The main new feature of 2.4.0 is support for the new features of the 3.4 version of the server:
- New Decimal128 data type
- New convention for automapping immutable classes for serialization
- New IAggregateFluent methods
- Bucket and BucketAuto
- Count
- Facet
- GraphLookup
- ReplaceRoot
- SortByCount
- New PipelineDefinitionBuilder for building pipelines for CreateView and Facet
- New MaxStaleness property for ReadPreference
- Configurable HeartbeatInterval
- Support for collations
- Driver identifies itself to the server when connecting
- Support for creating read-only views
- Commands that write now support WriteConcern
- LINQ supports new methods: Aggregate, Reverse, Zip
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The JIRA tickets resolved in this release is available at:
Upgrading
We believe there are only minor breaking changes in classes that normally would not be directly used by applications.