v4.6.5

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 4.6.5 of the bson package!

Release Highlights

Along with some other bug fixes listed below in this release we've fixed the float parser logic for both deserialize and serialize to use JS Dataview APIs. The most delightful part of this change is an improvement to performance of serializing 64-bit floats. 🎉 🐎

- cpu: Apple M1
- cores: 8
- os: darwin
- ram: 16GB
- iterations: 1,000,000
testing: Double Serialization

current           - v 4.6.5 - avg 0.00024913ms
previous release  - v 4.6.4 - avg 0.00036335ms
previous major    - v 1.1.6 - avg 0.00036459ms

Bug Fixes

• NODE-3630: remove float parser and test edge cases for Double (#502) (54ca603)
• NODE-4211: Do not require crypto in browser builds (#500) (b32ab40)
• NODE-4302: remove downlevel ts and typesVersions (#501) (651b60e)
• NODE-4381: handle __proto__ well in EJSON (#506) (4bda57d)

Documentation

• API: https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson#readme
• Changelog: https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson/blob/main/HISTORY.md#change-log

We invite you to try the bson library immediately, and report any issues to the NODE project.

v4.6.4

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 4.6.4 of the bson package!

Performance

• perf(NODE-4194): improve objectId constructor performance (#498)

Documentation

• API: https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson#readme
• Changelog: https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson/blob/main/HISTORY.md#change-log

We invite you to try the bson library immediately, and report any issues to the NODE project.

v4.6.3

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 4.6.3 of the bson package!

Release Highlights

This release improves documentation for BSON type classes by adding an @category tag to the doc comments.

Documentation

• API: https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson#readme
• Changelog: https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson/blob/main/HISTORY.md#change-log

We invite you to try the bson library immediately, and report any issues to the NODE project.

v4.6.2

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 4.6.2 of the bson package!

Release Highlights

This release includes a few fixes to the ObjectId class, including performance improvements in ObjectId.equals.

Bug Fixes

• MONGOSH-1155: update error message in ObjectId class (#493) (67fbc7c)
• NODE-3015: ObjectId.equals should use Buffer.equals for better performance (#478) (8305bdf)
• NODE-3962: correct type for ObjectiId._bsontype (#480) (9671773)

Documentation

• API: https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson#readme
• Changelog: https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson/blob/main/HISTORY.md#change-log

We invite you to try the bson library immediately, and report any issues to the NODE project.

v4.6.1

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 4.6.1 of the bson package!

Release Highlights

This release includes a few fixes to the validation checks in some of our constructors.

Bug Fixes

• NODE-3760: ObjectId.isValid string and byte length match (#475) (187d1c4)
• NODE-3815: update Decimal128 constructor validation (#476) (95e8293)
• NODE-3821: nullish check before using toBSON override function (#477) (1d898b6)

Documentation

• API: https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson#readme
• Changelog: https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson/blob/master/HISTORY.md#change-log

We invite you to try the bson library immediately, and report any issues to the NODE project.

v4.6.0

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 4.6.0 of the bson package!

Release Highlights

This release adds a new BSON validation option that allows top-level keys to have utf-8 validation disabled or enabled, either on a global or key-specific scale, rather than defaulting to automatic utf-8 validation across all keys. Additionally, it includes a bug fix which allows BSONError and BSONTypeError to be checked with instanceof checks.

Features

• NODE-3740: Implement root and top level key utf-8 validation settings for BSON (#472) (07019a0)

Bug Fixes

• NODE-3724: Fix BSONTypeError and BSONError to correctly handle instanceof checks (#471) (d8f334b)

Documentation

• API: https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson#readme
• Changelog: https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson/blob/master/HISTORY.md#change-log

We invite you to try the bson library immediately, and report any issues to the NODE project.

v4.5.4

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 4.5.4 of the bson package!

Release Highlights

This release notably includes a fix to the ObjectId constructor ensuring correct handling of invalid input.

Bug Fixes

• NODE-3640: Fix Int32 constructor to coerce its argument to int32 (#466) (d388f1e)
• NODE-3662: error checking to make sure that ObjectId results in object with correct properties (#467) (5f99b1b)

Documentation

• API: https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson#readme
• Changelog: https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson/blob/master/HISTORY.md#change-log

We invite you to try the bson library immediately, and report any issues to the NODE project.

v4.5.3

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 4.5.3 of the bson package!

Release Highlights

This release includes a few minor changes for spec compliance, primarily around validation, as detailed below:

Bug Fixes

• NODE-3493: code and symbol tests are partially testing the wrong types (#459) (80d7f03)
• NODE-3534: add subtype 0x6 and 0x7 constants on Binary class (#461) (52cfe9c)
• NODE-3629: correct corpus runner and add null checks (#464) (d75102d)

Documentation

• API: https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson#readme
• Changelog: https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson/blob/master/HISTORY.md#change-log

We invite you to try the bson library immediately, and report any issues to the NODE project.

v4.5.2

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 4.5.2 of the bson package!

Release Highlights

Some APIs were marked internal that should've been public. We've also add toString methods to our Int32 and Double classes that wrap Javascript's Number.toString() method.

Additionally a bug in Decimal128 was corrected where the representation string was wrongly used to find the significant digits. This impacted negative numbers of pattern -0.00XX.

Bug Fixes

• NODE-3021: fix numbers of pattern -0.00XX (#458) (824939a)
  • Thanks to @tzhuan for contributing this!
• NODE-3582: fix internal marked APIs, add toString methods to Int32 and Double (#457) (b46ab5f)

Documentation

• API: https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson#readme
• Changelog: https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson/blob/master/HISTORY.md#change-log

We invite you to try the bson library immediately, and report any issues to the NODE project.

v4.5.1

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 4.5.1 of the bson module!

In react native environments there was an issue where the bundler attempted to import the Node.js polyfill for 'util'.
We no longer depend on the package.

Bug Fixes

• NODE-3561: umd bundle fails to require util (#455) (1c15155)

Documentation

• API: https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson#readme
• Changelog: https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson/blob/master/HISTORY.md#change-log

We invite you to try the bson library immediately, and report any issues to the NODE project.