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Mar172011
MongoDB 1.8 Released
Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 10:00AM |
Derek Stainer 10Gen has released MongoDB version 1.8 into the wild. This is a particular important release as it is the first release to incorporate a journaling storage engine. The incorporation of this feature was critical to provide single server durability for crash recovery.
Main features of the 1.8 release include:
- Journaling
- Sharding performance improvements
- Replica set enhancements, including support for authentication
- Spherical geo search
- Covered and sparse indexes
- B-tree index self-compaction
- New map/reduce options for incremental updates
- Tab completion in the shell
- mongostat --discover
Additional Information:
10Gen's Official Release Post
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Release Notes
Changelog


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