4.2.1

• RUBY-1189 Deserialize an int64 to a Fixnum, not Bignum on jRuby
• Don't require options to be passed to Regexp::Raw#new
• RUBY-1173 Force unpacking Q< and update big endian byte order check
• Correct GCC version check

4.2.0

This minor release has the following changes in addition to those included in the 4.2.0.rc0 and 4.2.0.rc1 releases:

• RUBY-1152 Implement driver BSON corpus tests.
• RUBY-1164 Ensure that all options are captured when decoding a BSON regex.

4.2.0.rc1

This second release candidate of version 4.2.0 has the following fixes:

• Made timestamp as_json match mongo specifications (@amiberger)
• RUBY-1141 Raise LoadError when native extensions cannot be loaded.
• Don't freeze BigDecimal class.

4.2.0.rc0

This is the first release candidate that supports MongoDB server version 3.4.

It contains the following changes and new features:

• Renamed extension to bson_native
• docs now contained in bson gem repo
• Avoid warning that variable is not initialized (@qbantek)
• Add BSON::ObjectId#to_time as alias to #generation_time (@oss92)
• RUBY-1098 Support Decimal128 type.
• Support serializing/deserializing OpenStruct objects. (@adimitrov)
• RUBY-1124 Allow instantiating Int64 and Int32 objects and serializing them explicitly.

4.1.1

Apply key validation to documents in an Array as well.

4.1.0

BSON can now be configured to validate keys, this defaults to false but if set to true a BSON::String::IllegalKey exception will get raised for keys that contain a '.' or start with '$':

BSON::Config.validating_keys = true

4.0.3

This release contains the following bug fixes and improvements:

• RUBY-1091 Fix ObjectId generation on little endian architectures.

4.0.2

This release has one bug fix for the java ByteBuf rewind method.

• After rewind, set ByteBuf to read mode

v4.0.1

This patch release has the following changes:

• Initialize the ObjectId counter to a random value, as per the ObjectId spec. @alethea
• Add #rewind! method to ByteBuffer.

v4.0.0

This is a new major version of the bson gem. The most notable change is the implementation and use of ByteBuffers instead of Strings, which greatly improves the serialization/deserialization performance (#to_bson/#from_bson).

• RUBY-1019 Performance improvements; implementation and use of ByteBuffers instead of Strings
• Remove unused gems
• Use [] instead of fetch in hashes
• Update for JRuby 9
• RUBY-1071 Integer#to_bson_key should return a String
• Serialize Symbols to String bson types
• BSON::ObjectId conversion function passes ObjectIds through (@jesjos)
• Documentation fix (@knapo)