bson 7.1.0

v7.1.0

on Node.js NPM

7.1.0 (2026-01-16)

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 7.1.0 of the bson package!

Release Notes

ByteUtils added as a binary utillity

ByteUtils are now public and provide set of platform-agnostic tools to manipulate binary data (using Buffer in nodejs-compatible environments and fallback to Uint8Array).

NumberUtils is now exported in the library

BSON maintains a set of utilities for reading to and from buffers of bytes. This module is now exported from the BSON package.

import { NumberUtils } from 'bson';

ByteUtils and NumberUtils removed from onDemand namespace

The experimental ByteUtils and NumberUtils helpers have been moved from the onDemand namespace to the top-level package export.

Features

• NODE-7314: export byteUtils & add missing methods (#852) (a31c90e)
• NODE-7316: export number utils (#850) (a23e788)
• NODE-7334: remove ByteUtils and NumberUtils from the onDemand ns (#859) (92bbc34)

Bug Fixes

• NODE-7397: Use type predicate for isUint8Array (#860) (89b3a2b)

Documentation

• API
• Changelog

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