MongoDB

Changes for version v0.703.5 - 2014-05-23 (TRIAL RELEASE)

Enhancements
- PERL-299 Bulk API fully implemented (but not yet fully documented)
Bug Fixes
- PERL-305 fixed infinite loop connecting with SASL to a down server
- PERL-323 fixed possible socket leaks on communication errors
- PERL-336 fixed index creation legacy fallback against older mongos
- Fixed clock race in OID unit test
- Fixed memory corruption error on Perl 5.19.1+
- Fixed fatal error in DESTROY with find_master and down server
- Fixed use of re::regexp_pattern for 5.10.0
- Provided backwards compatible HeUTF8 macro for Perl v5.10 and v5.8.8 and earlier
- Fixed bson library configuration and ifdef bugs
- Fixed a bug that would serialize an index direction as a string on some older Perls
- Update ppport.h to version 3.22
- Fixed several compiler warnings on Perl 5.8
- Removed hard-coded compiler flags for Darwin
- Cleaned Moose class namespaces of imported methods
Deprecations
- PERL-320 low-level protocol functions in MongoDB.pm are deprecated
Documentation
- PERL-317 Clarified support for threads
- PERL-341 Added install documentation including use of non-standard C library paths
Prerequisites
- Added namespace::clean
- Added Test::Deep
- Added Test::Fatal
- Added Throwable
- Added Syntax::Keyword::Junction
- Changed Test::More requirement to 0.96
- Removed Devel::Size
Known Issues
- PERL-233 SSL certificate validation not yet implemented

Enhancements
- PERL-298 implement parallel_scan method for collections
Bug Fixes
- PERL-307 fix drop_dups option for ensure_index
- PERL-318 fix compiler warnings
- PERL-319 fix compilation failures on some platforms
- PERL-322 change return value and document low-level recv
- Add missing Devel::Size to prerequisites list
- Fix exception handling for internal run_command calls
- Fix gridfs test for unique keys
- Ensure internal run_command exceptions include correct error string
Documentation
- PERL-217 improved documentation of GridFS::get
- Changes file updated with changes since 0.701
Internal
- PERL-264 test for closing connection when MongoClient object leaves scope. (Ashley Willis)
- Make t/dbref.t use fresh test database

Bug Fixes
- PERL-315 require DateTime 0.78 or later
- Fixed index creation and drop on MongoDB 2.6
Documentation
- PERL-311 fix legacy docs authentication link
- Added abstract to MongoDB::BSON::Regexp documentation
Internal
- PERL-312 default GridFS chunk size changed from 1mb -> 255kb
- Bundled libbson 0.6.4 to avoid external library dependency