v5.2.0

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 5.2.0 of the mongodb package!

Release Highlights

This release includes driver support for automatically obtaining Azure credentials when using automatic client side encryption. You can find a tutorial for using Azure and automatic encryption here: Use Automatic Queryable Encryption with Azure

Additionally, we have a number of minor bug fixes listed below.

NOTE: This release includes some experimental features that are not yet ready for use. As a reminder, anything marked experimental is not a part of the stable driver API and is subject to change without notice.

Features

• NODE-5077: automatic Azure kms credential refresh (#3599) (8e87e5c)

Bug Fixes

• NODE-3998: metadata duplication in handshake (#3615) (6d894d6)
• NODE-4518: error message with invalid authMechanism is provided (#3597) (1a16b7e)
• NODE-4854: set timeout on write and reset on message (#3582) (4a7b5ec)
• NODE-5106: prevent multiple mongo client connect()s from leaking topology (#3596) (eb836bb)
  • Thank you @clemclx for contributing this fix! 🎉
• NODE-5126: find operations fail when passed an ObjectId as filter (#3604) (2647b61)

Documentation

• Reference: https://docs.mongodb.com/drivers/node/current/
• API: https://mongodb.github.io/node-mongodb-native/5.2/
• Changelog: HISTORY.md

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