Release Notes

v1.6.0

Released September 20, 2022

• MONGOSH-1299: mongosh now uses Node.js driver 4.10.0.

• MONGOSH-1254: Adds the sh.getShardedDataDistribution() helper method. This method runs the $shardedDataDistribution aggregation stage and returns a cursor for the result.

• MONGOSH-1266: The KeyVault getKey() and getKeyByAltName() methods now return Documents.

• MONGOSH-1249: Adds a --json flag for use with --eval commands.

• MONGOSH-1287: cursor.count() is now deprecated. Instead, use countDocuments() and estimatedDocumentCount()

Full release notes available on JIRA.

v1.5.4

Released July 31, 2022

Fixes a potential data corruption bug in KeyVault.rewrapManyDataKey() when rotating encrypted data encryption keys backed by Azure or GCP key services.

In previous versions of mongosh, this bug occurs when an Azure-backed or GCP-backed data encryption key being rewrapped requires fetching an access token for decryption of the data encryption key.

As a result of this bug, all data encryption keys being rewrapped are replaced by new randomly generated material, destroying the original key material.

To mitigate potential data corruption, upgrade mongosh to v1.5.4 or higher before using KeyVault.rewrapManyDataKey() to rotate Azure-backed or GCP-backed data encryption keys. You should always create a backup of the key vault collection before key rotation.

v1.5.3

Released July 29, 2022

Updates telemetry internals.

Full release notes available on JIRA.

v1.5.2

Released July 27, 2022

mongosh now uses Node.js driver 4.8.1.

Full release notes available on JIRA.

v1.5.1

Released July 14, 2022

• MONGOSH-1194 - mongosh supports multiple --eval arguments.

• mongosh now uses Node.js driver 4.8.0.

Full release notes available on JIRA.

v1.5.0

Released June 2, 2022

• MONGOSH-1138 – mongosh now supports Queryable Encryption.

• MONGOSH-1169 – mongosh now supports FIPS-compliant mode.

• mongosh now uses Node.js version 16.x.

• mongosh no longer provides per-distribution mongosh linux packages. You can still get .rpm, .deb and .tgz packages through your package manager but the naming convention may change slightly.

Full release notes available on JIRA.

v1.4.2

Released May 17, 2022

• MONGOSH-1139 - Adds Debian 11 support for mongosh.

• MONGOSH-1183 - cursor.allowDiskUse() now accepts true or false.

• MONGOSH-1204 - Adds visual identifier for Queryable Encyption collections in show collections.

• MONGOSH-1207 - Adds Queryable Encryption helpers.

Full release notes available on JIRA.

v1.4.1

Released May 12, 2022

• MONGOSH-1118 - Bundles and uses a CSFLE shared library in place of mongocryptd.

• MONGOSH-1217 - Introduces partial support for Queryable Encryption.

• MONGOSH-1178 - Uses Node.js driver 4.6.0.

Full release notes available on JIRA.

v1.3.1

Released March 21, 2022

• MONGOSH-1163 - mongosh now uses Node.js 14.19.1. Node 14.19.1 includes an OpenSSL version that addresses CVE-2022-0778.

v1.3.0

Released March 17, 2022

• MONGOSH-856 - Kerberos feature parity with the legacy shell is done now, with the last command line option now also working as it did in the legacy shell.

• MONGOSH-1013 - KMIP support for CSFLE. More specifically, you can provide per-KMS-provider TLS options when creating your CSFLE-enabled connections now.

• MONGOSH-1151 - Support for snapshot reads, now also in mongosh.

Full release notes available on JIRA.

v1.2.3

Released March 10, 2022

• MONGOSH-1121 - Support the commitQuorum parameter for the createIndexes() method.

Full release notes available on JIRA.

v1.2.2

Released February 25, 2022

• MONGOSH-1134 - Internal bug fix required to re-enable Homebrew installation.

Full release notes available on JIRA.

v1.2.1

Released February 24, 2022

• MONGOSH-1063 - You can now create a global monogosh configuration file.

• MONGOSH-959 – You can now use the config.reset method to reset a configuration setting to the default value.

• MONGOSH-1133 – mongosh adds a --tlsUseSystemCA option that causes mongosh to attempt to load system certificates as well as the built-in certificates.

Full release notes available on JIRA.

v1.1.9

Released January 18, 2022

New features in this release:

• MONGOSH-1015 – mongosh no longer overrides appName if it was present in the connection string.

• MONGOSH-1073 – You can now pass BSON number objects to the legacy BSON number constructors. For example, NumberInt(NumberInt(n)) now works like it did in the legacy shell.

Full release notes available on JIRA.

v1.1.8

Released January 11, 2022

New features in this release:

• mongosh now uses Node.js driver 4.3.0.

• Provides PGP signatures for uploaded tarballs.

Full release notes available on JIRA.

v1.1.7

Released December 14, 2021

• mongosh now uses Node.js driver 4.2.2.

• Minor bug fixes.

Full release notes available on JIRA.

v1.1.6

Released December 2, 2021

New features in this release:

• mongosh now uses Node.js driver 4.2.1.

Bug fixes in this release:

• Fixes the way try, catch, finally works if no exception was thrown in the try block.

Full release notes available on JIRA.

v1.1.5

Released December 1, 2021

Minor bug fixes.

Full release notes available on JIRA.

v1.1.4

Released November 24, 2021

Minor bug fixes.

Full release notes available on JIRA.

v1.1.2

Released November 5, 2021

New features in this release:

• mongosh now uses the following driver versions:

  • Node.js driver 4.1.4.

  • Node.js BSON package 4.5.4.

• mongosh release tarballs now include manpages.

Full release notes available on JIRA.

v1.1.1

Released October 28, 2021

• Provides autocompletion for additional aggregation stages.

• Minor bug fixes.

Full release notes available on JIRA.

v1.1.0

Released October 7, 2021

New features in this release:

• Adds support for the edit command and $EDITOR variable.

• Auto-complete for databases and collections is now case-insensitive.

Full release notes available on JIRA.

v1.0.7

Released September 22, 2021

New features in this release:

mongosh now uses the following driver versions:

• Node.js driver 4.1.2.

• Node.js BSON package 4.5.2.

• Node.js BSON extension 4.0.1.

• Node.js driver Kerberos addon 1.1.7.

• Node.js driver CSFLE addon 1.2.7.

Full release notes available on JIRA.

v1.0.6

Released September 14, 2021

New features in this release:

• You can now run sh.status() when not connected to a mongos, for example when connected to a config server.

• db.setSecondaryOk(), mongo.setSecondaryOk(), and rs.secondaryOk() methods are reintroduced but deprecated. These methods alias to mongo.setReadPref().

• When you enter multiline input into the shell, single-line // comments are now preserved as /* comments */ in the history entry.

• The Aggregation Pipeline parameter is now optional for db.collection.watch(), db.watch(), and Mongo.watch()

Bug Fixes in this Release:

• mongosh now runs aggregations with $out or $merge immediately, and not lazily once the result of the aggregation is accessed.

• Using the legacy NumberLong() method no longer truncates numbers outside of the 32-bit range.

Full release notes available on JIRA.

v1.0.5

Released August 12, 2021

New features in this release:

• You can use config.set('maxTimeMS', <number>) to set a default maxTimeMS value for operations. maxTimeMS specifies a time limit in milliseconds within which the operation must complete.

  Note

  config settings persist across sessions.

• On Windows, you can start mongosh by double-clicking on the .exe file. When you do, mongosh prompts you for a connection string to connect to your deployment.

• The log files created by mongosh follow the format of the mongod, mongos, or mongocryptd. Meaning, the log files are newline-delimited JSON with the same set of fields used by the server.

v1.0.4

Released August 4, 2021

New features in this release:

• mongosh now uses version 4.1.0 of the Node.js driver, with full support for connections to load balancers and MongoDB Atlas serverless instances.

Bug fixes in this release:

• The Timestamp() argument order is now reversed compared to previous mongosh versions.

v1.0.3

Released July 29, 2021

Bug fixes in this release:

• Passing the exit code to quit() works like it does in the legacy shell.

• Instances of MaxListenersExceededWarning are no longer emitted when methods like console.log() are used in loops.

• When an internal error in mongosh occurs, the error message points you to the log file for the current mongosh session.

• When printing the name of a collection (such as in response to db.coll), the database name is included in the output.

v1.0.1

Released July 21, 2021

New features in this release:

• Adds full support for the --host flag.

• Adds the --build-info flag which provides detailed information about the mongosh version.

• When using Kerberos, mongosh will now make use of tokens if they are still valid. You no longer need to specify a password when using valid tokens.

Bug fixes in this release:

• An issue that sporadically resulted in an AcquireCredentialsHandle error on Kerberos was fixed.

• Miscellaneous other improvements.

v1.0

Released July 9, 2021

New features in this release:

• All the static methods of the Node.js driver BSON classes are now available. Specifically, you can use ObjectId.createFromTime(unixTimestampSeconds) instead of the legacy shell’s ObjectId.fromDate(dateObj).

• When connected to an Atlas deployment, the default mongosh prompt displays Atlas instead of Enterprise.

• The cursor referred to when using it is cleared when either db is reassigned or db.auth() / db.logout() is called.

• Minor bug fixes and improvements.

v0.15.4

Released July 1, 2021

New features in this release:

• mongosh now color coordinates matching brackets.

v0.15.3

Released June 25, 2021

New features in this release:

• mongosh now shows the current database name in prompt by default.

v0.15.1

Released June 22, 2021

New features in this release:

• .tar and .zip mongosh download archives now include a parent directory.

• Autocomplete is now aware of the --apiStrict flag. When --apiStrict is true, autocomplete only completes methods that work with your defined API version. For more information, see Stable API.

• Snippets. An experimental feature that allows users to create custom shell extensions.

Bug fixes in this release:

• mongosh can now connect to a replica set containing unhealthy nodes.

v0.14.0

Released May 28, 2021

New features in this release:

• When you run show collections, the type of collection is shown in the output.

• Adds sh.reshardCollection() for resharding support.

• Adds inspectCompact option to the configuration API to print each document field on its own line.

v0.13.1

Released May 18, 2021

New features in this release:

• When you use Ctrl+C to interrupt an operation, you interrupt operations that are running on the server, and not just local JavaScript execution.

• .editor sessions are aggregated into one item in shell history.

• Build and publish packages for all platforms in the current MongoDB 5.0 server support matrix.

• Publish Windows MSI to the download center.

• Adds a customizable REPL prompt using prompt (or your .mongoshrc.js file).

• When running against a MongoDB 5.0 deployment, shows reasons for document validation failures.

• Adds basic support for the --apiStrict flag.

• New connection methods:

  • Mongo.getDBNames() returns a list of databases.

  • Mongo.getDBs() returns a document with a list of databases and metadata.

v0.12.1

Released April 30, 2021

New features in this release:

• Adds support for the db.hello() shell method and hello database command. Use these commands in place of isMaster.

• Extends the shell customization API to allow controlling log verbosity.

• Adds autocomplete for show and use commands. For example, show collections and use test.

Bug fixes in this release:

• collStats now works properly on sharded collections.

v0.12.0

Released April 23, 2021

• New async rewriter, allowing for a much wider range of JavaScript features in the shell.

• Connection failure response is now more prompt if a connection is deemed unlikely to succeed.

• Adds new API for shell customization.

v0.11.0

Released April 8, 2021

Internal improvements and various bug fixes.

v0.10.1

Released April 1, 2021

Internal improvements.

v0.10.0

Released March 31, 2021

New features in this release:

• Support for loading a .mongoshrc.js file at startup. Use this file to bootstrap the shell with customizations and extended functionality.

• Ability to load scripts from the command line.

• Support for --eval option.

• Support for --tlsCertificateSelector on Windows and macOS.

Bug fixes in this release:

• Objects in explain output now properly expand.

v0.9.0

Released March 10, 2021

New features in this release:

• Support for the load() method.

• Support for AWS IAM authentication.

Bug fixes in this release:

• Autocomplete works properly when connected to secondary node.

• db.createUser() on $external database now handles password properly.

• Miscellaneous other improvements.

v0.8.2

Released February 24, 2021

Minor internal improvements and bug fixes.

v0.8.1

Released February 22, 2021

Minor internal improvements and bug fixes.

v0.8.0

Released February 17, 2021

New features in this release:

• Support for Client-Side Field Level Encryption.

Bug fixes in this release:

• Running setReadConcern no longer reverses db.auth() authentication operations.

• Pressing the backspace key in the password prompt no longer adds an asterisk, and now behaves as expected.

• Running UUID() without a value now generates a random UUID.

v0.7.7

Released February 3, 2021

New features in this release:

• explain() support for the following methods:

  • count()

  • distinct()

  • findAndModify()

  • remove()

  • update()

• Support for specifying cursor.batchSize(), and type it for more.

• Autocomplete for collection names.

Bug fixes in this release:

• mongosh no longer fails when connecting to a node in the STARTUP2 state.

• mongosh now properly displays startup warnings.

• explain() on aggregations now return accurate and complete results.

v0.6.1

Released November 30, 2020

New features in this release:

• Support for readPreference methods.

• Support for the session object and related session object methods.

• Support for transaction methods.

Bug fixes and miscellaneous updates in this release:

• Remove support for deprecated 3.6 CRUD methods (insert(), remove(), save(), and update()).

• Fix an issue with loading JavaScript files into mongosh.

• Fix an issue where when inserting many documents via a for loop, the loop would abort before all documents were inserted.

• Fix issue with output when printing result of a cursor.

• Update the Node REPL to use Node version 14.

v0.5.2

Released November 11, 2020

• Autocomplete now works properly when connected to a MongoDB 4.4.1 deployment.

• The sh.status() method now outputs correctly in the browser shell.

v0.5.0

Released October 12, 2020

• Adds support for replica set management methods.

• Adds support for sharded cluster management methods.

v0.4.2

Released October 1, 2020

• Adds support for collection names with a dot. For example, to query a collection named my.collection, you can run:

  db.my.collection.findOne()

v0.4.0

Released September 15, 2020

• Adds support for the following methods:

  • db.collection.mapReduce()

  • db.collection.validate()

• Adds support for maxAwaitTimeMS for cursors.

v0.3.1

Released September 14, 2020

v0.2.2

Released August 31, 2020

Past Releases

For information on past releases, refer to mongosh Releases on GitHub.