MongoDB Ruby Driver v1.8.3.rc0

• Added cryptographic signature to all gems, install with -P option (RUBY-538)
• Support for object_id.to_s in the BSON C extension (@jeem)
• Corrected logic for how the connection pool refreshes and cleans-up sockets (RUBY-543)
• Fixed read preferences for MongoShardedClient (RUBY-542)
• Fixed URI connection string parsing for MongoShardedClient (RUBY-541)
• Fixed potential thread dead-locking in Pool#checkin (RUBY-556)
• Fixed thread-safety issues in the BSON extension for JRuby (RUBY-554)

MongoDB Ruby Driver v1.8.2

• Fix for thread affinity not using the max socket pool size (RUBY-532)
• Fix for meta operator failure on older versions of MongoDB (RUBY-525)
• Support sending $readPreference to mongos
• Fix thread leaks in MongoReplicaSetClient (Chris Heald)
• Java extension cleanup
• Improved index creation interface (Steve Francia)
• Support read preference for various commands (Nelson Elhage)
• Added UNIX socket support (thanks to @vpereira for initial contribution)

MongoDB Ruby Driver v1.8.1

This release is the same as 1.8.1.rc1.

MongoDB Ruby Driver v1.8.1.rc1

Refactor Replica Set Testing Framework and Tests (RUBY-478)
Fixes for Replica set threading issues (@cheald)

MongoDB Ruby Driver v1.8.1.rc0

• Support SSL in the URI parser (RUBY-517)
• Restore timeout on ismaster (RUBY-386)
• Cleanup BSON_RUBY (RUBY-519)
• Fixes for replica set tests (RUBY-472)
• Support comments on Commands
• Added unix socket support (RUBY-342)
• Improved the create_index interface (RUBY-461)

MongoDB Ruby Driver v1.8.0

• New top level class Mongo::MongoClient acknowledges writes by default
• New top level class Mongo::ReplSetClient acknowledges writes by default
• New top level class Mongo::ShardedClient acknowledges writes by default
• MongoClient, MongoReplicaSetClient, MongoShardedClient and GridFS implement a new write concern interface at Client, DB, Collection, and Operation levels
• Deprecation of Mongo::Connection in favor of Mongo::MongoClient
• Deprecation of Mongo::ReplSetConnection in favor of Mongo::MongoReplicaSetClient
• Deprecation of Mongo::ShardedConnection in favor of Mongo::MongoShardedClient
• Allow specification of comment query opt (Evan Broder)
• Fix for pool authentication and logout (Olivier Bonnaure)
• Fix for cursor not being closed in presence of exceptions (Simon Simeonov)
• Fix for data send failure not closing socket (Nelson Elhage)
• Tutorials and non code documentation moved to GitHub wiki
• Provided binary mongo_client has been renamed to mongo_console

MongoDB Ruby Driver v1.7.1

• Adding a fix for an issue that was breaking replica set connections when utilizing database authentication.

MongoDB Ruby Driver v1.7.0

• Minor deployment fixes

MongoDB Ruby Driver v1.7.0.rc0

• Added testing and full support for MongoDB 2.1 & 2.2
• Added Aggregation Framework helper method
• Added support for Mongos high availability
• Modified and added new read preferences (details in documentation)
• Added support for data center awareness (tag_sets)
• Fixed bug which attempted to close cursors on wrong replica set member

MongoDB Ruby Driver v1.6.4

• Added ability to declare sort ordering via an ordered hash
• Addresses major compatability issue with mongoid created by v1.6.3