MongoDB Release Notes

March 2025

27 March

• Managed MongoDB now supports up to 2,000 IP addresses as trusted sources. To add trusted sources, see How to Secure MongoDB Managed Database Clusters.

3 March

• MongoDB 8.0 is now available in the control panel and via the API. To upgrade your MongoDB cluster to version 8.0, see our guide on upgrading your database cluster.

December 2024

20 December

• All Managed Databases are now available in NYC2.

November 2024

12 November

• Scalable storage for MongoDB clusters is now in general availability.

October 2024

16 October

• Now in beta, when creating or resizing MongoDB clusters, you can now add additional storage to the cluster independent from the storage already included in the database cluster plan. You can use this option when you need more disk space but don’t need more CPU or RAM.

1 October

• MongoDB version 5.0 is now deprecated.

June 2024

17 June

• Managed databases now supports log forwarding to OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, and Rsyslog. You can create and manage log sinks using the control panel and DigitalOcean API. For more detailed steps, see our guides for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, and Kafka.

May 2024

6 May

• MongoDB 7.0 is now available in the control panel and via the API. To upgrade your MongoDB cluster to version 7.0, see our guide on upgrading your database cluster.

April 2024

26 April

• You can now reconfigure MongoDB databases via the API, which lets you edit many database engine parameters that were previously unavailable for editing. For more detailed steps, see How to Reconfigure Database Clusters.

March 2023

13 March

• MongoDB 6.0 is now available in the control panel and via the API. To upgrade your MongoDB cluster to version 6.0, see our guide on upgrading your database cluster

June 2022

27 June

• To improve security, DigitalOcean no longer accepts TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 connections. This includes connections to www.digitalocean.com, cloud.digitalocean.com, and api.digitalocean.com.

2 June

• MongoDB 5.0 is now available in the control panel and via the API. To upgrade your MongoDB cluster to version 5.0, see our guide on upgrading your database cluster

April 2022

13 April

• MongoDB clusters now support two Dedicated Droplet types: General Purpose and Memory-Optimized. If these options are available in your region, you can select them when creating a new cluster or resizing an existing one.

January 2022

6 January

• All DigitalOcean databases now support App Platform apps as trusted sources, including MongoDB.

August 2021

9 August

• MongoDB is now available as a managed database engine in the AMS3, BLR1, FRA1, LON1, NYC1, NYC3, SFO3, SGP1, and TOR1 regions.

• Released v1.63.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release includes a number of new features:

  • The database firewall sub-commands now support apps as trusted sources
  • New monitoring alert sub-commands for creating and managing alert policies
  • The --droplet-agent flag was added to the compute droplet create sub-command to optionally disable installing the agent for the Droplet web console

June 2021

28 June

• The MongoDB database engine is now in general availability.