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  • Overview
  • What's New in 1.29.0
  • What's New in 1.28.0
  • What's New in 1.27.6
  • What's New in 1.27.5
  • What's New in 1.27.4
  • What's New in 1.27.3
  • What's New in 1.27.2
  • What's New in 1.27.1
  • What's New in 1.27.0
  • What's New in 1.26.2
  • What's New in 1.26.1
  • What's New in 1.26.0

The MongoDB C Driver consists of two libraries: libbson and libmongoc. On this page, you can learn about the changes, and deprecations made in each version of the driver libraries.

Learn what's new in:

  • Version 1.29.0

  • Version 1.28.0

  • Version 1.27.6

  • Version 1.27.5

  • Version 1.27.4

  • Version 1.27.3

  • Version 1.27.2

  • Version 1.27.1

  • Version 1.27.0

  • Version 1.26.2

  • Version 1.26.1

  • Version 1.26.0

The 1.29.0 release of the C driver includes several changes.

The 1.29.0 release of libbson includes the following changes:

  • Deprecates the bson_string_t and associated functions

  • Deprecates compiling with BSON_MEMCHECK

  • Deprecates bson_in_range_*() and bson_cmp_*() functions

  • Deprecates bson_atomic_*() and bson_thrd-yield() functions

  • Deprecates bson_as_json() and bson_array_as_json() functions

The 1.29.0 release of libmongoc includes the following changes:

  • Deprecates mongoc_client_command. Use mongoc_client_command_simple instead.

  • Deprecates mongoc_database_command. Use mongoc_database_command_simple instead.

  • Deprecates mongoc_collection_command. Use mongoc_collection_command_simple instead.

  • Drops support for Visual Studio 2013

  • Raises required version of the libmongocrypt dependency to 1.12.0 to support the In-Use Encryption feature

For more information about this release, see the v1.29 release notes.

The 1.28.0 release of the C driver includes several changes.

The 1.28.0 release of libbson includes the following changes:

  • Adds bson_validate_with_error_and_offset() function

  • Removes automatic ccache detection and usage

  • Removes Mongo_USE_CCACHE

  • Adds support for In-Use Encryption range queries

  • mongoc_collection_insert_one includes the insert ID

  • Adds new bulk write API mongoc_bulkwrite_t

  • Adds serverMonitoringMode URI option

  • Raises minimum wire protocol version from 6 to 7

  • Raises required libmongocrypt version to v1.11.0 to support In-Use Encryption

  • Deprecates *_hint option. Instead, use the *_server_id option.

    • Deprecates mongoc_bulk_operation_set_hint. Instead, use mongoc_bulk_operation_set_server_id.

    • Deprecates mongoc_bulk_operation_get_hint. Instead, use mongoc_bulk_operation_get_server_id.

    • Deprecates mongoc_cursor_set_hint. Instead, use mongoc_cursor_set_server_id.

    • Deprecates mongoc_cursor_get_hint. Instead, use mongoc_cursor_get_server_id .

  • Deprecates ENABLE_SSL=LIBRESSL and mongoc_stream_tls_libressl_new.

  • Deprecates ENABLE_SASL=CYRUS and the CYRUS_PLUGIN_PATH_PREFIX option on Windows platforms.

For more information about this release, see the v1.28 release notes.

The 1.27.6 release of the C driver includes several changes.

The 1.27.6 release of libbson includes the following changes:

  • Fixes handling of malformed extended JSON for special BSON types

The 1.27.6 release of libmongoc includes the following changes:

  • Fixes TSan warning

  • Fixes C23 compile

  • Documents expected behavior of command errors in a transaction

The 1.27.5 release of the C driver includes several changes.

The 1.27.5 release of libbson includes the following changes:

  • Fixes large string handling in bson_append_utf8

The 1.27.5 release of libmongoc includes the following changes:

  • Fixes possible build error in environments where bool or _Bool is a macro

The 1.27.4 release of the C driver includes several changes.

The 1.27.4 release of libbson includes the following changes:

  • Fixes build issues with Visual Studio 2013

The 1.27.4 release of libmongoc includes the following changes:

  • Fixes possible crash reading malformed wired protocol message

  • Fixes build issues with Visual Studio 2013

The 1.27.3 release of the C driver includes several changes.

The 1.27.3 release of libbson includes the following changes:

  • Introduces changes surrounding the development processes, including new code signing and dependency tracking. There are no behavioral or API changes.

The 1.27.3 release of libmongoc includes the following changes:

  • Upgrades bundled Zlib from 1.2.3 to 1.3.1

The 1.27.2 release of the C driver includes several changes.

The 1.27.2 release of libbson includes the following changes:

  • Fixes parsing of colon in timezone

  • Fixes error on failure to initialize a subdocument in bson_iter_visit_all

The 1.27.2 release of libmongoc includes the following changes:

  • Closes leftover connections to remote servers

  • Checks environment variable MONGO_EXPERIMENTAL_SRV_PREFER_TCP to prefer TCP over SRV lookup

The 1.27.1 release of the C driver includes several changes.

The 1.27.1 release of libbson includes the following changes:

  • Fixes large string handling in bson_string_new and bson_string_append

This version is incremented to match the libbson version, but there are no changes since 1.27.0.

The 1.27.0 release of the C driver includes several changes.

This version is incremented to match the libbson version, but there are no changes since 1.26.2.

The 1.27.0 release of libmongoc includes the following changes:

  • Raises the required version of libmongocrypt to 1.10.0 to support In-Use Encryption. This corresponds to CMake option ENABLE_CLIENT_SIDE_ENCRYPTION.

  • Fixes possible crash when client is configured with an empty password

  • Adds database name to command events mongoc_apm_command_failed_get_database_name and mongoc_apm_command_succeeded_get_database_name

  • Supports delegated KMIP protocol for In-Use Encryption

  • Enables setting socket timeout per client

The 1.26.2 release of the C driver includes several changes.

The 1.26.2 release of libbson includes the following changes:

  • Fixes iteration on bson_strfreev

The 1.26.2 release of libmongoc includes the following changes:

  • By default, disables plugin loading with Cyrus SASL on Windows. To re-enable, set the CMake option CYRUS_PLUGIN_PATH_PREFIX to the absolute path prefix of the Cyrus SASL plugins.

  • Fixes possible hang if mongoc_gridfs_file_readv is called with a corrupt chunk with incomplete data

  • Fixes assert with legacy exhaust cursor protocol when connected to MongoDB server versions earlier than 4.2

The 1.26.1 release of the C driver includes several changes.

The 1.26.1 release of libbson includes the following changes:

  • Uses aligned allocation for bson_array_builder_t

The 1.26.1 release of libmongoc includes the following changes:

  • Fixes 32-bit compile with 64-bit time_t

The 1.26.0 release of the C driver includes several changes.

This version is incremented to match the libmongoc version, but there are no changes since 1.25.4.

The 1.26.0 release of libmongoc includes the following changes:

  • Supports named KMS providers

  • Redirects retries in sharded clusters to another mongos if possible

  • Adds VERSION_CURRENT file in source to ease building

  • Considers more errors retryable

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