strictQuery` passed as a query option is ignored when casting `arrayFilters

`Model.validate()` types are wrong

MongoServerError on single replica set after upgrading to v9.6

intermittent "MongoAPIError: Server record does not share hostname with parent URI" when starting

export more helper types

Support pre('bulkWrite') middleware hook on schemas

`TracingChannel` Proposal for observability

`MergeType` is not distributive over union types — typed `.populate()` breaks discriminator unions

`toObject` does not keep populated types

Support for schema-driven deep population of all referenced paths without requiring explicit path specification