- CMake build now installs .pc files for programs that link to
libmongoc using pkg-config.
- New CMake option ENABLE_STATIC can be ON, OFF, or AUTO (the default)
- Minimum required CMake version has been increased to 3.1.
- Support for wire compression.
- Support for snappy and zlib. MongoDB 3.4 only supports snappy,
while zlib support is expected in MongoDB 3.6.
- New functions: mongoc_uri_get_compressors &
mongoc_uri_set_compressors, to get and set compressor
configuration on mongoc_uri_t
- Added support for comma seperated "compressors" connection string
option (e.g. mongodb://localhost/?compressors=snappy,zlib)
- Added support for configuring zlib compression level in the
connection string (e.g.
mongodb://localhost/?compressors=zlib&zlibcompressionlevel=8)
- Now requires the use of CMake config files for libbson to build
libmongoc with CMake
- Added pkg-config support for libressl.
- New function mongoc_uri_set_auth_mechanism to update the
authentication mechanism of a mongoc_uri_t after it is created from
a string.
- New function mongoc_bulk_operation_insert_with_opts provides
immediate error checking.
- New function mongoc_uri_new_with_error provides a way to parse a
connection string, and retrieve the failure reason, if any.
- Support for MongoDB Connection String specification
- All connection string options are now represented by
MONGOC_URI_xxx macros
- Paths to Unix Domain Sockets must be url encoded
- Repeated options now issue warnings
- Special characters in username, password and other values must be
url encoded
- Unsupported connection string options now issue warnings
- Boolean values can now be represented as true/yes/y/t/1 and
false/no/n/f/0.
- Case is now preserved in Unix domain paths.
- New function mongoc_cursor_error_document provides access to
server's error reply if a query or command fails.
- New function mongoc_write_concern_is_default determines whether any
write concern options have been set, and
mongoc_read_concern_is_default checks if read concern options are set.
- mongoc_gridfs_find_one_with_opts optimized to use limit 1.
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