v4.6.0

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 4.6.0 of the bson package!

Release Highlights

This release adds a new BSON validation option that allows top-level keys to have utf-8 validation disabled or enabled, either on a global or key-specific scale, rather than defaulting to automatic utf-8 validation across all keys. Additionally, it includes a bug fix which allows BSONError and BSONTypeError to be checked with instanceof checks.

Features

• NODE-3740: Implement root and top level key utf-8 validation settings for BSON (#472) (07019a0)

Bug Fixes

• NODE-3724: Fix BSONTypeError and BSONError to correctly handle instanceof checks (#471) (d8f334b)

Documentation

• API: https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson#readme
• Changelog: https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson/blob/master/HISTORY.md#change-log

We invite you to try the bson library immediately, and report any issues to the NODE project.