MongoDB 3.6 is now Generally Available, offering several features designed to help developers build apps faster, including change streams that enable real-time data updates and reactive programming style, retryable writes for handling temporary system failures, fully expressive array manipulation, and tunable consistency. The new release also introduces the MongoDB Compass Community edition, a no-cost GUI for MongoDB developers, and improves developer tooling with auto-complete, query history, and table view features. These enhancements aim to provide developers with more control over data consistency, improved performance, and increased productivity.