v2.5.0

The MongoDB Rust driver team is pleased to announce the v2.5.0 release of the bson crate.

Highlighted Changes

This release sees the addition of a wide variety of helper functions, largely focused on making common type conversions more convenient:

• Binary::from_base64 allows constructing a Binary value from a base64-encoded string without having to use another crate.
• i64_as_bson_datetime provides Serde helpers for representing bson DateTime values as rust i64 fields.
• Binary::as_raw_binary and RawBinaryRef::to_binary allow easy interconversion between the parsed and raw slice reference types for binary data.
• RawBson and RawDocumentBuf now implement TryFrom for their respective parsed types (Bson and Document).
• Document::iter_mut provides an iterator over mutable references to the contained Bson values.

Full Release Notes

New Features

• RUST-1385 Add binary/raw conversions (#370)
• RUST-1480 Add a TryFrom impl for RawBson (#373)
• RUST-1534: implement iter_mut on Document (#382)
• RUST-1540 impl i64_as_datetime (#383)
• RUST-1225 Add base64 string constructor to Binary (#365)
• RUST-1540 Rename i64_as_datetime to i64_as_bson_datetime (#393)

Improvements

• docs(readme): fix broken hyperlink (#375) (thanks satyarohith!)
• RUST-1062 More efficiently serialize array indexes (#384)
• Fix links in the Feature Flags table. (#388) (thanks judy2k!)
• RUST-782 Add hyperlinks for all types in rustdoc (#389)

Tasks

• RUST-1440 bump bson clippy version to 1.63.0 (#372)
• fix for stale issues action
• minor: bump clippy to 1.65 (#387)