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MongoDB Compass 1.42.5

Released April 08, 2024

New Features

  • Updates Atlas login screen flow (COMPASS-7755)

  • Handles collection subtab from link (COMPASS-7731)

  • Z-indexed stacked components (COMPASS-7732)

  • Removes the ability to collapse the sidebar (COMPASS-7812)

  • Updates the “Use Generative AI” settings flow (COMPASS-7756)

Bug Fixes

Full changelog available on GitHub

Note

MongoDB Compass version 1.42.4 was not released.

MongoDB Compass 1.42.3

Released March 20, 2024

New Features

  • Install updates without confirmation in the background by default (COMPASS-7616)

  • Enable rename collection feature flag (COMPASS-7699)

  • Bump OIDC dependencies to latest versions

  • Bump mongosh, driver, and bson to latest versions

Bug Fixes

  • Calculate the maximum line length in a more stack efficient way (COMPASS-7647)

  • Only access defaultSession when app is ready

  • Don't allow the readonly filter to grow in width indefinitely (COMPASS-7728)

Full changelog available on GitHub

MongoDB Compass 1.42.2

Released March 01, 2024

New Features

  • Install updates without confirmation in the background by default (COMPASS-7616)

Bug Fixes

  • Double space not applied from schema or query history (COMPASS-6980)

  • Reset atlas search index on reopen and type change

  • Don't include the version number in process.title because it shows in the menubar in macOS Sonoma (COMPASS-7513)

  • Show the folder through the main process (COMPASS-7671)

Full changelog available on GitHub

MongoDB Compass 1.42.1

Released February 15, 2024

New Features

  • Added vector search index creation to the create search indexes modal (COMPASS-7302).

  • Vector search type indexes now display in the search index table (COMPASS-7509).

Bug Fixes

  • Improved validation of command line arguments (COMPASS-7260).

  • Fixed a display issue that made update and delete labels hidden on narrow windows.

Full changelog available on GitHub

MongoDB Compass 1.42.0

Released January 31, 2024

New Features

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed namespace stats that refresh after document updates.

  • Fixed table card autosizing (COMPASS-7548).

  • Fixed an issue when opening a new collection tab if an existing collection tab with the same name was already open (COMPASS-7556).

  • Fixed an issue where switching tabs would reset vertical scrolling to the top position (COMPASS-7370).

  • Fixed an issue where invalid dates resulted in a blank export page (COMPASS-7515).

Full changelog available on GitHub

MongoDB Compass 1.41.0

Released December 18, 2023

New Features:

  • Auto-insert empty document for all fields in the query bar.

  • Add filter to saved connections when there are more than ten saved (COMPASS-7439).

  • Implement text search for aggregation stage wizard.

  • Improve stage wizard discoverability and interaction (COMPASS-7350).

  • Use dark colors for background on initial app loading with dark theme.

  • Remove outdated guide cues (COMPASS-7396)

  • Introduced workspaces plugin and implemented single top-level tabs (COMPASS-7354).

Bug Fixes:

  • Include OIDC in $external auth mechanism list (COMPASS-7512).

  • Properly render syntax errors in embedded shell (COMPASS-7497).

  • Expanded documents retain state after switching tabs (COMPASS-7318).

  • Prevent shell container from overlaying sidebar content (COMPASS-7395).

  • Prevent AI entry button from being submitted when the sort is submitted (COMPASS-7356).

Full changelog available on GitHub

MongoDB Compass 1.40.4

Released October 18, 2023

New Feature:

Bug Fixes:

Full changelog available on GitHub

MongoDB Compass 1.40.3

Released October 11, 2023

New Features:

Bug Fixes:

Full changelog available on GitHub

MongoDB Compass 1.40.2

Released September 28, 2023

Bug Fixes:

  • Hot fixed an issue where users were not able to run Compass after upgrading to 1.40.0 (COMPASS-7270, COMPASS-7269).

  • Repairs broken preferences by setting default values.

Full changelog available on GitHub

MongoDB Compass 1.40.1

Released September 27, 2023

New Features:

  • When using a search index, a new tab prompts you and redirects you to the aggregation tab with the $search operator and the index name populated (COMPASS-7168).

  • Added a drop-down to choose a search index template (COMPASS-7173).

Bug Fixes:

  • Ensure Atlas Login doesn't show in settings if you didn't get the Generative AI feature rollout.

Full changelog available on GitHub

MongoDB Compass 1.40.0

Released September 26, 2023

New Features:

Bug Fixes:

  • Account for changed key order in query (COMPASS-7194).

  • Remove out stages before running explain plan (COMPASS-7012).

  • Don't automatically select regex when detecting regex (COMPASS-7144).

Full changelog available on GitHub

MongoDB Compass 1.39.4

Released September 6, 2023

Bug Fixes:

  • Allows [object Object] as a valid string value in TypeChecker (COMPASS-7132).

  • Doesn't treat non-numbers in CSV headers as array indexes (COMPASS-7157).

  • Limits when custom paste handling is applied and uses clipboard data when auto-fixing user input (COMPASS-7149).

  • Updates Electron to v24.8.2 to address security vulnerabilities. This updates specifically addresses CVE-2023-4427 and CWE-119.

Full Changelog available on GitHub

MongoDB Compass 1.39.3

Released August 28, 2023

Bug Fix:

  • Fix compatibility issue for saved connections in older versions of MongoDB Compass
    (COMPASS-7141).

MongoDB Compass 1.39.2

Released August 22, 2023

Note

Starting in version 1.39.2, MongoDB Compass no longer supports migrating from legacy connection files that pre-date version 1.31.0. Legacy connections refer to an internal Compass connection-options format that is stored on disk and no longer supported after version 1.39.0.

If you have legacy connections saved in your favorites, export the connections on version 1.39.0 to convert them into the new format before updating to version 1.39.2 or later.

New Features:

Bug Fixes:

  • Fix error that would occur when modifying a filter in the schema tab (COMPASS-6944).

  • Use correct tab name for indexes & validation (COMPASS-7022).

  • Strip unknown preferences when loading (COMPASS-7026).

  • Split connection storage between processes (COMPASS-7078).

  • Clear drop collections input state if drop collections success (COMPASS-7035).

  • Allow empty optional string flags (COMPASS-7101).

Full Changelog available on GitHub

MongoDB Compass 1.39.1

Released August 8, 2023

New Features:

  • Updates Electron to v23.3.12 to address security vulnerabilities. The specific CVEs addressed in this update are CVE-2023-3730, CVE-2023-3732, and CVE-2023-3728.

Full Changelog available on GitHub

MongoDB Compass 1.39.0

Released July 14, 2023

New features:

Bug Fixes:

  • Fix issue where Compass would create an incorrect index. (COMPASS-6981)

  • Ensure that Compass displays indexes in the correct case. (COMPASS-6510)

  • Cap number of log files to 100. (MONGOSH-1449)

  • Map project to projection before emitting open-explain-plan event (COMPASS-6995)

  • Fix issue with Windows hotkeys. (COMPASS-6777)

  • Handle missing execution stats in raw explain.

Full Changelog available on GitHub

MongoDB Compass 1.38.2

Released June 30, 2023

Bug Fix:

Full Changelog available on GitHub

MongoDB Compass 1.38.1

New Features:

  • Auto expand object and array field types on field add (COMPASS-6939).

  • Show unindexed query insight in explain plan modal (COMPASS-6933).

  • Show array length on array fields on documents (COMPASS-6938).

  • Add ctrl + tab and ctrl + shift + tab hotkeys for switching tabs.

  • Enable new explain plan by default.

  • Adds insights for usage of $text and $regex in aggregation builder and collection header (COMPASS-6834).

  • Add cues (COMPASS-6614).

  • Signal for bloated documents during import.

Full Changelog availble on GitHub

MongoDB Compass 1.38.0

Released June 21, 2023

New Features:

  • OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication (COMPASS-6803).

  • Stage wizard, which helps build aggregation pipelines (COMPASS-6814).

  • Add visual tree and update summary for aggregation explain plans (COMPASS-6821 and COMPASS-6888).

  • Open a collection in a new tab shortcut.

  • Add performance tab indicator to state that information about certain collections is missing (COMPASS-6593).

  • Add Atlas error message when connection fails because of IP access issue (COMPASS-6842).

  • Show insight when query is unindexed (COMPASS-6832).

  • Show insight when number of collections is too high (COMPASS-6835).

  • Add unindexed aggregation insight (COMPASS-6833).

  • Implement guide cue component in Compass to provide contextual user interface assistance (COMPASS-6334).

  • Add support for hiding and unhiding indexes in the Index tab.

  • For Windows installations, Compass now requires Windows version 10 or later (COMPASS-6897).

Bug Fixes:

Full Changelog available on GitHub

MongoDB Compass 1.37.0

Released May 25, 2023

New Features:

  • Dark mode has been updated with a modern theme. If the modern theme is enabled in Settings>Feature Preview, Compass defaults to the modern dark mode theme.

  • Various user experience improvements when using the Import and Export functionality in Compass (COMPASS-5576, COMPASS-6543).

  • Combine array fields into one in the import CSV preview (COMPASS-6766).

  • Add settings to sidebar menus (COMPASS-6796).

  • Show password only when user focuses on input (COMPASS-6161).

  • Add autocomplete support for $percentile, $median and $$USER_ROLES (COMPASS-6780, COMPASS-6781).

  • Toggle state of Edit connection string is based on the new global preference. This setting controls whether a password is visible when creating a new connection.

  • Compass supports the new Queryable Encryption protocol. Starting in v1.37.0, Compass is not compatible with MongoDB server versions earlier than 7.0 when using Queryable Encryption (COMPASS-6601, COMPASS-6602).

    • When using queryable encryption on pre-7.0 servers, you can decrypt encrypted data, but you cannot insert or query data.

  • Add export aggregation code preview to export modal (COMPASS-6725).

Bug Fixes:

  • Differentiate between new Date() and Date() (COMPASS-6755).

  • Fix guessFileType() when JSON fails and CSV lines are huge.

  • Flush import progress throttle on import error.

  • Feature flag default values (COMPASS-6525).

  • Allow updates on a sharded collection (COMPASS-6058).

  • Detect line breaks, pass it on to papaparse (COMPASS-6819).

  • Update reset on query bar to reset results and emit query-changed (COMPASS-6805).

Full Changelog available on GitHub

MongoDB Compass 1.36.4

Released April 27, 2023

New Features:

Bug Fixes:

Full Changelog available on GitHub

MongoDB Compass 1.36.3

Released April 13, 2023

New Features:

  • Add links to the documentation to the agg and stage autocompleter suggestions (COMPASS-6688)

Bug Fixes:

MongoDB Compass 1.36.2

Released March 29, 2023

New Features:

Bug Fixes:

  • Apply readPref to initial ping command (COMPASS-6595)

  • Fix guessFileType() for large JSON docs (COMPASS-6629)

  • Fix memory leak in listCSVFields() (COMPASS-6630)

  • Add dark mode colours for the mixed warning

  • Abort analyzeCSVFields() when closing the import modal (COMPASS-6633)

  • Optimize CSV field type detection

Full Changelog available on GitHub

MongoDB Compass 1.36.0

Released March 15, 2023

New Features:

Bug Fixes:

  • If a date is in the safe range, go with relaxed EJSON rather than canonical (COMPASS-5744)

  • Redesign of add stage button (COMPASS-6449)

  • Optimises the opening of tab

  • Don't show negative count on delete when no document count (COMPASS-5996)

  • Stop on errors when stopOnErrors is true (COMPASS-6518)

  • Undefined rather than false if getCloudInfo fails, support SRV URIs (COMPASS-6111)

  • Cancel edit on non-existent field (COMPASS-6505)

  • Halt autoupdater on application exit to prevent logger crashing (COMPASS-6051)

  • Do not reset stage value if it was already changed (COMPASS-6584)

Full Changelog available on Github:

MongoDB Compass 1.35.0

Released January 11, 2023

New Features:

Bug Fixes:

  • Improve table view interactions

  • Do not save auto-connection in recents (COMPASS-6290)

  • Check for root level when deciding if _id key is editable (COMPASS-6160)

  • Fix the saved pipelines popover's scrolling (COMPASS-6277)

  • Disable deprecation warnings in production (COMPASS-6322)

  • Ignore non-digits in number input (COMPASS-6326)

  • Speed up export (COMPASS-6332)

  • Increase compass schema value bubble contrast (COMPASS-6230)

  • Fix macOS protocol handler connection string passing

  • Fix typo on Indexes screen

  • Avoid race condition when installing listeners

  • Hide delete for db/coll cards in readonly mode (COMPASS-6292)

  • Freeze settings modal height and adjust categories (COMPASS-6325)

  • Fix nested field autocomplete (COMPASS-6335)

  • Reset contains error check on document json view edit cancel (COMPASS-6059)

  • Pass the preference as a prop when nesting Field (COMPASS-6363)

  • Hide add stage in toolbar (COMPASS-6373)

  • Make $out options more clear in agg pipeline builder (COMPASS-6304)

  • Speed up document json view (COMPASS-6365)

  • Export to Language (Java) has incorrect class name (COMPASS-6159)

  • Enable next page button when count is unknown (COMPASS-6340)

  • Initialize before identify and use get-os-info from npm

  • Output stage destination name (COMPASS-6407)

  • Set width of compass shell to avoid overflow (COMPASS-6411)

MongoDB Compass 1.34.2

Released December 16, 2022

Bug Fixes:

  • Fix (compass-editors): fix nested field autocomplete (COMPASS-6335)

  • Fix (schema): fix display of geo visualizations for nested fields (COMPASS-6363)

MongoDB Compass 1.34.1

Released November 21, 2022

New Features:

Bug Fixes:

Full changelog available on GitHub.

MongoDB Compass 1.33.1

Released September 14, 2022

New Features:

Bug Fixes:

  • Adjust crypt shared library download script for M1 builds

  • Hide collection submenu on disconnect (COMPASS-6047)

  • Align delete index modal text

  • Fix updating arrays with dots in names (COMPASS-6011)

  • Hide document views when there are no documents

  • Fix import deep JSON overwriting variables (COMPASS-5971)

Full changelog available on GitHub.

MongoDB Compass 1.33.0

Released August 31, 2022

New Features:

Full changelog available on GitHub.

MongoDB Compass 1.32.3

Released July 13, 2022

New Features:

Bug Fixes:

  • Automatically refresh after CSFLE insert (COMPASS-5806)

  • Improve Binary handling (COMPASS-5848)

  • Align elements on the create collection modal (COMPASS-5921)

  • connection-form: Align advanced tab and input field widths

  • import: Pre-create an empty object before creating its properties (COMPASS-5076)

  • ace-autocompleter: Provide a special snippet for $merge stage in ADL

  • connect-form: Connect to the newly created favourite (COMPASS-5776)

  • documents: Fixes to recent queries

  • queries: Ignore duplicate recent queries (COMPASS-2237)

  • aggregation-explain: Show indexes (COMPASS-5879)

  • explain-plan-helper: Use execution time of cursor stage (COMPASS-5858)

Full changelog available on GitHub.

MongoDB Compass 1.32.2

Released June 7, 2022

Fixes an issue where $merge and $out aggregation stages would not appear in the pipeline builder when connected to a Data Lake.

Full changelog available on GitHub.

MongoDB Compass 1.32.1

Released June 3, 2022

New Features:

Bug Fixes:

Full changelog available on GitHub.

MongoDB Compass 1.32.0

Released May 31, 2022

New Features:

Bug Fixes:

  • In the pipeline builder, hide the stage error message when changing the aggregation operator (COMPASS-5684)

  • Remove unique option on columnstore index creation (COMPASS-5830)

  • Reconnect the SSH tunnel when it gets disconnected (COMPASS-5454)

Full changelog available on GitHub.

MongoDB Compass 1.31.3

Released May 17, 2022

New Features:

  • Export aggregation pipelines to Go.

  • Bump Node driver to version 4.6.0 and embedded shell to version 1.4.1 (COMPASS-5619).

  • Support columnstore indexes and clustered collections (COMPASS-5665, COMPASS-5666).

  • Add srvMaxHosts to advanced connection options.

  • Disable aggregation toolbar options when pipeline is invalid.

  • Style improvements.

Bug fixes:

  • In connection form, allow empty hosts.

  • In aggregation pipeline builder, update default document preview amount from 10 to 20.

  • Resize elements for improved visibility.

Full changelog available on GitHub.

MongoDB Compass 1.31.2

Released April 14, 2022

Bug fixes:

  • Aggregation screen no longer shows a "Cannot have two html5 backends" error. (COMPASS-5655)

  • Connections that use certificates no longer fail with "option usesystemca is not supported" (COMPASS-5729)

  • You can edit null values in CRUD view (COMPASS-5697)

  • Invalid UUID values display correctly in CRUD view (COMPASS-5726)

  • Editing Int64 values in JSON view no longer changes their type to Int32 (COMPASS-5710)

Full changelog available on GitHub.

MongoDB Compass 1.31.1

Released April 05, 2022

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed "rendering AggregationsPlugin" error.

  • CRUD Fixes

    • Fixed a bug that updated a documents data type to String when editing a field of data type Date in CRUD Document view.

Full changelog available on GitHub.

MongoDB Compass 1.31.0

Released March 31, 2022

New Features:

  • New connection experience

    • Add new form for Kerberos options.

    • Support loading system CA store.

    • Use new favorite connection modal in sidebar.

    • Add support for MONGODB_AWS.

  • Aggregation and Query Improvements

    • New saved aggregation and queries view.

    • Add link and descriptions for the $densify aggregation stage.

    • Add ability to export queries and aggregations to Ruby.

    • Update aggregation result preview card styles.

Bug Fixes:

  • Schema Tab Fixes

    • Fix shift selecting multiple items in schema tab.

    • Unambiguously display latitude and longitude on map.

  • CRUD Fixes

    • Allow empty JSON input.

    • Increase input width for query bar max timeout ms area.

  • Miscellaneous Fixes

    • Add directConnection=true when converting from old model.

    • Pick only specified columns when exporting data as JSON.

    • Hide SSH tunnel password.

View this release on GitHub.

All JIRA issues closed in 1.31.0.

MongoDB Compass 1.30.1

Released January 13, 2022

New Features:

  • Add link and descriptions for the $documents. aggregation stage.

  • Connect form: Add SSL/TLS option radio box group.

  • Databases and Collections: Add async loading states for databases and collections list.

  • Export secrets methods and parse raw models.

  • Styles: Add darkreader dark theme option.

  • Connections: Add general tab contents to connect form.

  • Support MongoDB 5.2 aggregations.

Bug Fixes:

  • Remove unused vars.

  • SSH Tunnel: Remove unused import.

  • BSON Transpilers: Account for bson Decimal128 validation changes.

  • Make SSH tunnel use Socks5. You can now connect to replica sets and sharded clusters using an SSH tunnel.

  • Compass Logging: Bump mongodb-log-writer to allow browser envs.

  • Move theme menu from help to view in non mac/darwin.

  • Connections:

    • Hide socks tab on SSH form.

    • Add SSH label.

  • Remove compass-components from prod dependencies.

  • toggle-shell: Use key instead of keyCode.

  • data-service:

    • Do not return name from adapted dbStats

    • Do not ignore directConnection=false

  • mocha-config-compass: Disable source map processing when running code in electron / web runtime in tests

All JIRA issues closed in 1.30.1.

MongoDB Compass 1.29.6

Released December 20, 2021

New Features:

  • Adds loading states for collection in sidebar.

  • Improves identification of Atlas cluster.

  • Improve telemetry connection tracking.

  • Dependency Upgrades:

Bug Fixes:

  • Removes expired link from license.

  • Fixes error handling in listCollections.

  • Keeps tlsCertificateFile as URI parameter.

  • Hides full-text search stages for time series and views.

  • Does not overfetch connectionInfo and update the state too often.

Full changelog available on GitHub.

MongoDB Compass 1.29.5

Released November 24, 2021

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixes connection with TLS / SSL options.

  • Fixes document searching for Serverless Atlas.

  • collStats now always shows for collections on the collection screen.

  • Collection menu now appears when collection is selected.

Full changelog available on GitHub.

MongoDB Compass 1.29.4

Released November 16, 2021

New Features:

  • Adds client-side logging for MongoDB Compass operations.

  • Improved MongoDB Compass startup time.

  • Adds support for MongoDB 5.1 features.

  • Improved reliability for connections.

  • MongoDB Compass now uses:

    • Electron version 13

    • Node version 14

Supported Platforms:

  • MongoDB Compass for macOS can now run on M1 platforms that have Rosetta or Rosetta 2 installed. For more information, see Software Requirements.

Full changelog available on GitHub.

MongoDB Compass 1.28.4

Released August 30, 2021

New Features:

  • Enables resizing the preview area for aggregation pipelines.

  • Allows hiding the Query History and Export to Language buttons in the query view.

  • Bumps mongosh version for the embedded shell to 1.0.4.

Bug Fixes:

  • Properly supports all Kerberos options.

  • Fixed an issue with geospatial queries being incorrectly merged.

Full changelog available on GitHub.

MongoDB Compass 1.28.1

Released July 13, 2021

New Features:

  • Adds support for load balancer connections.

  • Adds a Granularity option when creating a time series collection.

  • Disallows editing schema validation for time series collections.

Bug Fixes:

  • Hides the Drop Collection button in readonly Compass.

  • Geoqueries no longer populate query bar fields with null.

Full changelog available on GitHub.

MongoDB Compass 1.26.1

Released April 9, 2021

New Features:

  • Allows functions in the query bar and aggregations.

  • When navigating to the Databases view, Compass now clears a previously selected collection from the left navigation.

  • Updates the embedded MongoDB Shell to version 0.9.0.

Bug Fixes:

  • Compass now displays the expected value when you update fields in the table view.

  • Creating a collection or database is now prohibited when form fields are empty.

  • Schema tab graphs no longer fail to render when switching tabs.

  • SSH tunnel no longer hangs on disconnect.

MongoDB Compass 1.26.0

Released March 3, 2021

New Features:

  • Adds ability to create text indexes.

  • Adds ability to cancel a connection attempt.

  • Data is now refreshed when Find is clicked in the query bar.

  • Improvements to schema analysis to prevent timeouts with large datasets.

Bug Fixes:

  • Improves connection form input and validation.

  • MongoDB Compass prevents inserting data via the JSON editor without specifying a document. Previously, Compass would silently error when a document was not specified.

  • Saving a favorite connection no longer freezes MongoDB Compass.

  • Stylistic fixes.

MongoDB Compass 1.25.0

Released January 13, 2021

New Features:

Bug Fixes:

  • Compass no longer crashes during startup on certain versions of Windows. For more information see COMPASS-4510.

  • When connecting to a MongoDB deployment, Compass no longer automatically inserts a value of 27017 for Port when Port is left blank.

  • Compass no longer displays the incorrect port number when connecting to MongoDB via SRV record.

MongoDB Compass 1.24.1

Released December 9, 2020

New Features:

  • Adds support for updates on sharded collections.

  • Adds support for the print() method in the embedded MongoDB Shell.

  • Updates the embedded MongoDB Shell to version 0.5.2.

  • Provides better readonly and view handling.

  • Adds support for multi-line string editing in the field-by-field editor.

  • Provides a descriptive tooltip when selecting an aggregation stage in the Aggregation Pipeline Builder.

Bug Fixes:

  • Non-editable fields can now be deleted in the field-by-field editor.

  • Fixes connection URI issues with SCRAM-SHA-256.

  • Adds support for $out when connected to a Data Lake.

  • Removes broken import and export sidebar actions.

  • Improves x.509 authentication. Makes the x.509 username optional in connection validation and improves validation error messages.

  • Various other bug fixes and improvements.

MongoDB Compass 1.23

Released November 4, 2020

  • Notarizes MongoDB Compass for macOS Catalina. You should no longer need to manually allow macOS to trust MongoDB Compass before running.

  • Kerberos authentication improvements on RHEL7.

  • Importing a text pipeline containing a $out stage no longer crashes MongoDB Compass.

  • Various other bug fixes and improvements.

MongoDB Compass 1.22

Released September 3, 2020

  • Added an embedded MongoDB Shell. You can use MongoDB Shell to test queries and operations in an interactive JavaScript interface.

MongoDB Compass 1.21

Released April 28, 2020

MongoDB Compass 1.20

Note

On macOS systems, the first time that you update MongoDB Compass to version 1.20 or later, you will need to allow access to your system storage for each saved connection in Recents and Favorites. To learn more, see Allow Keychain Access for Recent and Favorite Connections.

Released December 5, 2019

  • Added the option to include driver syntax when exporting queries to a language.

  • New and improved Connection experience with support for all connection options.

  • Improved user experience for saving and sharing Favorite Connections.

  • Added JSON mode for managing documents. With JSON mode, you can now insert multiple documents at once.

  • Added support for querying UUIDs via the Documents query bar or in the Aggregation Pipeline Builder.

  • Added support for the following aggregation pipeline operators:

  • Improved inline documentation for aggregation pipeline arguments.

  • Removed $limit ahead of the $count stage in the aggregation pipeline builder to ensure accurate counts on large collections. Prior versions of MongoDB Compass placed a $limit stage before $count stages in the Aggregation Pipeline Builder for large collections, even when sample mode was disabled.

  • Various bug fixes and improvements.

MongoDB Compass 1.19

Released August 11, 2019

MongoDB Compass 1.18

Released May 17, 2019

  • Provided fixes to the Compass Windows installer. With the new .msi installer you can:

    • Select the destination of the Compass installation.

    • Install Compass for all users.

    • Script the Compass installation and perform a quiet install.

  • Added support for Ubuntu 18.10 and other recent Linux distributions.

  • New Schema Validation experience.

  • For macOS systems, Compass now requires macOS 10.12 or greater.

MongoDB Compass 1.17

Released March 4, 2019

  • Performance improvements to the Documents and Aggregation tabs, specifically with deeply nested documents.

  • Fixed several connection issues.

    • Fixed Kerberos connections where hostname is not the canonical name.

    • Fixed SRV connections with special characters in the password.

    • Compass no longer allows direct connections to secondary databases, which would result in hangs on the loading navigation screen.

    • Fixed connections to M0 Atlas clusters with readonly users.

  • Fixed issue where usersInfo command was not available to the data service.

  • authSource now correctly defaults to admin when connecting to Atlas.

  • Compass now properly forces a disconnect when requested.

MongoDB Compass 1.16

Released November 12, 2018

  • Added collation support to the following features:

  • Added the ability to find text within a page using either Ctrl + F or Command + F, depending on your platform.

  • Reduced the required permissions to use MongoDB Compass. As of this version of MongoDB Compass, users require the read permission to access a database in Compass.

  • Updated dates to display in UTC time.

  • Added support for SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication mechanism.

  • Various bug fixes and improvements.

  • As of this version, you should not provide a Password when using Kerberos as the authentication mechanism.

MongoDB Compass 1.15

Released August 23, 2018

MongoDB Compass 1.14

Released June 26, 2018

  • Added Aggregation Pipeline Builder, which provides the ability to execute aggregation pipelines to gain additional insight into your data.

  • Added MongoDB Compass Isolated Edition for highly secure environments. This edition does not initiate any network requests except to the MongoDB server.

MongoDB Compass 1.13

Released May 3, 2018

MongoDB Compass 1.12

Released March 5, 2018

  • Added MongoDB Compass Readonly Edition which limits certain CRUD operations within your organization.

    The following actions are not permitted in Compass Readonly Edition:

    • Create and drop databases

    • Create and drop collections

    • Create, delete, edit and clone documents

    • Create and drop indexes

    • Create, delete and edit document validation rules

    All other functionality remains the same as in standard MongoDB Compass.

  • Added support for connecting to Compass using an SRV record. In the connect dialog, if Compass detects an SRV record URI on the clipboard it auto-completes the dialog based on the SRV record.

  • Made various performance and stability inprovements to the documents tab.

MongoDB Compass 1.11

Released December 17, 2017

  • Added support for plugins that extend the functionality of MongoDB Compass.

  • Added support for disconnecting from the active MongoDB instance without restarting MongoDB Compass.

  • Added Table View for documents as a method of viewing the contents of a collection in tabular format.

MongoDB Compass 1.10

Released Oct 25, 2017

MongoDB Compass 1.9

Released Oct, 2017

  • Added autocomplete functionality to the query bar.

  • Query History
    Compass automatically stores up to 20 most recent queries for each collection. From the past queries view for a collection, you can view the recent queries as well as the queries saved as favorites . For more information, see View Recent Queries.
  • Deployment Awareness

    When a user connects to a MongoDB instance, Compass now displays:

    • The connection name if the connection is a favorite connection or "My Cluster" if it is not.

    • The type of deployment (standalone, replica set, sharded cluster). If the deployment is a replica set and the replica set name is specified in the connection window, the number of replica set members will also be displayed.

    For more information, see Compass Home.

MongoDB Compass 1.8

Released Aug 2, 2017

  • Documents tab is the default

  • Schema sampling only on demand

  • Explain executed only on demand

  • Improved Document Editing

  • Deployment Awareness (and read preference)

    • Added ability to specify replica set name and read preference in connection screen.

    • Added ability to parse MongoDB URI string in the connection screen.

  • Allow typing index field names in addition to dropdown

  • Use Client Meta Data to identify Compass application name in server logs

  • New Loading animation

MongoDB Compass 1.7

Released Jun 7, 2017

  • Added ability to include options in the query bar.

  • Added ability to add or delete database/collection from the left-hand navigation sidebar.

  • Added ability to collapse the left-hand navigation sidebar.

MongoDB Compass 1.6

Released Mar 1, 2017

  • Added support for Linux: Ubuntu 14.04+ and RHEL 7+.

  • Added ability to zoom in and zoom out of panels.

MongoDB Compass 1.5

Released Nov 29, 2016

MongoDB Compass 1.4

Released Nov 1, 2016

  • Add support for connecting to Atlas.

  • Various bug fixes and improvements.

MongoDB Compass 1.3

Released Sep 15, 2016

1.3.0-beta.3 - July 12, 2016

  • Allow specifying the value of the _id field when inserting new documents.

  • Set the default field and value sizes to 1 when adding a new key to a document.

  • Typing ":" in the key input field tabs to the value input field when editing a document.

  • Only allow addition of one element at a time if the field name in the new element is blank when editing a document.

  • CRUD documentation now available in the application help menu.

  • Fix element autofocus on add.

1.3.0-beta.2 - June 29, 2016

  • Bug: Small Bug Fixes identified at MongoDB World

1.3.0-beta.0 - June 27, 2016

  • New: CRUD single document create, update, delete

  • New: SSH tunnel support

  • New: Tree explain plan view

  • New: Geographic query builder and visualization

  • Explicit opt-in for "3rd party maps" usage

  • Improve display of binary data in in the document viewer

  • Query builder on numeric histograms should leave bounds open

  • Intercom overlay button now visible

  • Load preferences defensively, catching parsing errors and reset preferences

  • Compass Treasure Hunt for MongoDB World

MongoDB Compass 1.2

Released Jun 27, 2016

  • Beta installs alongside the stable release as a distinct application, with distinct preferences

  • Index view

  • Explain plan view

  • Documents view moved to a separate tab

  • Automatic updates

1.2.0-beta.3 - June 23, 2016

  • Bug: Feature Tour does not show on first launch

  • Bug: Compass fails to start with JavaScript error in main process: SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input

  • Bug: No error displayed message when an authentication error occurs

  • Bug: Compass does not handle $indexStats fetch failure on MongoDB 3.2

1.2.0-beta.2 - June 1, 2016

  • NEW: Added explain plan view

  • Added feature tour points of new 1.2 features

  • Bugfix: After increasing maxTimeMS timeout, query default falls back to 100 docs

1.2.0-beta.1 - May 10, 2016

MongoDB Compass 1.1

Released Jan 19, 2016

1.1.1 -- Jan 19, 2016

MongoDB Compass 1.0

Released Dec 7, 2015

MongoDB Compass 1.0 is now available. It helps users to visually analyze and understand their MongoDB data.

1.0.1 -- Dec 18, 2015

Bug Fixes

  • Query builder bug in unique minicharts when resetting

  • Hang: Do something graceful after closing/opening laptop lid & using Compass again

  • Error in Compass.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/scout-server/lib/models/token.js:20

  • Pass readPreference.nearest in lib/routes/collection.js

  • Enterprise/Community version not correctly detected for MongoDB 2.6, 3.0

  • Compass hangs when upper case host alias used in connection

  • Reduce reservoir sampling limit to 10,000 documents

  • Possible race condition when reading from IndexedDB

  • Cannot access DBs with colon (":") in their name

  • Cannot read property 'authInfo' of undefined in mongodb-instance-model/lib/fetch.js:297

  • Cannot access DBs with octothorp (#) in their name

  • Failure to sample on first collection selected

Improvements

  • ObjectID visualization missing last tooltip

  • Change intercom message/menu item to "Provide Feedback"

  • Open external links in user's web browser, not Electron

  • Place SSL "Client Certificate" field above "Client Private Key"

  • Re-enable highlighting/selecting of some UI elements

  • Replace Help entry stubs with actual text

  • Use consistent titles across windows

  • Simplify language in opt-in panel

  • Reduce font size of header to accommodate full db.collection name

  • Remove "–" (minimize) on Intercom

  • Run shrinkwrap to lock Compass 1.0 dependencies

  • Confirm successful Evergreen builds from release-1 branch

  • Compass fails to connect to hostname

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