MongoDB Compass Release Notes for 2021

MongoDB Compass 1.29.6

Released December 20, 2021

New Features:

• Adds loading states for collection in sidebar.

• Improves identification of Atlas cluster.

• Improve telemetry connection tracking.

• Dependency Upgrades:

  • Bumps react-ace to version 9.5.0.

  • Bumps Node.js driver to version 4.2.1.

  • Bump mongosh version to 1.1.6.

Bug Fixes:

• Removes expired link from license.

• Fixes error handling in listCollections.

• Keeps tlsCertificateFile as URI parameter.

• Hides full-text search stages for time series and views.

• Does not overfetch connectionInfo and update the state too often.

Full changelog available on GitHub.

MongoDB Compass 1.29.5

Released November 24, 2021

Bug Fixes:

• Fixes connection with TLS / SSL options.

• Fixes document searching for Serverless Atlas.

• collStats now always shows for collections on the collection screen.

• Collection menu now appears when collection is selected.

Full changelog available on GitHub.

MongoDB Compass 1.29.4

Released November 16, 2021

New Features:

• Adds client-side logging for MongoDB Compass operations.

• Improved MongoDB Compass startup time.

• Adds support for MongoDB 5.1 features.

• Improved reliability for connections.

• MongoDB Compass now uses:

  • Electron version 13

  • Node version 14

Supported Platforms:

• MongoDB Compass for macOS can now run on M1 platforms that have Rosetta or Rosetta 2 installed. For more information, see Software Requirements.

Full changelog available on GitHub.

MongoDB Compass 1.28.4

Released August 30, 2021

New Features:

• Enables resizing the preview area for aggregation pipelines.

• Allows hiding the Query History and Export to Language buttons in the query view.

• Bumps mongosh version for the embedded shell to 1.0.4.

Bug Fixes:

• Properly supports all Kerberos options.

• Fixed an issue with geospatial queries being incorrectly merged.

Full changelog available on GitHub.

MongoDB Compass 1.28.1

Released July 13, 2021

New Features:

• Adds support for load balancer connections.

• Adds a Granularity option when creating a time series collection.

• Disallows editing schema validation for time series collections.

Bug Fixes:

• Hides the Drop Collection button in readonly Compass.

• Geoqueries no longer populate query bar fields with null.

Full changelog available on GitHub.

MongoDB Compass 1.26.1

Released April 9, 2021

New Features:

• Allows functions in the query bar and aggregations.

• When navigating to the Databases view, Compass now clears a previously selected collection from the left navigation.

• Updates the embedded MongoDB Shell to version 0.9.0.

Bug Fixes:

• Compass now displays the expected value when you update fields in the table view.

• Creating a collection or database is now prohibited when form fields are empty.

• Schema tab graphs no longer fail to render when switching tabs.

• SSH tunnel no longer hangs on disconnect.

MongoDB Compass 1.26.0

Released March 3, 2021

New Features:

• Adds ability to create text indexes.

• Adds ability to cancel a connection attempt.

• Data is now refreshed when Find is clicked in the query bar.

• Improvements to schema analysis to prevent timeouts with large datasets.

Bug Fixes:

• Improves connection form input and validation.

• MongoDB Compass prevents inserting data via the JSON editor without specifying a document. Previously, Compass would silently error when a document was not specified.

• Saving a favorite connection no longer freezes MongoDB Compass.

• Stylistic fixes.

MongoDB Compass 1.25.0

Released January 13, 2021

New Features:

• Updates the embedded MongoDB Shell to version 0.6.1.

• Improvements to connection validation.

Bug Fixes:

• Compass no longer crashes during startup on certain versions of Windows. For more information see COMPASS-4510.

• When connecting to a MongoDB deployment, Compass no longer automatically inserts a value of 27017 for Port when Port is left blank.

• Compass no longer displays the incorrect port number when connecting to MongoDB via SRV record.