I'm using the java driver version 3.8.0 and mongodb 3.6.

The documentation here states about maxAwaitTime:

The maximum amount of time for the server to wait on new documents to satisfy a change stream query.

However, what I'm seeing is that cursor.hasNext() returns only if there is a change on the collection, never when the time passed to maxAwaitTime has elapsed.

When I turn on mongodb's verbose logging I see maxWaitTime set as expected in the getMore command.

Is maxAwaitTime supposed to cause my watch to timeout when there are no changes?