MongoDB C driver 1.18.0-alpha2 released

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

libbson

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

Bug fixes:

  • Add trailing space after “base64” field name in extended JSON

libmongoc

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.

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Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.

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