MongoDB 3.1.6 is released

[Ramon Fernandez]

MongoDB 3.1.6 has been released. As a reminder, 3.1.6 is a development
release and is not intended for production use. The 3.1 series will
evolve into 3.2, which will be for production.

This release has a number of user facing features that will be of
general interest. Please check out the new 3.1 Release Notes page in
our documentation for details on how to configure and use these new
features. Link is at the bottom of this message.

New/fixed in this release:
SERVER-533 Aggregation stage to randomly sample documents
SERVER-3518 Bitwise query operators
SERVER-18921 Index 2DSphere points at finest level
SERVER-18531 Integrate spidermonkey as a new js-engine
SERVER-19072 More compact 2dsphere geo index format
SERVER-19189 Improve performance under high number of threads with WT
SERVER-19345 Keyfile support for encrypted storage engine
SERVER-13732 Predicates in top-level implicit AND query not
considered when generating index access plan for contained OR
SERVER-18875 Oplog performance on WT degrades over time after
accumulation of deleted items
TOOLS-798 mongodump single collection to stdout is broken
TOOLS-813 Different_collection and different_db tests failing


Downloads: http://www.mongodb.org/downloads
All Issues: https://jira.mongodb.org/issues/?jql=project%20in%20(SERVER%2CTOOLS)%20and%20fixversion%3D%273.1.6%27
Release Notes for 3.1.x:
http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/release-notes/3.1-dev-series

As always, please let us know of any issues.

-- The MongoDB Team