v5.2.0

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 5.2.0 of the bson package!

Release Highlights

With this release we've added APIs to create BSON Binary / UUID / ObjectId types from hex and base64 strings.

class ObjectId {
  static createFromHexString(hex: string): ObjectId;
  static createFromBase64(base64: string): ObjectId;
}

class Binary {
  static createFromHexString(hex: string, subType? number): Binary;
  static createFromBase64(base64: string, subType? number): Binary;
}

class UUID extends Binary {
  static override createFromHexString(hex: string): UUID;
  static override createFromBase64(base64: string): UUID;
}

Features

• NODE-4855: add hex and base64 ctor methods to Binary and ObjectId (#569) (0d49a63)

Documentation

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

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