Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 4.0.12-6 on September 12, 2019. Download the latest version from the Percona website or the Percona software repositories.
Percona Server for MongoDB is an enhanced, open source, and highly-scalable database that is a fully-compatible, drop-in replacement for MongoDB 4.0 Community Edition. It supports MongoDB 4.0 protocols and drivers.
Percona Server for MongoDB extends the functionality of the MongoDB 4.0 Community Edition by including the Percona Memory Engine storage engine, encrypted WiredTiger storage engine, audit logging, external authentication, hot backups, and enhanced query profiling. Percona Server for MongoDB requires no changes to MongoDB applications or code.
Percona Server for MongoDB 4.0.12-6 enables uploading hot backups to Amazon S3 or compatible storage service, such as MinIO. In this release, this feature has the EXPERIMENTAL status. For more information, see the documentation of Percona Server for MongoDB.
This release includes all features of MongoDB 4.0 Community Edition. Most notable among these are:
- Multi-Document ACID transactions
- Type conversion through the new aggregation operators
- Enhancements to the Change Streams support
Note that the MMAPv1 storage engine is deprecated in MongoDB 4.0 Community Edition.
Percona Server for MongoDB 4.0.12-6 is based on MongoDB 4.0.12.
New Features
- PSMDB-371: Hot backup streaming to a remote destination
Bugs Fixed
- PSMDB-396: Per database encryption keys were not removed on database drop
- PSMDB-408: In some cases, the encryption keydb instance was not destroyed on the instance shutdown
- PSMDB-412: PSMDB was not pulling the ECDHE ciphers from OpenSSL due to upstream bug SERVER-38141.
Known Issues
- PSMDB-441: Connectivity errors when making backups to GCP on Debian 9 (stretch).
The Percona Server for MongoDB 4.0.12-6 release notes are available in the official documentation.
