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    <term>Database</term>
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            header1="Lifecycle guide for MongoDB from MongoDB"
            header2="All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance" 
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        <item type="paragraph">📅 Last update on 2025-08-08</item>
       
        
        <item type="header2" class="article-title">What is MongoDB?</item>
        <item type="paragraph" imgLink="content-end-of-life-product-release-version-database.xml" alt="Automate product release and end-of-life management" img="../img/product-release-version-end-of-life/mongodb-mongodb.svg"><![CDATA[MongoDB is a source-available cross-platform document-oriented database program. Classified as a NoSQL database program, MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with optional schemas.]]></item>

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        <item type="header2" class="article-title">The entire lifecycle of MongoDB</item>

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            The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of MongoDB. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
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        <item type="paragraph">Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product MongoDB (MongoDB)</item>
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        <item type="removeableParagraph" heading="What is the MongoDB release strategy?">**MongoDB Versioning**
MongoDB versioning has the form X.Y.Z where X.Y refers to either a release series or development series and Z refers to the revision/patch number.

* If Y is even, X.Y refers to a release series; for example, 4.0 release series and 4.2 release series. Release series are stable and suitable for production.
* If Y is odd, X.Y refers to a development series; for example, 4.1 development series and 4.3 development series. Development series are for testing only and not for production.

For example, in MongoDB version 4.0.12, 4.0 refers to the release series and .12 refers to the revision.

**New Releases**
Changes in the release series (e.g. 4.0 to 4.2) generally mark the introduction of new features that may break backwards compatibility.

**Patch Releases**
Changes to the revision number (e.g. 4.0.11 to 4.0.12) generally mark the release of bug fixes and backwards-compatible changes</item>
        

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                    <second>8.1.2</second>
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                    <first>Number of versions affected by CVE</first>
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                    <second>Server Side Public License 1.0</second>
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                    <second><![CDATA[mongod --version]]></second>
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