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<p>MongoDB 4.2.5 is out and is ready for production deployment. This release contains only fixes since 4.2.3, and is a recommended upgrade for all 4.2 users.</p>
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<p>Note: The release of version 4.2.4 was skipped due to an issue encountered during the release. However, the 4.2.5 release includes the fixes made in 4.2.4.</p>
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<p>Fixed in this release:</p>
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<p><a href="https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-46121">SERVER-46121&nbsp;1</a>&nbsp;mongos crashes with invariant error after changing taskExecutorPoolSize<br><a href="https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-45137">SERVER-45137</a>&nbsp;Increasing memory allocation in Top::record with high rate of collection creates and drops<br><a href="https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-44904">SERVER-44904</a>&nbsp;Startup recovery should not delete corrupt documents while rebuilding unfinished indexes<br><a href="https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-44260">SERVER-44260</a>&nbsp;Transaction can conflict with previous transaction on the session if the all committed point is held back<br><a href="https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-35050">SERVER-35050</a>&nbsp;Don’t abort collection clone due to negative document count<br><a href="https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-39112">SERVER-39112&nbsp;1</a>&nbsp;Primary drain mode can be unnecessarily slow</p>
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<p><a href="http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/release-notes/4.2">4.2 Release Notes&nbsp;1</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://jira.mongodb.org/issues/?jql=project%20in%20(SERVER%2CTOOLS%2CWT)%20AND%20resolution%3D%27Fixed%27%20and%20fixversion%3D%274.2.3%27">All Issues&nbsp;1</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mongodb.org/downloads">Downloads</a></p>
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<p>As always, please let MongoDB know of any issues.</p>
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