Version 1.7.1 of the C#/.NET driver is now available

[Robert Stam]

Version 1.7.1 of the C#/.NET driver is now available.

This is a minor release. The only change is to strictly enforce the MaxConnectionIdleTime and MaxConnectionLifeTime settings. These used to be loosely enforced, and connections were sometimes allowed to be used for a bit longer. However, in certain environments (some firewalls, and in particular in Windows Azure) connections that exceed the limits by even a little bit are guaranteed to fail, so it is much safer to enforce these values strictly.

An online version of the release notes is available at:

https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-csharp-driver/blob/v1.7.1/Release%20Notes/Release%20Notes%20v1.7.1.md

The list of JIRA issues resolved in this release is available at:

https://jira.mongodb.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=13109

The C#/.NET driver is available for download in source form at:  

https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-csharp-driver/tree/v1.7.1

Note: the 1.7.1 release was built on a branch called v1.7.1 and not on master.

The driver binaries are available on NuGet at:  

http://www.nuget.org/List/Packages/mongocsharpdriver

The driver binaries are also available at:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/drivers.mongodb.org/dotnet/CSharpDriver-1.7.1.4791.zip

https://s3.amazonaws.com/drivers.mongodb.org/dotnet/CSharpDriver-1.7.1.4791.msi

Note: github no longer allows uploading binaries so they are now hosted on Amazon S3.

Note: if you download the zip file, depending on how you unzip the file you may

need to "Unblock" the help file. You can do so by right clicking on the

"CSharpDriverDocs.chm" file and selecting Properties, and then clicking on the

"Unblock" button. You will need to "Unblock" the help file if you see the

message "Navigation to webpage was canceled" where the help text would normally

appear.

Online documentation is available at:  

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/CSharp+Language+Center

The online API reference documentation is available at: 

 

http://api.mongodb.org/csharp/current

Bugs and suggestions can be submitted at:  

http://jira.mongodb.org/browse/CSHARP

Questions can be posted on the mongodb-user group:  

http://groups.google.com/group/mongodb-user

We monitor this group and will be happy to answer any questions you post here.

The .C#/NET driver team

Robert, Craig and Sridhar