Today we welcome you to our annual MongoDB .Live developer conference. Through our keynote and conference sessions we’ll show you all the improvements, new features, and exciting things we’ve been working on since last year’s conference.

What I want to do in this blog post is provide you with a summary of what we are announcing, and resources to help you learn more.

While it’s easy to focus on what we are announcing at this year’s event, we actually started out on this journey 12 years ago by releasing the world’s most intuitive and productive database technology to develop with — MongoDB. And we believe the applications of the NEXT 10 YEARS will be built on data architectures that continue to optimize for the developer experience, allowing teams like yours to innovate at speed and scale. So how are we building on this vision? Today I am incredibly proud to announce three big things:

1. The General Availability (GA) of MongoDB 5.0, the latest generation of our core database. It includes native support for time series workloads, new ways to future-proof your applications, multi-cloud privacy controls, along with a host of other improvements and new features.
2. The preview release of serverless instances on MongoDB Atlas, which makes it even easier for development teams who don’t want to think about capacity management at all to get the database resources they need quickly and efficiently.
3. Major enhancements to Atlas Data Lake, Atlas Search, and Realm Sync, which allow engineering teams to reduce architectural complexity and get more value out of their data by leveraging a unified application data platform.

MongoDB 5.0 GA

MongoDB 5.0 is the latest generation of  the database most wanted by developers. Our new release makes it even easier to support a broader range of workloads, introduces new ways of future-proofing your apps, and further enhances privacy and security.

This major jump in version number from MongoDB 4.4 – our prior GA version – to 5.0 reflects a new era for MongoDB’s release cadence: We want to get new features and improvements into your hands faster. Starting with MongoDB 5.0, we will be publishing new Rapid Releases every quarter, which will roll up into Major Releases once a year for those of you that want to maintain the existing annual upgrade cadence. You can learn more about the new MongoDB release cadence from  our blog post published last October.

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