition to the common driver options, the Node.js driver also passes through Node.js TLS options provided on the MongoClient to Node.js' tls.connect API, which may be convenient to reuse with other Node.js APIs.

Node.js native option MongoDB driver option name legacy option name driver option type
ca tlsCAFile sslCA string
crl N/A sslCRL string
cert tlsCertificateKeyFile sslCert string
key tlsCertificateKeyFile sslKey string
passphrase tlsCertificateKeyFilePassword sslPass string
rejectUnauthorized tlsAllowInvalidCertificates sslValidate boolean

New includeResultMetadata option for findOneAnd... family of methods.

This option defaults to true, which will return a ModifyResult type. When set to false, which will
become the default in the next major release, it will return the modified document or null if nothing matched.
This applies to findOneAndDelete, findOneAndUpdate, findOneAndReplace.

// With a document { _id: 1, a: 1 } in the collection
await collection.findOneAndDelete({ a: 1 }, { includeResultMetadata: false }); // returns { _id: 1, a: 1 }
await collection.findOneAndDelete({ a: 2 }, { includeResultMetadata: false }); // returns null
await collection.findOneAndDelete({ a: 1 }, { includeResultMetadata: true }); // returns { ok: 1, lastErrorObject: { n: 1 }, value: { _id: 1, a: 1 }}

Support for change stream split events

When change stream documents exceed the max BSON size limit of 16MB, they can be split into multiple fragments in order to not error when sending events over the wire. In order to enable this functionality, the collection must be created with changeStreamPreAndPostImages enabled and the change stream itself must include an $changeStreamSplitLargeEvent aggregation stage. This feature requires a minimum server version of 7.0.0.

Example:

await db.createCollection('test', { changeStreamPreAndPostImages: { enabled: true }});
const collection = db.collection('test');
const changeStream = collection.watch([{ $changeStreamSplitLargeEvent: {} ], {
  fullDocumentBeforeChange: 'required'
});

for await (const change of changeStream) {
  console.log(change.splitEvent); // If changes over 16MB: { fragment: n, of: n }
}

Programmatic management of search indexes

This PR adds support for managing search indexes (creating, updating, deleting and listing indexes). The new methods are available on the Collection class.

const indexes = await collection.listSearchIndexes().toArray(); // produces an array of search indexes
await collection.createSearchIndex({ name: 'my-index', definition: < index definition > } ); 
await collection.updateSearchIndex('my-index', < new definition >);
await collection.dropSearchIndex('my-index');

BSON updated to v5.4.0

Take a look at the bson package's release notes!

Snappy loaded lazily

Unlike our other compression mechanisms snappy was loaded at the module level, meaning it would be optionally imported whether or not the driver was configured to use snappy compression. Snappy is now aligned with our other optional peer dependencies and is only loaded when enabled.

Zstd and Kerberos are now optional peer dependencies

This allows users who do not use these features to not have them installed. Users who do use these feature will now have them lazy loaded upon first use.

listDatabases nameOnly option bug fix

The listDatabases API exposes the nameOnly option which allows you to limit its output to only the names of the databases on a given mongoDB deployment:

db.admin().listDatabases({ nameOnly: true });
// [
//   { name: 'local' },
//   { name: 'movies' },
//   ...
// ]

Prior to this fix, the option was not being set properly on the command, so the output was always given in full.

Thanks to @redixhumayun for submitting this fix!

saslprep "is not a function" fix for bundled deployments

saslprep is an optional dependency used to perform Stringprep Profile for User Names and Passwords for SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication. The saslprep library breaks when it is bundled, causing the driver to throw TypeErrors.

This release includes a fix that prevents the driver throwing TypeErrors when attempting to use saslprep in bundled environments.

Cursor.map transform bug fixes

The cursor API provides the ability to apply a map function to each document in the cursor:

const cursor = collection.find({ name: 'john doe' }).map(({ name }) => name);
for await (const document of cursor) {
  console.error(document); // only prints the `name` field from each document
}

Cursor iteration properly catches errors thrown from the transform applied in Cursor.map

Starting in version 4.0 of the driver, if the transform function throws an error, there are certain scenarios where the driver does not correctly catch this error and an uncaught exception is thrown:

const cursor = collection.find({ name: 'john doe' }).map(() => {
  throw new Error('oh no! error here'); // 
});
await cursor.next(); // process crashes with uncaught error

This release adds logic to ensure that whenever we transform a cursor document, we handle any errors properly. Any errors thrown from a transform function are caught and returned to the user.

Cursor.hasNext no longer transforms documents if a transform has been applied to the cursor

Version 4.0 introduced a bug that would apply a transform function to documents in the cursor when the cursor was iterated using Cursor.hasNext(). When combined with Cursor.next(), this would result in transforming documents multiple times.

const cursor = collection.find({ name: 'john doe' }).map((document) => document.name);
while (await cursor.hasNext()) { // this transforms the first document in the cursor once
	const doc = await cursor.next(); // the second document in the cursor is transformed again
}

This release removes the transform logic from Cursor.hasNext, preventing cursor documents from being transformed twice when iterated using hasNext.

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v3.7.4

21 Jun 14:11
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The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 3.7.4 of the mongodb package!

Release Highlights

This release fixes a bug that throws a type error when SCRAM-SHA-256 is used with saslprep in a webpacked environment.

3.7.4 (2023-06-21)

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

v5.6.0

01 Jun 17:30
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The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 5.6.0 of the mongodb package!

Release Highlights

Node 20 support

The MongoDB Node.js Driver now supports Node.js 20! 🎉

runCursorCommand API

We have added the Db#runCursorCommand method which can be used to execute generic cursor commands. This API complements the generic Db#command method.

TypeScript support for new time series options

The driver now has TypeScript support for the bucketMaxSpanSeconds and bucketRoundingSeconds options which will be available in MongoDB 7.0. You can read more about these options here.

Features

Bug Fixes

Documentation

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