The tag is useful for mongodb java driver version 3.3.0 for newly added features. This would be used most of the time along with the mongodb-java tag.
New features of the 3.3 java driver included:
- Cluster Monitoring in the synchronous and asynchronous drivers
- Command Monitoring in the asynchronous driver (support in the synchronous driver was added in a previous release)
- Additional query parameters in the connection string
- GridFS in the asynchronous driver
- Additional configuration options for GSSAPI authentication.
- JNDI ObjectFactory implementation