I'm pleased to announce version 1.17.0-beta of libbson and libmongoc,
the libraries constituting the MongoDB C Driver.

libbson

It is my pleasure to announce libbson 1.17.0 beta.

Features:

Add the cmake option ENABLE_PIC to build static libraries with position independent code.

Notes:

Deprecated "lib" prefixed artifacts are no longer produced when building on Windows.

libmongoc

It is my pleasure to announce the MongoDB C Driver 1.17.0 beta release.

Features:

Support the MONGODB-AWS authentication mechanism.
Support the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for OpenSSL 1.1.0+, Secure Transport, and Secure Channel.
Support the "hint" option in operations using the update, replace, delete, and findAndModify commands.
Improve behavior for retryable writes.
Improve resuming behavior of change streams on server errors.
Remove an extra round trip for SCRAM authentication.
Remove restriction of 255 character collection namespaces.

Bug fixes:

Fix possible use of invalidated streams during an unordered OP_QUERY bulk write, and when ending many pooled sessions at client destruction.
Fix a crash when setting the crl_file TLS option for Secure Channel.
Avoid emitting duplicate ServerChanged events when no change is observed during monitoring.
Properly handle large SASL messages instead of erroring.

Notes:

Deprecated "lib" prefixed artifacts are no longer produced when building on Windows.