v4.6.5

The MongoDB Node.js team is pleased to announce version 4.6.5 of the bson package!

Release Highlights

Along with some other bug fixes listed below in this release we've fixed the float parser logic for both deserialize and serialize to use JS Dataview APIs. The most delightful part of this change is an improvement to performance of serializing 64-bit floats. 🎉 🐎

- cpu: Apple M1
- cores: 8
- os: darwin
- ram: 16GB
- iterations: 1,000,000
testing: Double Serialization

current           - v 4.6.5 - avg 0.00024913ms
previous release  - v 4.6.4 - avg 0.00036335ms
previous major    - v 1.1.6 - avg 0.00036459ms

Bug Fixes

• NODE-3630: remove float parser and test edge cases for Double (#502) (54ca603)
• NODE-4211: Do not require crypto in browser builds (#500) (b32ab40)
• NODE-4302: remove downlevel ts and typesVersions (#501) (651b60e)
• NODE-4381: handle __proto__ well in EJSON (#506) (4bda57d)

Documentation

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

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