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Release Notes for MongoDB 2.4
March 19, 2013
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MongoDB 2.4 includes enhanced geospatial support, switch to V8 JavaScript engine, security enhancements, and text search (beta) and hashed index.
Minor Releases
2.4.14 – April 28, 2015
- Init script sets process ulimit to different value compared to documentation SERVER-17780
- Compute BinData length in v8 SERVER-17647
- Upgrade PCRE Version from 8.30 to Latest SERVER-17252
- 2.4.14 Changelog.
- All 2.4.14 improvements .
2.4.13 – February 25, 2015
- Enforce BSON BinData length validation SERVER-17278
- Disable SSLv3 ciphers SERVER-15673
- Improve BSON validation SERVER-17264
- 2.4.13 Changelog.
- All 2.4.13 improvements .
2.4.12 – October 16, 2014
- Partially written journal last section causes recovery to fail SERVER-15111 .
- Explicitly zero
.ns
files on creation SERVER-15369 . - 2.4.12 Changelog.
- All 2.4.12 improvements .
2.4.11 – August 18, 2014
- Fixed potential information leak: SERVER-14268 .
- Resolved issue were an
_id
with a$prefix
field caused replication failure due to unvalidated insert SERVER-12209 . - Addressed issue where updates to documents with text-indexed fields could lead to incorrect entries SERVER-14738 .
- Resolved issue where creating descending index on
_id
could corrupt namespace SERVER-14833 . - 2.4.11 Changelog.
- All 2.4.11 improvements .
2.4.10 – April 4, 2014
- Performs fast file allocation on Windows when available SERVER-8480 .
- Start elections if more than one primary is detected SERVER-10793 .
- Changes to allow safe downgrading from v2.6 to v2.4 SERVER-12914 , SERVER-12175 .
- Fixes for edge cases in index creation SERVER-12481 , SERVER-12956 .
- 2.4.10 Changelog.
- All 2.4.10 improvements .
2.4.9 – January 10, 2014
- Fix for instances where
mongos
incorrectly reports a successful write SERVER-12146 . - Make non-primary read preferences consistent with
slaveOK
versioning logic SERVER-11971 . - Allow new sharded cluster connections to read from secondaries when primary is down SERVER-7246 .
- All 2.4.9 improvements .
2.4.8 – November 1, 2013
- Increase future compatibility for 2.6 authorization features SERVER-11478 .
- Fix
dbhash
cache issue for config servers SERVER-11421 . - All 2.4.8 improvements .
2.4.7 – October 21, 2013
- Fixed over-aggressive caching of V8 Isolates SERVER-10596 .
- Removed extraneous initial count during mapReduce SERVER-9907 .
- Cache results of dbhash command SERVER-11021 .
- Fixed memory leak in aggregation SERVER-10554 .
- All 2.4.7 improvements .
2.4.6 – August 20, 2013
- Fix for possible loss of documents during the chunk migration process if a document in the chunk is very large SERVER-10478 .
- Fix for C++ client shutdown issues SERVER-8891 .
- Improved replication robustness in presence of high network latency SERVER-10085 .
- Improved Solaris support SERVER-9832 , SERVER-9786 , and SERVER-7080 .
- All 2.4.6 improvements .
2.4.5 – July 3, 2013
- Fix for CVE-2013-4650 Improperly grant user system privileges on databases other than local SERVER-9983 .
- Fix for CVE-2013-3969 Remotely triggered segmentation fault in Javascript engine SERVER-9878 .
- Fix to prevent identical background indexes from being built SERVER-9856 .
- Config server performance improvements SERVER-9864 and SERVER-5442 .
- Improved initial sync resilience to network failure SERVER-9853 .
- All 2.4.5 improvements .
2.4.4 – June 4, 2013
- Performance fix for Windows version SERVER-9721
- Fix for config upgrade failure SERVER-9661 .
- Migration to Cyrus SASL library for MongoDB Enterprise SERVER-8813 .
- All 2.4.4 improvements .
2.4.3 – April 23, 2013
- Fix for
mongo
shell ignoring modified object’s_id
field SERVER-9385 . - Fix for race condition in log rotation SERVER-4739 .
- Fix for
copydb
command with authorization in a sharded cluster SERVER-9093 . - All 2.4.3 improvements .
2.4.2 – April 17, 2013
- Several V8 memory leak and performance fixes SERVER-9267 and SERVER-9230 .
- Fix for upgrading sharded clusters SERVER-9125 .
- Fix for high volume connection crash SERVER-9014 .
- All 2.4.2 improvements
2.4.1 – April 17, 2013
- Fix for losing index changes during initial sync SERVER-9087
- All 2.4.1 improvements .
Major New Features
The following changes in MongoDB affect both standard and Enterprise editions:
Text Search
Add support for text search of content in MongoDB databases as a beta feature. See Text Indexes for more information.
Geospatial Support Enhancements
- Add new 2dsphere index. The new index supports GeoJSON objects
Point
,LineString
, andPolygon
. See 2dsphere Indexes and Geospatial Queries. - Introduce operators
$geometry
,$geoWithin
and$geoIntersects
to work with the GeoJSON data.
Hashed Index
Add new hashed index to index documents using hashes of field values. When used to index a shard key, the hashed index ensures an evenly distributed shard key. See also Hashed Sharding.
Improvements to the Aggregation Framework
- Improve support for geospatial queries. See the
$geoWithin
operator and the$geoNear
pipeline stage. - Improve sort efficiency when the
$sort
stage immediately precedes a$limit
in the pipeline. - Add new operators
$millisecond
and$concat
and modify how$min
operator processesnull
values.