# phpman > man > BSON::Binary(3pm)

## NAME
    [BSON::Binary](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/BSON%3A%3ABinary/markdown) - Legacy BSON type wrapper for binary data (DEPRECATED)

## VERSION
    version v1.12.2

## DESCRIPTION
    This module has been deprecated as it was horribly inefficient (unpacking binary data to
    individual single-byte elements of an array!) and had a weird API that was not compatible with
    the existing MongoDB Binary wrapper implementation on CPAN.

    You are strongly encouraged to use [BSON::Bytes](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/BSON%3A%3ABytes/markdown) instead.

## AUTHORS
    *   David Golden <<david@mongodb.com>>

    *   Stefan G. <<minimalist@lavabit.com>>

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    This software is Copyright (c) 2020 by Stefan G. and MongoDB, Inc.

    This is free software, licensed under:

      The Apache License, Version 2.0, January 2004