Announcing 1.25.0 of libbson and libmongoc, the libraries constituting the MongoDB C Driver.

libbson

New Features:

• Add bson_array_builder_t.

Platform Support:

• Support for macOS 10.14 is dropped.
• Support for Ubuntu 14.04 is dropped.
• Support for Debian 8.1 is dropped.

libmongoc

Fixes:

• Send recoveryToken in transactions when connected to a load balancer.

Improvements:

• Remove optional dependency of libicu.
• Added ability to manage Atlas Search indexes
• Use OP_MSG exhaust for mongod >= 4.2. Enable exhaust cursors for mongos >= 7.1.
• Share cached credentials for SCRAM authentication among all clients to improve performance.
• Use polling monitoring in FaaS environments.

Build Configuration:

• Remove ENABLE_SRV=AUTO. Only support boolean values for ENABLE_SRV.

Platform Support:

• Support for macOS 10.14 is dropped.
• Support for Ubuntu 14.04 is dropped.
• Support for Debian 8.1 is dropped.

Other:

• The constructed source-distribution archive is no longer available as a
  release artifact. Please instead use the per-release repository archive
  attached to a GitHub release, or clone the repository at the desired release
  tag.

Links:

• All the issues resolved in 1.25.0
• Documentation

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.

• Kevin Albertson
• Colby Pike
• Adrian Dole
• Roberto C. Sánchez
• Ezra Chung
• Joshua Siegel
• Kyle Kloberdanz
• Jeremy Mikola