MongoDB 4.2.2-rc1 is released

[Luke Chen]

MongoDB 4.2.2-rc1 is out and is ready for testing. This is a release candidate containing only fixes since 4.2.1. The next stable release 4.2.2 will be a recommended upgrade for all 4.2 users.

Fixed in this release:

 SERVER-31083  Allow passing primary shard to "enableSharding" command for a new database
 SERVER-33272  The DatabaseHolder::close() function no longer requires a global write lock and neither does the dropDatabase command
 SERVER-44050  Arrays along 'hashed' index key path are not correctly rejected
 SERVER-44617  $regexFind crash when one of the capture group doesn't match the input but pattern matches
 SERVER-44721  Shell KMS AWS support cannot decrypt responses
 WT-4961       Checkpoints with cache overflow must keep history for reads
 WT-5218       Improve eviction to differentiate between clean and dirty pages with WT_CACHE_EVICT_NOKEEP readgen

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