Strapi, a platform that historically supported SQL databases and MongoDB, announced plans to phase out native MongoDB support in its upcoming v4 release due to the challenges of maintaining multiple database connectors and the minimal usage of MongoDB among Strapi projects. Despite this, Strapi is collaborating with MongoDB, Inc. to sponsor ongoing maintenance of the strapi-connector-mongoose for v3 and intends to co-develop a new, more efficient MongoDB connector starting in Q1 2022. This decision seeks to balance the ecosystem's needs by ensuring MongoDB support continues for v3 users while allowing Strapi to focus on enhancing its SQL database support in v4. Migration tools will be provided to ease the transition for existing MongoDB users, and Strapi encourages community engagement through its forums and Discord.