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.IX Title "BSON::XS 3pm"
.TH BSON::XS 3pm 2024-01-10 "perl v5.38.2" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH NAME
BSON::XS \- XS implementation of MongoDB's BSON serialization (EOL)
.SH VERSION
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version v0.8.4
.SH "END OF LIFE NOTICE"
.IX Header "END OF LIFE NOTICE"
Version v0.8.0 was the final feature release of the MongoDB BSON::XS
library and v0.8.4 is the final patch release.
.PP
\&\fBAs of August 13, 2020, the MongoDB Perl driver and related libraries have
reached end of life and are no longer supported by MongoDB.\fR See the
August 2019 deprecation
notice <https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/the-mongodb-perl-driver-is-being-deprecated>
for rationale.
.PP
If members of the community wish to continue development, they are welcome
to fork the code under the terms of the Apache 2 license and release it
under a new namespace.  Specifications and test files for MongoDB drivers
and libraries are published in an open repository:
mongodb/specifications <https://github.com/mongodb/specifications/tree/master/source>.
.SH DESCRIPTION
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
This module contains an XS implementation for BSON encoding and
decoding.  There is no public API.  Use the BSON module and it will
choose the best implementation for you.
.SH AUTHOR
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
David Golden <david@mongodb.com>
.SH CONTRIBUTOR
.IX Header "CONTRIBUTOR"
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>
.SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
This software is Copyright (c) 2020 by MongoDB, Inc.
.PP
This is free software, licensed under:
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