8.14.0 / 2025-04-25

• feat: upgrade MongoDB driver -> 6.16 #15371
• feat: implement Query findById methods #15337 sderrow
• feat(subdocument): support schematype-level minimize option to disable minimizing empty subdocuments #15336 #15313
• feat: add skipOriginalStackTraces option to avoid stack trace performance overhead #15345 #15194
• fix(model): disallow Model.findOneAndUpdate(update) and fix TypeScript types re: findOneAndUpdate #15365 #15363
• types: correctly recurse in InferRawDocType #15357 #14954 JavaScriptBach
• types: include virtuals in toJSON and toObject output if virtuals: true set #15346 #15316
• types: make init hooks types accurately reflect runtime behavior #15331 #15301