Revision 241

27 October 2025

This is the first release of Charmed MongoDB and Mongos 8 for VM, featuring a Ubuntu 24.04 base, security improvements, and other new features.

Charm

Revision

Charmhub track

MongoDB

241

8/stable

Mongos

62

8/stable

Charmhub | Deployment guides | Upgrade guides | System requirements

Features

  • This is the first stable release of Charmed MongoDB 8

  • This new charm features Noble Numbat (Ubuntu 24.04) as its base

  • Juju secrets-based management

  • Migration to TLSv4 library

    • Client TLS is now mandatory if integrated

  • In-place upgrades via refresh v3

  • New storage volumes

  • New documentation site

  • Manual upgrade path from MongoDB 6 to MongoDB 8.

Bugfixes

  • Crash when removing partially integrated shards in some cases

For a detailed list of commits throughout all revisions, check our GitHub Releases.

Known issues and limitations

  • Restores on backups with old passwords will leave clients / operator user locked out of the DB.

  • Sharding cluster cannot drain jumbo chunks - draining jumbo chunks requires manual intervention

Compatibility & software contents

Minimum Juju version: 3.6 LTS

See System requirements for more information about software and hardware prerequisites.

This charm is based on the Canonical charmed-mongodb-snap. It packages:

  • Percona Server for MongoDB v8.0.10-4

  • MongoDB Exporter v0.44.0

  • mongosh v2.5.5

  • Percona Backup for MongoDB v2.9.1

Join the community

Charmed MongoDB is an open source project that warmly welcomes community contributions, suggestions, fixes, and constructive feedback.