Changes for version 0.46

  • Enhancements
    • Added SSL support (Casey Rojas). See new documentation on MongoDB::Connection's ssl attribute.
    • Added MongoDB::BSON::Binary type and MongoDB::BSON::use_binary option. See the Data Types documentation on using the Binary type instead of string refs for binary data.
    • Change default binary type from 2 to 0. See MongoDB::BSON::Binary for more information about the implications of this change.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Fix auth connection issues (Olly Stephens)
    • Fix driver creating duplicate connections when port isn't specified (Olly Stephens)
    • Fix authentication check on some versions of Perl (Olly Stephens)

Documentation

The data types used with MongoDB
Some examples of MongoDB syntax
Indexing collections
Getting started with MongoDB

Modules

Mongo Driver for Perl
Encoding and decoding utilities (more to come)
JavaScript code
A Mongo collection
A connection to a Mongo server
A cursor/iterator for Mongo query results
A Mongo database
A file storage utility
A Mongo GridFS file
A Mongo ObjectId
Timestamp used for replication