What's Changed

🔥 Enhancements

• Add Micrometer/OpenTelemetry tracing support to the reactive-streams
  (Micrometer / OpenTelemetry) #1898

• Improved client-side timeout handling to better account for RTT variations #1793

🛠 Fixes

• Fixed RawBsonDocument encoding performance regression by restoring optimized codec path #1888

• Fixed Netty ByteBuf reference counting and reverted read-only change that could cause leaks during logging #1891

📦 Dependency Updates

• Updated Netty to latest version #1867

• Updated Snappy for latest security fixes #1868

🧪 Testing & CI

• Updated BSON/spec tests and improved Extended JSON alignment #1883

• Added SARIF reporting and CI improvements #1869

• Temporarily disabled large encryption tests on mongocryptd for CI stability #1872

Verifying artifact signatures

Please refer to https://www.mongodb.com/docs/drivers/java/sync/v5.4/security/validate-signatures/ for the full procedure.

To download and import the public key for verifying signatures, execute

gpg --keyserver hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 1a75005e142192223d6a7c3b76e0008d166740a8

Full Changelog: r5.7.0-beta0...r5.7.0-beta1