v4.5.0

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 4.5.0 of the bson module!

Release Highlights

The Timestamp constructor can now be called with a more convenient object parameter: new Timestamp({ t: number, i: number }); the existing new Timestamp(increment, timestamp) option has been deprecated.

Furthermore, this minor version significantly improves deserialization performance for buffer inputs and corrects an issue with our ESM bundles resulting from a reference to global which does not exist in web environments.

Features

• NODE-3504: add unambiguous Timestamp() constructor overload (#449) (0298dd8)

Bug Fixes

• NODE-3451: fix performance regression from v1 (#451) (2330ab1)
• NODE-3520: global not defined in esm bundles (#452) (cb82a80)

Documentation

• API: https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson#readme
• Changelog: https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson/blob/master/HISTORY.md#change-log

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