Highlights:
* JAVA-474 - Enhance read preference support. See ReadPreference Javadoc
* JAVA-381 - Support redundant mongos connections. See Mongo constructor Javadoc
* JAVA-590 - Helper method for aggregation framework. See aggregate method in DBCollection Javadoc
* JAVA-610 - Make DBCursor finalizer optional and disable it in all cases where there is no cursor maintained on the server. See MongoOptions Javadoc
* JAVA-613 - Expand connection pool JMX stats to include the current operation being executed by each in use connection
* JAVA-295 - Support Android platform
Downloads: github and maven centralFill list of resolved issues: Jira release notesDocs: http://api.mongodb.org/java/2.9.0-RC1/
As always, we greatly appreciate any feedback. Please report bugs at jira.mongodb.org against the 2.9.0 release or start a discussion on the mongodb-user list.
-Jeff