Revision 229 release notes

_{06 August 2025}

Charmed MongoDB Revision 229 has been deployed to the 6/stable channel on Charmhub.

Summary

• Highlights and features
• Requirements and compatibility
• Integrations
• Software contents
• Known issues and limitations
• Join the community

Highlights

This section goes over the features included in this release, starting with a description of major highlights, and finishing with a comprehensive list of all other features.

• LDAP Integration: LDAP support with TLS encryption.
• Advanced Statuses: More complex statuses and multiple statuses reporting.
• Single Kernel Charms: Codebase unified with MongoDB K8s and Mongos charms.
• Terraform Modules for simple and sharded deployments.

Other features

• Log Rotation improvements: Per file configuration and log rotation
• Support of HTTPS validation for backups
• Use config files instead of command line parameters for mongo services
• Optimisation of Kernel parameters: fine tuning of virtual memory maximum maps
• Unification of code base between VM and K8s

Bug Fixes

• Services are not enabled by default.
• TLS setup race condition between config-server and shard.
• Various bug fixes

For a detailed list of commits throughout all revisions, check our GitHub Releases.

Requirements and compatibility

• Juju 3.6

See the system requirements page for more information about software and hardware prerequisites.

Integrations

See the Integrations page for a list of all interfaces and compatible charms.

Software contents

This charm is based on the Canonical charmed-mongodb-snap. It packages:

• Percona Server for MongoDB v6.0.24-19
• MongoDB Exporter v0.44.0
• mongosh v2.5.5
• Percona Backup for MongoDB v2.9.1

Known issues and limitations

The following issues are known.

• Restores on backups with old passwords will leave clients / operator user locked out of the DB.
• Sharding cluster cannot drain jumbo chunks - draining jumbo chunks requires manual intervention

Join the community

Charmed MongoDB is an open source project that warmly welcomes community contributions, suggestions, fixes, and constructive feedback.

• Check our Code of Conduct
• Raise software issues or feature requests in GitHub
• Report security issues through LaunchPad.
• Meet the community and chat with us on Matrix
• Contribute