Any plans for a new release? Also, suggestions for transaction API improvements

Hi there,

I noticed that the last feature release for mongoengine was back in 2024. The development branch has accumulated quite a few new features since then, especially around MongoDB transactions, which I'm really eager to use in my project.

Currently, I'm installing directly from GitHub to work around this, but it would be great if a new version could be officially released on PyPI. Are there any plans for a new release in the near future?

Regarding transactions:

run_in_transaction works great. However, sometimes I find it hard to use the with statement directly, and I end up writing something like this:

# Pseudo-code example
@app.before_request
def start_transaction():
    conn = get_connection()
    g.session = conn.start_session()
    g.session.start_transaction()
    _set_session(g.session)

@app.teardown_request
def teardown_transaction(exc):
    if not g.session:
        return
    try:
        if not exc:
            _commit_with_retry(g.session)
    finally:
        _clear_session()
        del g.session

This approach relies on underscore-prefixed methods, which feels a bit hacky and not ideal.
It would be much nicer if there were public methods like conn.start_transaction() and conn.commit_transaction() to handle this more cleanly.

Thanks for your time and for maintaining mongoengine!

(My English isn’t great, so this issue was polished with the help of AI—apologies for any awkwardness.)

No files or tests are named. Start by reviewing the existing run_in_transaction API and the transaction flow using conn.start_session(), start_transaction(), _set_session(), _commit_with_retry(), and _clear_session(); completion would require an agreed public transaction API and corresponding validation.