0.5.1 -- PHPLIB Coming together

Things are taking great shape - with the power of the ODS demonstrated in MongoDB Transistor, we are now preparing to release the accompanying fully featured user-land library in the next few days -- which requires a couple of bug fixes 💃

Release Highlights

New features and changes:

• PHPC-241: mongodb.debug_log php.ini renamed to mongodb.debug
• PHPC-259: add --with-libbson option
• PHPC-260: Allow/use "object" in setTypeMap() as alias/preferred for "stdclass"
• PHPC-266: Add MongoDB\Driver\UnexpectedValueException

Fixes:

• PHPC-247: Use the bundled pregenerated fixtures, rather then run-time dependency on composer
• PHPC-258: make all files needed for tests as role="test"
• PHPC-265: BSON encoding unsupoprted types (Resource) should fail
• PHPC-267; _id generated on embedded document
• PHPC-269: Fix travis setup

Documentation

Documentation is available on PHP.net:
http://php.net/set.mongodb

Additional documentation may be found on GitHub:
http://10gen-labs.github.io/mongo-php-driver-prototype/ods/

Feedback

As the "mongodb" extension is under heavy development, we would appreciate any feedback you might have on the project:
https://jira.mongodb.org/secure/CreateIssue.jspa?pid=12484&issuetype=6

Full Release Notes

https://github.com/10gen-labs/mongo-php-driver-prototype/blob/master/RELEASE-0.5.1

Installing on *nix

$ pecl install mongodb-alpha
$ echo "extension=mongodb.so" >> `php --ini | grep "Loaded Configuration" | sed -e "s|.*:\s*||"`

Installing on Windows

Windows binaries are available on PECL:
http://pecl.php.net/package/mongodb

Community Contributors

Thanks to:

• Remi Collet