v3.6.8

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 3.6.8 of the mongodb package!

Release Highlights

Thanks to the quick adoption of the previous new patch by the mongoose package (Automattic/mongoose#10265) a small bug was identified when connections to mongodb would timeout causing unnecessary clean up operations to run. Thank you @vkarpov15!

Bug Fixes

• NODE-3305: undo flipping of beforeHandshake flag for timeout errors (#2813) (6e3bab3)

Documentation

• Reference: https://docs.mongodb.com/drivers/node/current/
• API: http://mongodb.github.io/node-mongodb-native/3.6/api
• Changelog: https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/blob/3.6/HISTORY.md

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