This feature release of the Ruby driver supports MongoDB version 7.0. It includes the following new features:

• RUBY-3066 Cache AWS Credentials Where Possible
• RUBY-2732 Add native support for AWS IAM Roles for service accounts, EKS in particular
• RUBY-3049 Provide access to raw result document when the server returns an error for a command
• RUBY-2989 Obtain AWS credentials for CSFLE in the same way as for MONGODB-AWS
• RUBY-3088 Support the Azure VM-assigned Managed Identity for Automatic KMS Credentials
• RUBY-3005 Support for Range Indexes
• RUBY-2512 Support AWS authentication with temporary credentials in CSFLE
• RUBY-3062 Add support for GCP attached service accounts when using GCP KMS

The following issues were addressed:

• RUBY-3079 Propagate Original Error for Write Errors Labeled NoWritesPerformed
• RUBY-3104 Collection create method does not support some options
• RUBY-3095 SMC options are not correctly converted to Ruby options

The following minor improvements were made:

• RUBY-3252 Show user friendly error if ffi is not installed
• RUBY-3052 Automatically create Queryable Encryption keys
• RUBY-3185 Remove getNonce command usage for 6.2+
• RUBY-3187 Permit tlsDisableOCSPEndpointCheck in KMS TLS options
• RUBY-2495 Rate limit new connection creations (maxConnecting)
• RUBY-2927 Preemptively cancel in progress operations when SDAM heartbeats timeout
• RUBY-1768 URI serialization to string
• RUBY-2609 Enable TCP_USER_TIMEOUT by default when possible
• RUBY-3105 Swallow SocketError when closing cursor
• RUBY-3068 Expose rich field information in the updateDescription
• RUBY-1595 Improve error reporting when symbol/string is passed as read preference
• RUBY-3081 Do not try to connect to mongocryptd if shared library is available