Atlas Changelog¶
2021 Releases¶
30 March 2021 Release¶
- Supports using MongoDB Realm in multi-cloud clusters.
09 March 2021 Release¶
- Introduces a new Atlas Data Lake onboarding experience.
- Adds API support for multi-cloud clusters.
- Incorporates database and collection name drop-down menus in the Atlas Search index builder.
- Supports recommendations to remove redundant indexes in Performance Advisor.
- Adds alert options for Disk IOPS and Disk Latency on Atlas.
- Disables the ability to deploy new MongoDB 3.6 clusters.
- Adds the ability to proactively change a cluster's TLS certificate root CA in order to test readiness ahead of the Let's Encrypt planned root CA change from IdenTrust to ISRG. All Atlas clusters' certificates will be migrated to the ISRG root CA between May and September of this year.
17 February 2021 Release¶
- Introduces additional Asia Pacific Live Migrations regions in Singapore, Mumbai, and Tokyo.
- Makes the M400 NVMe cluster tier available in all major AWS regions.
Enhances Maintenance Windows:
- Can auto-defer maintenance by one week.
- Displays the current and target maintenance database version when maintenance includes a version upgrade.
Spreads newly deployed clusters in the following Azure regions across three availability zones:
- Germany West Central
- South Africa North
- Australia East
- Supports cluster tier auto-scaling for multi-cloud clusters.
- Improves Data Explorer load times.
26 January 2021 Release¶
- Introduces private network access for multi-cloud clusters.
- Atlas free- (M0) and shared-tier (M2/M5) clusters upgraded to MongoDB 4.4.
- Defaults new clusters to MongoDB 4.4.
- Introduces custom archiving rules for Atlas Online Archive.
- Introduces the ability to use an AWS IAM role to authorize Atlas to access: - AWS KMS encryption keys for customer key management, or - S3 buckets for Atlas Data Lake s.
- Introduces the ability to peer to Atlas VPCs on GCP with a
smaller CIDR block. When you create the network peering container
using the Atlas API,
you can specify a CIDR block between
/21
and/24
, inclusive, insead of the default,/18
. - Adds the ability to specify an AWS ARN with a compound path when you create an AWS IAM-authenticated database user.
06 January 2021 Release¶
- Changes the cluster-level navigation UI so that Atlas Search is now a top level tab.
- Introduces a visual editor for creating an Atlas Search index.
- Allows users of the BI Connector for Atlas to download BI Connector logs.
2020 Releases¶
15 December 2020 Release¶
- Introduces an optional connection string for Atlas Online Archive that enables querying of archived data only (instead of the union of cluster and archive data).
Enables Multi-Cloud Clusters to be used with the following:
- Introduces improvements to the Billing Invoice Summary table including a summary of usage by top line product categories.
- Introduces Voice and SMS Factors as options for use with Okta multi-factor authentication.
30 November 2020 Release¶
- Supports Customer Federation Role Mappings for users of Identity Federation with SAML.
- Supports passwordless X.509 authentication
for database users on
M0
,M2
, andM5
clusters. - Releases Atlas Online Archive to general availability.
23 November 2020 Release¶
- Offers self-serve customers the option to sign up for Atlas Pro support.
- Introduces Low-CPU clusters into additional
Google Cloud regions:
us-east1
(South Carolina),us-east4
(Virginia), andaustralia-southeast1
(Sydney). - Introduces availability zones for new clusters in the Azure Canada Central region.
Introduces a new project setting for advanced multi-region private endpoint use.
- The project setting requires that all clusters in a project be sharded clusters. When enabled, customers are able to configure multiple private endpoints in multiple regions and connect via regionalized connection strings.
- When this setting is disabled (the default), only a single private endpoint can be created per region for a multi-region project. (For a single region project, multiple private endpoints have always been supported.)
- Updates terminology for API Access List management. Introduces API Access List for Programmatic API Keys and deprecates API whitelist.
3 November 2020 Release¶
- Introduces multi-cloud clusters and the ability to move clusters between cloud providers.
- Online Archive now supports using a nested field for the archiving date and for the customer-chosen query fields.
- Introduces the ability to use the Okta Verify mobile app for multi-factor authentication.
13 October 2020 Release¶
- Supports Azure Private Link with Atlas Private Endpoints.
- Improved filtering for the Activity Feed.
- Optimizes slow query logging by automatically adjusting the slowMS threshold based on the workload to capture more slow queries.
- Introduces a feedback button for Index Suggestions in the Performance Advisor.
22 September 2020 Release¶
Supports the following AWS regions:
af-south-1
(Cape Town, South Africa)eu-south-1
(Milan, Italy)
Supports the following GCP regions:
asia-southeast2
(Jakarta, Indonesia)uswest3
(Las Vegas, NV, USA)uswest4
(Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
Supports the following Azure regions:
westcentralus
(Wyoming, USA)germanynorth
(Berlin, Germany)
- Updates terminology for Atlas cluster firewall management. Introduces IP Access List and deprecates "IP Whitelist".
- Introduces new host-level monitoring metrics for total memory, total memory free and total swap used.
01 September 2020 Release¶
Reduces cluster pricing and introduces new storage options for Atlas on Azure:
- M10 clusters include 8 GB of storage
- M20 clusters include 16 GB of storage
- M40 clusters include 64 GB of storage
- Allows you to scope database users to one or more specific clusters and Data Lake