NAME BSON::XS - XS implementation of MongoDB's BSON serialization (EOL) VERSION version v0.8.4 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. As of August 13, 2020, the MongoDB Perl driver and related libraries have reached end of life and are no longer supported by MongoDB. See the August 2019 deprecation notice for rationale. 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 . 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. AUTHOR David Golden CONTRIBUTOR Paul "LeoNerd" Evans COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is Copyright (c) 2020 by MongoDB, Inc. This is free software, licensed under: The Apache License, Version 2.0, January 2004