Announcing 1.18.0-alpha2 of libbson and libmongoc, the libraries constituting the MongoDB C Driver.

libbson

It is my pleasure to announce libbson 1.18.0-alpha2.

This is an unstable prerelease and is unsuitable for production applications.

Bug fixes:

• Add trailing space after "base64" field name in extended JSON

libmongoc

It is my pleasure to announce the MongoDB C Driver 1.18.0-alpha2.

This is an unstable prerelease and is unsuitable for production applications.

Improvements:

• Update API version support for latest 5.0-rc0 MongoDB server release.
• Increase default timeout to mongocryptd for CSFLE.
• Remove deprecated terminology in code and documentation.

Links:

• mongo-c-driver-1.18.0-alpha2.tar.gz
• All the issues resolved in 1.18.0-alpha2
• Documentation

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.

• Andreas Braun
• Benjamin Rewis
• Jeremy Mikola
• Kevin Albertson