1.9.0
=====

It is my pleasure to announce Libbson-1.9.0.

New features and bugfixes:

  * Fix Autotools syntax for OpenBSD and any platform lacking stdint.h.
  * Fix Android NDK incompatibilities.
  * Fix a one-byte write past the end of a buffer in bson_decimal128_to_string.
  * Avoid reading past the end of a string that contains UTF-8 multibyte NIL.
  * Fix some pedantic warnings in C99 mode.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the development of this release.

  * A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
  * Kevin Albertson
  * Jean-Marc Le Roux
  * Jeremy Mikola
  * Dimitri Gence
  * Hannes Magnusson

Peace,

    A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.8.2
=============

No change since 1.8.1; released to keep pace with libmongoc's version.

-- A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.8.1
=============

It is my pleasure to announce libbson-1.8.1. This release removes a syntax
error in the configure script that affects some shells, and fixes the encoding
of this NEWS file.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the development of this release.

  * A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
  * Jeremy Mikola

Peace,

    A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.8.0
=============

It is my pleasure to announce Libbson-1.8.0.

New features and bugfixes:

  * Make symbols bson_get_major_version, bson_get_minor_version,
    bson_get_micro_version, bson_get_version, and bson_check_version available
    to C++ programs.
  * New CMake option ENABLE_MAINTAINER_FLAGS.
  * Crash iterating over invalid code with scope.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the development of this release.

  * A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
  * Hannes Magnusson
  * Jeremy Mikola
  * Kevin Albertson
  * Michael Kuhn

Peace,

    A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.7.0
=============

  * Changes to JSON encoding and decoding:
    * New functions bson_as_canonical_extended_json and
      bson_as_relaxed_extended_json convert BSON to canonical and relaxed
      extended JSON according to MongoDB Extended JSON Spec.
      Output for the existing bson_as_json function has not been changed.
    * When parsing JSON type wrappers like "$timestamp", any missing or extra
      keys are an error.
    * The JSON format for BSON regular expressions is now "$regularExpression":
      {"pattern": "...", "options": "..."}. The old format {"$regex": "...",
      "$options": "..."} is still parsed.
    * The JSON format for BSON binary elements is now "$binary": {"base64":
      "...", "subType": "..."}. The old format {"$binary": "...", "$type":
      "..."} is still parsed.
    * BSON dates can be parsed from "$date" as an ISO8601 date or "$numberLong"
      as milliseconds since the epoch: "t": {"$date": {"$numberLong": "1234"}}.
      Dates can no longer be formatted as raw integers. bson_as_json writes a
      BSON date after 1970 as "$date" with an ISO8601 string, and dates before
      1970 as negative milliseconds wrapped in "$numberLong".
      bson_as_canonical_extended_json always writes dates with "$numberLong".
      bson_as_relaxed_extended_json always writes dates with "$date".
    * The non-numbers NaN, Infinity, and -Infinity are now recognized (regardless
      of case) when parsing JSON.
  * CMake build now installs .pc files for programs that link to libbson using
    pkg-config. Both the CMake and Autotools build systems now install .cmake
    files for programs that link to libbson using CMake. Linking to libbson
    statically or dynamically is now much more convenient.
  * New CMake option, "ENABLE_STATIC", defaults to ON.
  * Minimum required CMake version has been increased to 3.1.
  * CMake remains experimental on non-Windows platforms and issues a warning now
  * New functions
    * bson_strcasecmp, a portable equivalent of strcasecmp.
    * bson_iter_as_double, cast the current value to double.
    * bson_iter_init_from_data, creates an iterator from BSON string.
    * bson_validate_with_error, checks a document like bson_validate does but
      also reports which key was invalid
  * New convenience macros
    * BSON_ITER_HOLDS_INT, checks if iterator holds int32 or int64
    * BSON_ITER_HOLDS_NUMBER, checks if iterator holds int32, int64 or double
  * Raised BSON recursion limit to 200


Libbson-1.6.0
=============

It is my pleasure to announce libbson-1.6.0.

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.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the development of this release.

  * A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
  * Hannes Magnusson
  * Aleksander Melnikov
  * Remi Collet

Peace,

    A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


libbson-1.5.5
=============

No change since 1.5.4; released to keep pace with libmongoc's version.

-- A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.5.4
=============

No change since 1.5.3; released to keep pace with libmongoc's version.

-- A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.5.3
=============

No change since 1.5.2; released to keep pace with libmongoc's version.

-- A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.5.2
=============

This is a patch release that fixes a build error with MinGW on Windows.


Libbson-1.5.1
=============

No change since 1.5.0; released to keep pace with libmongoc's version.

-- A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.5.2
=============

It is my pleasure to announce Libbson-1.5.2.

New bug fixes:

  * CDRIVER-1982 fix ifdef for strerror_s with mingw.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the development of this release.

  * A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Peace,

    Hannes Magnusson


Libbson-1.5.1
=============

No change since 1.5.0; released to keep pace with libmongoc's version.

-- A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.5.0
=============

It is my pleasure to announce Libbson-1.5.0.

New features and bug fixes:

  * New BSON Type, Decimal128 (bson_decimal128_t) along with the following
    new functions and helpers:
    * bson_decimal128_to_string()
    * bson_decimal128_from_string()
    * bson_iter_decimal128()
    * bson_iter_overwrite_decimal128()
    * BSON_ITER_HOLDS_DECIMAL128()
    * bson_append_decimal128()
    * BSON_APPEND_DECIMAL128()
    * BCON_DECIMAL128()
    See the documentations for further details.
  * bson_validate and bson_iter_next now validate that BSON boolean values are
    0 or 1. Before, any non-zero value was considered true.
  * bson_append_code_with_scope now preserves the "code with scope" type
    if scope is an empty, non-NULL BSON document.
  * BSON "code" and "code with scope" types are properly translated to and from
    JSON of the form '{"$code": "...", "$scope": {...}}'.
  * bson_json_reader functions now always validate UTF-8.
  * JSON parsing now preserves integer width.
  * bson_strtoll now matches stroll: it detects range errors, and when
    parsing octal it stops at non-octal digits and returns what it parsed
    instead of setting errno.
  * New flag BSON_VALIDATE_EMPTY_KEYS causes bson_validate to fail if a document
    contains zero-length field names.
  * The configure option "--enable-hardening" had had no effect. It is removed
    in favor of system-wide compiler configuration.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the development of this release.

  * Hannes Magnusson
  * A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
  * Fiona Rowan
  * Brian Samek

Peace,

    A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.4.1
=============

This release improves the HTML documentation's Makefile.

-- A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.4.0
=============

It is my pleasure to announce Libbson-1.4.0.

New features and bug fixes:

  * bson_reader_reset seeks to the beginning of a BSON buffer.
  * bson_steal efficiently transfers contents from one bson_t to another.
  * Fix Windows compile error with BSON_EXTRA_ALIGN disabled.
  * Potential buffer overrun in bson_strndup.
  * bson_oid_to_string optimization for MS Visual Studio
  * bson_oid_is_valid accepts uppercase hex characters.
  * bson_json_reader_read aborted on some invalid Extended JSON documents.
  * All man page names now begin with "bson_" to avoid install conflicts.
  * Error messages sometimes truncated at 63 chars.

This release tentatively supports the new BSON decimal type when built with
"./configure --enable-experimental-features", or with
"cmake -DENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_FEATURES=ON", but this feature may change
between now and libbson 1.5.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the development of this release.

  * A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
  * Hannes Magnusson
  * Jeremy Mikola
  * David Hatch
  * Ian Boros
  * Fiona Rowan
  * Shane Harvey
  * Runar Buvik
  * Raymond Jacobson
  * ReadmeCritic
  * Mike Lloyd
  * Derick Rethans
  * Maverick Chan

Peace,

    A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Libbson-1.3.5
=============

No change since 1.3.4; released to keep pace with libmongoc's version.

-- A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.3.4
=============

No change since 1.3.3; released to keep pace with libmongoc's version.

-- A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.3.3
=============

No change since 1.3.2; released to keep pace with libmongoc's version.

-- A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.3.2
=============

This is a patch release with a fix for the build system:

  * man pages couldn't be built from a distribution tarball.

Peace,

  A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.3.1
=============

It is my pleasure to announce Libbson-1.3.1. This is a bugfix release:

  * bson_strnlen is off by one on Windows.
  * BSON_HAVE_STRNLEN config check used incorrectly.
  * Incompatibility with older CMake versions.
  * Wrong-sized allocation in bson_json_reader_new.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the development of this release.

  * A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
  * Alex Bishop
  * Jeroen Ooms

Peace,

  A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.3.0
=============

It is my pleasure to announce to you the release of Libbson-1.3.0. Since the
release candidate 1.3.0-rc0, the only changes have been fixes for compiler
warnings and errors on various platforms.

All changes since the previous stable release, 1.2.1:

  * Fix potential crash in bson_strncpy on Windows.
  * Parse DBRefs correctly from JSON.
  * CMake option to disable building tests: "cmake -DENABLE_TESTS:BOOL=OFF".
  * Refactor the build system to declare library version in one place.
  * Fix compiler warnings and errors, especially with Visual Studio 2015
    and IBM XL C.
  * Combine environment's CFLAGS with configure options when building.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the development of this release.

  * A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
  * Hannes Magnusson
  * Mark Benvenuto
  * Petr Písař
  * xpol
  * Jose Sebastian Battig
  * Jeroen Ooms

Peace,

  A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.3.0-rc0
=================

It is my pleasure to announce to you first release candidate of Libbson-1.3.0.

Changes since 1.3.0-beta0:

  * Parse DBRefs correctly from JSON.
  * CMake option to disable building tests: "cmake -DENABLE_TESTS:BOOL=OFF".
  * Fix build warnings on some platforms, and refactor the build system.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the development of this release.

  * A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
  * Hannes Magnusson
  * Jose Sebastian Battig

Peace,

  A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.3.0-beta0
===================

It is my pleasure to announce to you the beta release of Libbson-1.3.0.

Changes since the previous stable release, 1.2.1:

  * Fix potential crash in bson_strncpy on Windows.
  * Fix compiler warnings and errors, especially with Visual Studio 2015
    and IBM XL C.
  * Combine environment's CFLAGS with configure options when building.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the development of this release.

  * Hannes Magnusson
  * A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
  * Jeroen Ooms
  * Petr Písař
  * xpol

Peace,

  A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.2.1
=============

It is my pleasure to announce to you the release of Libbson-1.2.1.

Changes since the previous stable release, 1.2.0 are solely in the content
and format of documentation.

Peace,

  A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.2.0
=============

It is my pleasure to announce to you the release of Libbson-1.2.0.

Changes since the previous stable release, 1.1.11:

  * Add bson_mem_restore_vtable(), the inverse of bson_mem_set_vtable().
  * Enable runtime asserts in release build.
  * Fixed compiler warnings and build failures on various platforms.
  * Improvements to the formatting and contents of the documentation.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the development of this release.

  * A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
  * Hannes Magnusson
  * Jason Carey
  * Kyle Suarez
  * Derick Rethans
  * David Hatch

Peace,

  A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson 1.2.0-rc0
==================

It is my pleasure to announce to you the release candidate of Libbson-1.2.0.

Changes:

  * Merge changes from 1.1.11.
  * Enable runtime asserts in release build.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the development of this release candidate.

  * A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
  * Hannes Magnusson
  * Kyle Suarez
  * Jason Carey

-- A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson 1.2.0-beta
==================

It is my pleasure to announce to you the beta of Libbson-1.2.0.

This release adds the bson_mem_restore_vtable() function to undo the effect
of bson_mem_set_vtable().

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the development of this beta.

 * Jason Carey
 * Hannes Magnusson


Libbson-1.1.11
==============

It is my pleasure to announce to you the release of Libbson-1.1.11.

This is a patch release with improvements to the documentation:

  * Document bson streaming reads with an example,
    bson-streaming-reader.c.
  * Document callback function types bson_reader_destroy_func_t and
    bson_reader_read_func_t.

Thanks to Kyle Suarez for his contributions to this version of Libbson.

-- A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.1.10
==============

No change since 1.1.9; released to keep pace with libmongoc's version.

-- A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.1.9
=============

This is a patch release with a fix for the build system:

 * "./configure --enable-coverage" works now.

-- A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.1.8
=============

No change since 1.1.7; released to keep pace with libmongoc's version.

-- A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.1.7
=============

It is my pleasure to announce to you the release of Libbson-1.1.7.

This is a patch release with bug fixes:

 * Unchecked error in bson_utf8_escape_for_json caused unbounded memory growth
   and a crash.
 * Nicer floating-point formatting in bson_as_json.
 * Link error with CMake on Mac.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this version of Libbson.

 * A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
 * Jason Carey
 * Jeroen Ooms
 * Hannes Magnusson
 * Hendrik Dahlkamp

-- A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson-1.1.6
=============

No change since 1.1.5; released to keep pace with libmongoc's version.

-- A. Jesse Jiryu Davis


Libbson 1.1.5
=============

It is my pleasure to announce to you the release of Libbson-1.1.5.

This is a patch release with small bug fixes:

 * Fix link error "missing __sync_add_and_fetch_4" in GCC on i386 -
   the functions bson_atomic_int_add and bson_atomic_int64_add are now
   compiled and exported if needed in i386 mode
 * Fix version check for GCC 5 and future versions of Clang
 * Fix warnings and errors building on various platforms

With this release, Libbson abandons the convention that odd-numbered patch
versions indicate unstable releases. We switch to simple semantic versioning:
1.1.5 is a stable release with bug fixes since 1.1.4. During subsequent
development the version will be "1.1.6-dev".

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this version of Libbson.

 * A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
 * Christian Hergert
 * Jason Carey
 * Hannes Magnusson
 * Paul Melnikow

-- A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Libbson 1.1.4
=============

It is my pleasure to announce to you the release of Libbson-1.1.4.

This release is a minor patch release with one bug fix for bson_iter_timeval

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the development of this release candidate for
Libbson.

 * Jason Carey
 * A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
 * Vladimir Zidar

-- Jason Carey

Libbson 1.1.2
=============

It is my pleasure to announce to you the release of Libbson-1.1.2.

This release is a minor patch release with one bug fix for mingw.

* sscanf_s doesn't exist for mingw.

-- Jason Carey

Libbson 1.1.0
=============

It is my pleasure to announce to you the release of Libbson-1.1.0.

This release is a stable release with some ABI additions and bugfixes.

The below changes include the changes mentioned in the rc0.

ABI/API changes include:
 * RC0
   * Deprecation of bson_copy_to_excluding
   * Addition of bson_copy_to_excluding_noinit
 * Removal of MIN, MAX and ABS macros in favor of BSON_MIN, BSON_MAX and
   BSON_ABS.  Note this is a breaking source level change if you relied on
   these from bson.h.  Also note that this is not a breaking ABI change.
 * Addition of BSON_ERROR_BUFFER_SIZE macro

Other changes include:
 * RC0
   * Addition of a versioned ABI for the libbson shared library
   * fixed bson_get_monotonic_time fallback when a system monotonic clock can not
     be found.  Formerly failed to compile with an incorrect call to
     bson_gettimeofday
   * Allow the "dbref" convention in bson_validate when BSON_VALIDATE_DOLLAR_KEYS
     is present
   * Support for ISO-8601 or $numberLong dates in bson <-> json parsing
   * Quiet various compiler warnings

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the development of this release candidate for
Libbson.

 * Adam Midvidy
 * Christian Hergert
 * Daniel Colchete
 * Ivan Suvorov
 * Hannes Magnusson
 * Jason Carey
 * Jérôme Lebel
 * Samantha Ritter

-- Jason Carey

Libbson 1.1.0-rc0
=================

It is my pleasure to announce to you the release of Libbson-1.1.0-rc0.

This release is a release candidate release with some ABI additions and bugfixes.

ABI changes include:
 * Deprecation of bson_copy_to_excluding
 * Addition of bson_copy_to_excluding_noinit

Other changes include:
 * Addition of a versioned ABI for the libbson shared library
 * fixed bson_get_monotonic_time fallback when a system monotonic clock can not
   be found.  Formerly failed to compile with an incorrect call to
   bson_gettimeofday
 * Allow the "dbref" convention in bson_validate when BSON_VALIDATE_DOLLAR_KEYS
   is present
 * Support for ISO-8601 or $numberLong dates in bson <-> json parsing
 * Quiet various compiler warnings

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the development of this release candidate for
Libbson.

 * Adam Midvidy
 * Christian Hergert
 * Daniel Colchete
 * Ivan Suvorov
 * Jason Carey
 * Jérôme Lebel

-- Jason Carey

Libbson 1.0.2
=============

It is my pleasure to announce to you the release of Libbson-1.0.2.

This release is a minor point release with no ABI changes and mostly small
bugfixes.

Changes include:
 * bson_init_from_json supports top level arrays
 * fixes for bson_strerror_r
 * fix for timeouts on OS X
 * house cleaning for various integer types

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the development of this point release for
Libbson.

 * Adam Midvidy
 * Christian Hergert
 * Jason Carey
 * Jérôme Lebel
 * Tyler Brock

-- Jason Carey

Libbson 1.0.0
=============

It is my very distinct pleasure to announce to you the release of
Libbson-1.0.0!

This is the culmination of just over a year of work and could not have been
done without the help of our wonderful community.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the development of Libbson!

 * Christian Hergert
 * Jason Carey
 * Jose Sebastian Battig
 * Maxim Zakharov
 * Jérôme Lebel
 * Itay Neeman
 * Mike Manilone
 * Michael Kuhn
 * Kyle Suarez
 * Josh Blum
 * Jason Choy
 * mntmnt7@gmail.com
 * Tyler Brock
 * Stefan Kaes
 * Paul Melnikow
 * Matt Cotter
 * Gary J. Murakami
 * Toon Schoenmakers
 * Máximo Cuadros
 * Michael Whittaker
 * Kota Yamaguchi
 * Justin Case
 * Jeff Yemin
 * Ivan Suvorov
 * Hannes Magnusson
 * Eric Daniels
 * Anil Kumar
 * A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Happy Hacking!

-- Christian Hergert


Libbson 0.98.0
==============

One more step closer to a 1.0!

This release has a few fixes as we near the finish line of a 1.0 release.
We have bumped the version to 0.98.0 to sync up with MongoDB C driver, which
is the primary consumer of this library.

This release includes a new memory callback vtable to help in embedding
situations that have their own custom allocator such as various language
runtimes.

A few compilation fixes for various C++ compilers have also been included.

A special thanks to:

 * Itay Neeman
 * Michael Whittaker

Happy Hacking!

-- Christian


Libbson 0.8.4
=============

Another incremental release with a couple of new functions and bugfixes.

In this release you will find the following changes:

 * Alignment fixes for Solaris Studio C compiler.
 * RPM and Debian packaging helpers.
 * bson_gettimeofday() has dropped the deprecated timezone field used
   when calling posix gettimeofday(). This eases portability concerns.
   It is technically an ABI break, but since the field was never set,
   in reality it shouldn't be an issue.
 * Multi-byte optimizations for bson_oid_to_string() have been disabled
   on non-x86 based platforms. This should aid in architecture portability.
 * The JSON parser can now support $numberLong.
 * bson_ascii_strtoll() has been added, which is a portable strtoll()
   implementation. This is primarily useful for Windows users and is
   used by the JSON parser.
 * A bug was fixed in bson_iter_find_descendent() where the wrong field
   could be matched if it's prefix matched the query.
 * bson_array_as_json() has been added to convert a bson_t as a top-level
   array.

Thanks to:
 * Kyle Suarez
 * Itay Neeman

Happy Hacking!


Libbson 0.8.2
=============

A bugfix release is here as a follow up to 0.8.0.

In this release you will find the following changes:

 * A fix for BCON when used from C++.
 * Change bson_next_power_of_two() to accept size_t. This should not be
   an ABI break since it is static inline.

Happy Hacking!


Libbson 0.8.0
=============

It's that time again, time for another Libbson release!

This cycle includes much, much more documentation for your perusing. There is
much more cross-referencing and structure for your navigation pleasure.

We've improved support for Libbson on a few more exotic platforms. SPARC
support is looking pretty good these days.

You'll also find some new examples in this release to help you get started a
bit faster. If there is something you'd like to see, just ask!

There are a few ABI breaks this cycle, as we are well on the road to a 1.0 and
would like things as clean as possible. I anticipate a few more during the next
couple of cycles, but we will try to keep them to a minimum.  With that said,
you *WILL* need to recompile your application against 0.8.0.

Happy Hacking!


Libbson 0.6.8
=============

Quickly following up on the 0.6.6 release is 0.6.8. This release contains
a couple of bugfixes and more support for older architectures.

On big-endian systems, bson_append_date_time() was not properly converting
to little-endian. This is now fixed.

We've added support for Sun Pro C Compiler on Solaris 10 and 11. This includes
support for SPARC systems as well as x86_64. In particular, intrinsics were
added for the Solaris/SPARC/SunProC combination. If you are running SunProC
on a non-Solaris platform, a fallback path will be used which is slower than
native support for atomics. Additionally, bson_gettimeofday() does not fully
support timezones under SunProC as struct timezone is not defined.

Libbson will now check for GLibc 2.19 to remove various warnings with both
_GNU_SOURCE and _BSD_SOURCE defined.

Happy Hacking!


Libbson 0.6.6
=============

Another release for your hacking pleasure!

First off, note that there are two ABI breaks as part of this release. We
felt they were important as they will help us stablize towards a 1.0 release.
It is recommended that you recompile against this version of libbson.

Lots of small fixes went into this release to help get things building better
on various platforms. Windows support should be improved and many warnings have
been cleaned up.

The signature of bson_realloc_func has changed to allow for context to be
provided. This should help in situations where a pointer to the memory pool is
required.

bson_destroy_with_steal() has been added so that you can steal a buffer instead
of freeing it when bson_destroy() is called.

bson_new_from_buffer() has been added so that you can provide your own realloc
function to manage the underlying buffer. This will be useful for bindings that
want to integrate their memory manager for bson documents.

bson_value_t is a new container type that can hold any bson type.

I'd like to thank everyone who contributed to this release.

    Gary Murakami
    Jason Carey
    Jose Sebastian Battig
    Máximo Cuadros
    Paul Melnikow
    Stefan Kaes

Happy hacking!

Libbson 0.6.4
=============

This is just a followup release of libbson as we work towards stablizing for
the new mongo-c-driver release. In fact, it only includes build work and a
new macro, bson_clear().

Happy hacking!


Libbson 0.6.2
=============

A new Libbson release is already here as a follow up to the 0.6.0 release.

This release includes a few build and installation fixes. In particular,

 * Windows build fixes
 * CMake build fixes
 * C++ build fixes.

The monotonic clock is now more accurately calculated on Windows as well.
If you'd like to build on Windows, check out the section in README.md for
information on how to do so.

Happy hacking!


Libbson 0.6.0
=============

Many changes have gone into this release!

TL;DR

 * C99 types (from C89).
 * JSON parsing.
 * Lots of Operating System support, including Windows.
 * Parallel Test Suite.
 * Revamped build system.
 * A couple ABI breaks.

First off, 0.6.0 has gone through a significant amount of build system cleanup.
This should simplify using libbson as a submodule for those that wish to do so.
For example, the mongo-c-driver now does this using autotools.

Windows Vista and higher is now supported as a build target through the use of
cmake. See README.md for the instructions. Other platforms should continue to
use autotools.

The test suite has been improved and more tests added. We now generate random
seeds on every run to help catch more errors with additional fuzzing passes.
By default, the test suite will run all tests in parallel with subprocesses.
This should speed up execution of `make test' for contributors.

bson_string_t went through an ABI break to support power-of-two growth.

JSON parsing has been added through the bson_json_reader_t type. You can also
now use bson_init_from_json() for a simplified interface.

Types were revamped to appear to be using C99 types. If C99 types are
available, they will be used. If not, they will be emulated. This means you
can just go on using uint64_t and similar. We even use bool now.

Many functions have been made portable to deal with inconsistencies with Win32.

This release has been tested on the following operating systems:

 * RedHat Enterprise 5, 6, and 7 beta.
 * CentOS 6.5
 * Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
 * Fedora 20
 * Windows 7
 * FreeBSD 10
 * DragonFly BSD
 * Solaris 11
 * SmartOS
 * mingw64

Thanks again and enjoy using libbson!

Libbson 0.4.0
=============

This release includes a few bug fixes and copious documentation. Additionally,
we improved our fuzz testing and found a couple issues in the process.  It is
suggested that everyone upgrade their installations to 0.4.0.

We have been busy adding a lot of documentation that we hope you will like.
Many `man' pages have been added for various API endpoints and structures.  If
you use vim, remember that you can jump to the documentation with <shift>k
while on a symbol.

Thanks and enjoy using libbson!

Libbson 0.2.4
=============

This release includes some more performance improvements and bug fixes.

It contains an important fix for dealing with invalid string lengths that could
cause an integer overflow when checking to see if the string length fits within
the end of the buffer.

There is preliminary support for Solaris on x86_64 and SPARC.

Generating OIDs is now simpler with the use of bson_context_get_default(). This
function will return a thread-safe generic bson_context_t implementation.
Alternatively, you may pass NULL to bson_oid_init() for the context and the
default context is automatically used.

The fuzz tests now use srand() with a 32-bit integer derived from /dev/urandom.

Endianess conversions are now performed by __builtin_bswap*() functions when
available with the GCC compiler.

Endianness conversions for the double type are now properly handled on
big-endian systems.

bson_reinit() has been added to cleanup code that needs to destroy and then
initialize a bson_t.

Validation of Code with Scope fields was absent from bson_validate(). This is
now supported.

Libbson 0.2.2
=============

This release includes a few performance improvements and bug fixes.

The bson_t structure is more efficient when growing allocated buffers.
The use of memalign() was unnecessary for allocated bson_t structures
and has therefore been removed. Performance sensitive allocations now
use bson_malloc() instead of calloc() and initialize fields directly.
Stack alignment of bson_t is now enforced through compiler intrinsics.

The unit tests can now support running inside of valgrind to check for
various memory leaks. Simply defing VALGRIND=valgrind when running
`make test`.

Enjoy libbson-0.2.2!


Libbson 0.2.0
=============

This is the initial release of Libbson. It has not yet reached API and ABI
maturity and is therefore subject to change without notice.  Developers are
encouraged to start using Libbson as we journey on the road to 1.0, where ABI
stability will be guaranteed.

Libbson is Apache 2.0 licensed so that it can be embedded in a multitude of
scenarios. This means that we try hard to not rely on external libraries.
Therefore, Libbson contains useful routines to help in portability as well
as BSON support.

Libbson is the basis of a new MongoDB C driver that will follow shortly.

Please see the doc/ directory for documentation on how to use Libbson. We
would love for you to contribute to Libbson, whether that is code,
documentation or packaging.
