(DOCSP-25323) What's New (#23)

Co-authored-by: Chris Cho <[email protected]>

Author: biniona-mongodb

source/whats-new.txt

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ What's New
 
 Learn what's new by version:
 
+* :ref:`Version 1.8 <kafka-connector-whats-new-1.8>`
 * :ref:`Version 1.7 <kafka-connector-whats-new-1.7>`
 * :ref:`Version 1.6.1 <kafka-connector-whats-new-1.6.1>`
 * :ref:`Version 1.6 <kafka-connector-whats-new-1.6>`
@@ -22,6 +23,27 @@ Learn what's new by version:
 * :ref:`Version 1.1 <kafka-connector-whats-new-1.1>`
 * :ref:`Version 1.0 <kafka-connector-whats-new-1.0>`
 
+.. _kafka-connector-whats-new-1.8:
+
+What's New in 1.8
+-----------------
+
+- Updated the MongoDB Java driver dependency to version 4.7.
+- Added several logger events and details in source and sink connectors
+  to help with debugging. For a complete list
+  of updates, see the
+  `KAFKA-302 <https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/KAFKA-302>`__ issue in JIRA. 
+- Added JMX monitoring support for the source and sink connectors.
+  To learn more about monitoring connectors, see the
+  :ref:`<kafka-monitoring>` page.
+
+Sink Connector
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- Added support for the Debezium MongoDB change stream CDC handler. You
+  can now configure the connector to listen for events produced by this
+  handler.
+
 .. _kafka-connector-whats-new-1.7:
 
 What's New in 1.7