The MongoDB Perl Driver is being deprecated due to a lack of usage, with few users and no new projects being started. The driver's developers have decided to focus on more beneficial cases for the community, as indicated by customer surveys and low support requests. New development will be ramped down and official support will end in 12 months, after which only critical security fixes will be provided. The code will remain available for fork, but any releases under the project's name will be evaluated on CPAN. A stable GA release of version 2.2.0 has been made, supporting MongoDB 4.2 features and other improvements.