Update CHANGELOG for release 4.3.3 and enhance POM configuration for dependency management

Author: anidotnet

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## Release 4.3.3 - (Unreleased)
+## Release 4.3.3 - Jun 26, 2026
 
 ### New Changes
 
@@ -8,14 +8,27 @@
   - Created GeoNearFilter for geodesic distance queries
   - Implements two-pass query execution to eliminate false positives from bounding box approximation
   - Added comprehensive test suite for geographic coordinate support
+- Upgraded Jackson to version 3 #1221
+- Build now targets JUnit 6 and requires Java 17 to build/test, while keeping Java 11 bytecode compatibility for the published artifacts #1179
+
+### Performance Improvements
+
+- Optimized index scans for multi-bound range queries (e.g. `gt` combined with `lt` on the same field)
+- Added covered-count optimization so `size()`/`count()` is answered directly from index scans and plain full scans without fetching and deserializing every matching document
 
 ### Issue Fixes
 
+- Fix `in`/`notIn` filters not using the index while querying a collection #1258
+- Fix record ID match for legacy string keys in OR clause #1246
 - Fix OR filters returning duplicate documents when using multiple indexes #1184
 - Fix inconsistent numeric filtering across types with indexes #1175
 - Fix elemMatch queries to use array field indexes #1174
 - Fix native-image build: initialize JUnit MethodSegmentResolver at runtime #1189
 
+### Maintenance
+
+- Bumped production and development dependencies across the project (grouped Dependabot updates)
+
 ## Release 4.3.2 - Sep 25, 2025
 
 ### Issue Fixes

nitrite-bom/pom.xml

@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@
 
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-        <!-- Skip flattening for BOM module to preserve dependencyManagement section -->
-        <flatten.skip>true</flatten.skip>
+        <!-- Use "bom" flatten mode so the published pom keeps the dependencyManagement section
+             (oss mode strips it, which broke the BOM in 4.3.2 - see issue #1186) -->
+        <flatten.mode>bom</flatten.mode>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencyManagement>

pom.xml

@@ -92,6 +92,9 @@
         <animal-sniffer.version>1.27</animal-sniffer.version>
         <api-level-26.version>8.0.0_r2</api-level-26.version>
         <maven-gpg-plugin.version>3.2.8</maven-gpg-plugin.version>
+
+        <!-- flatten mode for published poms; overridden to "bom" in nitrite-bom to keep dependencyManagement -->
+        <flatten.mode>oss</flatten.mode>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencyManagement>
@@ -559,7 +562,7 @@
                         <version>1.7.3</version>
                         <configuration>
                             <updatePomFile>true</updatePomFile>
-                            <flattenMode>oss</flattenMode>
+                            <flattenMode>${flatten.mode}</flattenMode>
                         </configuration>
                         <executions>
                             <execution>
@@ -635,7 +638,7 @@
                         <version>1.7.3</version>
                         <configuration>
                             <updatePomFile>true</updatePomFile>
-                            <flattenMode>oss</flattenMode>
+                            <flattenMode>${flatten.mode}</flattenMode>
                         </configuration>
                         <executions>
                             <execution>