Release notes
These release notes describe the Amazon DocumentDB features, improvements, and bug fixes organized by major engine version. Within each version section, entries are listed by date in a table format.
For details about how engine versions and patch versions are numbered (including the mapping between engine patch version prefixes and Amazon DocumentDB engine versions), see Engine version numbering.
You can determine the current Amazon DocumentDB engine patch version by running the following command:
db.runCommand({getEngineVersion: 1})
If your cluster is not on the latest version of the engine, it is likely that you have pending maintenance available that will upgrade your engine. For more information, see Maintaining Amazon DocumentDB in the Developer Guide.
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Amazon DocumentDB engine version release notes
Release notes for Amazon DocumentDB engine versions organized by major version.
- Amazon DocumentDB 8.0
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Release notes for Amazon DocumentDB engine version 8.0 (MongoDB 8.0 compatibility).
Amazon DocumentDB 8.0.1
Date Release notes August 31, 2026 New feature
Amazon DocumentDB now supports in-place major version upgrades (MVU) directly from engine versions 3.6 and 4.0 to version 8.0. This removes the need for intermediate version upgrades and lets you upgrade your 3.6 or 4.0 clusters while preserving existing data, configurations, and cluster settings. Major version upgrades from Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 and 4.0 to 8.0 are available in all AWS Regions where these versions are currently supported. For more information, see Amazon DocumentDB in-place major version upgrade.
August 18, 2026 Security and stability improvements
Amazon DocumentDB 8.0.1 (Engine Version: 4.0.9938) [in progress]
This engine patch provides the following improvements:
Improved request processing Amazon DocumentDB now validates incoming client requests more thoroughly along the connection and message-parsing path. This improves resilience and stability across a wider range of input patterns.
Authentication handshake hardening Amazon DocumentDB now validates the authentication exchange more thoroughly. This improves robustness when handling unexpected or malformed input.
Amazon DocumentDB automatically applies this patch during your next maintenance window.
August 11, 2026 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 8.0.1 (Engine Version: 4.0.8864)
Enabled support for SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication.
Enabled tunable RPO for Amazon DocumentDB global clusters.
Improved storage reclamation during background garbage collection to reduce unused storage space over time.
July 22, 2026 New feature
Amazon DocumentDB clusters running Engine Version 8.0 and later now support a maximum storage limit of 256 TiB, doubling the previous limit of 128 TiB. For more information, see Amazon DocumentDB quotas.
July 13, 2026 Amazon DocumentDB 8.0.1 (Engine Version: 4.0.8864)
New features and improvements
Support for 13 accumulator operators in default Planner (v3):
$top,$bottom,$topN,$bottomN,$count,$firstN,$lastN,$minN,$maxN,$median,$percentile,$stdDevPop,$stdDevSamp.Support for 36 expression operators in default Planner (v3):
$median,$percentile,$stdDevPop,$stdDevSamp,$round,$sigmoid,$trunc,$firstN,$lastN,$maxN,$minN,$bitAnd,$bitNot,$bitOr,$bitXor,$binarySize,$bsonSize,$tsIncrement,$tsSecond,$cos,$acos,$cosh,$acosh,$sin,$asin,$sinh,$asinh,$tan,$atan,$tanh,$atan2,$atanh,$degreesToRadians,$radiansToDegrees,$isNumber,$toUUID.Support for
$sampleRatein$matchin default Planner (v3).Support for
$sortByCountin default Planner (v3).Added support for
$listSearchIndexesaggregation stage in default Planner (v3). Returns search index metadata (name, status, queryable, version) for text and vector search indexes on a collection.Support snappy compression using the OP_COMPRESSED message type.
Support the
minandmaxcursor methods on the find command in default Planner (v3).Planner version 3 introduces Index Only Scans (IXONLYSCAN) for
countDocuments().Added hidden index support for all index types (planner version 2 and above).
Bug fixes
Fixed an issue where
$textsearch queries containing underscore characters could return incorrect results when evaluated as a residual filter.
Amazon DocumentDB 8.0.0
Date Release notes August 18, 2026 Security and stability improvements
Amazon DocumentDB 8.0.0 (Engine Version: 4.0.9912) [in progress]
This engine patch provides the following improvements:
Improved request processing Amazon DocumentDB now validates incoming client requests more thoroughly along the connection and message-parsing path. This improves resilience and stability across a wider range of input patterns.
Authentication handshake hardening Amazon DocumentDB now validates the authentication exchange more thoroughly. This improves robustness when handling unexpected or malformed input.
If you don't apply it sooner, Amazon DocumentDB automatically applies this patch during your next maintenance window 30 days after release.
July 22, 2026 New feature
Amazon DocumentDB clusters running Engine Version 8.0 and later now support a maximum storage limit of 256 TiB, doubling the previous limit of 128 TiB. For more information, see Amazon DocumentDB quotas.
May 13, 2026 New feature
Amazon DocumentDB serverless is now available for Amazon DocumentDB 8.0. For more information, see Using Amazon DocumentDB serverless.
May 6, 2026 Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 8.0 (Engine Version: 4.0.6940)
This update provides an optional engine patch with the following improvements:
Fixed a bug in garbage collection that could, in an edge case, cause readers to crash.
April 20, 2026 New feature
In-place major version upgrade (MVU) from Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 to Amazon DocumentDB 8.0 is now available. For more information, see Amazon DocumentDB in-place major version upgrade.
April 20, 2026 New features and improvements
Amazon DocumentDB 8.0 (Engine Versions: 4.0.5995, 4.0.6473)
This is a required engine patch that includes the following new features, improvements, and fixes:
$sortArrayoperator in$project:Support for
$sortArrayoperator in$projectstage in aggregation pipeline for Planner version 3. The$sortArrayoperator sorts an array based on its elements (for scalar values) or on a specified field (for document arrays), returning the sorted array in ascending (1) or descending (-1) order.
Support for
$out,$collStats,$indexStats,$geoNearusing Planner v3. With Planner V3, the$outstage also supports writing to collections across different databases.The aggregation pipeline now coalesces
$lookupand$unwindstages even when the$unwindstage includes theincludeArrayIndexparameter. Previously, this optimization was skipped whenincludeArrayIndexwas present.Performance enhancements to improve write throughput for db.r8g.8xlarge and larger instances running on I/O-Optimized configuration.
You can now monitor the
Connections (active)metric for instances. For more information, see Instance quotas.Support for
$dateToPartsand$dateFromPartsaggregation operators.Command-level performance metrics are now available in CloudWatch for CRUD operations (
find,insert,findAndModify,update,delete,aggregate,count,distinct,getMore,abortTransaction,commitTransaction), exposingAvgDuration,P100Duration, andMaxConcurrentdimensions for improved operational monitoring.Fixed a bug in
$replaceRootbehavior wherenewRootfields containing boolean values oftrue/falseor numeric values of0/1were missing in the output document.Fixed a bug in
$indexOfArraywhere valid queries were returning errors indicating that they were invalid.The explain plan now includes
docsExaminedmetrics inexecutionStatsoutput.Improved SASL authentication performance.
Optimized document updates to reduce storage overhead when index values remain unchanged and documents fit within existing pages.
Support for
bypassDocumentValidationin$merge.
All Amazon DocumentDB 8.0 clusters will be automatically upgraded to this patch version during their next maintenance window.
March 26, 2026 New features
Amazon DocumentDB now supports the latest generation of memory-optimized instances, db.r8g, powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton4 processors, providing up to 30% better performance over R6G instances. For more information, see Managing instance classes in this guide
November 11, 2025 New features
Amazon DocumentDB now offers full wire protocol compatibility with MongoDB 8.0. Amazon DocumentDB 8.0 improves query performance enabling you to build high-performance applications at a lower cost.
Amazon DocumentDB 8.0 (Engine Patch Version 4.0.4448)
Added support for MongoDB 8.0 API drivers.
Added support for Planner Version3 that extends performance improvements to aggregation stage operators, along with supporting aggregation pipeline optimizations and distinct commands.
Added Support for dictionary-based compression through the Zstandard compression algorithm, improving compression ratio by 5x.
Added new capabilities: Amazon DocumentDB 8.0 supports collation and views.
Added support for new aggregation stages and operators: $replaceWith, $vectorSearch, $merge, $set, $unset, $bucket, and 3 new aggregation operators $pow, $rand, $dateTrunc.
Added support for a new version of text index: Text index v2 in Amazon DocumentDB 8.0 introduces additional tokens, enhancing text search capabilities.
Includes vector search improvements through parallel vector index build reducing index build time by up to 30x.
Removed support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1. The minimum TLS version is now TLS 1.2.
- Amazon DocumentDB 5.0
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Release notes for Amazon DocumentDB engine version 5.0 (MongoDB 5.0 compatibility).
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0.1
Date Release notes August 18, 2026 Security and stability improvements
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0.1 (Engine Version: 3.0.22319) [in progress]
This engine patch provides the following improvements:
Improved request processing Amazon DocumentDB now validates incoming client requests more thoroughly along the connection and message-parsing path. This improves resilience and stability across a wider range of input patterns.
Authentication handshake hardening Amazon DocumentDB now validates the authentication exchange more thoroughly. This improves robustness when handling unexpected or malformed input.
If you don't apply it sooner, Amazon DocumentDB automatically applies this patch during your next maintenance window 30 days after release.
August 11, 2026 New feature
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0.1 (Engine Version: 3.0.21138)
Enabled support for SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication.
June 8, 2026 New minor version
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0.1 (Engine Version 3.0.21138)
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0.1 is the first minor version release for the Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 major version. Minor versions include improvements such as new features, security fixes, and bug fixes. You can upgrade to 5.0.1 from 5.0.0 using a minor version upgrade. For more information, see Amazon DocumentDB minor version upgrade.
This minor version includes the following new features and improvements:
Added
gcRuntimeStats,documentFragmentStats, and breakup of collection level metrics intostorageSegmentBaseandstorageSegmentExtendedincollstatsto surface more information into the overall health of the garbage collection process. See Garbage collection in Amazon DocumentDB for details.Support for
$randand$powaggregation operators.You can now monitor the
Connections (active)metric for instances. For more information, see Instance quotas.Improved Global Cluster cross-Region resilience by eliminating secondary cluster reboot with Global Survivable Read Only.
Support for
$dateToPartsand$dateFromPartsaggregation operators.Command-level performance metrics are now available in CloudWatch for CRUD operations (
find,insert,findAndModify,update,delete,aggregate,count,distinct,getMore,abortTransaction,commitTransaction), exposingAvgDuration,P100Duration, andMaxConcurrentdimensions for improved operational monitoring.$replaceRootoutputsnewRootfields containing boolean values (true/false) and numeric values (0/1).$indexOfArraysupports a broader range of valid query expressions.The explain plan includes
docsExaminedmetrics inexecutionStatsoutput.Improved SASL authentication performance.
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0.0
Date Release notes August 18, 2026 Security and stability improvements
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0.0 (Engine Version: 3.0.22303) [in progress]
This engine patch provides the following improvements:
Improved request processing Amazon DocumentDB now validates incoming client requests more thoroughly along the connection and message-parsing path. This improves resilience and stability across a wider range of input patterns.
Authentication handshake hardening Amazon DocumentDB now validates the authentication exchange more thoroughly. This improves robustness when handling unexpected or malformed input.
Access-control enforcement Amazon DocumentDB now verifies required privileges consistently at all nesting levels for nested query operations.
If you don't apply it sooner, Amazon DocumentDB automatically applies this patch during your next maintenance window 30 days after release.
May 6, 2026 Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Version: 3.0.20421)
This release is for a required security patch.
April 20, 2026 New feature
In-place major version upgrade (MVU) from Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 to Amazon DocumentDB 8.0 is now available. For more information, see Amazon DocumentDB in-place major version upgrade.
April 13, 2026 Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Versions: 3.0.19917)
This is a required engine patch that includes the following new features, improvements, and fixes:
The
DatabaseConnectionsActiveMaxmetric now tracksConnections (active)for instances. For more information, see Instance quotas.Improved SASL authentication performance.
All Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 clusters will be automatically upgraded to this patch version during their next maintenance window.
October 22, 2025 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.17983)
Amazon DocumentDB now supports the latest generation of memory-optimized instances, db.r8g, powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton4 processors, providing up to 30% better performance over R6G instances. For more information, see Managing instance classes in this guide and this blog post
. New features
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.15902)
Added support for longer collection name (namespace length up to 255 chars).
Introduced a new query planner (planner version 2.0). For more information, see Query planner v2 in this guide.
Added new fields in
collstatsfor "MVCCIDStats" and "gcRuntimeStats" that provide information into the overall health of the collection with respect to garbage collection and aging collections.
October 16, 2025 New feature
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.15902)
Amazon DocumentDB now supports dual-stack mode (IPv4/IPv6) when your cluster is in a virtual private cloud (VPC).
For more information, see this blog post
and Amazon VPC and Amazon DocumentDB in the Amazon DocumentDB Developer Guide. September 15, 2025 Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.17983)
Fixed engine crash when queries contain subsequent
$replaceRootand$lookupstage.July 29, 2025 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.15902)
Added support of
$regexFindAllaggregation operator.Index bloat and collection based bloat metrics launched
Added CloudWatch metrics
AvailableMVCCIdsandLongestActiveGCRuntimethat provide information into the overall health of the cluster with respect to garbage collection and aging collections.The
serverStatuscommand now includes an "nvme_cache" field that shows the count of pages written and not written to NVMe cache on NVMe-backed instances.Removed limitation on number of fields for
$groupand$projectSupport for the following String operators:
$trim,$rtrim,$ltrim,$regexFindAll,$replaceOne, and$replaceAllSupport for the following Array operators:
$firstand$lastSupport for the following Stage operator:
$collStats
Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.15902)
Fixed an issue during index creation that affected large collections.
July 28, 2025 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.14228)
Amazon DocumentDB instance-based clusters now support Amazon DocumentDB Serverless, an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration.
For more information, see Using Amazon DocumentDB serverless and this what's new blog post
. March 24, 2025 New feature
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.11800)
Added support for
postBatchResumeTokenin change streams.For more information, see Resuming a change stream with postBatchResumeToken.
January 15, 2025 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.11800)
Amazon DocumentDB now maintains read availability through writer instance restarts. Reader instances will now continue to serve read requests during writer instance restarts.
Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.11800)
Fixed
killOpcommand to handle a special case of bulk inserts.Improved network I/O-related memory usage on Amazon DocumentDB instances.
Fixed
countcommand for$textfilter queries.
December 18, 2024 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.5721)
Amazon DocumentDB instance-based clusters now support NVMe-backed R6GD instances.
For more information, see NVMe-backed instances and this what's new blog post
. November 6, 2024 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.11051)
Added support for minimum TLS versions
tls1.2+andtls1.3+totlscluster parameter.Enabled support for characters dollar($) and dot(.) in field names. For functional differences, see Dollar($) and dot(.) in field names.
September 17, 2024 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.10696)
Amazon DocumentDB now supports rebuilding indexes with
reIndexin therunCommand. For more information, see Index maintenance using reIndex.Note
reIndexis only supported on Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.10696 and higher).Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.10696)
$setOnInsertnow supports the_idfield during inserts resulting from update operations.Fixed issue that prevents reclaiming storage space after a major version upgrade to Amazon DocumentDB 5.0.
August 22, 2024 New feature
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (All engine patch versions)
Amazon DocumentDB global clusters now support cluster switchovers and managed cluster failovers. For more information, see Performing a switchover for an Amazon DocumentDB global cluster and Performing a managed failover for an Amazon DocumentDB global cluster.
Note
Global cluster switchovers and failovers are supported on Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 and 5.0 only.
July 23, 2024 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.8126)
Added support for longer index names (up to 255 characters). For more information, see Naming constraints
Increased the maximum connection limit by two-fold:
Instance type Original limit New limit t3.medium 500 1000 t4g.medium 500 1000 r5.large 1700 3400 r5.xlarge 3500 7000 r5.2xlarge 7100 14200 r5.4xlarge 14200 28400 r5.8xlarge 28400 60000 r5.12xlarge 30000 60000 r5.16xlarge 30000 60000 r5.24xlarge 30000 60000 r6g.large 1700 3400 r6g.xlarge 3500 7000 r6g.2xlarge 7100 14200 r6g.4xlarge 14200 28400 r6g.8xlarge 28400 60000 r6g.12xlarge 30000 60000 r6g.16xlarge 30000 60000 For more information, see Instance quotas.
Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.8126)
Enhanced the logic to synchronize
CurrentTimeandResumeTokenfor the change stream on readers.July 22, 2024 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.6742)
Added support DML Audit filtering. You can now setup filter conditions to filter out DML Audit logs based on their specific requirements instead of logging every DML query. For more information, see Filtering DML audit events.
Added support in document compression for the following:
Setting a minimum compression threshold
Enabling compression for existing collections (applicable to new documents)
Allow default compression setting at the cluster level
For more information, see Managing collection-level document compression.
Added support for consuming change streams on reader instances. For more information, see Using change streams on secondary instances.
July 9, 2024 New feature
For Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (minimum engine patch version 3.0.4780), TLS CA certificate updates no longer require a system reboot. For more information, see Updating your Amazon DocumentDB TLS certificates.
May 29, 2024 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.6742)
Added support for
$regexMatchand$regexFindoperators.Added support to ensure full precision in audit logs when addressing large integers. Audit logs now maintain the exact numeric representation for all numbers, preventing any loss of precision.
April 3, 2024 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.5721)
Added support for
bypassDocumentValidationand granular error message for$jsonSchema. For more information aboutbypassDocumentValidation, see bypassDocumentValidation.Added support of
$expr.Added support for Uncorrelated Joins in
$lookup.Added support to retain validation rules in
$outaggregation stage.
January 10, 2024 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Versions 3.0.4574, 3.0.4780, 3.0.4960)
Added support for HNSW vector indexes. For more information, see Vector search for Amazon DocumentDB.
Added a support for partial indexes. For more information, see Partial index.
Added a support for GC runtime on a collection within
currentOpcommand.Added text index support for native text search on Amazon DocumentDB. For more information, see Performing text search with Amazon DocumentDB.
Added support for
$jsonSchemaschema keywordstype,allOf,oneOf,anyOf,not,maxItems,minItems,maxProperties,minProperties,pattern,patternProperties,multipleOf,dependencies, anduniqueItems.For more information see Using JSON schema validation.
Added support for arithmetic operators
$ceil,$floor,$ln,$log,$log10,$sqrt, and$exp.For more information see Arithmetic operators.
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Added support for the conditional expression operator
$switch. Added support for parallel
IVFFLATvector index builds. Documentation was updated by removing the parallelIVFFLATvector index builds limitation from the developer guide.
Bug fixes and other changes
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Added back case-insensitive functionality for invoking
db.runCommand("dbstats"). Amazon DocumentDB 5.0customers on engine patch versions prior to 3.0.4960 or 2.0.10221 should apply these latest engine patches. -
Fixed an error when invoking
db.coll.stats()on mongo shell version 1.7 and later. Documentation was updated by removing the mongo shelldb.coll.stats()troubleshooting tip from the developer guide.
November 29, 2023 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.3727)
Added support for vector search. For more information, see this blog post
and visit Vector search for Amazon DocumentDB in the Amazon DocumentDB Developer Guide. November 21, 2023 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.3727)
Added support for I/O-optimized storage. For more information, see Amazon DocumentDB cluster storage configurations in the Amazon DocumentDB Developer Guide.
Added integration for no-code machine learning with SageMaker Canvas. For more information, see No-code machine learning with Amazon SageMaker AI Canvas in the Amazon DocumentDB Developer Guide.
November 6, 2023 Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Versions 3.0.3727)
New features
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Added support for
$jsonSchemaschema keywordsmaxLength,minLength,maximum,minimum,exclusiveMaximum,exclusiveMinimum,items, andadditionalItems.Note that JSON schema validation is supported in instance-based clusters only.
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Added support for
$convertaggregation pipeline operator and its shorthand derived operators$toBool,$toInt,$toLong,$toDouble,$toString,$toDecimal,$toObjectId, and$toDate. -
Added support for set expression operators
$setDifference,$anyElementTrue, and$allElementTrue.
Bug fixes and other changes
Fixed issue where a change stream update from
-NaNtoNaNwas not being displayed.September 15, 2023 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.3140)
Added support for $jsonSchema schema validator in instance-based clusters only. For more information see Using JSON schema validation.
July 13, 2023 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.1948)
Added support for document compression.
Added support for parallel index builds.
Added support for index build status.
Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.1948)
Fixed authentication issue with
createCollectionfor Amazon DocumentDB elastic clusters when users don’t have access to system collections.Fixed issue where secondary Region instances couldn’t use the same primary Region instance names.
June 7, 2023 Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0
r5 and t3.medium instances are now supported in Amazon DocumentDB 5.0.
engineVersionoption default is5.0.0in AWS SDK, AWS CLI, and CloudFormation.
May 10, 2023 Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.1361)
Added support for
ignoreunknownindexoptionsin the createIndex command.Stopped adding internal monitoring queries to auditing logs.
User defined local variable names now support “_” (underscore) for projection operators such as
$letand$filter.
March 1, 2023 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 (Engine Patch Version 3.0.775)
Introduced Amazon DocumentDB 5.0
MongoDB 5.0 compatibility (support for MongoDB 5.0 API drivers)
Support for Client-side Field Level Encryption (FLE). You can now encrypt fields at the client-side before writing the data to Amazon DocumentDB cluster. For more information, see Client-side field level encryption
New aggregation operators:
$dateAdd,$dateSubtract
Increased storage limit to 128 TiB for all instance-based Amazon DocumentDB clusters and shard-based elastic clusters.
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Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 now supports index scan with the
$elemMatchoperator in the first nesting level. Index scans are supported when query only have one level of the$elemMatchfilter and the nested$elemMatchquery does not support index scan.Query shape that supports index scan:
db.foo.find( { "a": {$elemMatch: { "b": "xyz", "c": "abc"} } })Query shape that does not support index scan:
db.foo.find( { "a": {$elemMatch: { "b": {$elemMatch: { "d": "xyz", "e": "abc"} }} } })
- Amazon DocumentDB 4.0
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Release notes for Amazon DocumentDB engine version 4.0 (MongoDB 4.0 compatibility).
Date Release notes August 31, 2026 New feature
Amazon DocumentDB now supports in-place major version upgrades (MVU) directly from engine version 4.0 to version 8.0. This removes the need for intermediate version upgrades and lets you upgrade your 4.0 clusters while preserving existing data, configurations, and cluster settings. This upgrade is available in all AWS Regions where these versions are currently supported. For more information, see Amazon DocumentDB in-place major version upgrade.
August 18, 2026 Security and stability improvements
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Version: 2.0.14287) [in progress]
This engine patch provides the following improvements:
Improved request processing Amazon DocumentDB now validates incoming client requests more thoroughly along the connection and message-parsing path. This improves resilience and stability across a wider range of input patterns.
Authentication handshake hardening Amazon DocumentDB now validates the authentication exchange more thoroughly. This improves robustness when handling unexpected or malformed input.
Access-control enforcement Amazon DocumentDB now verifies required privileges consistently at all nesting levels for nested query operations.
If you don't apply it sooner, Amazon DocumentDB automatically applies this patch during your next maintenance window 30 days after release.
April 27, 2026 Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Version: 2.0.14278)
This is a required engine patch that addresses the following issues:
Fixed an issue that could, in rare cases, cause point-in-time recovery (PITR) and major version upgrades (MVU) to become unresponsive.
All Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 clusters will be automatically upgraded to this patch version during their next maintenance window.
March 9, 2026 Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Version: 2.0.14165)
This update provides an optional engine patch with the following improvements:
The
DatabaseConnectionsActiveMaxmetric now tracksConnections (active)for instances. For more information, see Instance quotas.Improved SASL authentication performance.
October 22, 2025 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.11747)
Added new fields in
collstatsfor "MVCCIDStats" and "gcRuntimeStats" that provide information into the overall health of the collection with respect to garbage collection and aging collections.October 16, 2025 New feature
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.11747)
Amazon DocumentDB now supports dual-stack mode (IPv4/IPv6) when your cluster is in a virtual private cloud (VPC).
For more information, see this blog post
and Amazon VPC and Amazon DocumentDB in the Amazon DocumentDB Developer Guide. July 29, 2025 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.11747)
Index bloat and collection based bloat metrics launched
Added CloudWatch metrics
AvailableMVCCIdsandLongestActiveGCRuntimethat provide information into the overall health of the cluster with respect to garbage collection and aging collections.Support for the following String operators:
$trim,$rtrim, and$ltrimSupport for the following Stage operator:
$collStats
Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.11747)
Fixed an issue during index creation that affected large collections.
January 15, 2025 Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.11096)
Fixed
killOpcommand to handle a special case of bulk inserts.Improved network I/O-related memory usage on Amazon DocumentDB instances.
November 6, 2024 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.10980)
Added support for minimum TLS versions
tls1.2+andtls1.3+totlscluster parameter.
September 17, 2024 Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.10898)
$setOnInsertnow supports the_idfield during inserts resulting from update operations.Fixed issue that prevents reclaiming storage space after a major version upgrade to Amazon DocumentDB 5.0.
August 22, 2024 New feature
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.5704)
Amazon DocumentDB global clusters now support cluster switchovers and managed cluster failovers. For more information, see Performing a switchover for an Amazon DocumentDB global cluster and Performing a managed failover for an Amazon DocumentDB global cluster.
Note
Global cluster switchovers and failovers are supported on Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 and 5.0 only.
July 23, 2024 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.10709)
Added support for longer index names (up to 255 characters). For more information, see Naming constraints
Increased the maximum connection limit by two-fold:
Instance type Original limit New limit t3.medium 500 1000 t4g.medium 500 1000 r5.large 1700 3400 r5.xlarge 3500 7000 r5.2xlarge 7100 14200 r5.4xlarge 14200 28400 r5.8xlarge 28400 60000 r5.12xlarge 30000 60000 r5.16xlarge 30000 60000 r5.24xlarge 30000 60000 r6g.large 1700 3400 r6g.xlarge 3500 7000 r6g.2xlarge 7100 14200 r6g.4xlarge 14200 28400 r6g.8xlarge 28400 60000 r6g.12xlarge 30000 60000 r6g.16xlarge 30000 60000 For more information, see Instance quotas.
July 22, 2024 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.10593)
Added support DML Audit filtering. You can now setup filter conditions to filter out DML Audit logs based on their specific requirements instead of logging every DML query. For more information, see Filtering DML audit events.
July 9, 2024 New feature
For Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (minimum engine patch version 2.0.10179), TLS CA certificate updates no longer require a system reboot. For more information, see Updating your Amazon DocumentDB TLS certificates.
May 29, 2024 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.10593)
Added support to ensure full precision in audit logs when addressing large integers. Audit logs now maintain the exact numeric representation for all numbers, preventing any loss of precision.
April 3, 2024 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.10392)
Added support for
bypassDocumentValidationfor$jsonSchema. For more information aboutbypassDocumentValidation, see bypassDocumentValidation.Added support of
$expr.Added support for Uncorrelated Joins in
$lookup.Added support to retain validation rules in
$outaggregation stage.
January 10, 2024 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Patch Versions 2.0.10124, 2.0.10179, 2.0.10221)
Added a support for GC runtime on a collection within
currentOpcommand.Added support for
$jsonSchemaschema keywordstype,allOf,oneOf,anyOf,not,maxItems,minItems,maxProperties,minProperties,pattern,patternProperties,multipleOf,dependencies, anduniqueItems.For more information see Using JSON schema validation.
Added support for arithmetic operators
$ceil,$floor,$ln,$log,$log10,$sqrt, and$exp.For more information see Arithmetic operators.
-
Added support for the conditional expression operator
$switch.
December 20, 2023 Other changes
Enabled support for in-place major version upgrade in Amazon DocumentDB 4.0. For more information, see Amazon DocumentDB in-place major version upgrade.
November 6, 2023 Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Patch Versions 2.0.9876)
New features
-
Added support for
$jsonSchemaschema keywordsmaxLength,minLength,maximum,minimum,exclusiveMaximum,exclusiveMinimum,items, andadditionalItems.Note that JSON schema validation is supported in instance-based clusters only.
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Added support for
$convertaggregation pipeline operator and its shorthand derived operators$toBool,$toInt,$toLong,$toDouble,$toString,$toDecimal,$toObjectId, and$toDate. -
Added support for set expression operators
$setDifference,$anyElementTrue, and$allElementTrue.
Bug fixes and other changes
Fixed issue where a change stream update from
-NaNtoNaNwas not being displayed.September 20, 2023 New features
Added support for in-place major version upgrades in Amazon DocumentDB 4.0. For more information see Amazon DocumentDB in-place major version upgrade.
September 15, 2023 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.9686)
Added support for $jsonSchema schema validator in instance-based clusters only. For more information see Using JSON schema validation.
July 13, 2023 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.9259)
Added support for parallel index builds.
Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.9259)
Stopped adding internal monitoring queries to auditing logs.
April 4, 2023 Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.8934)
Fixed issue with DML auditing when it is enabled during an ongoing workload.
Fixed issue with DML auditing when aggregate commands with hint is passed a string value.
Fixed issue with
listCollectionscommand not working when users with readwriteanydatabase role having both authorizedCollections and nameOnly options set to true.Fixed issue to properly parse numeric string in a field name.
Cancel long running cursors when they are impacting garbage collection.
User defined local variable names now support “_” (underscore) for projection operators such as
$letand$filter.
February 27, 2023 Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0
Added support for AWS Lambda. For more information, see Using AWS Lambda with Change Streams.
August 9, 2022 New features
4.0
-
Added support for Decimal128 data type. The Decimal128 is a BSON data type supported in all Regions where DocumentDB is available.
For more information, see Data Types.
-
Added support for DML query auditing with Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Now Amazon DocumentDB can record Data Manipulation Language (DML) events and Data Definition Language (DDL) events to Amazon CloudWatch Logs.
For more information, see this blog post
.
Bug fixes and other changes
4.0
-
You can now change your own passwoprd with own password with
changeOwnPasswordprivilege.
July 25, 2022 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0
You can now create clusters faster with the ability to create clones that use the same DocumentDB cluster volume and have the same data as the original cluster. For details, see Managing Amazon DocumentDB Clusters.
June 27, 2022 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.7509)
Amazon DocumentDB dynamically resizes your database based on usage patterns. Adding more data increases the space up to 64 Tebibytes (TiB) and deleting data decreases allotted space.
April 7, 2022 New features
4.0 (Engine Patch Versions 2.0.6142 and 2.0.6948)
Amazon DocumentDB Performance Insights is now in preview. You can now store seven days of performance history in a rolling window at no additional cost. For more information, see Monitoring with Performance Insights.
January 24, 2022 New features
4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.5170)
-
Amazon DocumentDB now offers a free trial. For details, see Amazon DocumentDB free trial
page. -
You can now use enhanced features with Geospatial query, including the following APIs:
$geoWithin$geoIntersects
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Added support for the following MongoDB operators:
$mergeObjects$reduce
For more information, see the Querying Geospatial data with Amazon DocumentDB.
January 21, 2022 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.5706)
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Amazon DocumentDB Graviton2 (r6g.large, r6g.2xlarge, r6g.4xlarge, r6g.8xlarge, r6g.12xlarge, r6g.16xlarge and t4g.medium) instances are now supported.
New features
4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.5706)
-
Added support for the following MongoDB APIs:
-
$reduce -
$mergeObjects -
$geoWithin -
$geoIntersects
-
October 25, 2021 New features
4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.5704)
-
Added support for the following MongoDB APIs
-
$literal -
$map -
$$ROOT
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Support for GeoSpatial Query capabilities. See this blog post
for more details Support for access control with user-defined roles. See this blog post
for more details Amazon DocumentDB JDBC Driver to enable connectivity from BI tools such as Tableau and query tools such as SQL Workbench
Bug fixes and other changes
4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.5704)
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Bug fix for
$naturalto sort correctly when an explicit.sort()is present along with$natural -
Bug fix for change stream to work with
$redact -
Bug fix for
$ifNullto work with empty array -
Bug fix for excessive resource consumption/server crash when a currently logged-in user is deleted or that user’s privilege for an ongoing activity is revoked
-
Bug fix in
listDatabaseandlistCollectionprivilege check -
Bug Fix dedupe logic for multi-key elements
June 24, 2021 New features
4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.3371)
r5.8xlarge and r5.16xlarge instances are now supported. Learn more at the blog post Amazon DocumentDB Now Supports r5.8xlarge and r5.16xlarge Instances
. Global clusters
are now supported to provide disaster recovery from Region-wide outages and enable low-latency global reads by allowing reads from the nearest Amazon DocumentDB cluster. Note that global clusters are not currently supported in the South America (São Paulo), Europe (Milan), China (Beijing), and China (Ningxia) Regions.
May 4, 2021 New features
4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.3371)
renameCollection$zip$indexOfArray$reverseArray$natural$hintsupport for updateIndex scan for
distinct
Bug fixes and other changes
4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.3371)
Reduced memory usage for
$inqueriesFixed a memory leak in multikey indexes
Fixed the explain plan and profiler output for
$outAdded a timeout for operations from internal monitoring system to improve reliability
Fixed a defect impacting the query predicates passed to multikey indexes
January 15, 2021 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.722)
None
November 9, 2020 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.722)
MongoDB 4.0 compatibility
ACID transactions
Support for
cluster(client.watch()ormongo.watch())and the database level(db.watch())change streamsAbility to start or resume a change streams using
startAtOperationTimeExtend your change stream retention period to 7 days (previously 24 hours)
AWS DMS target for Amazon DocumentDB 4.0
CloudWatch metrics:
TransactionsOpen,TransactionsOpenMax,TransactionsAborted,TransactionsStarted, andTransactionsCommittedNew fields for transactions in
currentOp,ServerStatus, andprofiler.Ability to use an index with the
$lookupaggregation stagefind()queries with projections can be served direction from an index (covered query)Ability to use
hint()with thefindAndModifyPerformance optimizations for
$addToSetoperatorImprovements to reduce overall index sizes.
New aggregation operators:
$ifNull,$replaceRoot,$setIsSubset,$setInstersection,$setUnion, and$setEqualsWith the
ListCollectionandListDatabasecommands, you can now optionally use theauthorizedCollectionsandauthorizedDatabasesparameters to allow users to list the collections and databases that they have permission to access without requiring thelistCollectionsandlistDatabaseroles, respectivelyUsers can also end their own cursors without requiring the
KillCursorroleComparing numeric types of subdocuments is now consistent with comparing numeric types of first-level documents. The behavior in Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 is now compatible with MongoDB.
Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 (Engine Patch Version 2.0.722)
$setOnInsertno longer allow updates when using the positional operator$. The behavior in Amazon DocumentDB 4.0 is now compatible with MongoDB.Fixed issue with
$createCollectionand setautoIndexIdProjection for nested documents
Changed default setting for working memory to scale with instance memory size
Garbage collection improvements
Lookup with empty key in path, behavior difference with mongo
Fixed
dateToStringbug in timezone behaviorFixed
$push(aggregation) to respect sort orderFixed bug in
$currentOpwith aggregateFixed issue with
readPreferenceon secondaryFixed issue with validating
$createIndexis the same database as the command was issuedFixed inconsistent behavior for
minKey,maxKeylookup failsFixed issue with
$sizeoperator not working with composite arrayFixed issue with the negation of
$inwith regexFixed issue with
$distinctcommand run against a viewFixed issue with aggregations and find commands sorting missing fields differently
Fixed
$eqto regular expression not checking typeFixed
$currentDatebug in timestamp ordinal position behaviorFixed millisecond granularity for
$currentDate
- Amazon DocumentDB 3.6
-
Release notes for Amazon DocumentDB engine version 3.6 (MongoDB 3.6 compatibility).
Date Release notes August 31, 2026 New feature
Amazon DocumentDB now supports in-place major version upgrades (MVU) directly from engine version 3.6 to version 8.0. This removes the need for intermediate version upgrades and lets you upgrade your 3.6 clusters while preserving existing data, configurations, and cluster settings. This upgrade is available in all AWS Regions where these versions are currently supported. For more information, see Amazon DocumentDB in-place major version upgrade.
August 18, 2026 Security and stability improvements
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Version: 1.0.208702) [in progress]
This engine patch provides the following improvements:
Improved request processing Amazon DocumentDB now validates incoming client requests more thoroughly along the connection and message-parsing path. This improves resilience and stability across a wider range of input patterns.
Authentication handshake hardening Amazon DocumentDB now validates the authentication exchange more thoroughly. This improves robustness when handling unexpected or malformed input.
If you don't apply it sooner, Amazon DocumentDB automatically applies this patch during your next maintenance window 30 days after release.
April 27, 2026 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Version: 1.0.208692)
This update provides an optional engine patch with the following improvements:
Added support for
startAtOperationTimein change streams.
February 12, 2026 Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Version: 1.0.208675)
The
DatabaseConnectionsActiveMaxmetric now tracksConnections (active)for instances. For more information, see Instance quotas.Improved SASL authentication performance.
Bug fix for $indexStats command.
August 20, 2024 New feature
For Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (minimum engine patch version 1.0.208662), TLS CA certificate updates no longer require a system reboot. For more information, see Updating your Amazon DocumentDB TLS certificates.
July 22, 2024 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Version 1.0.208662)
Removed index limitations on db.r5.* and db.r6.* instances in Amazon DocumentDB MVU. For more information, see Prerequisites.
Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Version 1.0.208662)
Amazon DocumentDB now recognizes -NaN as a valid JSON token.
December 20, 2023 Other changes
Enabled support for in-place major version upgrade in Amazon DocumentDB 3.6. For more information, see Amazon DocumentDB in-place major version upgrade.
November 17, 2023 Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Version 1.0.208570)
User defined local variable names now support “_” (underscore) for projection operators such as
$letand$filter.September 20, 2023 New features
Added support for in-place major version upgrades in Amazon DocumentDB 3.6. For more information see Amazon DocumentDB in-place major version upgrade.
February 2, 2023 Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Version 1.0.208432)
Fixed issue with DML auditing when it is enabled during an ongoing workload.
Fixed issue with DML auditing when aggregate commands with hint is passed a string value.
Fixed issue with
listCollectionscommand not working when users with readwriteanydatabase role having both authorizedCollections and nameOnly options set to true.Fixed issue to properly parse numeric string in a field name.
Cancel long running cursors when they are impacting garbage collection.
August 9, 2022 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Version 1.0.208152)
-
Added support for Decimal128 data type. The Decimal128 is a BSON data type supported in all Regions where DocumentDB is available.
For more information, see Data Types.
-
Added support for DML query auditing with Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Now Amazon DocumentDB can record Data Manipulation Language (DML) events and Data Definition Language (DDL) events to Amazon CloudWatch Logs.
For more information, see this blog post
.
Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Version 1.0.208152)
-
You can now change your own passwoprd with own password with
changeOwnPasswordprivilege.
April 7, 2022 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Versions 1.0.207836 and 1.0.208015)
Amazon DocumentDB Performance Insights is now in preview. You can now store seven days of performance history in a rolling window at no additional cost. For more information, see Monitoring with Performance Insights.
January 24, 2022 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Version 1.0.207684)
-
Amazon DocumentDB now offers a free trial. For details, see Amazon DocumentDB free trial
page. -
You can now use enhanced features with Geospatial query, including the following APIs:
$geoWithin$geoIntersects
-
Added support for the following MongoDB operators:
$mergeObjects$reduce
For more information, see the Querying Geospatial data with Amazon DocumentDB.
January 21, 2022 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Version 1.0.207781)
-
Added support for the following MongoDB APIs:
-
$reduce -
$mergeObjects -
$geoWithin -
$geoIntersects
-
October 25, 2021 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Version 1.0.207780)
-
Added support for the following MongoDB APIs
-
$literal -
$map -
$$ROOT
-
Support for GeoSpatial Query capabilities. See this blog post
for more details Support for access control with user-defined roles. See this blog post
for more details Amazon DocumentDB JDBC Driver to enable connectivity from BI tools such as Tableau and query tools such as SQL Workbench
Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Version 1.0.207780)
-
Bug fix for
$naturalto sort correctly when an explicit.sort()is present along with$natural -
Bug fix for change stream to work with
$redact -
Bug fix for
$ifNullto work with empty array -
Bug fix for excessive resource consumption/server crash when a currently logged-in user is deleted or that user’s privilege for an ongoing activity is revoked
-
Bug fix in
listDatabaseandlistCollectionprivilege check -
Bug Fix dedupe logic for multi-key elements
June 24, 2021 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Version 1.0.207117)
r5.8xlarge and r5.16xlarge instances are now supported. Learn more at the blog post Amazon DocumentDB Now Supports r5.8xlarge and r5.16xlarge Instances
. Global clusters
are now supported to provide disaster recovery from Region-wide outages and enable low-latency global reads by allowing reads from the nearest Amazon DocumentDB cluster. Note that global clusters are not currently supported in the South America (São Paulo), Europe (Milan), China (Beijing), and China (Ningxia) Regions.
May 4, 2021 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Version 1.0.207117)
renameCollection$zip$indexOfArray$reverseArray$natural$hintsupport for updateIndex scan for
distinct
Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Version 1.0.207117)
Reduced memory usage for
$inqueriesFixed a memory leak in multikey indexes
Fixed the explain plan and profiler output for
$outAdded a timeout for operations from internal monitoring system to improve reliability
Fixed a defect impacting the query predicates passed to multikey indexes
January 15, 2021 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Version 1.0.206295)
Ability to use an index with the
$lookupaggregation stagefind()queries with projections can be served direction from an index (covered query)Ability to use
hint()with thefindAndModifyPerformance optimizations for
$addToSetoperatorImprovements to reduce overall index sizes
New aggregation operators:
$ifNull,$replaceRoot,$setIsSubset,$setInstersection,$setUnion, and$setEqualsUsers can also end their own cursors without requiring the
KillCursorrole
November 9, 2020 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Version 1.0.206295)
None
Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Version 1.0.206295)
None
October 30, 2020 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Version 1.0.206295)
Added the ability to open a change stream cursor at the cluster level
(client.watch()ormongo.watch())and the database(db.watch())Ability to increase the change stream retention period to 7 days(previously 24 hours)
Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Version 1.0.206295)
Various general case performance improvements
A targeted security improvement
Fixed an issue with skip sort on second field of a compound index
Enable regular index for equality on single field of a multi-key index (not compound)
Fixed authentication race condition
Fixed issue that caused an infrequent garbage collection crash
RBAC security improvement
Added
databaseConnectionsMaxmetricPerformance improvements for certain workloads on
r5.24xlargeinstances
September 22, 2020 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Version 1.0.206295)
$outaggregation stageIncreased the maximum number of connections and cursor per instance by as much as 10x
Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Version 1.0.206295)
None
July 10, 2020 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Version 1.0.206295)
Cross Region Snapshot Copy
Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Version 1.0.206295)
None
June 30, 2020 New features
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Version 1.0.206295)
T3 medium instances
Bug fixes and other changes
Amazon DocumentDB 3.6 (Engine Patch Version 1.0.206295)
Idle memory reclamation for t3 instances
Authentication improvements
Improved SASL authentication performance
Fixed
currentOpissue when exceeding maximum possible opsFixed
killOpsissue for bulk update and deleteImprovements to
$sampleperformance with$matchFixed support for
$$in cond case in redact stageFixed various recurring crash root causes
Improvements to TTL sweeping to reduce IOs and latency
Optimized memory utilization for
$unwindFixed collection stats race condition with drop index
Fixed race condition during concurrent index build
Fixed infrequent crash in
hash_searchin index
General Amazon DocumentDB release notes
General service updates including Region availability, tooling integrations, and cross-version features.
| Date | Release notes |
|---|---|
| April 29, 2026 |
New feature Amazon DocumentDB is now available in the Canada West (Calgary) Region.
For more information, see
this blog post |
| April 17, 2026 |
New feature Faster scaling on DocumentDB serverless is now available. |
| February 11, 2026 |