Libbson-1.4.0-beta1

It is my pleasure to announce the beta release of Libbson-1.4.0.

New features and bug fixes:

• bson_reader_reset seeks to the beginning of a BSON buffer.
• bson_steal efficiently transfers contents from one bson_t to another.
• Fix Windows compile error with BSON_EXTRA_ALIGN disabled.
• Potential buffer overrun in bson_strndup.
• bson_oid_to_string optimization for MS Visual Studio
• bson_oid_is_valid accepts uppercase hex characters.
• bson_json_reader_read aborted on some invalid Extended JSON documents.
• All man page names now begin with "bson_" to avoid install conflicts.
• Error messages sometimes truncated at 63 chars.

This release tentatively supports the new BSON decimal type when built with
"./configure --enable-experimental-features", or with
"cmake -DENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_FEATURES=ON", but this feature may change
between now and libbson 1.5.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the development of this release.

• A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
• Hannes Magnusson
• Jeremy Mikola
• David Hatch
• Ian Boros
• Fiona Rowan
• Shane Harvey
• Runar Buvik
• Raymond Jacobson
• ReadmeCritic
• Mike Lloyd
• Derick Rethans
• Maverick Chan

Peace,
-- A. Jesse Jiryu Davis