v5.3.0

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 5.3.0 of the bson package!

Release Highlights

This release fixes a strictness issue with our UUID class. The UUID class has and will continue to generate UUID v4 bytes. However, now when reading UUIDs from MongoDB the UUID can be whatever format was inserted to the database, instead of throwing an error. This will notably help with data that has empty GUID values.

Deprecation

• NODE-5224: deprecate UUID hex string cache control (#573) (70aea75)

Bug Fix

• NODE-4960: UUID validation too strict (#572) (d239cd1)

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.