Announcing 1.18.0 of libbson and libmongoc, the libraries constituting the MongoDB C Driver.
libbson
Features:
- Add BSON to JSON encoder that limits encoded string length.
- Support parsing $uuid into a binary UUID.
- Relax validation for insert and replace documents to support fields containing dots and dollars.
Improvements:
- Add trailing space after base64 JSON field for consistency.
libmongoc
Features:
- Introduces support to select an API version when connecting to a MongoDB instance.
- Supports Azure and Google Cloud Platform as Key Management Service (KMS) providers in Client-Side Field Level Encryption (CSFLE).
- Support “let” option in aggregate command.
- Support time series collections.
- Relax validation for insert and replace documents to support fields containing dots and dollars.
- Expose the reason operations fail document validation.
Bug fixes:
- Forward opts from mongoc_gridfs_bucket_find to underlying find operation.
- Fixes a possible hang when a limited size client pool is waiting for a client to become available in mongoc_client_pool_pop.
Improvements
- Deprecate API containing deprecated terminology.
- Use “hello” command for monitoring servers.
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Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.
- Kevin Albertson
- Roberto C. Sánchez
- Andreas Braun
- Clyde Bazile
- Benjamin Rewis
- Jeremy Mikola
- Andrew Witten
- Samantha Ritter
- Fermín Galán Márquez
- David Carlier
- Colby Pike
- Josh Weinstein
- Pierre Mickael Gonzalo
- Richard Donkin
- David Korczynski
- Tim Gates