Announcing libbson and libmongoc 1.16.0

[Kevin Albertson]

I'm pleased to announce version 1.16.0 of libbson and libmongoc, the libraries constituting the MongoDB C Driver.

libbson

Bug fixes:

• Fix crash if an empty BSON binary value is copied and then appended.
• Fix out-of-bounds read when parsing JSON.
• Fix out-of-bounds read when parsing base64.

libmongoc

Features:

• Support Client-side Field Level Encryption.
• Support ability to pass an index hint to update operations.
• Add cmake export targets.

Bug fixes: 

• Fix a bug with Windows SSPI failing to authenticate with GSSAPI when using pooled clients for certain operations.
• Fix behavior for bulk writes that retry to keep track of the successful server.
• Remove hard limit of 1024 characters for SRV response.
• Fix racy crash when using client pool against a sharded cluster if a server is invalidated shortly before a new socket is opened against it.
• Remove unnecessary library dependencies causing overlinking.
• Ensure server proof has been validated during SCRAM conversation.

Links:

• mongo-c-driver-1.16.0.tar.gz
• All the issues resolved in 1.16.0
• Documentation

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.

• Kevin Albertson
• Jeremy Mikola
• Clyde Bazile
• Andreas Braun
• Roberto C. Sánchez
• Samantha Ritter
• Isabel Atkinson
• Kaitlin Mahar
• Diego Barrios Romero
• Sara Golemon
• Vasil Velichkov
• EGuesnet

-- Kevin Albertson