I’m pleased to announce version 1.6.0 of libbson and libmongoc, the libraries constituting the MongoDB C Driver.

libbson

New features and bug fixes:

Use jsonsl instead of libyajl as our JSON parsing library, parse JSON more strictly, fix minor parsing bugs.
Extended JSON documents like {"$code": "...", "$scope": {}} are now parsed into BSON “code” elements.
ISO8601 dates now allow years from 0000 to 9999 inclusive. Before, years before 1970 were prohibited.
BSON floats and ints are now distinguished in JSON output.
The library is now built and continuously tested with MinGW-W64 on Windows.
The documentation is ported from Mallard XML to ReStructured Text, the HTML documentation is restyled, and numerous man page syntax errors fixed.
All public functions now have the __cdecl calling convention on Windows.

libmongoc

It is my please to announce mongo-c-driver 1.6.0.

New features and bug fixes:

Enterprise authentication on Windows now uses the native GSSAPI library; Cyrus SASL is no longer required for enterprise auth on Windows.
BSON documents are more thoroughly validated before insert or update.
New function mongoc_uri_set_mechanism_properties to replace all the authMechanismProperties on an existing URI.
mongoc_uri_get_mechanism_properties asserts its inputs are not NULL.
For consistency with other MongoDB drivers, mongoc_collection_save is deprecated in favor of mongoc_collection_insert or mongoc_collection_update.
The driver is now built and continuously tested with MinGW-W64 on Windows.
Experimental support for HPUX.
The correct operation ids are now passed to Command Monitoring callbacks.
Fix a crash if the driver couldn’t connect to the server to create an index.
The documentation is ported from Mallard XML to ReStructured Text, the HTML documentation is restyled, and numerous man page syntax errors fixed.
Getter functions for options in mongoc_find_and_modify_opts_t:
mongoc_find_and_modify_opts_get_bypass_document_validation
mongoc_find_and_modify_opts_get_fields
mongoc_find_and_modify_opts_get_flags
mongoc_find_and_modify_opts_get_max_time_ms
mongoc_find_and_modify_opts_get_sort
mongoc_find_and_modify_opts_get_update
All public functions now have the __cdecl calling convention on Windows.