The MongoDB Go Driver Team is pleased to release version 1.16.0 of the official Go driver.

Release Notes

This release adds the ability to specify an index type when creating an Atlas Search Index, reduces memory usage when using "zstd" compression, and upgrades dependencies.

Specify type when creating a search index

Allow specifying index type via SearchIndexModel.Options.SetType when creating a search index.

Reduce zstd memory usage

When "zstd" compression is enabled, static memory usage and per-operation memory usage are reduced.

Upgrade dependencies

• Bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.17.0 to 0.22.0
• Bump github.com/google/go-cmp from 0.5.2 to 0.6.0
• Bump github.com/montanaflynn/stats from 0.0.0-20171201202039-1bf9dbcd8cbe to 0.7.1
• Bump golang.org/x/sync from 0.1.0 to 0.7.0
• Bump github.com/golang/snappy from 0.0.1 to 0.0.4

For a full list of tickets included in this release, please see the links below:

• Projects
• Improvements
• Bugs
• Tasks

Full Changelog: v1.15.1...v1.16.0

Documentation for the Go driver can be found on pkg.go.dev and the MongoDB documentation site. BSON library documentation is also available on pkg.go.dev. Questions and inquiries can be asked on the MongoDB Developer Community. Bugs can be reported in the Go Driver project in the MongoDB JIRA where a list of current issues can be found. Your feedback on the Go driver is greatly appreciated!