Link the BON8 functions from the other binary format pages

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Read BON8 strings in bulk from contiguous input
2026-09-25 22:05:29 +01:00 · 2026-09-25 22:15:07 +02:00 · 2026-09-25 22:06:54 +02:00 · 2026-09-25 20:22:39 +02:00 · 2026-09-25 20:15:05 +02:00 · 2026-09-25 20:11:51 +02:00
96 changed files with 4191 additions and 4032 deletions
@@ -9,23 +9,12 @@ identified a security vulnerability in this repository, please use the GitHub Se
 Until it is published, this draft security advisory will only be visible to the maintainers of this project. Other
 users and teams may be added once the advisory is created.

-We will send a first response within 14 days, indicating the next steps in handling your report. After the initial
-reply to your report, we will keep you informed of the progress towards a fix and full announcement and may ask for
-additional information or guidance.
+We will send a response indicating the next steps in handling your report. After the initial reply to your report, we
+will keep you informed of the progress towards a fix and full announcement and may ask for additional information or
+guidance.

 For vulnerabilities in third-party dependencies or modules, please report them directly to the respective maintainers.

-## Disclosure and credit
-
-Once a fix is released, we publish the security advisory and list the fixed vulnerability in the release notes. We
-credit the reporter in both, unless they ask not to be named.
-
-## Supported versions
-
-Security fixes are made on the `develop` branch and shipped with the next release. Only the latest release receives
-security fixes; they are not backported to older releases. A release stops receiving security fixes when the next
-release is published, so please update to the latest release to get them.
-
 ## Unofficial packages

 This project does not publish an official npm package. The npm package
@@ -37,13 +37,13 @@ labels:
  files:
    - "include/nlohmann/detail/input/binary_reader\\.hpp"
    - "include/nlohmann/detail/output/binary_writer\\.hpp"
-    - "tests/src/unit-(bson|cbor|msgpack|ubjson|bjdata|binary_formats)"
-    - "tests/src/fuzzer-parse_(bson|cbor|msgpack|ubjson|bjdata)"
+    - "tests/src/unit-(bson|cbor|msgpack|ubjson|bjdata|bon8|binary_formats)"
+    - "tests/src/fuzzer-parse_(bson|cbor|msgpack|ubjson|bjdata|bon8)"
    - "docs/mkdocs/docs/features/binary_formats/"
-    - "docs/mkdocs/docs/(api/basic_json|examples)/(to|from)_(bson|cbor|msgpack|ubjson|bjdata)"
+    - "docs/mkdocs/docs/(api/basic_json|examples)/(to|from)_(bson|cbor|msgpack|ubjson|bjdata|bon8)"

 - label: "aspect: binary formats"
-  title: "(?i)(bson|cbor|msgpack|messagepack|ubjson|bjdata|binary format)"
+  title: "(?i)(bson|cbor|msgpack|messagepack|ubjson|bjdata|bon8|binary format)"

 - label: "python"
  files:
@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@ name: "Check amalgamation"
 on:
  pull_request:

-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
 permissions:
  contents: read

@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 name: CIFuzz
 on: [pull_request]

-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
 permissions:
  contents: read

@@ -38,14 +38,14 @@ jobs:

    # Initializes the CodeQL tools for scanning.
    - name: Initialize CodeQL
-      uses: github/codeql-action/init@1c5b675653bb5c22dbe9b12b556ec555138e09fd # v4.38.1
+      uses: github/codeql-action/init@b96794f015dfd88f77b49b1c93e0fa7110f94c63 # v4.38.0
      with:
        languages: c-cpp

    # Autobuild attempts to build any compiled languages  (C/C++, C#, or Java).
    # If this step fails, then you should remove it and run the build manually (see below)
    - name: Autobuild
-      uses: github/codeql-action/autobuild@1c5b675653bb5c22dbe9b12b556ec555138e09fd # v4.38.1
+      uses: github/codeql-action/autobuild@b96794f015dfd88f77b49b1c93e0fa7110f94c63 # v4.38.0

    - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
-      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@1c5b675653bb5c22dbe9b12b556ec555138e09fd # v4.38.1
+      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@b96794f015dfd88f77b49b1c93e0fa7110f94c63 # v4.38.0
@@ -9,10 +9,6 @@
 name: 'Dependency Review'
 on: [pull_request]

-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
 permissions:
  contents: read

@@ -5,10 +5,6 @@

 name: flawfinder

-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
 permissions:
  contents: read

@@ -47,6 +43,6 @@ jobs:
          output: 'flawfinder_results.sarif'

      - name: Upload analysis results to GitHub Security tab
-        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@1c5b675653bb5c22dbe9b12b556ec555138e09fd # v4.38.1
+        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@b96794f015dfd88f77b49b1c93e0fa7110f94c63 # v4.38.0
        with:
          sarif_file: ${{github.workspace}}/flawfinder_results.sarif
@@ -4,12 +4,6 @@ on:
  pull_request_target:
    types: [opened, synchronize]

-# pull_request_target runs on the base branch, so github.ref would put all pull
-# requests into one group; group by pull request number instead
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
 permissions:
  contents: read

@@ -14,10 +14,6 @@ on:
  push:
    branches: ["develop"]

-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
 permissions:
  contents: read

@@ -80,6 +76,6 @@ jobs:

      # Upload the results to GitHub's code scanning dashboard.
      - name: "Upload to code-scanning"
-        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@1c5b675653bb5c22dbe9b12b556ec555138e09fd # v4.38.1
+        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@b96794f015dfd88f77b49b1c93e0fa7110f94c63 # v4.38.0
        with:
          sarif_file: results.sarif
@@ -19,10 +19,6 @@ on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '23 2 * * 4'

-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
 permissions:
  contents: read

@@ -65,7 +61,7 @@ jobs:

      # Upload SARIF file generated in previous step
      - name: Upload SARIF file
-        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@1c5b675653bb5c22dbe9b12b556ec555138e09fd # v4.38.1
+        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@b96794f015dfd88f77b49b1c93e0fa7110f94c63 # v4.38.0
        with:
          sarif_file: semgrep.sarif
        if: always()
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ all:
 	@echo "clean - remove built files"
 	@echo "doctest - compile example files and check their output"
 	@echo "fuzz_testing - prepare fuzz testing of the JSON parser"
+	@echo "fuzz_testing_bon8 - prepare fuzz testing of the BON8 parser"
 	@echo "fuzz_testing_bson - prepare fuzz testing of the BSON parser"
 	@echo "fuzz_testing_cbor - prepare fuzz testing of the CBOR parser"
 	@echo "fuzz_testing_msgpack - prepare fuzz testing of the MessagePack parser"
@@ -71,6 +72,14 @@ fuzz_testing:
 	find tests/data/json_tests -size -5k -name *json | xargs -I{} cp "{}" fuzz-testing/testcases
 	@echo "Execute: afl-fuzz -i fuzz-testing/testcases -o fuzz-testing/out fuzz-testing/fuzzer"

+fuzz_testing_bon8:
+	rm -fr fuzz-testing
+	mkdir -p fuzz-testing fuzz-testing/testcases fuzz-testing/out
+	$(MAKE) parse_bon8_fuzzer -C tests CXX=afl-clang++
+	mv tests/parse_bon8_fuzzer fuzz-testing/fuzzer
+	find tests/data -size -5k -name *.bon8 | xargs -I{} cp "{}" fuzz-testing/testcases
+	@echo "Execute: afl-fuzz -i fuzz-testing/testcases -o fuzz-testing/out fuzz-testing/fuzzer"
+
 fuzz_testing_bson:
 	rm -fr fuzz-testing
 	mkdir -p fuzz-testing fuzz-testing/testcases fuzz-testing/out
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 [![GitHub Downloads](https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/nlohmann/json/total)](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/releases)
 [![GitHub Issues](https://img.shields.io/github/issues/nlohmann/json.svg)](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/issues)
 [![Average time to resolve an issue](https://isitmaintained.com/badge/resolution/nlohmann/json.svg)](https://isitmaintained.com/project/nlohmann/json "Average time to resolve an issue")
-[![OpenSSF Best Practices](https://www.bestpractices.dev/projects/289/badge)](https://www.bestpractices.dev/projects/289)
+[![CII Best Practices](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/289/badge)](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/289)
 [![OpenSSF Scorecard](https://api.scorecard.dev/projects/github.com/nlohmann/json/badge)](https://scorecard.dev/viewer/?uri=github.com/nlohmann/json)
 [![Backup Status](https://app.cloudback.it/badge/nlohmann/json)](https://cloudback.it)
 [![GitHub Sponsors](https://img.shields.io/badge/GitHub-Sponsors-ff69b4)](https://github.com/sponsors/nlohmann)
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
  - [Implicit conversions](#implicit-conversions)
  - [Conversions to/from arbitrary types](#arbitrary-types-conversions)
  - [Specializing enum conversion](#specializing-enum-conversion)
-  - [Binary formats (BSON, CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON, and BJData)](#binary-formats-bson-cbor-messagepack-ubjson-and-bjdata)
+  - [Binary formats (BSON, CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON, BJData, and BON8)](#binary-formats-bson-cbor-messagepack-ubjson-bjdata-and-bon8)
 - [Customers](#customers)
 - [Ecosystem](#ecosystem)
 - [Supported compilers](#supported-compilers)
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ There are myriads of [JSON](https://json.org) libraries out there, and each may

 - **Trivial integration**. Our whole code consists of a single header file [`json.hpp`](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/blob/develop/single_include/nlohmann/json.hpp). That's it. No library, no subproject, no dependencies, no complex build system. The class is written in vanilla C++11. All in all, everything should require no adjustment of your compiler flags or project settings. The library is also included in all popular [package managers](https://json.nlohmann.me/integration/package_managers/).

- **Serious testing**. Our code is heavily [unit-tested](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/tree/develop/tests/src) and covers [100%](https://coveralls.io/r/nlohmann/json) of the code, including all exceptional behavior. Furthermore, we checked with [Valgrind](https://valgrind.org) and the [Clang Sanitizers](https://clang.llvm.org/docs/index.html) that there are no memory leaks. [Google OSS-Fuzz](https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/tree/master/projects/json) additionally runs fuzz tests against all parsers 24/7, effectively executing billions of tests so far. To maintain high quality, the project is following the [OpenSSF Best Practices](https://www.bestpractices.dev/projects/289). See the [quality assurance](https://json.nlohmann.me/community/quality_assurance) overview documentation.
+- **Serious testing**. Our code is heavily [unit-tested](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/tree/develop/tests/src) and covers [100%](https://coveralls.io/r/nlohmann/json) of the code, including all exceptional behavior. Furthermore, we checked with [Valgrind](https://valgrind.org) and the [Clang Sanitizers](https://clang.llvm.org/docs/index.html) that there are no memory leaks. [Google OSS-Fuzz](https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/tree/master/projects/json) additionally runs fuzz tests against all parsers 24/7, effectively executing billions of tests so far. To maintain high quality, the project is following the [Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) best practices](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/289). See the [quality assurance](https://json.nlohmann.me/community/quality_assurance) overview documentation.

 Other aspects were not so important to us:

@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ There is also a [**docset**](https://github.com/Kapeli/Dash-User-Contributions/t
 - **JSON Pointer functions**: [flatten](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/flatten), [unflatten](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/unflatten)
 - **JSON Patch functions**: [patch](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/patch), [patch_inplace](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/patch_inplace), [diff](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/diff), [merge_patch](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/merge_patch)
 - **Static functions**: [meta](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/meta), [get_allocator](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/get_allocator)
- **Binary formats**: [from_bjdata](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_bjdata), [from_bson](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_bson), [from_cbor](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_cbor), [from_msgpack](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_msgpack), [from_ubjson](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_ubjson), [to_bjdata](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_bjdata), [to_bson](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_bson), [to_cbor](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_cbor), [to_msgpack](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_msgpack), [to_ubjson](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_ubjson)
+- **Binary formats**: [from_bjdata](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_bjdata), [from_bon8](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_bon8), [from_bson](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_bson), [from_cbor](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_cbor), [from_msgpack](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_msgpack), [from_ubjson](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_ubjson), [to_bjdata](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_bjdata), [to_bon8](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_bon8), [to_bson](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_bson), [to_cbor](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_cbor), [to_msgpack](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_msgpack), [to_ubjson](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_ubjson)
 - **Non-member functions**: [operator<<](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/operator_ltlt/), [operator>>](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/operator_gtgt/), [to_string](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_string)
 - **Literals**: [operator""_json](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/operator_literal_json)
 - **Helper classes**: [std::hash&lt;basic_json&gt;](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/std_hash), [std::swap&lt;basic_json&gt;](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/std_swap)
@@ -1110,9 +1110,9 @@ Other Important points:
 - When using `get<ENUM_TYPE>()`, undefined JSON values will default to the first pair specified in your map. Select this default pair carefully. If you desire an exception in this circumstance use `NLOHMANN_JSON_SERIALIZE_ENUM_STRICT()` which behaves identically except for throwing an exception on unrecognized values.
 - If an enum or JSON value is specified more than once in your map, the first matching occurrence from the top of the map will be returned when converting to or from JSON.

-### Binary formats (BSON, CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON, and BJData)
+### Binary formats (BSON, CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON, BJData, and BON8)

-Though JSON is a ubiquitous data format, it is not a very compact format suitable for data exchange, for instance over a network. Hence, the library supports [BSON](https://bsonspec.org) (Binary JSON), [CBOR](https://cbor.io) (Concise Binary Object Representation), [MessagePack](https://msgpack.org), [UBJSON](https://ubjson.org) (Universal Binary JSON Specification) and [BJData](https://neurojson.org/bjdata) (Binary JData) to efficiently encode JSON values to byte vectors and to decode such vectors.
+Though JSON is a ubiquitous data format, it is not a very compact format suitable for data exchange, for instance over a network. Hence, the library supports [BSON](https://bsonspec.org) (Binary JSON), [CBOR](https://cbor.io) (Concise Binary Object Representation), [MessagePack](https://msgpack.org), [UBJSON](https://ubjson.org) (Universal Binary JSON Specification), [BJData](https://neurojson.org/bjdata) (Binary JData), and [BON8](https://github.com/hikoworks/hikogui/blob/main/docs/BON8.md) (Binary Object Notation 8) to efficiently encode JSON values to byte vectors and to decode such vectors.

 ```cpp
 // create a JSON value
@@ -1149,6 +1149,14 @@ std::vector<std::uint8_t> v_ubjson = json::to_ubjson(j);

 // roundtrip
 json j_from_ubjson = json::from_ubjson(v_ubjson);
+
+// serialize to BON8
+std::vector<std::uint8_t> v_bon8 = json::to_bon8(j);
+
+// 0x88, 0x63, 0x6F, 0x6D, 0x70, 0x61, 0x63, 0x74, 0xF9, 0x73, 0x63, 0x68, 0x65, 0x6D, 0x61, 0x90
+
+// roundtrip
+json j_from_bon8 = json::from_bon8(v_bon8);
 ```

 The library also supports binary types from BSON, CBOR (byte strings), and MessagePack (bin, ext, fixext). They are stored by default as `std::vector<std::uint8_t>` to be processed outside the library.
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ add_custom_target(ci_infer

 add_custom_target(ci_offline_testdata
    COMMAND mkdir -p ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_offline_testdata/test_data
-    COMMAND cd ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_offline_testdata/test_data && ${GIT_TOOL} clone -c advice.detachedHead=false --branch v3.1.0 https://github.com/nlohmann/json_test_data.git --quiet --depth 1
+    COMMAND cd ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_offline_testdata/test_data && ${GIT_TOOL} clone -c advice.detachedHead=false --branch v3.2.0 https://github.com/nlohmann/json_test_data.git --quiet --depth 1
    COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND}
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -GNinja
        -DJSON_BuildTests=ON -DJSON_FastTests=ON -DJSON_TestDataDirectory=${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_offline_testdata/test_data/json_test_data
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ add_custom_target(ci_single_binaries
 add_custom_target(ci_benchmarks
    COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND}
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -GNinja
-        -S${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/tests/benchmarks -B${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_benchmarks
+        -S${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/benchmarks -B${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_benchmarks
    COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} --build ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_benchmarks --target json_benchmarks
    COMMAND cd ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_benchmarks && ./json_benchmarks
    COMMENT "Run benchmarks"
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 set(JSON_TEST_DATA_URL     https://github.com/nlohmann/json_test_data)
-set(JSON_TEST_DATA_VERSION 3.1.0)
+set(JSON_TEST_DATA_VERSION 3.2.0)

 include(ExternalProject)

@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ if(CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING)
 endif()
 if(NOT DEFINED LIBCPP_VERSION_OUTPUT_CACHED)
    try_run(RUN_RESULT_VAR COMPILE_RESULT_VAR
-        "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}" SOURCES "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/detect_libcpp_version.cpp"
+        "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}" SOURCES "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/detect_libcpp_version.cpp"
        RUN_OUTPUT_VARIABLE LIBCPP_VERSION_OUTPUT
        COMPILE_OUTPUT_VARIABLE LIBCPP_VERSION_COMPILE_OUTPUT
    )
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::from_bjdata', 'Fu
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::from_bson', 'Function', 'api/basic_json/from_bson/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::from_cbor', 'Function', 'api/basic_json/from_cbor/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::from_msgpack', 'Function', 'api/basic_json/from_msgpack/index.html');
+INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::from_bon8', 'Function', 'api/basic_json/from_bon8/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::from_ubjson', 'Function', 'api/basic_json/from_ubjson/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::front', 'Method', 'api/basic_json/front/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::get', 'Method', 'api/basic_json/get/index.html');
@@ -121,6 +122,7 @@ INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::to_bjdata', 'Func
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::to_bson', 'Function', 'api/basic_json/to_bson/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::to_cbor', 'Function', 'api/basic_json/to_cbor/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::to_msgpack', 'Function', 'api/basic_json/to_msgpack/index.html');
+INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::to_bon8', 'Function', 'api/basic_json/to_bon8/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::to_string', 'Method', 'api/basic_json/to_string/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::to_ubjson', 'Function', 'api/basic_json/to_ubjson/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::value', 'Method', 'api/basic_json/value/index.html');
@@ -171,6 +173,7 @@ INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('Binary Formats: BJData', 'Gui
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('Binary Formats: BSON', 'Guide', 'features/binary_formats/bson/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('Binary Formats: CBOR', 'Guide', 'features/binary_formats/cbor/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('Binary Formats: MessagePack', 'Guide', 'features/binary_formats/messagepack/index.html');
+INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('Binary Formats: BON8', 'Guide', 'features/binary_formats/bon8/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('Binary Formats: UBJSON', 'Guide', 'features/binary_formats/ubjson/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('Binary Values', 'Guide', 'features/binary_values/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('Comments', 'Guide', 'features/comments/index.html');
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ Linear in the size of the input.
 - [from_msgpack](from_msgpack.md) create a JSON value from an input in MessagePack format
 - [from_bson](from_bson.md) create a JSON value from an input in BSON format
 - [from_ubjson](from_ubjson.md) create a JSON value from an input in UBJSON format
+- [from_bon8](from_bon8.md) create a JSON value from an input in BON8 format

 ## Version history

@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+# <small>nlohmann::basic_json::</small>from_bon8
+
+```cpp
+// (1)
+template<typename InputType>
+static basic_json from_bon8(InputType&& i,
+                            const bool strict = true,
+                            const bool allow_exceptions = true);
+// (2)
+template<typename IteratorType, typename SentinelType = IteratorType>
+static basic_json from_bon8(IteratorType first, SentinelType last,
+                            const bool strict = true,
+                            const bool allow_exceptions = true);
+```
+
+Deserializes a given input to a JSON value using the BON8 (Binary Object Notation 8) serialization format.
+
+1. Reads from a compatible input.
+2. Reads from an iterator range, or an iterator and a sentinel of a different type (C++20 ranges support).
+
+The exact mapping and its limitations are described on a [dedicated page](../../features/binary_formats/bon8.md).
+
+## Template parameters
+
+`InputType`
+:   A compatible input, for instance:
+
+    - an `std::istream` object
+    - a `FILE` pointer
+    - a C-style array of characters
+    - a pointer to a null-terminated string of single byte characters
+    - a container `obj` for which `begin(obj)` and `end(obj)` produce a valid pair of iterators
+      (as found via ADL or member functions, with semantics compatible to `std::begin` and `std::end`)
+
+`IteratorType`
+:   a compatible iterator type
+
+`SentinelType`
+:   defaults to `IteratorType`; may be a different type comparable to `IteratorType` via `operator!=`, for instance.
+
+    - a custom sentinel type for C++20 ranges
+    - `std::default_sentinel_t`, when `IteratorType` is `std::counted_iterator`
+
+## Parameters
+
+`i` (in)
+:   an input in BON8 format convertible to an input adapter
+
+`first` (in)
+:   iterator to the start of the input
+
+`last` (in)
+:   iterator to the end of the input, or a sentinel value that compares equal to the end iterator with `operator!=`
+
+`strict` (in)
+:   whether to expect the input to be consumed until EOF (`#!cpp true` by default)
+
+`allow_exceptions` (in)
+:   whether to throw exceptions in case of a parse error (optional, `#!cpp true` by default)
+
+## Return value
+
+deserialized JSON value; in case of a parse error and `allow_exceptions` set to `#!cpp false`, the return value will be
+`value_t::discarded`. The latter can be checked with [`is_discarded`](is_discarded.md).
+
+## Exception safety
+
+Strong guarantee: if an exception is thrown, there are no changes in the JSON value.
+
+## Exceptions
+
+- Throws [parse_error.110](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionparse_error110) if the given input ends prematurely or
+  the end of the file was not reached when `strict` was set to true
+- Throws [parse_error.112](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionparse_error112) if a parse error occurs, for instance
+  an invalid byte, a string that is not valid UTF-8, or an object key that is not a string
+
+## Complexity
+
+Linear in the size of the input.
+
+## Examples
+
+??? example
+
+    The example shows the deserialization of a byte vector in BON8 format to a JSON value.
+     
+    ```cpp
+    --8<-- "examples/from_bon8.cpp"
+    ```
+    
+    Output:
+    
+    ```json
+    --8<-- "examples/from_bon8.output"
+    ```
+
+## See also
+
+- [to_bon8](to_bon8.md) create a BON8 serialization of a JSON value
+- [from_cbor](from_cbor.md) create a JSON value from an input in CBOR format
+- [from_msgpack](from_msgpack.md) create a JSON value from an input in MessagePack format
+- [from_bson](from_bson.md) create a JSON value from an input in BSON format
+- [from_ubjson](from_ubjson.md) create a JSON value from an input in UBJSON format
+- [from_bjdata](from_bjdata.md) create a JSON value from an input in BJData format
+
+## Version history
+
+- Added in version 3.13.0.
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ Linear in the size of the input.
 - [from_msgpack](from_msgpack.md) for the related MessagePack format
 - [from_ubjson](from_ubjson.md) for the related UBJSON format
 - [from_bjdata](from_bjdata.md) for the related BJData format
+- [from_bon8](from_bon8.md) for the related BON8 format

 ## Version history

@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ Linear in the size of the input.
 - [from_bson](from_bson.md) create a JSON value from an input in BSON format
 - [from_ubjson](from_ubjson.md) create a JSON value from an input in UBJSON format
 - [from_bjdata](from_bjdata.md) create a JSON value from an input in BJData format
+- [from_bon8](from_bon8.md) create a JSON value from an input in BON8 format

 ## Version history

@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ Linear in the size of the input.
 - [from_bson](from_bson.md) create a JSON value from an input in BSON format
 - [from_ubjson](from_ubjson.md) create a JSON value from an input in UBJSON format
 - [from_bjdata](from_bjdata.md) create a JSON value from an input in BJData format
+- [from_bon8](from_bon8.md) create a JSON value from an input in BON8 format

 ## Version history

@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ Linear in the size of the input.
 - [from_msgpack](from_msgpack.md) create a JSON value from an input in MessagePack format
 - [from_bson](from_bson.md) create a JSON value from an input in BSON format
 - [from_bjdata](from_bjdata.md) create a JSON value from an input in BJData format
+- [from_bon8](from_bon8.md) create a JSON value from an input in BON8 format

 ## Version history

@@ -290,11 +290,13 @@ Access to the JSON value
 ### Binary formats

 - [**from_bjdata**](from_bjdata.md) (_static_) - create a JSON value from an input in BJData format
+- [**from_bon8**](from_bon8.md) (_static_) - create a JSON value from an input in BON8 format
 - [**from_bson**](from_bson.md) (_static_) - create a JSON value from an input in BSON format
 - [**from_cbor**](from_cbor.md) (_static_) - create a JSON value from an input in CBOR format
 - [**from_msgpack**](from_msgpack.md) (_static_) - create a JSON value from an input in MessagePack format
 - [**from_ubjson**](from_ubjson.md) (_static_) - create a JSON value from an input in UBJSON format
 - [**to_bjdata**](to_bjdata.md) (_static_) - create a BJData serialization of a given JSON value
+- [**to_bon8**](to_bon8.md) (_static_) - create a BON8 serialization of a given JSON value
 - [**to_bson**](to_bson.md) (_static_) - create a BSON serialization of a given JSON value
 - [**to_cbor**](to_cbor.md) (_static_) - create a CBOR serialization of a given JSON value
 - [**to_msgpack**](to_msgpack.md) (_static_) - create a MessagePack serialization of a given JSON value
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ enum class input_format_t {
    msgpack,
    ubjson,
    bson,
-    bjdata
+    bjdata,
+    bon8
 };
 ```

@@ -31,6 +32,9 @@ bson
 bjdata
 :   BJData (Binary JData)

+bon8
+:   BON8 (Binary Object Notation 8)
+
 ## Examples

 ??? example
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ class parse_error : public exception;
 ```

 The library throws this exception when a parse error occurs. Parse errors can occur during the deserialization of
-JSON text, BSON, CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON, as well as when using JSON Patch.
+JSON text, BJData, BON8, BSON, CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON, as well as when using JSON Patch.

 Member `byte` holds the byte index of the last read character in the input file (see note below).

@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ The SAX event lister must follow the interface of [`json_sax`](../json_sax/index
 :   SAX event listener (must not be null)

 `format` (in)
-:    the format to parse (JSON, CBOR, MessagePack, or UBJSON) (optional, `input_format_t::json` by default), see
+:    the format to parse (JSON, BJData, BON8, BSON, CBOR, MessagePack, or UBJSON) (optional, `input_format_t::json` by
+     default), see
     [`input_format_t`](input_format_t.md) for more information

 `strict` (in)
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ Linear in the size of the JSON value `j`.
 - [to_msgpack](to_msgpack.md) create a MessagePack serialization of a JSON value
 - [to_bson](to_bson.md) create a BSON serialization of a JSON value
 - [to_ubjson](to_ubjson.md) create a UBJSON serialization of a JSON value
+- [to_bon8](to_bon8.md) create a BON8 serialization of a JSON value

 ## Version history

@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+# <small>nlohmann::basic_json::</small>to_bon8
+
+```cpp
+// (1)
+static std::vector<std::uint8_t> to_bon8(const basic_json& j);
+
+// (2)
+static void to_bon8(const basic_json& j, detail::output_adapter<std::uint8_t> o);
+static void to_bon8(const basic_json& j, detail::output_adapter<char> o);
+```
+
+Serializes a given JSON value `j` to a byte vector using the BON8 (Binary Object Notation 8) serialization format. BON8
+is a compact binary serialization format that stores strings as UTF-8 without a length prefix.
+
+1. Returns a byte vector containing the BON8 serialization.
+2. Writes the BON8 serialization to an output adapter.
+
+The exact mapping and its limitations are described on a [dedicated page](../../features/binary_formats/bon8.md).
+
+## Parameters
+
+`j` (in)
+:   JSON value to serialize
+
+`o` (in)
+:   output adapter to write serialization to
+
+## Return value
+
+1. BON8 serialization as a byte vector
+2. (none)
+
+## Exception safety
+
+Strong guarantee: if an exception is thrown, there are no changes in the JSON value `j`, which is never modified.
+With (2), the bytes written before the exception remain in the output adapter.
+
+## Exceptions
+
+- Throws [out_of_range.407](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range407) if `j` contains an unsigned integer
+  above 9223372036854775807, which BON8 cannot represent
+- Throws [type_error.316](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptiontype_error316) if `j` contains a string that is not
+  valid UTF-8
+
+## Complexity
+
+Linear in the size of the JSON value `j`.
+
+## Examples
+
+??? example
+
+    The example shows the serialization of a JSON value to a byte vector in BON8 format.
+     
+    ```cpp
+    --8<-- "examples/to_bon8.cpp"
+    ```
+    
+    Output:
+    
+    ```json
+    --8<-- "examples/to_bon8.output"
+    ```
+
+## See also
+
+- [from_bon8](from_bon8.md) create a JSON value from an input in BON8 format
+- [to_cbor](to_cbor.md) create a CBOR serialization of a JSON value
+- [to_msgpack](to_msgpack.md) create a MessagePack serialization of a JSON value
+- [to_bson](to_bson.md) create a BSON serialization of a JSON value
+- [to_ubjson](to_ubjson.md) create a UBJSON serialization of a JSON value
+- [to_bjdata](to_bjdata.md) create a BJData serialization of a JSON value
+
+## Version history
+
+- Added in version 3.13.0.
@@ -46,8 +46,9 @@ Strong guarantee: if an exception is thrown, there are no changes in the JSON va

 ## Complexity

-Linear in the size of the JSON value `j`. The length prefixes of all nested documents and arrays are computed in one
-pass before anything is written.
+Proportional to the size of the JSON value `j` multiplied by its maximum nesting
+depth, `O(n × d)`. BSON length prefixes are computed recursively before nested
+values are written.

 ## Examples

@@ -72,8 +73,8 @@ pass before anything is written.
 - [to_msgpack](to_msgpack.md) create a MessagePack serialization of a JSON value
 - [to_ubjson](to_ubjson.md) create a UBJSON serialization of a JSON value
 - [to_bjdata](to_bjdata.md) create a BJData serialization of a JSON value
+- [to_bon8](to_bon8.md) create a BON8 serialization of a JSON value

 ## Version history

 - Added in version 3.4.0.
- Linear in the size of `j`, and no longer limited by the call stack for deeply nested values, since version 3.13.0.
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ Linear in the size of the JSON value `j`.
 - [to_bson](to_bson.md) create a BSON serialization of a JSON value
 - [to_ubjson](to_ubjson.md) create a UBJSON serialization of a JSON value
 - [to_bjdata](to_bjdata.md) create a BJData serialization of a JSON value
+- [to_bon8](to_bon8.md) create a BON8 serialization of a JSON value

 ## Version history

@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ Linear in the size of the JSON value `j`.
 - [to_bson](to_bson.md) create a BSON serialization of a JSON value
 - [to_ubjson](to_ubjson.md) create a UBJSON serialization of a JSON value
 - [to_bjdata](to_bjdata.md) create a BJData serialization of a JSON value
+- [to_bon8](to_bon8.md) create a BON8 serialization of a JSON value

 ## Version history

@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ Linear in the size of the JSON value `j`.
 - [to_msgpack](to_msgpack.md) create a MessagePack serialization of a JSON value
 - [to_bson](to_bson.md) create a BSON serialization of a JSON value
 - [to_bjdata](to_bjdata.md) create a BJData serialization of a JSON value
+- [to_bon8](to_bon8.md) create a BON8 serialization of a JSON value

 ## Version history

@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ The macro only affects the JSON text parser ([`parse`](../basic_json/parse.md),
 [`sax_parse`](../basic_json/sax_parse.md), and [`operator>>`](../operator_gtgt.md)). There are three cases where a NUL
 byte is still not rejected:

- The binary formats ([`from_bjdata`](../basic_json/from_bjdata.md), [`from_bson`](../basic_json/from_bson.md),
-  [`from_cbor`](../basic_json/from_cbor.md), [`from_msgpack`](../basic_json/from_msgpack.md),
-  [`from_ubjson`](../basic_json/from_ubjson.md)) are never affected: there, `0x00` is ordinary data.
+- The binary formats ([`from_bjdata`](../basic_json/from_bjdata.md), [`from_bon8`](../basic_json/from_bon8.md),
+  [`from_bson`](../basic_json/from_bson.md), [`from_cbor`](../basic_json/from_cbor.md),
+  [`from_msgpack`](../basic_json/from_msgpack.md), [`from_ubjson`](../basic_json/from_ubjson.md)) are never affected: there, `0x00` is ordinary data.
 - A bare `const char*` pointer has no length of its own, so its length is still determined with `strlen()`. The first
  NUL byte therefore still marks the end of the input, and nothing after it is read.
 - One trailing `'\0'` at the end of a `char` array (e.g., a string literal) is trimmed; see the warning below.
@@ -65,12 +65,6 @@ The default value is `0` (disabled — existing behavior is preserved).
    for CBOR or MessagePack, are never affected by this trimming; their full extent - including a genuine trailing
    `0x00` - is always preserved, in both states of this macro.

-!!! note "ABI compatibility"
-
-    The value of this macro is encoded in the [namespace](../../features/namespace.md) (tag `_snul`), resulting in
-    distinct symbol names. Translation units compiled with and without it can therefore be linked into the same program
-    without One Definition Rule (ODR) violations, but they cannot exchange instances of library types.
-
 !!! tip "Workaround without the macro"

    To reject a NUL byte without enabling this macro, trim your input yourself before calling `parse()`:
@@ -57,8 +57,7 @@ Summary:
 :   name of the base type (class, struct) `type` is derived from

 `member` (in)
-:   name of the member variable to serialize/deserialize; up to 63 members can be given as a comma-separated
-    list, which may also be empty
+:   name of the member variable to serialize/deserialize; up to 63 members can be given as a comma-separated list

 ## Default definition

@@ -128,20 +127,6 @@ void to_json(BasicJsonType& j, const B& b) {
    - Macros 4, 5, and 6 have the same prerequisites of [NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE](nlohmann_define_type_non_intrusive.md).
    - Serialization/deserialization of base types must be defined.

-!!! info "Derived types without own members"
-
-    The member list may be empty. The macro then generates a `to_json`/`from_json` pair that only delegates to
-    the base type, so `type` serializes exactly like `base_type`:
-
-    ```cpp
-    struct derived : base
-    {
-        NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE(derived, base)
-    };
-    ```
-
-    The `WITH_NAMES` variants do not support this.
-
 !!! warning "Implementation limits"

    See Implementation limits for [NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE](nlohmann_define_type_intrusive.md) and
@@ -33,8 +33,7 @@ Summary:
 :   name of the type (class, struct) to serialize/deserialize

 `member` (in)
-:   name of the member variable to serialize/deserialize; up to 63 members can be given as a comma-separated
-    list, which may also be empty
+:   name of the member variable to serialize/deserialize; up to 63 members can be given as a comma-separated list

 ## Default definition

@@ -59,20 +58,6 @@ See the examples below for the concrete generated code.

 [GetNonDefNonCopy]: ../../features/arbitrary_types.md#how-can-i-use-get-for-non-default-constructiblenon-copyable-types

-!!! info "Types without members"
-
-    The member list may be empty. The macro then generates a `to_json` that produces an empty JSON object
-    `#!json {}`, and a `from_json` that reads no members:
-
-    ```cpp
-    struct marker
-    {
-        NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE(marker)
-    };
-    ```
-
-    The `WITH_NAMES` variants do not support this.
-
 !!! warning "Implementation limits"

    - The current implementation is limited to at most 63 member variables. If you want to serialize/deserialize types
@@ -33,8 +33,7 @@ Summary:
 :   name of the type (class, struct) to serialize/deserialize

 `member` (in)
-:   name of the (public) member variable to serialize/deserialize; up to 63 members can be given as a
-    comma-separated list, which may also be empty
+:   name of the (public) member variable to serialize/deserialize; up to 63 members can be given as a comma-separated list

 ## Default definition

@@ -60,18 +59,6 @@ See the examples below for the concrete generated code.

 [GetNonDefNonCopy]: ../../features/arbitrary_types.md#how-can-i-use-get-for-non-default-constructiblenon-copyable-types

-!!! info "Types without members"
-
-    The member list may be empty. The macro then generates a `to_json` that produces an empty JSON object
-    `#!json {}`, and a `from_json` that reads no members:
-
-    ```cpp
-    struct marker {};
-    NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE(marker)
-    ```
-
-    The `WITH_NAMES` variants do not support this.
-
 !!! warning "Implementation limits"

    - The current implementation is limited to at most 63 member variables. If you want to serialize/deserialize types
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ that an attacker controls, passed to [`parse`](../api/basic_json/parse.md), [`ac
  user code. The destructor does not recurse, so destroying a deeply nested value does not exhaust the stack.
 - **Bounded recursion.** The JSON parser and the binary readers keep their state in explicit stacks instead of
  recursing per nesting level. Operations that walk a value, such as [`dump`](../api/basic_json/dump.md), copying,
-  comparison, hashing, and [`merge_patch`](../api/basic_json/merge_patch.md), recurse only up to a fixed depth and
-  continue with an explicit stack below it. Some operations, such as [`diff`](../api/basic_json/diff.md),
+  hashing, and [`merge_patch`](../api/basic_json/merge_patch.md), recurse only up to a fixed depth and continue with an
+  explicit stack below it. Some operations, such as comparison, [`diff`](../api/basic_json/diff.md),
  [`flatten`](../api/basic_json/flatten.md), and the binary writers, still recurse once per nesting level; work on them
  is in progress. Applications that process untrusted input can limit its nesting depth with a
  [parser callback](../features/parsing/parser_callbacks.md).
@@ -91,31 +91,6 @@ activities include (but are not limited to):
 Users who continue to engage with the project and its community will often find themselves becoming more and more
 involved. Such users may then go on to become contributors, as described above.

-## Access to project resources
-
-The project's resources are the [GitHub repository](https://github.com/nlohmann/json) with its settings, CI workflows
-and secrets, and the documentation at [json.nlohmann.me](https://json.nlohmann.me), which is built and deployed from
-the repository. Currently, the project lead is the only person with write or admin access to them.
-
-### Granting access
-
-Write or admin access is only granted by the project lead, and only to a contributor whose track record in the project
-the project lead has reviewed first. The role is assigned manually and is the lowest one that is needed for the task.
-Access is removed when it is no longer needed. GitHub requires two-factor authentication for everyone who can modify the
-repository.
-
-### Secrets
-
-The CI workflows mostly use the token that GitHub creates for each workflow run. It is read-only by default, and each
-workflow requests only the additional permissions it needs. The few other credentials, such as the token for
-[Semgrep](https://semgrep.dev), are stored as encrypted GitHub Actions secrets:
-
- Only people with admin access can create, change, or delete them. Their values cannot be read back, not even by
-  admins.
- They are not passed to workflows that run for pull requests from forks.
- They must never be committed to the repository or printed in logs.
- They are rotated whenever someone with admin access leaves the project, and immediately if a leak is suspected.
-
 ## Support

 All participants in the community are encouraged to provide support for new users within the project management
@@ -200,25 +200,6 @@ Note: Some modern features (like C++20 ranges or filesystem support) may be disa
 - [x] The test suite is executed with [Sanitizers](https://github.com/google/sanitizers) (address sanitizer, undefined
  behavior sanitizer, integer overflow detection, nullability violations).

-## Dependencies
-
-!!! success "Requirement: No vulnerable dependencies"
-
-    The library has no dependencies besides the C++ standard library. The tools used to build, test, and document it
-    are kept free of known vulnerabilities.
-
- [x] GitHub Actions are pinned to a commit hash, and the Python packages used by the documentation and the tools are
-  pinned to exact versions.
- [x] [Dependabot](https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot) checks these dependencies daily and proposes
-  updates as pull requests.
- [x] Every pull request is checked with the
-  [dependency review action](https://github.com/actions/dependency-review-action). A pull request that adds a
-  dependency with a known vulnerability of any severity fails this check and is not merged.
- [x] Vulnerability alerts for dependencies are fixed or dismissed with a documented reason before the next release.
-  No release is made while such an alert is open.
- [x] Third-party code included in the repository for testing, such as [doctest](https://github.com/doctest/doctest),
-  is updated manually.
-
 ## Style check

 !!! success "Requirement: Common code style"
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#include <iostream>
+#include <iomanip>
+#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
+
+using json = nlohmann::json;
+
+int main()
+{
+    // create byte vector
+    std::vector<std::uint8_t> v = {0x89, 0x63, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x70, 0x61, 0x63, 0x74,
+                                   0xf9, 0x66, 0x6f, 0x72, 0x6d, 0x61, 0x74, 0xff,
+                                   0x42, 0x4f, 0x4e, 0x38, 0xff, 0x73, 0x63, 0x68,
+                                   0x65, 0x6d, 0x61, 0x90
+                                  };
+
+    // deserialize it with BON8
+    json j = json::from_bon8(v);
+
+    // print the deserialized JSON value
+    std::cout << std::setw(2) << j << std::endl;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+  "compact": true,
+  "format": "BON8",
+  "schema": 0
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#include <iostream>
+#include <iomanip>
+#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
+
+using json = nlohmann::json;
+using namespace nlohmann::literals;
+
+int main()
+{
+    // create a JSON value
+    json j = R"({"compact": true, "format": "BON8", "schema": 0})"_json;
+
+    // serialize it to BON8
+    std::vector<std::uint8_t> v = json::to_bon8(j);
+
+    // print the vector content
+    for (auto& byte : v)
+    {
+        std::cout << "0x" << std::hex << std::setw(2) << std::setfill('0') << (int)byte << " ";
+    }
+    std::cout << std::endl;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0x89 0x63 0x6f 0x6d 0x70 0x61 0x63 0x74 0xf9 0x66 0x6f 0x72 0x6d 0x61 0x74 0xff 0x42 0x4f 0x4e 0x38 0xff 0x73 0x63 0x68 0x65 0x6d 0x61 0x90 
@@ -215,24 +215,6 @@ For _derived_ classes and structs, use the following macros
    nlohmann::ordered_json j = p; // keys appear in declaration order: name, address, age
    ```

-!!! note "Zero-member types"
-
-    All 12 `NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_*`/`NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_*` macros (excluding the `WITH_NAMES` variants)
-    also accept types with no member variables to serialize, producing/accepting an empty JSON object `{}`
-    (or, for the derived-type macros, just the base class's own JSON representation):
-
-    ```cpp
-    namespace ns {
-        struct marker {
-            bool operator==(const marker&) const { return true; }
-            NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE(marker)
-        };
-    }
-
-    ns::marker m{};
-    nlohmann::json j = m; // {}
-    ```
-
 !!! note "No macro for non-default-constructible types"

    There is currently no `NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_*`-style macro for types that are not
@@ -0,0 +1,159 @@
+# BON8
+
+BON8 (Binary Object Notation 8) is a compact binary serialization format for JSON values. It uses the byte values that
+cannot begin a UTF-8 character as type markers, so strings are stored as plain UTF-8 without a length prefix: a string
+ends at the first byte that cannot continue it. Integers from -10 to 39, `true`, `false`, `null`, and the floating-point
+values -1.0, 0.0, and 1.0 take a single byte, and arrays and objects with up to four elements need no terminator.
+
+!!! abstract "References"
+
+    - [BON8 specification](https://github.com/hikoworks/hikogui/blob/main/docs/BON8.md)
+    - [Reference implementation](https://github.com/hikoworks/hikogui/blob/main/src/hikogui/codec/BON8.hpp) in HikoGUI
+
+## Serialization
+
+The library uses the following mapping from JSON values types to BON8 types according to the BON8 specification:
+
+| JSON value type | value/range                                  | BON8 type                     | first byte |
+|-----------------|----------------------------------------------|-------------------------------|------------|
+| null            | `null`                                       | null                          | 0xFA       |
+| boolean         | `true`                                       | true                          | 0xF9       |
+| boolean         | `false`                                      | false                         | 0xF8       |
+| number_integer  | -9223372036854775808..-2147483649            | int64                         | 0x8D       |
+| number_integer  | -2147483648..-33818507                       | int32                         | 0x8C       |
+| number_integer  | -33818506..-264075                           | 4-byte negative integer       | 0xF0..0xF7 |
+| number_integer  | -264074..-1931                               | 3-byte negative integer       | 0xE0..0xEF |
+| number_integer  | -1930..-11                                   | 2-byte negative integer       | 0xC2..0xDF |
+| number_integer  | -10..-1                                      | 1-byte negative integer       | 0xB8..0xC1 |
+| number_integer  | 0..39                                        | 1-byte positive integer       | 0x90..0xB7 |
+| number_integer  | 40..3879                                     | 2-byte positive integer       | 0xC2..0xDF |
+| number_integer  | 3880..528167                                 | 3-byte positive integer       | 0xE0..0xEF |
+| number_integer  | 528168..67637031                             | 4-byte positive integer       | 0xF0..0xF7 |
+| number_integer  | 67637032..2147483647                         | int32                         | 0x8C       |
+| number_integer  | 2147483648..9223372036854775807              | int64                         | 0x8D       |
+| number_unsigned | 0..39                                        | 1-byte positive integer       | 0x90..0xB7 |
+| number_unsigned | 40..3879                                     | 2-byte positive integer       | 0xC2..0xDF |
+| number_unsigned | 3880..528167                                 | 3-byte positive integer       | 0xE0..0xEF |
+| number_unsigned | 528168..67637031                             | 4-byte positive integer       | 0xF0..0xF7 |
+| number_unsigned | 67637032..2147483647                         | int32                         | 0x8C       |
+| number_unsigned | 2147483648..9223372036854775807              | int64                         | 0x8D       |
+| number_float    | `-1.0`                                       | -1.0                          | 0xFB       |
+| number_float    | `0.0`                                        | 0.0                           | 0xFC       |
+| number_float    | `1.0`                                        | 1.0                           | 0xFD       |
+| number_float    | *any other value representable by a float*   | binary32                      | 0x8E       |
+| number_float    | *any value NOT representable by a float*     | binary64                      | 0x8F       |
+| string          | *empty*                                      | end of string                 | 0xFF       |
+| string          | *non-empty*                                  | UTF-8 string                  | 0x00..0x7F, 0xC2..0xF4 |
+| array           | *size*: 0..4                                 | array with count              | 0x80..0x84 |
+| array           | *size*: 5 or more                            | array (terminated by 0xFE)    | 0x85       |
+| object          | *size*: 0..4                                 | object with count             | 0x86..0x8A |
+| object          | *size*: 5 or more                            | object (terminated by 0xFE)   | 0x8B       |
+| binary          | *size*: 0..4                                 | array with count              | 0x80..0x84 |
+| binary          | *size*: 5 or more                            | array (terminated by 0xFE)    | 0x85       |
+
+An integer that takes 2 to 4 bytes starts with a UTF-8 lead byte (0xC2..0xF7) that is followed by a byte that cannot
+continue a UTF-8 character: 0x00..0x7F for positive and 0xC0..0xFF for negative integers. A string is terminated by
+0xFF only if it is empty, if another string follows it, or if it is the last value of the message; otherwise, the first
+byte of the next value ends it.
+
+!!! success "Complete mapping"
+
+    Except for the values listed below, any JSON value can be converted to a BON8 value.
+
+    Any BON8 output created by `to_bon8` can be successfully parsed by `from_bon8`.
+
+!!! warning "Unsupported values"
+
+    The following values can **not** be converted to a BON8 value:
+
+      - unsigned integers above 9223372036854775807, because BON8 has no unsigned 64-bit integer type
+        ([out_of_range.407](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range407))
+      - strings that are not valid UTF-8, because the end of a string is determined from its encoding
+        ([type_error.316](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptiontype_error316))
+
+!!! info "NaN/infinity handling"
+
+    `-0.0`, `Infinity`, and `-Infinity` are serialized as binary32 (type 0x8E, 5 bytes total). `NaN` is serialized as
+    the binary32 value 0x7F800001 that the specification recommends. This is in contrast to the
+    [dump](../../api/basic_json/dump.md) function which serializes NaN or Infinity to `null`.
+
+!!! warning "Binary values"
+
+    BON8 has no binary type. Binary values are serialized as arrays of integers (0..255), so they are read back as
+    arrays. The subtype is not serialized.
+
+!!! info "Canonical representation"
+
+    The output follows the specification's canonical representation rules: every value uses the shortest encoding,
+    floating-point numbers use binary32 whenever that loses no precision, and object keys are sorted by their UTF-8
+    code units. There are two exceptions:
+
+    - Strings are not normalized to Unicode Normalization Form C (NFC).
+    - Object keys are written in the order of the object type, which is sorted for `json`, but not for
+      [`ordered_json`](../../api/ordered_json.md).
+
+??? example
+
+    ```cpp
+    --8<-- "examples/to_bon8.cpp"
+    ```
+
+    Output:
+
+    ```c
+    --8<-- "examples/to_bon8.output"
+    ```
+
+## Deserialization
+
+The library maps BON8 types to JSON value types as follows:
+
+| BON8 type                     | JSON value type | first byte             |
+|-------------------------------|-----------------|------------------------|
+| UTF-8 string                  | string          | 0x00..0x7F             |
+| array with count              | array           | 0x80..0x84             |
+| array (terminated by 0xFE)    | array           | 0x85                   |
+| object with count             | object          | 0x86..0x8A             |
+| object (terminated by 0xFE)   | object          | 0x8B                   |
+| int32                         | number_unsigned or number_integer | 0x8C |
+| int64                         | number_unsigned or number_integer | 0x8D |
+| binary32                      | number_float    | 0x8E                   |
+| binary64                      | number_float    | 0x8F                   |
+| 1-byte positive integer       | number_unsigned | 0x90..0xB7             |
+| 1-byte negative integer       | number_integer  | 0xB8..0xC1             |
+| UTF-8 string                  | string          | 0xC2..0xF4, followed by 0x80..0xBF |
+| 2- to 4-byte positive integer | number_unsigned | 0xC2..0xF7, followed by 0x00..0x7F |
+| 2- to 4-byte negative integer | number_integer  | 0xC2..0xF7, followed by 0xC0..0xFF |
+| false                         | `false`         | 0xF8                   |
+| true                          | `true`          | 0xF9                   |
+| null                          | `null`          | 0xFA                   |
+| -1.0                          | number_float    | 0xFB                   |
+| 0.0                           | number_float    | 0xFC                   |
+| 1.0                           | number_float    | 0xFD                   |
+| empty string                  | string          | 0xFF                   |
+
+Non-negative integers are read as number_unsigned, negative integers as number_integer.
+
+!!! info
+
+    Values that do not use the canonical representation, such as integers with a longer encoding than necessary,
+    arrays and objects with up to four elements that are terminated by 0xFE, unsorted object keys, or a 0xFF after a
+    string that would also end without it, are accepted. A second 0xFF is not a terminator but an empty string.
+
+    Strings must be valid UTF-8, and the last string of a message must be terminated by 0xFF.
+
+!!! info
+
+    Any BON8 output created by `to_bon8` can be successfully parsed by `from_bon8`.
+
+??? example
+
+    ```cpp
+    --8<-- "examples/from_bon8.cpp"
+    ```
+
+    Output:
+
+    ```json
+    --8<-- "examples/from_bon8.output"
+    ```
@@ -109,15 +109,6 @@ The library maps BSON record types to JSON value types as follows:
    If BSON input must be validated for strict specification compliance, validate it separately before passing it to
    `from_bson()`.

-!!! warning "UTF-8 validation of string values"
-
-    The BSON specification requires `string` values (type `0x02`) to be valid UTF-8. This library validates the
-    bytes of every such string at decode time and rejects ill-formed UTF-8 with a
-    [`parse_error.113`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionparse_error113) exception (or, with `allow_exceptions`
-    set to `false`, a discarded value), rather than only failing later when the resulting value is dumped. Element
-    (key) names and `binary` values (type `0x05`) are unaffected and are never validated, since they are read
-    byte-by-byte as a C string, or are not required to hold text, respectively.
-
 ??? example

    ```cpp
@@ -176,16 +176,6 @@ The library maps CBOR types to JSON value types as follows:

    CBOR allows map keys of any type, whereas JSON only allows strings as keys in object values. Therefore, CBOR maps with keys other than UTF-8 strings are rejected.

-!!! warning "UTF-8 validation of text strings"
-
-    [RFC 8949, Section 3.1](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8949.html#section-3.1) requires CBOR text strings
-    (major type 3) to be valid UTF-8. This library validates the bytes of every text string (object keys included) at
-    decode time and rejects ill-formed UTF-8 with a
-    [`parse_error.113`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionparse_error113) exception (or, with
-    `allow_exceptions` set to `false`, a discarded value), rather than only failing later when the resulting value is
-    dumped. Byte strings (major type 2) are unaffected and are never validated, since they are not required to hold
-    text.
-
 !!! warning "Tagged items"

    Tagged items (0xC0..0xDB) will throw a parse error by default. They can be ignored by passing `cbor_tag_handler_t::ignore` to function `from_cbor`, in which case the tag is skipped and the enclosed data item is parsed on its own. They can be stored by passing `cbor_tag_handler_t::store` to function `from_cbor`. Note that no tag is ever interpreted: for instance, a text string tagged with tag 0 (date/time) stays a string.
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Though JSON is a ubiquitous data format, it is not a very compact format suitabl
 a network. Hence, the library supports

 - [BJData](bjdata.md) (Binary JData),
+- [BON8](bon8.md) (Binary Object Notation 8),
 - [BSON](bson.md) (Binary JSON),
 - [CBOR](cbor.md) (Concise Binary Object Representation),
 - [MessagePack](messagepack.md), and
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ to efficiently encode JSON values to byte vectors and to decode such vectors.
 | Format      | Serialization                                 | Deserialization                              |
 |-------------|-----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|
 | BJData      | complete                                      | complete                                     |
+| BON8        | incomplete: no unsigned integers above int64  | complete                                     |
 | BSON        | incomplete: top-level value must be an object | incomplete, but all JSON types are supported |
 | CBOR        | complete                                      | incomplete, but all JSON types are supported |
 | MessagePack | complete                                      | complete                                     |
@@ -28,6 +30,7 @@ to efficiently encode JSON values to byte vectors and to decode such vectors.
 | Format      | Binary values | Binary subtypes |
 |-------------|---------------|-----------------|
 | BJData      | not supported | not supported   |
+| BON8        | not supported | not supported   |
 | BSON        | supported     | supported       |
 | CBOR        | supported     | supported       |
 | MessagePack | supported     | supported       |
@@ -42,6 +45,7 @@ See [binary values](../binary_values.md) for more information.
 | BJData             | 53.2 %      | 91.1 %       | 78.1 %            | 96.6 %        |
 | BJData (size)      | 58.6 %      | 92.1 %       | 86.7 %            | 97.4 %        |
 | BJData (size+type) | 58.6 %      | 92.1 %       | 86.5 %            | 97.4 %        |
+| BON8               | 50.5 %      | 83.8 %       | 63.5 %            | 87.5 %        |
 | BSON               | 85.8 %      | 95.2 %       | 95.8 %            | 106.7 %       |
 | CBOR               | 50.5 %      | 86.3 %       | 68.4 %            | 88.0 %        |
 | MessagePack        | 50.5 %      | 86.0 %       | 68.5 %            | 87.9 %        |
@@ -136,14 +136,6 @@ The library maps MessagePack types to JSON value types as follows:

    Any MessagePack output created by `to_msgpack` can be successfully parsed by `from_msgpack`.

-!!! warning "UTF-8 validation of string values"
-
-    The MessagePack specification requires `str` values (`fixstr`, `str 8`, `str 16`, `str 32`) to be valid UTF-8.
-    This library validates the bytes of every such string (object keys included) at decode time and rejects
-    ill-formed UTF-8 with a [`parse_error.113`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionparse_error113) exception (or,
-    with `allow_exceptions` set to `false`, a discarded value), rather than only failing later when the resulting
-    value is dumped. `bin`/`ext`/`fixext` values are unaffected and are never validated, since they are not required
-    to hold text.

 ??? example

@@ -187,6 +187,41 @@ as an array of uint8 values. The library implements this translation.
    }
    ```

+### BON8
+
+[BON8](binary_formats/bon8.md) neither supports binary values nor subtypes. The library serializes binary values as an
+array of integers.
+
+??? example
+
+    Code:
+
+    ```cpp
+    // create a binary value of subtype 42 (will be ignored in BON8)
+    json j;
+    j["binary"] = json::binary({0xCA, 0xFE, 0xBA, 0xBE}, 42);
+
+    // convert to BON8
+    auto v = json::to_bon8(j);
+    ```
+
+    `v` is a `std::vector<std::uint8_t>` with the following 16 elements:
+
+    ```c
+    0x87                                     // object with 1 member
+        0x62 0x69 0x6E 0x61 0x72 0x79        // "binary"
+        0x84                                 // array with 4 elements
+            0xC3 0x22 0xC3 0x56 0xC3 0x12 0xC3 0x16  // content (each byte as a 2-byte integer)
+    ```
+
+    Note that the subtype is lost, and deserializing `v` would yield the following value:
+
+    ```json
+    {
+      "binary": [202, 254, 186, 190]
+    }
+    ```
+
 ### BSON

 [BSON](binary_formats/bson.md) supports binary values and subtypes. If a subtype is given, it is used and added as an
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ C++ types, and finally serialize it again.
 - [Serialization](serialization.md) — turn a value back into JSON text with [`dump`](../api/basic_json/dump.md),
  including pretty-printing and handling of non-ASCII and invalid UTF-8.
 - [Binary formats](binary_formats/index.md) — encode values more compactly as
-  [BJData](binary_formats/bjdata.md), [BSON](binary_formats/bson.md), [CBOR](binary_formats/cbor.md),
-  [MessagePack](binary_formats/messagepack.md), or [UBJSON](binary_formats/ubjson.md).
+  [BJData](binary_formats/bjdata.md), [BON8](binary_formats/bon8.md), [BSON](binary_formats/bson.md),
+  [CBOR](binary_formats/cbor.md), [MessagePack](binary_formats/messagepack.md), or [UBJSON](binary_formats/ubjson.md).
 - [Binary values](binary_values.md) — store and exchange raw byte sequences.

 ## How values are stored and configured
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ The complete default namespace name is derived as follows:
    - [`JSON_BRACE_INIT_COPY_SEMANTICS`](../api/macros/json_brace_init_copy_semantics.md) defined non-zero appends
      `_bics`.
    - [`JSON_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION`](../api/macros/json_precise_stream_position.md) defined non-zero appends `_psp`.
-    - [`JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING`](../api/macros/json_strict_nul_handling.md) defined non-zero appends `_snul`.
 - The inline namespace ends with the suffix `_v` followed by the 3 components of the version number separated by
  underscores. To omit the version component, see [Disabling the version component](#disabling-the-version-component)
  below.
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ For the [{fmt}](https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt) library, the library ships a
 ## Serializing to other formats

 Besides JSON text, a value can also be serialized to the more compact [binary formats](binary_formats/index.md)
-(BJData, BSON, CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON).
+(BJData, BON8, BSON, CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON).

 ## See also

@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ Grisu2 algorithm, which produces the shortest representation that round-trips. O
 ### Required for the binary formats

 `NumberFloatType` must be `#!cpp float` or `#!cpp double`. The writers for
-[CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON, BJData, and BSON](../binary_formats/index.md) map a floating-point value onto an IEEE 754
+[CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON, BJData, BON8, and BSON](../binary_formats/index.md) map a floating-point value onto an IEEE 754
 binary32 or binary64 field and have no encoding for `#!cpp long double`.

 ### Compatible types
@@ -562,11 +562,7 @@ binary32 or binary64 field and have no encoding for `#!cpp long double`.
 ## `AllocatorType`

 `AllocatorType` is instantiated with **one** argument, for each of `object_t`, `array_t`, `string_t`, `binary_t`,
-`basic_json`, `#!cpp std::pair<const StringType, basic_json>`, and `#!cpp std::pair<StringType, basic_json>`.
-
-`AllocatorType` is not the only allocator a `basic_json` uses. It allocates the JSON values themselves, but most
-temporary storage is allocated with `#!cpp std::allocator`. This includes the parser's stacks and the stacks that
-process deeply nested values without recursion.
+`basic_json`, and `#!cpp std::pair<const StringType, basic_json>`.

 ### Always required

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ There are myriads of [JSON](https://json.org) libraries out there, and each may

 - **Trivial integration**. Our whole code consists of a single header file [`json.hpp`](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/blob/develop/single_include/nlohmann/json.hpp). That's it. No library, no subproject, no dependencies, no complex build system. The class is written in vanilla C++11. All in all, everything should require no adjustment of your compiler flags or project settings.

- **Serious testing**. Our class is heavily [unit-tested](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/tree/develop/tests/src) and covers [100%](https://coveralls.io/r/nlohmann/json) of the code, including all exceptional behavior. Furthermore, we checked with [Valgrind](http://valgrind.org) and the [Clang Sanitizers](https://clang.llvm.org/docs/index.html) that there are no memory leaks. [Google OSS-Fuzz](https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/tree/master/projects/json) additionally runs fuzz tests against all parsers 24/7, effectively executing billions of tests so far. To maintain high quality, the project is following the [OpenSSF Best Practices](https://www.bestpractices.dev/projects/289).
+- **Serious testing**. Our class is heavily [unit-tested](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/tree/develop/tests/src) and covers [100%](https://coveralls.io/r/nlohmann/json) of the code, including all exceptional behavior. Furthermore, we checked with [Valgrind](http://valgrind.org) and the [Clang Sanitizers](https://clang.llvm.org/docs/index.html) that there are no memory leaks. [Google OSS-Fuzz](https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/tree/master/projects/json) additionally runs fuzz tests against all parsers 24/7, effectively executing billions of tests so far. To maintain high quality, the project is following the [Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) best practices](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/289).

 Other aspects were not so important to us:

@@ -340,8 +340,7 @@ An unexpected byte was read in a [binary format](../features/binary_formats/inde
 ### json.exception.parse_error.113

 A string could not be read from a [binary format](../features/binary_formats/index.md): either a value that is not a
-string was read where one was required (for instance as a map key), the string's length specification is invalid, or
-the string's bytes are not valid UTF-8.
+string was read where one was required (for instance as a map key), or the string's length specification is invalid.

 !!! failure "Example messages"

@@ -357,9 +356,6 @@ the string's bytes are not valid UTF-8.
    ```
    [json.exception.parse_error.113] parse error at byte 3: syntax error while parsing BJData string: string length must not be negative
    ```
-    ```
-    [json.exception.parse_error.113] parse error at byte 3: syntax error while parsing CBOR string: invalid string: ill-formed UTF-8 byte
-    ```

 ### json.exception.parse_error.114

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 *[ASCII]: American Standard Code for Information Interchange
 *[BDFL]: Benevolent Dictator for Life
 *[BJData]: Binary JData
+*[BON8]: Binary Object Notation 8
 *[BSON]: Binary JSON
 *[CBOR]: Concise Binary Object Representation
 *[CC0]: Creative Commons Zero
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ nav:
      - Binary Formats:
          - features/binary_formats/index.md
          - features/binary_formats/bjdata.md
+          - features/binary_formats/bon8.md
          - features/binary_formats/bson.md
          - features/binary_formats/cbor.md
          - features/binary_formats/messagepack.md
@@ -142,6 +143,7 @@ nav:
          - 'flatten': api/basic_json/flatten.md
          - 'format_as': api/basic_json/format_as.md
          - 'from_bjdata': api/basic_json/from_bjdata.md
+          - 'from_bon8': api/basic_json/from_bon8.md
          - 'from_bson': api/basic_json/from_bson.md
          - 'from_cbor': api/basic_json/from_cbor.md
          - 'from_msgpack': api/basic_json/from_msgpack.md
@@ -213,6 +215,7 @@ nav:
          - 'swap': api/basic_json/swap.md
          - 'std::swap&lt;basic_json&gt;': api/basic_json/std_swap.md
          - 'to_bjdata': api/basic_json/to_bjdata.md
+          - 'to_bon8': api/basic_json/to_bon8.md
          - 'to_bson': api/basic_json/to_bson.md
          - 'to_cbor': api/basic_json/to_cbor.md
          - 'to_msgpack': api/basic_json/to_msgpack.md
@@ -412,7 +415,7 @@ plugins:
      markdown_description: >
        JSON for Modern C++ is a C++11 header-only library implementing a JSON
        value type with an STL-like API, JSON Pointer/Patch, CBOR/MessagePack/
-        BSON/UBJSON/BJData binary format support, and a SAX-style parser interface.
+        BSON/UBJSON/BJData/BON8 binary format support, and a SAX-style parser interface.
      sections:
        Home:
          - index.md
@@ -42,10 +42,6 @@
    #define JSON_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION 0
 #endif

-#ifndef JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING
-    #define JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING 0
-#endif
-
 #if JSON_DIAGNOSTICS
    #define NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAG_DIAGNOSTICS _diag
 #else
@@ -76,20 +72,14 @@
    #define NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAG_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION
 #endif

-#if JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING
-    #define NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAG_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING _snul
-#else
-    #define NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAG_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING
-#endif
-
 #ifndef NLOHMANN_JSON_NAMESPACE_NO_VERSION
    #define NLOHMANN_JSON_NAMESPACE_NO_VERSION 0
 #endif

 // Construct the namespace ABI tags component
-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAGS_CONCAT_EX(a, b, c, d, e, f) json_abi ## a ## b ## c ## d ## e ## f
-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAGS_CONCAT(a, b, c, d, e, f) \
-    NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAGS_CONCAT_EX(a, b, c, d, e, f)
+#define NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAGS_CONCAT_EX(a, b, c, d, e) json_abi ## a ## b ## c ## d ## e
+#define NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAGS_CONCAT(a, b, c, d, e) \
+    NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAGS_CONCAT_EX(a, b, c, d, e)

 #define NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAGS                                       \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAGS_CONCAT(                                   \
@@ -97,8 +87,7 @@
            NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAG_LEGACY_DISCARDED_VALUE_COMPARISON, \
            NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAG_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS,              \
            NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAG_BRACE_INIT_COPY_SEMANTICS,         \
-            NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAG_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION,           \
-            NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAG_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING)
+            NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAG_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION)

 // Construct the namespace version component
 #define NLOHMANN_JSON_NAMESPACE_VERSION_CONCAT_EX(major, minor, patch) \
@@ -28,11 +28,11 @@
 #include <nlohmann/detail/input/input_adapters.hpp>
 #include <nlohmann/detail/input/json_sax.hpp>
 #include <nlohmann/detail/input/lexer.hpp>
+#include <nlohmann/detail/input/string_scan.hpp>
 #include <nlohmann/detail/macro_scope.hpp>
 #include <nlohmann/detail/meta/is_sax.hpp>
 #include <nlohmann/detail/meta/type_traits.hpp>
 #include <nlohmann/detail/string_concat.hpp>
-#include <nlohmann/detail/string_utils.hpp>
 #include <nlohmann/detail/value_t.hpp>

 NLOHMANN_JSON_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ JSON_INLINE_VARIABLE constexpr std::size_t max_valueless_container_size = 1 << 2
 ///////////////////

 /*!
-@brief deserialization of CBOR, MessagePack, and UBJSON values
+@brief deserialization of BJData, BON8, BSON, CBOR, MessagePack, and UBJSON values
 */
 template<typename BasicJsonType, typename InputAdapterType, typename SAX = json_sax_dom_parser<BasicJsonType, InputAdapterType>>
 class binary_reader
@@ -98,6 +98,11 @@ class binary_reader
    using char_type = typename InputAdapterType::char_type;
    using char_int_type = typename char_traits<char_type>::int_type;

+    /// whether the input is a contiguous block of bytes that BON8 strings can
+    /// be copied from in bulk; see @ref get_bon8_string_bulk
+    static constexpr bool bon8_bulk_scan =
+        input_adapter_supports_bulk_scan<InputAdapterType>(is_detected<detect_supports_bulk_scan, InputAdapterType> {});
+
  public:
    /*!
    @brief create a binary reader
@@ -132,6 +137,7 @@ class binary_reader
    {
        sax = sax_;
        container_stack.clear();
+        bon8_pushback_size = 0;
        bool result = false;

        switch (format)
@@ -153,6 +159,10 @@ class binary_reader
                result = parse_ubjson_internal();
                break;

+            case input_format_t::bon8:
+                result = parse_bon8_internal();
+                break;
+
            case input_format_t::json: // LCOV_EXCL_LINE
            default:            // LCOV_EXCL_LINE
                JSON_ASSERT(false); // NOLINT(cert-dcl03-c,hicpp-static-assert,misc-static-assert) LCOV_EXCL_LINE
@@ -165,6 +175,11 @@ class binary_reader
            {
                get_ignore_noop();
            }
+            else if (input_format == input_format_t::bon8)
+            {
+                // a string that ends a container hands back the byte after it
+                get_bon8();
+            }
            else
            {
                get();
@@ -433,21 +448,7 @@ class binary_reader
                                    exception_message(input_format_t::bson, concat("string length must be at least 1, is ", std::to_string(len)), "string"), nullptr));
        }

-        if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(!get_string(input_format_t::bson, len - static_cast<NumberType>(1), result)))
-        {
-            return false;
-        }
-
-        if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(get() != 0x00))
-        {
-            auto last_token = get_token_string();
-            return sax->parse_error(chars_read, last_token, parse_error::create(112, chars_read,
-                                    exception_message(input_format_t::bson,
-                                            "BSON string is not null-terminated",
-                                            "string"), nullptr));
-        }
-
-        return true;
+        return get_string(input_format_t::bson, len - static_cast<NumberType>(1), result) && get() != char_traits<char_type>::eof();
    }

    /*!
@@ -565,6 +566,8 @@ class binary_reader
        }
    }

+
+
    //////////
    // CBOR //
    //////////
@@ -3184,6 +3187,549 @@ class binary_reader
        }
    }

+    //////////
+    // BON8 //
+    //////////
+
+    /*!
+    @brief get the next byte of a BON8 value
+
+    A BON8 string has no length prefix and no mandatory terminator: it ends at
+    the first byte that cannot continue it, which is already the first byte (or,
+    for an integer that begins with a UTF-8 lead byte, the first two bytes) of
+    whatever follows. The string reader hands those bytes back with
+    @ref unget_bon8, and every BON8 read goes through this function so that
+    they are seen again.
+
+    @return character read from the input
+    */
+    char_int_type get_bon8()
+    {
+        if (bon8_pushback_size != 0)
+        {
+            ++chars_read;
+            return current = bon8_pushback[--bon8_pushback_size];
+        }
+        return get();
+    }
+
+    /*!
+    @brief hand a byte back so that the next @ref get_bon8 returns it again
+
+    @param[in] c  the byte to hand back; bytes handed back are returned in
+                  reverse order
+    */
+    void unget_bon8(const char_int_type c)
+    {
+        // At most two bytes are ever handed back: a byte is only handed back
+        // right after it was read with get_bon8(), and the only place that
+        // hands back two bytes (a lead byte and the byte after it) read both
+        // of them in a row, which emptied the buffer first. This is an
+        // invariant of the reader rather than a property of the input, so
+        // an assertion suffices (the fuzzers are built with assertions).
+        JSON_ASSERT(bon8_pushback_size < bon8_pushback.size());
+        bon8_pushback[bon8_pushback_size++] = c;
+        --chars_read;
+    }
+
+    /*!
+    @param[in] c  a byte
+    @return whether @a c is a UTF-8 continuation byte (0x80..0xBF)
+    */
+    static constexpr bool is_bon8_continuation(const char_int_type c) noexcept
+    {
+        return 0x80 <= c && c <= 0xBF;
+    }
+
+    /*!
+    @brief report a parse error at the last read byte
+
+    @param[in] detail   a detailed error message
+    @param[in] context  further context information
+    @return false
+    */
+    bool bon8_error(const std::string& detail, const char* context)
+    {
+        auto last_token = get_token_string();
+        return sax->parse_error(chars_read, last_token, parse_error::create(112, chars_read,
+                                exception_message(input_format_t::bon8, concat(detail, ": 0x", last_token), context), nullptr));
+    }
+
+    /*!
+    @brief read a BON8 value and everything nested inside it
+
+    Reads values until the one that was begun here is complete, resuming the
+    enclosing container after each element, so that the nesting depth of the
+    input costs heap rather than native stack (see #5104).
+
+    @return whether reading the value succeeded
+    */
+    bool parse_bon8_internal()
+    {
+        // the key currently being read; hoisted out of the loop so that its
+        // capacity is reused across elements and across nesting levels
+        string_t key;
+
+        while (true)
+        {
+            if (!container_stack.empty())
+            {
+                // a copy, not a reference: it must stay valid across the
+                // pop_back() below, which destroys the container_stack element
+                // it would otherwise alias
+                const container_frame top = container_stack.back();
+                bool at_end = false;
+
+                if (top.remaining != npos)
+                {
+                    // counted container (0x80..0x84, 0x86..0x8A): it ends once
+                    // its elements have been read
+                    at_end = (top.remaining == 0);
+                    if (!at_end)
+                    {
+                        // claim the element about to be read
+                        --container_stack.back().remaining;
+                    }
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    // container 0x85 or 0x8B: it ends at an end-of-container
+                    // marker (0xFE); any other byte begins the next element
+                    at_end = (get_bon8() == 0xFE);
+                    if (!at_end)
+                    {
+                        unget_bon8(current);
+                    }
+                }
+
+                if (at_end)
+                {
+                    container_stack.pop_back();
+                    if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(top.is_object ? !sax->end_object() : !sax->end_array()))
+                    {
+                        return false;
+                    }
+                    // the value begun here is complete once its container is
+                    if (container_stack.empty())
+                    {
+                        return true;
+                    }
+                    continue;
+                }
+
+                if (top.is_object)
+                {
+                    key.clear();
+                    if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(!get_bon8_key(key) || !sax->key(key)))
+                    {
+                        return false;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(!parse_bon8_value()))
+            {
+                return false;
+            }
+
+            // a value that opened a container left it on the stack; one that
+            // did not, and that was not inside a container, was the whole value
+            if (container_stack.empty())
+            {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /*!
+    @brief read one BON8 value
+
+    Reads a single value and passes it to the SAX parser. A value that begins
+    a container is not read to its end: the container is opened with
+    @ref enter_container and its elements are read by
+    @ref parse_bon8_internal, so that nesting does not consume native stack.
+
+    @return whether reading the value succeeded
+    */
+    bool parse_bon8_value()
+    {
+        const auto byte = get_bon8();
+
+        if (byte == char_traits<char_type>::eof())
+        {
+            return unexpect_eof(input_format_t::bon8, "value");
+        }
+
+        // string: ASCII character
+        if (byte <= 0x7F)
+        {
+            string_t s;
+            unget_bon8(byte);
+            return get_bon8_string(s) && sax->string(s);
+        }
+
+        // array with 0..4 elements
+        if (byte <= 0x84)
+        {
+            return enter_array(static_cast<std::size_t>(byte - 0x80));
+        }
+
+        // array terminated by 0xFE
+        if (byte == 0x85)
+        {
+            return enter_array(npos);
+        }
+
+        // object with 0..4 members
+        if (byte <= 0x8A)
+        {
+            return enter_object(static_cast<std::size_t>(byte - 0x86));
+        }
+
+        switch (byte)
+        {
+            case 0x8B: // object terminated by 0xFE
+                return enter_object(npos);
+
+            case 0x8C: // int32
+            {
+                std::int32_t number{};
+                return get_number(input_format_t::bon8, number) && emit_bon8_integer(number);
+            }
+
+            case 0x8D: // int64
+            {
+                std::int64_t number{};
+                return get_number(input_format_t::bon8, number) && emit_bon8_integer(number);
+            }
+
+            case 0x8E: // binary32
+            {
+                float number{};
+                return get_number(input_format_t::bon8, number) && sax->number_float(static_cast<number_float_t>(number), "");
+            }
+
+            case 0x8F: // binary64
+            {
+                double number{};
+                return get_number(input_format_t::bon8, number) && sax->number_float(static_cast<number_float_t>(number), "");
+            }
+
+            case 0xF8:
+                return sax->boolean(false);
+
+            case 0xF9:
+                return sax->boolean(true);
+
+            case 0xFA:
+                return sax->null();
+
+            case 0xFB:
+                return sax->number_float(static_cast<number_float_t>(-1.0), "");
+
+            case 0xFC:
+                return sax->number_float(static_cast<number_float_t>(0.0), "");
+
+            case 0xFD:
+                return sax->number_float(static_cast<number_float_t>(1.0), "");
+
+            case 0xFF: // empty string
+            {
+                string_t s;
+                return sax->string(s);
+            }
+
+            default:
+                break;
+        }
+
+        // integer 0..39
+        if (byte <= 0xB7)
+        {
+            return sax->number_unsigned(static_cast<number_unsigned_t>(byte - 0x90));
+        }
+
+        // integer -1..-10
+        if (byte <= 0xC1)
+        {
+            return sax->number_integer(-1 - static_cast<number_integer_t>(byte - 0xB8));
+        }
+
+        // 0xC2..0xF7: a UTF-8 lead byte begins a string if a continuation
+        // byte follows and an integer otherwise
+        if (byte <= 0xF7)
+        {
+            const auto second = get_bon8();
+            if (is_bon8_continuation(second))
+            {
+                string_t s;
+                unget_bon8(second);
+                unget_bon8(byte);
+                return get_bon8_string(s) && sax->string(s);
+            }
+            return get_bon8_integer(byte, second);
+        }
+
+        // 0xFE: end of container where a value is expected
+        return bon8_error("invalid byte", "value");
+    }
+
+    /*!
+    @brief pass an integer to the SAX parser
+
+    Non-negative integers are passed as unsigned, negative integers as signed
+    numbers, like the other binary formats do.
+
+    @param[in] number  the integer
+    @return whether the SAX parser accepted the value
+    */
+    bool emit_bon8_integer(const std::int64_t number)
+    {
+        if (number >= 0)
+        {
+            return sax->number_unsigned(static_cast<number_unsigned_t>(number));
+        }
+        return sax->number_integer(static_cast<number_integer_t>(number));
+    }
+
+    /*!
+    @brief read an integer encoded in 2..4 bytes
+
+    The first byte is a UTF-8 lead byte (0xC2..0xF7) that is followed by a
+    byte that is not a continuation byte: 0x00..0x7F for positive and
+    0xC0..0xFF for negative integers. The lead byte's low bits and the second
+    byte's low 7 (positive) or 6 (negative) bits are the most significant bits
+    of the value; 3- and 4-byte integers add one or two full bytes. Each range
+    starts where the shorter one ends, so no value has two encodings of the
+    same length.
+
+    @param[in] lead    the first byte (0xC2..0xF7)
+    @param[in] second  the second byte
+    @return whether reading the integer succeeded
+    */
+    bool get_bon8_integer(const char_int_type lead, const char_int_type second)
+    {
+        if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(!unexpect_eof(input_format_t::bon8, "number")))
+        {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        const bool negative = second >= 0xC0;
+        auto value = static_cast<std::int64_t>(negative ? (second & 0x3F) : second);
+        std::int64_t offset = 0;
+        int extra_bytes = 0;
+
+        if (lead <= 0xDF)
+        {
+            value |= static_cast<std::int64_t>(lead - 0xC2) << (negative ? 6 : 7);
+            offset = negative ? 11 : 40;
+        }
+        else if (lead <= 0xEF)
+        {
+            value |= static_cast<std::int64_t>(lead & 0x0F) << (negative ? 6 : 7);
+            offset = negative ? 1931 : 3880;
+            extra_bytes = 1;
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            value |= static_cast<std::int64_t>(lead & 0x07) << (negative ? 6 : 7);
+            offset = negative ? 264075 : 528168;
+            extra_bytes = 2;
+        }
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < extra_bytes; ++i)
+        {
+            if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(get_bon8() == char_traits<char_type>::eof()))
+            {
+                return unexpect_eof(input_format_t::bon8, "number");
+            }
+            value = (value << 8) | static_cast<std::int64_t>(current);
+        }
+
+        return negative ? sax->number_integer(static_cast<number_integer_t>(-(value + offset)))
+               : sax->number_unsigned(static_cast<number_unsigned_t>(value + offset));
+    }
+
+    /*!
+    @brief read an object key
+
+    A key must be a string, so its first byte must be an ASCII character, a
+    UTF-8 lead byte followed by a continuation byte, or 0xFF (empty string).
+
+    @param[out] result  the key
+    @return whether reading the key succeeded
+    */
+    bool get_bon8_key(string_t& result)
+    {
+        const auto byte = get_bon8();
+
+        if (byte == char_traits<char_type>::eof())
+        {
+            return unexpect_eof(input_format_t::bon8, "key");
+        }
+
+        if (byte == 0xFF)
+        {
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        if (byte <= 0x7F)
+        {
+            unget_bon8(byte);
+            return get_bon8_string(result);
+        }
+
+        if (0xC2 <= byte && byte <= 0xF7)
+        {
+            const auto second = get_bon8();
+            unget_bon8(second);
+            if (is_bon8_continuation(second))
+            {
+                unget_bon8(byte);
+                return get_bon8_string(result);
+            }
+            // an integer: report its first byte rather than the one after it
+            current = byte;
+        }
+
+        return bon8_error("expected a string; last byte", "key");
+    }
+
+    /*!
+    @brief append the run of valid UTF-8 at the read position to a string
+
+    For contiguous input, the ASCII characters and complete well-formed UTF-8
+    sequences at the read position are appended to @a result in one step. The
+    byte that stops the run (an end-of-string marker, the first byte of the
+    next value, or an ill-formed byte) is left for @ref get_bon8_string, so
+    that strings end and errors are reported exactly as without this step.
+
+    @param[in,out] result  the string to append to
+    */
+    void get_bon8_string_bulk(string_t& result, std::true_type /*bulk*/)
+    {
+        // bytes handed back must be read through get_bon8() first
+        if (bon8_pushback_size != 0)
+        {
+            return;
+        }
+        const std::size_t remaining = ia.bulk_remaining();
+        if (remaining == 0)
+        {
+            return;
+        }
+        const auto* const data = reinterpret_cast<const unsigned char*>(ia.bulk_data());
+        const std::size_t length = valid_utf8_prefix(data, remaining);
+        if (length != 0)
+        {
+            result.append(reinterpret_cast<const typename string_t::value_type*>(data), length);
+            ia.bulk_skip(length);
+            chars_read += length;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// input that is not contiguous: strings are read byte by byte
+    void get_bon8_string_bulk(string_t& /*result*/, std::false_type /*bulk*/) const noexcept {}
+
+    /*!
+    @brief read a string
+
+    Reads UTF-8 characters until an end-of-string marker (0xFF), which is
+    consumed, or a byte that cannot continue the string, which is handed back
+    to be read as the start of the next value. The string must be valid UTF-8,
+    and it must not end at the end of the input: the last string of a message
+    is always terminated by 0xFF.
+
+    @param[out] result  the string
+    @return whether reading the string succeeded
+    */
+    bool get_bon8_string(string_t& result)
+    {
+        while (true)
+        {
+            get_bon8_string_bulk(result, std::integral_constant<bool, bon8_bulk_scan> {});
+
+            const auto byte = get_bon8();
+
+            if (byte == char_traits<char_type>::eof())
+            {
+                return unexpect_eof(input_format_t::bon8, "string");
+            }
+
+            // end of string
+            if (byte == 0xFF)
+            {
+                return true;
+            }
+
+            // ASCII character
+            if (byte <= 0x7F)
+            {
+                result.push_back(static_cast<typename string_t::value_type>(byte));
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            // a byte that cannot begin a character ends the string and begins
+            // the next value
+            if (byte < 0xC2 || byte > 0xF7)
+            {
+                unget_bon8(byte);
+                return true;
+            }
+
+            // a lead byte ends the string if no continuation byte follows: it
+            // is then the first byte of an integer
+            const auto second = get_bon8();
+            if (!is_bon8_continuation(second))
+            {
+                unget_bon8(second);
+                unget_bon8(byte);
+                return true;
+            }
+
+            // the valid range of the second byte excludes overlong forms,
+            // surrogates, and code points above U+10FFFF
+            // (RFC 3629, section 4)
+            int continuation_bytes = 0;
+            bool valid_second = true;
+            if (byte <= 0xDF)
+            {
+                continuation_bytes = 1;
+            }
+            else if (byte <= 0xEF)
+            {
+                continuation_bytes = 2;
+                valid_second = (byte != 0xE0 || second >= 0xA0) && (byte != 0xED || second <= 0x9F);
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                continuation_bytes = 3;
+                valid_second = byte <= 0xF4 && (byte != 0xF0 || second >= 0x90) && (byte != 0xF4 || second <= 0x8F);
+            }
+
+            if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(!valid_second))
+            {
+                return bon8_error("invalid UTF-8 byte", "string");
+            }
+
+            result.push_back(static_cast<typename string_t::value_type>(byte));
+            result.push_back(static_cast<typename string_t::value_type>(second));
+
+            for (int i = 1; i < continuation_bytes; ++i)
+            {
+                if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(get_bon8() == char_traits<char_type>::eof()))
+                {
+                    return unexpect_eof(input_format_t::bon8, "string");
+                }
+                if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(!is_bon8_continuation(current)))
+                {
+                    return bon8_error("invalid UTF-8 byte", "string");
+                }
+                result.push_back(static_cast<typename string_t::value_type>(current));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
    ///////////////////////
    // Utility functions //
    ///////////////////////
@@ -3317,28 +3863,7 @@ class binary_reader
                    const NumberType len,
                    string_t& result)
    {
-        // get_bytes() appends to result, and CBOR indefinite-length strings
-        // collect all their chunks in the same result; validating only the
-        // newly read bytes keeps the check linear in the input size
-        const std::size_t old_size = result.size();
-        if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(!get_bytes(format, len, "string", result)))
-        {
-            return false;
-        }
-
-        // RFC 8949 (CBOR) §3.1 and the MessagePack/BSON/UBJSON specifications
-        // all require text strings to be valid UTF-8; reject anything else
-        // right here so malformed input is caught at decode time instead of
-        // only surfacing later as a type_error.316 when the value is dumped
-        // (which would defeat allow_exceptions=false / strict discarding).
-        if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(!is_valid_utf8(result, old_size)))
-        {
-            return sax->parse_error(chars_read, get_token_string(),
-                                    parse_error::create(113, chars_read,
-                                            exception_message(format, "invalid string: ill-formed UTF-8 byte", "string"), nullptr));
-        }
-
-        return true;
+        return get_bytes(format, len, "string", result);
    }

    /*!
@@ -3482,6 +4007,10 @@ class binary_reader
                error_msg += "BJData";
                break;

+            case input_format_t::bon8:
+                error_msg += "BON8";
+                break;
+
            case input_format_t::json: // LCOV_EXCL_LINE
            default:            // LCOV_EXCL_LINE
                JSON_ASSERT(false); // NOLINT(cert-dcl03-c,hicpp-static-assert,misc-static-assert) LCOV_EXCL_LINE
@@ -3514,6 +4043,11 @@ class binary_reader
    /// the containers that have been opened and not closed yet; see @ref container_frame
    std::vector<container_frame> container_stack{};

+    /// BON8: bytes read past the end of a string, returned again by @ref get_bon8
+    std::array<char_int_type, 2> bon8_pushback{{}};
+    /// BON8: number of bytes in @ref bon8_pushback
+    std::size_t bon8_pushback_size = 0;
+
    // excluded markers in bjdata optimized type
 #define JSON_BINARY_READER_MAKE_BJD_OPTIMIZED_TYPE_MARKERS_ \
    make_array<char_int_type>('F', 'H', 'N', 'S', 'T', 'Z', '[', '{')
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ namespace detail
 {

 /// the supported input formats
-enum class input_format_t { json, cbor, msgpack, ubjson, bson, bjdata };
+enum class input_format_t { json, cbor, msgpack, ubjson, bson, bjdata, bon8 };

 ////////////////////
 // input adapters //
@@ -201,6 +201,43 @@ inline std::size_t validate_one_utf8(const unsigned char* data, std::size_t avai
    return 0; // invalid, incomplete, or must be diagnosed by the byte path
 }

+// Return the length of the longest prefix of [data, data+n) that consists of
+// ASCII characters and complete well-formed UTF-8 sequences; n if all of it is
+// valid UTF-8. Unlike scalar_string_bulk_run(), quotes, escapes, and control
+// characters are ordinary characters here. ASCII is skipped 8 bytes at a time.
+inline std::size_t valid_utf8_prefix(const unsigned char* data, std::size_t n) noexcept
+{
+    constexpr std::uint64_t high = 0x8080808080808080ull;
+    std::size_t pos = 0;
+    while (pos < n)
+    {
+        if (pos + 8 <= n)
+        {
+            std::uint64_t word = 0;
+            std::memcpy(&word, data + pos, sizeof(word));
+            if ((word & high) == 0)
+            {
+                pos += 8;
+                continue;
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (data[pos] < 0x80u)
+        {
+            ++pos;
+            continue;
+        }
+
+        const std::size_t seq = validate_one_utf8(data + pos, n - pos);
+        if (seq == 0)
+        {
+            break; // ill-formed or truncated
+        }
+        pos += seq;
+    }
+    return pos;
+}
+
 // Scalar (C++11) computation of the bulk run length: the number of leading
 // bytes in [data, data+n) that are ordinary ASCII or complete well-formed UTF-8
 // sequences, stopping before the first byte that needs individual handling (the
@@ -596,62 +596,16 @@ void templated_json_throw(ExceptionType exception)

 #define NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(...) template<typename BasicJsonType, nlohmann::detail::enable_if_t<nlohmann::detail::is_basic_json<BasicJsonType>::value, int> = 0> __VA_ARGS__

-// Helpers used to dispatch the NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_*/NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_*
-// macros below between a zero-member and a one-or-more-member implementation
-// (issue #4041, e.g. NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE(Type) with no further
-// arguments). NLOHMANN_JSON_TYPE_BODY(Prefix, ...) expands to the macro name
-// Prefix##EMPTY when __VA_ARGS__ is a single argument (Type alone) and to
-// Prefix##MEMBERS for two or more (Type, member...). It reuses the existing
-// 64-slot NLOHMANN_JSON_GET_MACRO dispatch with one extra trailing sentinel
-// token appended so its own trailing "..." is never left completely empty at
-// the lowest supported argument count -- invoking a variadic macro so that
-// "..." matches nothing is only granted unconditionally by the standard since
-// C++20, and pre-C++20 compilers may reject it under -pedantic regardless of
-// what the macro body does.
-//
-// The EMPTY/MEMBERS suffixes are pasted onto Prefix right in the slot table:
-// operands of ## are not macro-expanded, so the dispatch keeps working even if
-// user code defines macros named EMPTY or MEMBERS. Producing the bare suffix
-// first and pasting it later would let such a macro replace it.
-//
-// NLOHMANN_JSON_DERIVED_TYPE_BODY(Prefix, ...) answers the same question for
-// the derived-type macros, whose fixed prefix is Type,BaseType. It drops the
-// leading Type and defers to NLOHMANN_JSON_TYPE_BODY rather than shifting the
-// slot table by one: NLOHMANN_JSON_GET_MACRO only resolves 64 positional
-// arguments, so dispatching on Type,BaseType,member... directly would run out
-// one slot early and cap the derived-type macros at 62 members instead of the
-// 63 that NLOHMANN_JSON_PASTE supports.
-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_TYPE_BODY(Prefix, ...) NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_GET_MACRO(__VA_ARGS__, \
-        Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, \
-        Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, \
-        Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, \
-        Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, \
-        Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, \
-        Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, \
-        Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, \
-        Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## MEMBERS, Prefix ## EMPTY, \
-        NLOHMANN_JSON_TYPE_BODY_SENTINEL))
-
-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DERIVED_TYPE_BODY_(Prefix, Type, ...) NLOHMANN_JSON_TYPE_BODY(Prefix, __VA_ARGS__)
-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DERIVED_TYPE_BODY(Prefix, ...) NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DERIVED_TYPE_BODY_(Prefix, __VA_ARGS__))
-
 /*!
@brief macro
@def NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE
@since version 3.9.0
@sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/macros/nlohmann_define_type_intrusive/
 */
-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_MEMBERS(Type, ...)  \
+#define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE(Type, ...)  \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_TO, __VA_ARGS__)) }) \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void from_json(const BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, Type& nlohmann_json_t) { NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_FROM, __VA_ARGS__)) })

-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_EMPTY(Type)  \
-    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type&) { nlohmann_json_j = BasicJsonType::object(); }) \
-    /* NOLINTNEXTLINE(bugprone-macro-parentheses) Type is used as a declarator type, not in an expression */ \
-    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void from_json(const BasicJsonType&, Type&) noexcept { })
-
-#define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE(...) NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_TYPE_BODY(NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_, __VA_ARGS__)(__VA_ARGS__))
-
 #define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_WITH_NAMES(Type, ...)  \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DOUBLE_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_TO_WITH_NAME, __VA_ARGS__)) }) \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void from_json(const BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, Type& nlohmann_json_t) { NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DOUBLE_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_FROM_WITH_NAME, __VA_ARGS__)) })
@@ -662,15 +616,10 @@ void templated_json_throw(ExceptionType exception)
@since version 3.11.0
@sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/macros/nlohmann_define_type_intrusive/
 */
-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT_MEMBERS(Type, ...)  \
+#define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT(Type, ...)  \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_TO, __VA_ARGS__)) }) \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void from_json(const BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, Type& nlohmann_json_t) { const Type nlohmann_json_default_obj{}; NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_FROM_WITH_DEFAULT, __VA_ARGS__)) })

-// identical to NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_EMPTY: with no members there is nothing to default
-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT_EMPTY(Type) NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_EMPTY(Type)
-
-#define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT(...) NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_TYPE_BODY(NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT_, __VA_ARGS__)(__VA_ARGS__))
-
 #define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT_WITH_NAMES(Type, ...)  \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DOUBLE_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_TO_WITH_NAME, __VA_ARGS__)) }) \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void from_json(const BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, Type& nlohmann_json_t) { const Type nlohmann_json_default_obj{}; NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DOUBLE_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_FROM_WITH_DEFAULT_WITH_NAME, __VA_ARGS__)) })
@@ -681,14 +630,9 @@ void templated_json_throw(ExceptionType exception)
@since version 3.11.3
@sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/macros/nlohmann_define_type_intrusive/
 */
-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE_MEMBERS(Type, ...)  \
+#define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE(Type, ...)  \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_TO, __VA_ARGS__)) })

-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE_EMPTY(Type)  \
-    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type&) { nlohmann_json_j = BasicJsonType::object(); })
-
-#define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE(...) NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_TYPE_BODY(NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE_, __VA_ARGS__)(__VA_ARGS__))
-
 #define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE_WITH_NAMES(Type, ...)  \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DOUBLE_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_TO_WITH_NAME, __VA_ARGS__)) })

@@ -698,17 +642,10 @@ void templated_json_throw(ExceptionType exception)
@since version 3.9.0
@sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/macros/nlohmann_define_type_non_intrusive/
 */
-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_MEMBERS(Type, ...)  \
+#define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE(Type, ...)  \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_TO, __VA_ARGS__)) }) \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void from_json(const BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, Type& nlohmann_json_t) { NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_FROM, __VA_ARGS__)) })

-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_EMPTY(Type)  \
-    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type&) { nlohmann_json_j = BasicJsonType::object(); }) \
-    /* NOLINTNEXTLINE(bugprone-macro-parentheses) Type is used as a declarator type, not in an expression */ \
-    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void from_json(const BasicJsonType&, Type&) noexcept { })
-
-#define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE(...) NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_TYPE_BODY(NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_, __VA_ARGS__)(__VA_ARGS__))
-
 #define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_WITH_NAMES(Type, ...)  \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DOUBLE_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_TO_WITH_NAME, __VA_ARGS__)) }) \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void from_json(const BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, Type& nlohmann_json_t) { NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DOUBLE_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_FROM_WITH_NAME, __VA_ARGS__)) })
@@ -719,15 +656,10 @@ void templated_json_throw(ExceptionType exception)
@since version 3.11.0
@sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/macros/nlohmann_define_type_non_intrusive/
 */
-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT_MEMBERS(Type, ...)  \
+#define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT(Type, ...)  \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_TO, __VA_ARGS__)) }) \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void from_json(const BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, Type& nlohmann_json_t) { const Type nlohmann_json_default_obj{}; NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_FROM_WITH_DEFAULT, __VA_ARGS__)) })

-// identical to NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_EMPTY: with no members there is nothing to default
-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT_EMPTY(Type) NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_EMPTY(Type)
-
-#define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT(...) NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_TYPE_BODY(NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT_, __VA_ARGS__)(__VA_ARGS__))
-
 #define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT_WITH_NAMES(Type, ...)  \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DOUBLE_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_TO_WITH_NAME, __VA_ARGS__)) }) \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void from_json(const BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, Type& nlohmann_json_t) { const Type nlohmann_json_default_obj{}; NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DOUBLE_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_FROM_WITH_DEFAULT_WITH_NAME, __VA_ARGS__)) })
@@ -738,14 +670,9 @@ void templated_json_throw(ExceptionType exception)
@since version 3.11.3
@sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/macros/nlohmann_define_type_non_intrusive/
 */
-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE_MEMBERS(Type, ...)  \
+#define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE(Type, ...)  \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_TO, __VA_ARGS__)) })

-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE_EMPTY(Type)  \
-    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type&) { nlohmann_json_j = BasicJsonType::object(); })
-
-#define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE(...) NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_TYPE_BODY(NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE_, __VA_ARGS__)(__VA_ARGS__))
-
 #define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE_WITH_NAMES(Type, ...)  \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DOUBLE_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_TO_WITH_NAME, __VA_ARGS__)) })

@@ -755,17 +682,10 @@ void templated_json_throw(ExceptionType exception)
@since version 3.12.0
@sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/macros/nlohmann_define_derived_type/
 */
-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_MEMBERS(Type, BaseType, ...)  \
+#define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE(Type, BaseType, ...)  \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::to_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<const BaseType &>(nlohmann_json_t)); NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_TO, __VA_ARGS__)) }) \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void from_json(const BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::from_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<BaseType&>(nlohmann_json_t)); NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_FROM, __VA_ARGS__)) })

-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_EMPTY(Type, BaseType)  \
-    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::to_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<const BaseType &>(nlohmann_json_t)); }) \
-    /* NOLINTNEXTLINE(bugprone-macro-parentheses) Type/BaseType are used as declarator types, not in expressions */ \
-    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void from_json(const BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::from_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<BaseType&>(nlohmann_json_t)); })
-
-#define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE(...) NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DERIVED_TYPE_BODY(NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_, __VA_ARGS__)(__VA_ARGS__))
-
 #define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_WITH_NAMES(Type, BaseType, ...)  \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::to_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<const BaseType &>(nlohmann_json_t)); NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DOUBLE_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_TO_WITH_NAME, __VA_ARGS__)) }) \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void from_json(const BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::from_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<BaseType&>(nlohmann_json_t)); NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DOUBLE_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_FROM_WITH_NAME, __VA_ARGS__)) })
@@ -776,15 +696,10 @@ void templated_json_throw(ExceptionType exception)
@since version 3.12.0
@sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/macros/nlohmann_define_derived_type/
 */
-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT_MEMBERS(Type, BaseType, ...)  \
+#define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT(Type, BaseType, ...)  \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::to_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<const BaseType&>(nlohmann_json_t)); NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_TO, __VA_ARGS__)) }) \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void from_json(const BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::from_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<BaseType&>(nlohmann_json_t)); const Type nlohmann_json_default_obj{}; NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_FROM_WITH_DEFAULT, __VA_ARGS__)) })

-// identical to NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_EMPTY: with no members there is nothing to default
-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT_EMPTY(Type, BaseType) NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_EMPTY(Type, BaseType)
-
-#define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT(...) NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DERIVED_TYPE_BODY(NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT_, __VA_ARGS__)(__VA_ARGS__))
-
 #define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT_WITH_NAMES(Type, BaseType, ...)  \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::to_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<const BaseType&>(nlohmann_json_t)); NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DOUBLE_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_TO_WITH_NAME, __VA_ARGS__)) }) \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void from_json(const BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::from_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<BaseType&>(nlohmann_json_t)); const Type nlohmann_json_default_obj{}; NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DOUBLE_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_FROM_WITH_DEFAULT_WITH_NAME, __VA_ARGS__)) })
@@ -795,14 +710,9 @@ void templated_json_throw(ExceptionType exception)
@since version 3.12.0
@sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/macros/nlohmann_define_derived_type/
 */
-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE_MEMBERS(Type, BaseType, ...)  \
+#define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE(Type, BaseType, ...)  \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::to_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<const BaseType &>(nlohmann_json_t)); NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_TO, __VA_ARGS__)) })

-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE_EMPTY(Type, BaseType)  \
-    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::to_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<const BaseType &>(nlohmann_json_t)); })
-
-#define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE(...) NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DERIVED_TYPE_BODY(NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE_, __VA_ARGS__)(__VA_ARGS__))
-
 #define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE_WITH_NAMES(Type, BaseType, ...)  \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(friend void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::to_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<const BaseType &>(nlohmann_json_t)); NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DOUBLE_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_TO_WITH_NAME, __VA_ARGS__)) })

@@ -813,17 +723,10 @@ void templated_json_throw(ExceptionType exception)
@since version 3.12.0
@sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/macros/nlohmann_define_derived_type/
 */
-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_MEMBERS(Type, BaseType, ...)  \
+#define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE(Type, BaseType, ...)  \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::to_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<const BaseType &>(nlohmann_json_t)); NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_TO, __VA_ARGS__)) }) \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void from_json(const BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::from_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<BaseType&>(nlohmann_json_t)); NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_FROM, __VA_ARGS__)) })

-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_EMPTY(Type, BaseType)  \
-    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::to_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<const BaseType &>(nlohmann_json_t)); }) \
-    /* NOLINTNEXTLINE(bugprone-macro-parentheses) Type/BaseType are used as declarator types, not in expressions */ \
-    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void from_json(const BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::from_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<BaseType&>(nlohmann_json_t)); })
-
-#define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE(...) NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DERIVED_TYPE_BODY(NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_, __VA_ARGS__)(__VA_ARGS__))
-
 #define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_WITH_NAMES(Type, BaseType, ...)  \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::to_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<const BaseType &>(nlohmann_json_t)); NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DOUBLE_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_TO_WITH_NAME, __VA_ARGS__)) }) \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void from_json(const BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::from_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<BaseType&>(nlohmann_json_t)); NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DOUBLE_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_FROM_WITH_NAME, __VA_ARGS__)) })
@@ -834,15 +737,10 @@ void templated_json_throw(ExceptionType exception)
@since version 3.12.0
@sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/macros/nlohmann_define_derived_type/
 */
-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT_MEMBERS(Type, BaseType, ...)  \
+#define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT(Type, BaseType, ...)  \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::to_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<const BaseType &>(nlohmann_json_t)); NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_TO, __VA_ARGS__)) }) \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void from_json(const BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::from_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<BaseType&>(nlohmann_json_t)); const Type nlohmann_json_default_obj{}; NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_FROM_WITH_DEFAULT, __VA_ARGS__)) })

-// identical to NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_EMPTY: with no members there is nothing to default
-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT_EMPTY(Type, BaseType) NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_EMPTY(Type, BaseType)
-
-#define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT(...) NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DERIVED_TYPE_BODY(NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT_, __VA_ARGS__)(__VA_ARGS__))
-
 #define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT_WITH_NAMES(Type, BaseType, ...)  \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::to_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<const BaseType &>(nlohmann_json_t)); NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DOUBLE_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_TO_WITH_NAME, __VA_ARGS__)) }) \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void from_json(const BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::from_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<BaseType&>(nlohmann_json_t)); const Type nlohmann_json_default_obj{}; NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DOUBLE_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_FROM_WITH_DEFAULT_WITH_NAME, __VA_ARGS__)) })
@@ -853,14 +751,9 @@ void templated_json_throw(ExceptionType exception)
@since version 3.12.0
@sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/macros/nlohmann_define_derived_type/
 */
-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE_MEMBERS(Type, BaseType, ...)  \
+#define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE(Type, BaseType, ...)  \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::to_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<const BaseType &>(nlohmann_json_t)); NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_TO, __VA_ARGS__)) })

-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE_EMPTY(Type, BaseType)  \
-    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::to_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<const BaseType &>(nlohmann_json_t)); })
-
-#define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE(...) NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DERIVED_TYPE_BODY(NLOHMANN_JSON_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE_, __VA_ARGS__)(__VA_ARGS__))
-
 #define NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE_WITH_NAMES(Type, BaseType, ...)  \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_BASIC_TYPE_TEMPLATE(void to_json(BasicJsonType& nlohmann_json_j, const Type& nlohmann_json_t) { nlohmann::to_json(nlohmann_json_j, static_cast<const BaseType &>(nlohmann_json_t)); NLOHMANN_JSON_EXPAND(NLOHMANN_JSON_DOUBLE_PASTE(NLOHMANN_JSON_TO_WITH_NAME, __VA_ARGS__)) })

@@ -919,3 +812,7 @@ void templated_json_throw(ExceptionType exception)
 #ifndef JSON_USE_GLOBAL_UDLS
    #define JSON_USE_GLOBAL_UDLS 1
 #endif
+
+#ifndef JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING
+    #define JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING 0
+#endif
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #undef JSON_NO_UNIQUE_ADDRESS
 #undef JSON_DISABLE_ENUM_SERIALIZATION
 #undef JSON_USE_GLOBAL_UDLS
+#undef JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING

 #ifndef JSON_TEST_KEEP_MACROS
    #undef JSON_CATCH
@@ -45,7 +46,6 @@
    #undef JSON_USE_LEGACY_DISCARDED_VALUE_COMPARISON
    #undef JSON_BRACE_INIT_COPY_SEMANTICS
    #undef JSON_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION
-    #undef JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING
 #endif

 #include <nlohmann/thirdparty/hedley/hedley_undef.hpp>
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #endif

 #include <nlohmann/detail/input/binary_reader.hpp>
+#include <nlohmann/detail/input/string_scan.hpp>
 #include <nlohmann/detail/macro_scope.hpp>
 #include <nlohmann/detail/output/output_adapters.hpp>
 #include <nlohmann/detail/string_concat.hpp>
@@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ std::size_t binary_reserve_hint(const BasicJsonType& j)
 }

 /*!
-@brief serialization to CBOR and MessagePack values
+@brief serialization to BJData, BON8, BSON, CBOR, MessagePack, and UBJSON values
 */
 template<typename BasicJsonType, typename CharType, typename OutputSinkType = output_adapter_sink<CharType>>
 class binary_writer
@@ -122,7 +123,7 @@ class binary_writer
        {
            case value_t::object:
            {
-                write_bson_document(j);
+                write_bson_object(*j.m_data.m_value.object);
                break;
            }

@@ -1032,6 +1033,21 @@ class binary_writer
        }
    }

+    /*!
+    @param[in] j  JSON value to serialize
+    */
+    void write_bon8(const BasicJsonType& j)
+    {
+        bool string_open = false;
+        write_bon8_value(j, string_open);
+
+        // the last string of a message must be terminated
+        if (string_open)
+        {
+            oa.write_character(to_char_type(0xFF));
+        }
+    }
+
  private:
    //////////
    // BSON //
@@ -1197,6 +1213,35 @@ class binary_writer
        }
    }

+    /*!
+    @brief Writes a BSON element with key @a name and object @a value
+    */
+    void write_bson_object_entry(const string_t& name,
+                                 const typename BasicJsonType::object_t& value)
+    {
+        write_bson_entry_header(name, 0x03); // object
+        write_bson_object(value);
+    }
+
+    /*!
+    @return The size of the BSON-encoded array @a value
+    */
+    static std::size_t calc_bson_array_size(const typename BasicJsonType::array_t& value)
+    {
+        std::size_t array_index = 0ul;
+
+        const std::size_t embedded_document_size = std::accumulate(std::begin(value), std::end(value), static_cast<std::size_t>(0), [&array_index](std::size_t result, const typename BasicJsonType::array_t::value_type & el)
+        {
+            // the index is built as a std::string, while calc_bson_element_size
+            // takes a string_t; convert explicitly, as the two are only
+            // implicitly convertible for some string types
+            const auto key = std::to_string(array_index++);
+            return result + calc_bson_element_size(string_t(key.data(), key.size()), el);
+        });
+
+        return sizeof(std::int32_t) + embedded_document_size + 1ul;
+    }
+
    /*!
    @return The size of the BSON-encoded binary array @a value
    */
@@ -1205,6 +1250,29 @@ class binary_writer
        return sizeof(std::int32_t) + value.size() + 1ul;
    }

+    /*!
+    @brief Writes a BSON element with key @a name and array @a value
+    */
+    void write_bson_array(const string_t& name,
+                          const typename BasicJsonType::array_t& value)
+    {
+        write_bson_entry_header(name, 0x04); // array
+        write_number<std::int32_t>(to_bson_length(calc_bson_array_size(value)), true);
+
+        std::size_t array_index = 0ul;
+
+        for (const auto& el : value)
+        {
+            // the index is built as a std::string, while write_bson_element takes
+            // a string_t; convert explicitly, as the two are only implicitly
+            // convertible for some string types
+            const auto key = std::to_string(array_index++);
+            write_bson_element(string_t(key.data(), key.size()), el);
+        }
+
+        oa.write_character(to_char_type(0x00));
+    }
+
    /*!
    @brief Writes a BSON element with key @a name and binary value @a value
    */
@@ -1226,37 +1294,43 @@ class binary_writer
    }

    /*!
-    @return The size of the value of the BSON document entry for @a j, which
-            is neither an object nor an array
+    @brief Calculates the size necessary to serialize the JSON value @a j with its @a name
+    @return The calculated size for the BSON document entry for @a j with the given @a name.
    */
-    static std::size_t calc_bson_value_size(const BasicJsonType& j)
+    static std::size_t calc_bson_element_size(const string_t& name,
+            const BasicJsonType& j)
    {
+        const auto header_size = calc_bson_entry_header_size(name, j);
        switch (j.type())
        {
+            case value_t::object:
+                return header_size + calc_bson_object_size(*j.m_data.m_value.object);
+
+            case value_t::array:
+                return header_size + calc_bson_array_size(*j.m_data.m_value.array);
+
            case value_t::binary:
-                return calc_bson_binary_size(*j.m_data.m_value.binary);
+                return header_size + calc_bson_binary_size(*j.m_data.m_value.binary);

            case value_t::boolean:
-                return 1ul;
+                return header_size + 1ul;

            case value_t::number_float:
-                return 8ul;
+                return header_size + 8ul;

            case value_t::number_integer:
-                return calc_bson_integer_size(j.m_data.m_value.number_integer);
+                return header_size + calc_bson_integer_size(j.m_data.m_value.number_integer);

            case value_t::number_unsigned:
-                return calc_bson_unsigned_size(j.m_data.m_value.number_unsigned);
+                return header_size + calc_bson_unsigned_size(j.m_data.m_value.number_unsigned);

            case value_t::string:
-                return calc_bson_string_size(*j.m_data.m_value.string);
+                return header_size + calc_bson_string_size(*j.m_data.m_value.string);

            case value_t::null:
-                return 0ul;
+                return header_size + 0ul;

            // LCOV_EXCL_START
-            case value_t::object:
-            case value_t::array:
            case value_t::discarded:
            default:
                JSON_ASSERT(false); // NOLINT(cert-dcl03-c,hicpp-static-assert,misc-static-assert)
@@ -1266,13 +1340,22 @@ class binary_writer
    }

    /*!
-    @brief Writes the BSON document entry with key @a name for @a j, which is
-           neither an object nor an array
+    @brief Serializes the JSON value @a j to BSON and associates it with the
+           key @a name.
+    @param name The name to associate with the JSON entity @a j within the
+                current BSON document
    */
-    void write_bson_value(const string_t& name, const BasicJsonType& j)
+    void write_bson_element(const string_t& name,
+                            const BasicJsonType& j)
    {
        switch (j.type())
        {
+            case value_t::object:
+                return write_bson_object_entry(name, *j.m_data.m_value.object);
+
+            case value_t::array:
+                return write_bson_array(name, *j.m_data.m_value.array);
+
            case value_t::binary:
                return write_bson_binary(name, *j.m_data.m_value.binary);

@@ -1295,8 +1378,6 @@ class binary_writer
                return write_bson_null(name);

            // LCOV_EXCL_START
-            case value_t::object:
-            case value_t::array:
            case value_t::discarded:
            default:
                JSON_ASSERT(false); // NOLINT(cert-dcl03-c,hicpp-static-assert,misc-static-assert)
@@ -1305,221 +1386,37 @@ class binary_writer
        }
    }

-    /// @brief an object or array of the BSON document being sized or written
-    struct bson_frame
-    {
-        explicit bson_frame(const BasicJsonType* value_, const std::size_t size_slot_ = 0)
-            : value(value_)
-            , size_slot(size_slot_)
-        {
-            if (value->is_object())
-            {
-                member = value->m_data.m_value.object->cbegin();
-            }
-        }
-
-        /// the object or array
-        const BasicJsonType* value;
-        /// objects: the next member
-        typename BasicJsonType::object_t::const_iterator member{};
-        /// arrays: the index of the next element
-        std::size_t index = 0;
-        /// @ref calc_bson_sizes only: where its size goes in the table
-        std::size_t size_slot;
-        /// @ref calc_bson_sizes only: the size of its entries seen so far
-        std::size_t entries_size = 0;
-    };
-
    /*!
-    @brief creates the name BSON gives the array element with index @a index
-    @param[out] name  receives the decimal index
+    @brief Calculates the size of the BSON serialization of the given
+           JSON-object @a j.
+    @param[in] value  JSON value to serialize
+    @pre       value.type() == value_t::object
    */
-    static void create_bson_index_name(const std::size_t index, string_t& name)
+    static std::size_t calc_bson_object_size(const typename BasicJsonType::object_t& value)
    {
-        // the index is built as a std::string; convert explicitly, as the
-        // two are only implicitly convertible for some string types
-        const auto key = std::to_string(index);
-        name = string_t(key.data(), key.size());
+        const std::size_t document_size = std::accumulate(value.begin(), value.end(), static_cast<std::size_t>(0),
+                                          [](size_t result, const typename BasicJsonType::object_t::value_type & el)
+        {
+            return result += calc_bson_element_size(el.first, el.second);
+        });
+
+        return sizeof(std::int32_t) + document_size + 1ul;
    }

    /*!
-    @brief Calculates the size of every object and array in the BSON document
-           @a document, including the document itself.
-
-    BSON prefixes every document and array with its size, so all of them have
-    to be known before the first byte is written. They are computed in a
-    single pass, each one from the sizes of its entries, which keeps
-    serializing linear in the size of the document; computing each size by
-    walking the entire value below it made it quadratic in the nesting depth.
-    The pass keeps the objects and arrays it has entered on an explicit stack,
-    so a deeply nested value cannot exhaust the call stack.
-
-    @param[in] document  the JSON object to serialize
-    @param[out] nested_sizes  the sizes of the objects and arrays in
-                              @a document, in the order they are written
-    @return the size of @a document
-    @throw out_of_range.409 if a key contains U+0000, before anything is
-           written
+    @param[in] value  JSON value to serialize
+    @pre       value.type() == value_t::object
    */
-    static std::size_t calc_bson_sizes(const BasicJsonType& document, std::vector<std::size_t>& nested_sizes)
+    void write_bson_object(const typename BasicJsonType::object_t& value)
    {
-        // the object or array whose entries are being sized, and the ones it
-        // is in; nothing is allocated unless the document nests
-        bson_frame current(&document);
-        std::vector<bson_frame> parents;
-        // string_t need not be default constructible
-        string_t index_name("", 0);
+        write_number<std::int32_t>(to_bson_length(calc_bson_object_size(value)), true);

-        while (true)
+        for (const auto& el : value)
        {
-            // size entries until the current object or array is done, or an
-            // entry is an object or array itself
-            const BasicJsonType* nested = nullptr;
-            if (current.value->is_object())
-            {
-                const auto& object = *current.value->m_data.m_value.object;
-                while (nested == nullptr && current.member != object.cend())
-                {
-                    const auto& el = *current.member;
-                    ++current.member;
-                    current.entries_size += calc_bson_entry_header_size(el.first, el.second);
-                    if (el.second.is_structured())
-                    {
-                        nested = &el.second;
-                    }
-                    else
-                    {
-                        current.entries_size += calc_bson_value_size(el.second);
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-            else
-            {
-                const auto& array = *current.value->m_data.m_value.array;
-                while (nested == nullptr && current.index < array.size())
-                {
-                    const BasicJsonType& el = array[current.index];
-                    create_bson_index_name(current.index, index_name);
-                    current.entries_size += calc_bson_entry_header_size(index_name, el);
-                    ++current.index;
-                    if (el.is_structured())
-                    {
-                        nested = &el;
-                    }
-                    else
-                    {
-                        current.entries_size += calc_bson_value_size(el);
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-
-            if (nested != nullptr)
-            {
-                // its size is added to the current one's once it is done
-                nested_sizes.push_back(0);
-                parents.push_back(std::move(current));
-                current = bson_frame(nested, nested_sizes.size() - 1);
-                continue;
-            }
-
-            // the int32 size, the entries, and the terminating null byte
-            const std::size_t size = sizeof(std::int32_t) + current.entries_size + 1ul;
-            if (parents.empty())
-            {
-                return size;
-            }
-            nested_sizes[current.size_slot] = size;
-            current = std::move(parents.back());
-            parents.pop_back();
-            current.entries_size += size;
+            write_bson_element(el.first, el.second);
        }
-    }

-    /*!
-    @brief Serializes the JSON object @a document as a BSON document
-
-    Writes the objects and arrays in it without the call stack, keeping the
-    ones it has entered on an explicit stack, so a deeply nested value
-    cannot exhaust the call stack.
-
-    @param[in] document  the JSON object to serialize
-    @pre       document.type() == value_t::object
-    */
-    void write_bson_document(const BasicJsonType& document)
-    {
-        std::vector<std::size_t> nested_sizes;
-        const std::size_t document_size = calc_bson_sizes(document, nested_sizes);
-        write_number<std::int32_t>(to_bson_length(document_size), true);
-
-        // the object or array whose entries are being written, and the ones
-        // it is in
-        bson_frame current(&document);
-        std::vector<bson_frame> parents;
-        std::size_t next_size = 0;
-        // string_t need not be default constructible
-        string_t index_name("", 0);
-
-        while (true)
-        {
-            // write entries until the current object or array is done, or an
-            // entry is an object or array itself
-            const string_t* nested_name = nullptr;
-            const BasicJsonType* nested = nullptr;
-            if (current.value->is_object())
-            {
-                const auto& object = *current.value->m_data.m_value.object;
-                while (nested == nullptr && current.member != object.cend())
-                {
-                    const auto& el = *current.member;
-                    ++current.member;
-                    if (el.second.is_structured())
-                    {
-                        nested_name = &el.first;
-                        nested = &el.second;
-                    }
-                    else
-                    {
-                        write_bson_value(el.first, el.second);
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-            else
-            {
-                const auto& array = *current.value->m_data.m_value.array;
-                while (nested == nullptr && current.index < array.size())
-                {
-                    const BasicJsonType& el = array[current.index];
-                    create_bson_index_name(current.index, index_name);
-                    ++current.index;
-                    if (el.is_structured())
-                    {
-                        nested_name = &index_name;
-                        nested = &el;
-                    }
-                    else
-                    {
-                        write_bson_value(index_name, el);
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-
-            if (nested != nullptr)
-            {
-                write_bson_entry_header(*nested_name, nested->is_object() ? 0x03 : 0x04);
-                write_number<std::int32_t>(to_bson_length(nested_sizes[next_size++]), true);
-                parents.push_back(std::move(current));
-                current = bson_frame(nested);
-                continue;
-            }
-
-            oa.write_character(to_char_type(0x00));
-            if (parents.empty())
-            {
-                return;
-            }
-            current = std::move(parents.back());
-            parents.pop_back();
-        }
+        oa.write_character(to_char_type(0x00));
    }

    //////////
@@ -1550,6 +1447,28 @@ class binary_writer
        return to_char_type(0xCB);  // float 64
    }

+    /// @return the BON8 type marker for binary32 (float) or binary64 (double)
+    template<typename FloatType>
+    static constexpr CharType get_bon8_float_prefix()
+    {
+        return to_char_type(std::is_same<FloatType, float>::value ? 0x8E : 0x8F);
+    }
+
+    /// @return the type marker for a FloatType value in @a format (CBOR, MessagePack, or BON8)
+    template<typename FloatType>
+    static CharType get_compact_float_prefix(const detail::input_format_t format)
+    {
+        if (format == detail::input_format_t::cbor)
+        {
+            return get_cbor_float_prefix(FloatType{});
+        }
+        if (format == detail::input_format_t::bon8)
+        {
+            return get_bon8_float_prefix<FloatType>();
+        }
+        return get_msgpack_float_prefix(FloatType{});
+    }
+
    ////////////
    // UBJSON //
    ////////////
@@ -2142,6 +2061,322 @@ class binary_writer
        return false;
    }

+    //////////
+    // BON8 //
+    //////////
+
+    /*!
+    @brief write a BON8 value
+
+    A string is written without length or terminator: it ends at the first
+    byte that cannot continue it, which is the first byte of any non-string
+    value and of the end-of-container marker 0xFE. It only needs an explicit
+    end-of-string marker (0xFF) when it is empty, when another string follows,
+    or when it is the last thing in the message.
+
+    @param[in] j                JSON value to serialize
+    @param[in,out] string_open  whether the output ends with a non-empty
+                                string that has not been terminated with 0xFF
+    */
+    void write_bon8_value(const BasicJsonType& j, bool& string_open)
+    {
+        switch (j.type())
+        {
+            case value_t::null:
+            {
+                write_bon8_marker(0xFA, string_open);
+                break;
+            }
+
+            case value_t::boolean:
+            {
+                write_bon8_marker(j.m_data.m_value.boolean ? 0xF9 : 0xF8, string_open);
+                break;
+            }
+
+            case value_t::number_unsigned:
+            {
+                if (j.m_data.m_value.number_unsigned > static_cast<typename BasicJsonType::number_unsigned_t>((std::numeric_limits<std::int64_t>::max)()))
+                {
+                    JSON_THROW(out_of_range::create(407, concat("integer number ", std::to_string(j.m_data.m_value.number_unsigned), " cannot be represented by BON8 as it does not fit int64"), &j));
+                }
+                write_bon8_integer(static_cast<std::int64_t>(j.m_data.m_value.number_unsigned));
+                string_open = false;
+                break;
+            }
+
+            case value_t::number_integer:
+            {
+                write_bon8_integer(static_cast<std::int64_t>(j.m_data.m_value.number_integer));
+                string_open = false;
+                break;
+            }
+
+            case value_t::number_float:
+            {
+                write_bon8_float(j.m_data.m_value.number_float);
+                string_open = false;
+                break;
+            }
+
+            case value_t::string:
+            {
+                write_bon8_string(*j.m_data.m_value.string, string_open, j);
+                break;
+            }
+
+            case value_t::array:
+            {
+                const auto N = j.m_data.m_value.array->size();
+                // 0x80..0x84: array with 0..4 elements; 0x85: array ended by 0xFE
+                write_bon8_marker(static_cast<std::uint8_t>(N <= 4 ? 0x80 + N : 0x85), string_open);
+
+                for (const auto& el : *j.m_data.m_value.array)
+                {
+                    write_bon8_value(el, string_open);
+                }
+
+                if (N > 4)
+                {
+                    write_bon8_marker(0xFE, string_open);
+                }
+                break;
+            }
+
+            case value_t::object:
+            {
+                const auto N = j.m_data.m_value.object->size();
+                // 0x86..0x8A: object with 0..4 members; 0x8B: object ended by 0xFE
+                write_bon8_marker(static_cast<std::uint8_t>(N <= 4 ? 0x86 + N : 0x8B), string_open);
+
+                for (const auto& el : *j.m_data.m_value.object)
+                {
+                    write_bon8_string(el.first, string_open, j);
+                    write_bon8_value(el.second, string_open);
+                }
+
+                if (N > 4)
+                {
+                    write_bon8_marker(0xFE, string_open);
+                }
+                break;
+            }
+
+            case value_t::binary:
+            {
+                // BON8 has no binary type: write the bytes as an array of
+                // integers, like UBJSON and BJData do
+                const auto N = j.m_data.m_value.binary->size();
+                write_bon8_marker(static_cast<std::uint8_t>(N <= 4 ? 0x80 + N : 0x85), string_open);
+
+                for (std::size_t i = 0; i < N; ++i)
+                {
+                    // the cast is needed for binary types whose value type
+                    // is not an integer (e.g., std::byte)
+                    write_bon8_integer(static_cast<std::uint8_t>(j.m_data.m_value.binary->data()[i]));
+                }
+
+                if (N > 4)
+                {
+                    write_bon8_marker(0xFE, string_open);
+                }
+                break;
+            }
+
+            case value_t::discarded:
+            default:
+                break;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /*!
+    @brief write a single byte that is not part of a string
+
+    @param[in] marker        the byte to write
+    @param[out] string_open  set to false, because the output no longer ends
+                             with a string; see @ref write_bon8_value
+    */
+    void write_bon8_marker(const std::uint8_t marker, bool& string_open)
+    {
+        oa.write_character(to_char_type(marker));
+        string_open = false;
+    }
+
+    /*!
+    @brief write a string
+
+    @param[in] s                the string to write
+    @param[in,out] string_open  see @ref write_bon8_value
+    @param[in] context          the value the string belongs to (for diagnostics)
+
+    @throw type_error.316 if @a s is not valid UTF-8, because the end of a
+           string is determined from its encoding
+    */
+    void write_bon8_string(const string_t& s, bool& string_open, const BasicJsonType& context)
+    {
+        check_bon8_utf8(s, context);
+
+        // a string that follows another string terminates it
+        if (string_open)
+        {
+            oa.write_character(to_char_type(0xFF));
+        }
+
+        if (s.empty())
+        {
+            // the empty string is just the end-of-string marker
+            oa.write_character(to_char_type(0xFF));
+            string_open = false;
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            oa.write_characters(reinterpret_cast<const CharType*>(s.data()), s.size());
+            string_open = true;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /*!
+    @brief check that a string is valid UTF-8 (RFC 3629)
+
+    @param[in] s        the string to check
+    @param[in] context  the value the string belongs to (for diagnostics)
+
+    @throw type_error.316 if @a s is not valid UTF-8; the message names the
+           first byte of the first invalid or incomplete sequence
+    */
+    static void check_bon8_utf8(const string_t& s, const BasicJsonType& context)
+    {
+        static_cast<void>(context); // only used when exceptions are enabled
+        const auto* data = reinterpret_cast<const unsigned char*>(s.data());
+        const std::size_t valid = valid_utf8_prefix(data, s.size());
+        if (JSON_HEDLEY_UNLIKELY(valid != s.size()))
+        {
+            JSON_THROW(type_error::create(316, concat("invalid UTF-8 byte at index ", std::to_string(valid), ": 0x", hex_byte(data[valid])), &context));
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// @return a byte as two uppercase hexadecimal digits
+    static std::string hex_byte(const std::uint8_t byte)
+    {
+        std::string result = "00";
+        constexpr const char* nibble_to_hex = "0123456789ABCDEF";
+        result[0] = nibble_to_hex[byte / 16];
+        result[1] = nibble_to_hex[byte % 16];
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    /*!
+    @brief write an integer in the shortest encoding
+
+    Integers from -10 to 39 take one byte. Up to -33818506 and 67637031, an
+    integer takes 2 to 4 bytes that begin with a UTF-8 lead byte (0xC2..0xF7)
+    followed by a byte that is not a continuation byte: 0x00..0x7F for
+    positive and 0xC0..0xFF for negative integers. Each range starts where the
+    shorter one ends. Larger integers are written as int32 (0x8C) or int64
+    (0x8D) in big-endian byte order.
+
+    @param[in] value  the integer to write
+    */
+    void write_bon8_integer(std::int64_t value)
+    {
+        if (value < (std::numeric_limits<std::int32_t>::min)() || value > (std::numeric_limits<std::int32_t>::max)())
+        {
+            oa.write_character(to_char_type(0x8D));
+            write_number(value);
+        }
+        else if (value < -33818506 || value > 67637031)
+        {
+            oa.write_character(to_char_type(0x8C));
+            write_number(static_cast<std::int32_t>(value));
+        }
+        else if (value <= -264075)
+        {
+            value = -(value + 264075);
+            write_bon8_bytes(0xF0 + ((value >> 22) & 0x07), 0xC0 + ((value >> 16) & 0x3F), value >> 8, value);
+        }
+        else if (value <= -1931)
+        {
+            value = -(value + 1931);
+            write_bon8_bytes(0xE0 + ((value >> 14) & 0x0F), 0xC0 + ((value >> 8) & 0x3F), value);
+        }
+        else if (value <= -11)
+        {
+            value = -(value + 11);
+            write_bon8_bytes(0xC2 + ((value >> 6) & 0x1F), 0xC0 + (value & 0x3F));
+        }
+        else if (value <= -1)
+        {
+            write_bon8_bytes(0xB8 - (value + 1));
+        }
+        else if (value <= 39)
+        {
+            write_bon8_bytes(0x90 + value);
+        }
+        else if (value <= 3879)
+        {
+            value -= 40;
+            write_bon8_bytes(0xC2 + ((value >> 7) & 0x1F), value & 0x7F);
+        }
+        else if (value <= 528167)
+        {
+            value -= 3880;
+            write_bon8_bytes(0xE0 + ((value >> 15) & 0x0F), (value >> 8) & 0x7F, value);
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            value -= 528168;
+            write_bon8_bytes(0xF0 + ((value >> 23) & 0x07), (value >> 16) & 0x7F, value >> 8, value);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// write the low byte of each argument
+    template<typename... Bytes>
+    void write_bon8_bytes(const Bytes... bytes)
+    {
+        const std::array<CharType, sizeof...(Bytes)> buffer{{to_char_type(static_cast<std::uint8_t>(bytes & 0xFF))...}};
+        oa.write_characters(buffer.data(), buffer.size());
+    }
+
+    /*!
+    @brief write a floating-point number
+
+    -1.0, +0.0, and 1.0 take one byte. Other numbers are written as binary32
+    (0x8E) if that loses no precision, and as binary64 (0x8F) otherwise; -0.0,
+    infinities, and NaN are always written as binary32, NaN as 0x7F800001.
+
+    @param[in] n  the number to write
+    */
+    void write_bon8_float(const number_float_t n)
+    {
+#ifdef __GNUC__
+        JSON_HEDLEY_DIAGNOSTIC_PUSH
+        JSON_HEDLEY_PRAGMA(GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wfloat-equal")
+#endif
+        if (n == static_cast<number_float_t>(-1))
+        {
+            oa.write_character(to_char_type(0xFB));
+        }
+        else if (n == static_cast<number_float_t>(0) && !std::signbit(n))
+        {
+            oa.write_character(to_char_type(0xFC));
+        }
+        else if (n == static_cast<number_float_t>(1))
+        {
+            oa.write_character(to_char_type(0xFD));
+        }
+        else if (std::isnan(n))
+        {
+            write_bon8_bytes(0x8E, 0x7F, 0x80, 0x00, 0x01);
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            write_compact_float(n, detail::input_format_t::bon8);
+        }
+#ifdef __GNUC__
+        JSON_HEDLEY_DIAGNOSTIC_POP
+#endif
+    }
+
    ///////////////////////
    // Utility functions //
    ///////////////////////
@@ -2276,16 +2511,12 @@ class binary_writer
                                   static_cast<double>(n) <= static_cast<double>((std::numeric_limits<float>::max)()) &&
                                   static_cast<double>(static_cast<float>(n)) == static_cast<double>(n))))
        {
-            oa.write_character(format == detail::input_format_t::cbor
-                               ? get_cbor_float_prefix(static_cast<float>(n))
-                               : get_msgpack_float_prefix(static_cast<float>(n)));
+            oa.write_character(get_compact_float_prefix<float>(format));
            write_number(static_cast<float>(n));
        }
        else
        {
-            oa.write_character(format == detail::input_format_t::cbor
-                               ? get_cbor_float_prefix(n)
-                               : get_msgpack_float_prefix(n));
+            oa.write_character(get_compact_float_prefix<number_float_t>(format));
            write_number(n);
        }
 #ifdef __GNUC__
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
 #include <nlohmann/detail/output/output_adapters.hpp>
 #include <nlohmann/detail/recursion_depth_limit.hpp>
 #include <nlohmann/detail/string_concat.hpp>
-#include <nlohmann/detail/string_utils.hpp>
 #include <nlohmann/detail/value_t.hpp>

 NLOHMANN_JSON_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
@@ -59,6 +58,8 @@ class serializer
    using number_integer_t = typename BasicJsonType::number_integer_t;
    using number_unsigned_t = typename BasicJsonType::number_unsigned_t;
    using binary_char_t = typename BasicJsonType::binary_t::value_type;
+    static constexpr std::uint8_t UTF8_ACCEPT = 0;
+    static constexpr std::uint8_t UTF8_REJECT = 1;

  public:
    /*!
@@ -1591,6 +1592,62 @@ class serializer
        }
    }

+    /*!
+    @brief check whether a string is UTF-8 encoded
+
+    The function checks each byte of a string whether it is UTF-8 encoded. The
+    result of the check is stored in the @a state parameter. The function must
+    be called initially with state 0 (accept). State 1 means the string must
+    be rejected, because the current byte is not allowed. If the string is
+    completely processed, but the state is non-zero, the string ended
+    prematurely; that is, the last byte indicated more bytes should have
+    followed.
+
+    @param[in,out] state  the state of the decoding
+    @param[in,out] codep  codepoint (valid only if resulting state is UTF8_ACCEPT)
+    @param[in] byte       next byte to decode
+    @return               new state
+
+    @note The function has been edited: a std::array is used.
+
+    @copyright Copyright (c) 2008-2009 Bjoern Hoehrmann <bjoern@hoehrmann.de>
+    @sa http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de/utf-8/decoder/dfa/
+    */
+    static std::uint8_t decode(std::uint8_t& state, std::uint32_t& codep, const std::uint8_t byte) noexcept
+    {
+        static const std::array<std::uint8_t, 400> utf8d =
+        {
+            {
+                0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, // 00..1F
+                0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, // 20..3F
+                0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, // 40..5F
+                0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, // 60..7F
+                1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, // 80..9F
+                7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, // A0..BF
+                8, 8, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, // C0..DF
+                0xA, 0x3, 0x3, 0x3, 0x3, 0x3, 0x3, 0x3, 0x3, 0x3, 0x3, 0x3, 0x3, 0x4, 0x3, 0x3, // E0..EF
+                0xB, 0x6, 0x6, 0x6, 0x5, 0x8, 0x8, 0x8, 0x8, 0x8, 0x8, 0x8, 0x8, 0x8, 0x8, 0x8, // F0..FF
+                0x0, 0x1, 0x2, 0x3, 0x5, 0x8, 0x7, 0x1, 0x1, 0x1, 0x4, 0x6, 0x1, 0x1, 0x1, 0x1, // s0..s0
+                1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, // s1..s2
+                1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, // s3..s4
+                1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, // s5..s6
+                1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 // s7..s8
+            }
+        };
+
+        JSON_ASSERT(static_cast<std::size_t>(byte) < utf8d.size());
+        const std::uint8_t type = utf8d[byte];
+
+        codep = (state != UTF8_ACCEPT)
+                ? (byte & 0x3fu) | (codep << 6u)
+                : (0xFFu >> type) & (byte);
+
+        const std::size_t index = 256u + (static_cast<size_t>(state) * 16u) + static_cast<size_t>(type);
+        JSON_ASSERT(index < utf8d.size());
+        state = utf8d[index];
+        return state;
+    }
+
    /*
     * Overload to make the compiler happy while it is instantiating
     * dump_integer for number_unsigned_t.
@@ -8,13 +8,10 @@

 #pragma once

-#include <array> // array
 #include <cstddef> // size_t
-#include <cstdint> // uint8_t, uint32_t
 #include <string> // string, to_string

 #include <nlohmann/detail/abi_macros.hpp>
-#include <nlohmann/detail/macro_scope.hpp>

 NLOHMANN_JSON_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
 namespace detail
@@ -36,102 +33,5 @@ StringType to_string(std::size_t value)
    return result;
 }

-///////////////////
-// UTF-8 decoding //
-///////////////////
-
-// UTF-8 decoder states used by decode() below
-static constexpr std::uint8_t UTF8_ACCEPT = 0;
-static constexpr std::uint8_t UTF8_REJECT = 1;
-
-/*!
-@brief process a byte of a UTF-8 sequence
-
-This is a single-byte step of a "shift-based" UTF-8 decoder originally
-written by Björn Hoehrmann. See
-http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de/utf-8/decoder/dfa/ for details.
-
-This decoder is the single source of truth for UTF-8 validation in this
-library: it is used both by the serializer (to escape and, in strict mode,
-reject ill-formed UTF-8 when dumping a string) and by the binary readers
-(to reject ill-formed UTF-8 in CBOR/MessagePack/BSON/UBJSON text strings at
-decode time; see @ref is_valid_utf8 below).
-
-@param[in,out] state  the current decoder state
-@param[in,out] codep  codepoint (valid only if resulting state is UTF8_ACCEPT)
-@param[in] byte       next byte to decode
-@return               new state
-
-@note Original source: http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de/utf-8/decoder/dfa/
-@sa http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de/utf-8/decoder/dfa/
-*/
-inline std::uint8_t decode(std::uint8_t& state, std::uint32_t& codep, const std::uint8_t byte) noexcept
-{
-    static const std::array<std::uint8_t, 400> utf8d =
-    {
-        {
-            0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, // 00..1F
-            0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, // 20..3F
-            0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, // 40..5F
-            0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, // 60..7F
-            1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, // 80..9F
-            7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, // A0..BF
-            8, 8, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, // C0..DF
-            0xA, 0x3, 0x3, 0x3, 0x3, 0x3, 0x3, 0x3, 0x3, 0x3, 0x3, 0x3, 0x3, 0x4, 0x3, 0x3, // E0..EF
-            0xB, 0x6, 0x6, 0x6, 0x5, 0x8, 0x8, 0x8, 0x8, 0x8, 0x8, 0x8, 0x8, 0x8, 0x8, 0x8, // F0..FF
-            0x0, 0x1, 0x2, 0x3, 0x5, 0x8, 0x7, 0x1, 0x1, 0x1, 0x4, 0x6, 0x1, 0x1, 0x1, 0x1, // s0..s0
-            1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, // s1..s2
-            1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, // s3..s4
-            1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, // s5..s6
-            1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 // s7..s8
-        }
-    };
-
-    JSON_ASSERT(static_cast<std::size_t>(byte) < utf8d.size());
-    const std::uint8_t type = utf8d[byte];
-
-    codep = (state != UTF8_ACCEPT)
-            ? (byte & 0x3fu) | (codep << 6u)
-            : (0xFFu >> type) & (byte);
-
-    const std::size_t index = 256u + (static_cast<std::size_t>(state) * 16u) + static_cast<std::size_t>(type);
-    JSON_ASSERT(index < utf8d.size());
-    state = utf8d[index];
-    return state;
-}
-
-/*!
-@brief check whether a string consists solely of valid UTF-8
-
-Used by the CBOR/MessagePack/BSON/UBJSON binary readers to reject text
-strings that are not valid UTF-8 at decode time (RFC 8949 §3.1 and the
-MessagePack/BSON specifications all require text strings to be UTF-8), so
-that malformed input is caught immediately instead of only surfacing later
-as a type_error.316 when the resulting value is dumped.
-
-@param[in] s      the string to check
-@param[in] first  index of the first byte to check; the bytes before it are
-                  assumed to have been validated already and to end on a
-                  code point boundary
-@return whether @a s (from index @a first on) is valid UTF-8
-*/
-template<typename StringType>
-inline bool is_valid_utf8(const StringType& s, const std::size_t first = 0) noexcept
-{
-    std::uint8_t state = UTF8_ACCEPT;
-    std::uint32_t codepoint = 0;
-
-    for (std::size_t i = first; i < s.size(); ++i)
-    {
-        decode(state, codepoint, static_cast<std::uint8_t>(s[i]));
-        if (state == UTF8_REJECT)
-        {
-            return false;
-        }
-    }
-
-    return state == UTF8_ACCEPT;
-}
-
 }  // namespace detail
 NLOHMANN_JSON_NAMESPACE_END
@@ -1003,8 +1003,7 @@ class basic_json // NOLINT(cppcoreguidelines-special-member-functions,hicpp-spec
    using copy_worklist_t = std::vector<std::pair<const basic_json*, basic_json*>>;

    /// scratch space to build the key skeleton of an object copy in one go
-    using copy_scratch_value_t = std::pair<typename object_t::key_type, basic_json>;
-    using copy_scratch_t = std::vector<copy_scratch_value_t, AllocatorType<copy_scratch_value_t>>;
+    using copy_scratch_t = std::vector<std::pair<typename object_t::key_type, basic_json>>;

    /// @brief copy everything of @a src into @a dst but its type and value
    static void copy_metadata(const basic_json& src, basic_json& dst)
@@ -5286,6 +5285,30 @@ class basic_json // NOLINT(cppcoreguidelines-special-member-functions,hicpp-spec
        binary_writer<char>(o).write_bson(j);
    }

+    /// @brief create a BON8 serialization of a given JSON value
+    /// @sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_bon8/
+    static std::vector<std::uint8_t> to_bon8(const basic_json& j)
+    {
+        std::vector<std::uint8_t> result;
+        result.reserve(detail::binary_reserve_hint(j));
+        vector_writer(result).write_bon8(j);
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    /// @brief create a BON8 serialization of a given JSON value
+    /// @sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_bon8/
+    static void to_bon8(const basic_json& j, detail::output_adapter<std::uint8_t> o)
+    {
+        binary_writer<std::uint8_t>(o).write_bon8(j);
+    }
+
+    /// @brief create a BON8 serialization of a given JSON value
+    /// @sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_bon8/
+    static void to_bon8(const basic_json& j, detail::output_adapter<char> o)
+    {
+        binary_writer<char>(o).write_bon8(j);
+    }
+
    /// @brief create a JSON value from an input in CBOR format
    /// @sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_cbor/
    template<typename InputType>
@@ -5519,6 +5542,43 @@ class basic_json // NOLINT(cppcoreguidelines-special-member-functions,hicpp-spec
        return result;
    }

+    /// @brief create a JSON value from an input in BON8 format
+    /// @sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_bon8/
+    template<typename InputType>
+    JSON_HEDLEY_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
+    static basic_json from_bon8(InputType&& i,
+                                const bool strict = true,
+                                const bool allow_exceptions = true)
+    {
+        basic_json result;
+        auto ia = detail::input_adapter(std::forward<InputType>(i));
+        detail::json_sax_dom_parser<basic_json, decltype(ia)> sdp(result, allow_exceptions);
+        if (!binary_reader<decltype(ia)>(std::move(ia), input_format_t::bon8).sax_parse(input_format_t::bon8, &sdp, strict)) // cppcheck-suppress[accessMoved]
+        {
+            result = value_t::discarded;
+        }
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    /// @brief create a JSON value from an input in BON8 format (iterator pair, or iterator+sentinel pair for C++20 ranges support)
+    /// @sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_bon8/
+    template<typename IteratorType, typename SentinelType = IteratorType,
+             detail::enable_if_t<detail::can_compare_ne<IteratorType, SentinelType>::value, int> = 0>
+    JSON_HEDLEY_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
+    static basic_json from_bon8(IteratorType first, SentinelType last,
+                                const bool strict = true,
+                                const bool allow_exceptions = true)
+    {
+        basic_json result;
+        auto ia = detail::input_adapter(std::move(first), std::move(last));
+        detail::json_sax_dom_parser<basic_json, decltype(ia)> sdp(result, allow_exceptions);
+        if (!binary_reader<decltype(ia)>(std::move(ia), input_format_t::bon8).sax_parse(input_format_t::bon8, &sdp, strict)) // cppcheck-suppress[accessMoved]
+        {
+            result = value_t::discarded;
+        }
+        return result;
+    }
+
    /// @brief create a JSON value from an input in BSON format
    /// @sa https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_bson/
    template<typename InputType>
@@ -60,10 +60,6 @@
    #define JSON_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION 0
 #endif

-#ifndef JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING
-    #define JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING 0
-#endif
-
 #if JSON_DIAGNOSTICS
    #define NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAG_DIAGNOSTICS _diag
 #else
@@ -94,20 +90,14 @@
    #define NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAG_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION
 #endif

-#if JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING
-    #define NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAG_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING _snul
-#else
-    #define NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAG_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING
-#endif
-
 #ifndef NLOHMANN_JSON_NAMESPACE_NO_VERSION
    #define NLOHMANN_JSON_NAMESPACE_NO_VERSION 0
 #endif

 // Construct the namespace ABI tags component
-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAGS_CONCAT_EX(a, b, c, d, e, f) json_abi ## a ## b ## c ## d ## e ## f
-#define NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAGS_CONCAT(a, b, c, d, e, f) \
-    NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAGS_CONCAT_EX(a, b, c, d, e, f)
+#define NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAGS_CONCAT_EX(a, b, c, d, e) json_abi ## a ## b ## c ## d ## e
+#define NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAGS_CONCAT(a, b, c, d, e) \
+    NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAGS_CONCAT_EX(a, b, c, d, e)

 #define NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAGS                                       \
    NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAGS_CONCAT(                                   \
@@ -115,8 +105,7 @@
            NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAG_LEGACY_DISCARDED_VALUE_COMPARISON, \
            NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAG_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS,              \
            NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAG_BRACE_INIT_COPY_SEMANTICS,         \
-            NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAG_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION,           \
-            NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAG_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING)
+            NLOHMANN_JSON_ABI_TAG_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION)

 // Construct the namespace version component
 #define NLOHMANN_JSON_NAMESPACE_VERSION_CONCAT_EX(major, minor, patch) \
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ endif()

 if (CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID STREQUAL "MSVC")
    # avoid stack overflow, see https://github.com/nlohmann/json/issues/2955
-    json_test_set_test_options("test-cbor;test-msgpack;test-ubjson;test-bjdata;test-binary_formats" LINK_OPTIONS /STACK:4000000)
+    json_test_set_test_options("test-bon8;test-cbor;test-msgpack;test-ubjson;test-bjdata;test-binary_formats" LINK_OPTIONS /STACK:4000000)
 endif()

 # disable exceptions for test-disabled_exceptions
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ CXXFLAGS += -std=c++11
 CPPFLAGS += -I ../single_include

 FUZZER_ENGINE = src/fuzzer-driver_afl.cpp
-FUZZERS = parse_afl_fuzzer parse_bson_fuzzer parse_cbor_fuzzer parse_msgpack_fuzzer parse_ubjson_fuzzer parse_bjdata_fuzzer
+FUZZERS = parse_afl_fuzzer parse_bson_fuzzer parse_cbor_fuzzer parse_msgpack_fuzzer parse_ubjson_fuzzer parse_bjdata_fuzzer parse_bon8_fuzzer
 fuzzers: $(FUZZERS)

 parse_afl_fuzzer:
@@ -30,3 +30,6 @@ parse_ubjson_fuzzer:

 parse_bjdata_fuzzer:
 	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(FUZZER_ENGINE) src/fuzzer-parse_bjdata.cpp -o $@
+
+parse_bon8_fuzzer:
+	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(FUZZER_ENGINE) src/fuzzer-parse_bon8.cpp -o $@
@@ -40,10 +40,6 @@ TEST_CASE("default namespace")
        expected += "_psp";
 #endif

-#if JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING
-        expected += "_snul";
-#endif
-
        expected += "_v" STRINGIZE(NLOHMANN_JSON_VERSION_MAJOR);
        expected += "_" STRINGIZE(NLOHMANN_JSON_VERSION_MINOR);
        expected += "_" STRINGIZE(NLOHMANN_JSON_VERSION_PATCH) "::basic_json";
@@ -41,10 +41,6 @@ TEST_CASE("default namespace without version component")
        expected += "_psp";
 #endif

-#if JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING
-        expected += "_snul";
-#endif
-
        expected += "::basic_json";

        // fallback for Clang
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.14)
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.11...3.14)
 project(JSON_Benchmarks LANGUAGES CXX)

 # set compiler flags
@@ -6,35 +6,29 @@ if((CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID MATCHES GNU) OR (CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID MATCHES Clang))
    set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -flto -DNDEBUG -O3")
 endif()

-# configure Google Benchmark; a fixed release, so that results stay comparable
-set(JSON_GOOGLE_BENCHMARK_VERSION 1.9.5)
+# configure Google Benchmarks
 include(FetchContent)
-
-# only the library is needed; -Werror would break the pinned release as soon as
-# a newer compiler adds a warning
-set(BENCHMARK_ENABLE_TESTING OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
-set(BENCHMARK_ENABLE_INSTALL OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
-set(BENCHMARK_ENABLE_WERROR OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
-
-FetchContent_Declare(benchmark
-    URL https://github.com/google/benchmark/archive/refs/tags/v${JSON_GOOGLE_BENCHMARK_VERSION}.tar.gz
-    URL_HASH SHA256=9631341c82bac4a288bef951f8b26b41f69021794184ece969f8473977eaa340
-    DOWNLOAD_EXTRACT_TIMESTAMP TRUE
+FetchContent_Declare(
+    benchmark
+    GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/google/benchmark.git
+    GIT_TAG origin/main
+    GIT_SHALLOW TRUE
 )
-FetchContent_MakeAvailable(benchmark)
+
+FetchContent_GetProperties(benchmark)
+if(NOT benchmark_POPULATED)
+    FetchContent_Populate(benchmark)
+    set(BENCHMARK_ENABLE_TESTING OFF CACHE INTERNAL "" FORCE)
+    add_subdirectory(${benchmark_SOURCE_DIR} ${benchmark_BINARY_DIR})
+endif()

 # download test data
 set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../../cmake ${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH})
 include(download_test_data)

-# the header to benchmark; point this at a directory holding another version's
-# nlohmann/json.hpp to compare versions (see README.md)
-set(JSON_BENCHMARK_INCLUDE_DIR "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../../single_include" CACHE PATH
-    "directory containing the nlohmann/json.hpp to benchmark")
-
 # benchmark binary
 add_executable(json_benchmarks src/benchmarks.cpp)
 target_compile_features(json_benchmarks PRIVATE cxx_std_11)
 target_link_libraries(json_benchmarks benchmark ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT})
 add_dependencies(json_benchmarks download_test_data)
-target_include_directories(json_benchmarks PRIVATE ${JSON_BENCHMARK_INCLUDE_DIR} ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/include)
+target_include_directories(json_benchmarks PRIVATE ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/../../single_include ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/include)
@@ -1,130 +0,0 @@
-# Benchmarks
-
-Micro-benchmarks for parsing, serialization and the binary formats, written with
-[Google Benchmark](https://github.com/google/benchmark). They are not run by CI; see
-[When to run them](#when-to-run-them).
-
-## What is measured
-
-| benchmark | what it does |
-|---|---|
-| `ParseFile`, `ParseString` | parse JSON from a file stream or a string |
-| `ParseIndented` | parse the large files re-indented by 4 spaces, for the lexer's whitespace handling |
-| `Dump` | serialize, compact (`-`) and indented (`4`) |
-| `ToCbor`, `BinaryToCbor` | write CBOR; `BinaryToCbor` writes binary values of growing size |
-| `FromMsgpack` | read MessagePack; unchanged over the years, so its numbers stay comparable across releases |
-| `FromBinaryBuffer`, `FromBinaryFile` | read CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON, BJData and BSON from a buffer or a `FILE*` |
-| `FromBinaryShape` | read deeply nested, container-heavy and scalar-heavy documents in every binary format |
-| `FromCborChunkedString` | read CBOR strings split into indefinite-length chunks |
-
-The input files are those of [nativejson-benchmark](https://github.com/miloyip/nativejson-benchmark) (`canada`,
-`citm_catalog`, `twitter`), a large `jeopardy` file, and number-heavy files (`floats`, `signed_ints`, ...).
-`bytes_per_second` counts the bytes read or written: the JSON text when parsing, the output when serializing.
-
-## Requirements
-
- CMake 3.14 or later, a C++11 compiler, and Ninja for the `make` target.
- Network access on the first configure: CMake downloads Google Benchmark and the
-  [test data](https://github.com/nlohmann/json_test_data) into the build directory. To reuse a download of the test
-  data, pass `-DJSON_TestDataDirectory=<build directory>/test_files`.
- Google Benchmark is pinned to a release (1.9.5), so that results from different days stay comparable. To update it,
-  change `JSON_GOOGLE_BENCHMARK_VERSION` and the archive's `URL_HASH` in `CMakeLists.txt` together.
- The benchmarks include `single_include/nlohmann/json.hpp`, so run `make amalgamate` after changing anything in
-  `include/`.
-
-GCC and Clang builds use `-O3 -flto -DNDEBUG`.
-
-## Running them
-
-From the repository root, this builds everything from scratch in `cmake-build-benchmarks` and runs all benchmarks:
-
-```sh
-make run_benchmarks
-```
-
-To build once and run selectively:
-
-```sh
-cmake -S tests/benchmarks -B build-benchmarks -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
-cmake --build build-benchmarks
-build-benchmarks/json_benchmarks --benchmark_filter='ParseString|Dump'
-```
-
-Useful options of `json_benchmarks`:
-
-| option | effect |
-|---|---|
-| `--benchmark_list_tests` | list the benchmarks instead of running them |
-| `--benchmark_filter=<regex>` | run only the benchmarks whose names match |
-| `--benchmark_repetitions=<n>` | run every benchmark `n` times and add mean, median, standard deviation and coefficient of variation |
-| `--benchmark_enable_random_interleaving=true` | run the repetitions in random order, which spreads out drifts such as thermal throttling |
-| `--benchmark_min_time=<seconds>s` | run each benchmark at least this long (e.g. `2s`) |
-| `--benchmark_out=<file> --benchmark_out_format=json` | also write the results to a file, e.g. for `compare.py` |
-
-## Reading the output
-
-Each line shows the wall-clock `Time` and the `CPU` time per iteration, the number of `Iterations` Google Benchmark
-chose, and the throughput in `bytes_per_second`. With repetitions, the lines ending in `_median` are the ones to
-compare. A `_cv` (coefficient of variation) above a few percent means the machine was too noisy for small
-differences to mean anything.
-
-## Comparing two versions
-
-To see what a change or a release did, build the same benchmarks twice: once against the header of the version to
-compare with, and once against the current one. `JSON_BENCHMARK_INCLUDE_DIR` names the directory holding the
-`nlohmann/json.hpp` to benchmark. For example, to compare the current checkout with 3.12.0:
-
-```sh
-# the header of the version to compare with
-mkdir -p build-baseline-header/nlohmann
-git show v3.12.0:single_include/nlohmann/json.hpp > build-baseline-header/nlohmann/json.hpp
-
-# the same benchmarks, built against either header
-cmake -S tests/benchmarks -B build-baseline -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-      -DJSON_BENCHMARK_INCLUDE_DIR="$PWD/build-baseline-header"
-cmake -S tests/benchmarks -B build-current -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
-cmake --build build-baseline
-cmake --build build-current
-
-# run both, back to back
-build-baseline/json_benchmarks --benchmark_repetitions=10 --benchmark_enable_random_interleaving=true \
-                               --benchmark_out=build-baseline/results.json --benchmark_out_format=json
-build-current/json_benchmarks --benchmark_repetitions=10 --benchmark_enable_random_interleaving=true \
-                              --benchmark_out=build-current/results.json --benchmark_out_format=json
-```
-
-Google Benchmark ships a tool to compare the two result files. It needs NumPy and SciPy:
-
-```sh
-python3 -m venv build-venv
-build-venv/bin/pip install numpy scipy
-build-venv/bin/python build-current/_deps/benchmark-src/tools/compare.py -a benchmarks build-baseline/results.json build-current/results.json
-```
-
-The tool's own `tools/requirements.txt` pins NumPy and SciPy versions that need Python 3.11 or later; with an older
-Python, unpinned versions work as well. In its output:
-
- the `Time` and `CPU` columns are relative changes: `-0.35` means 35% faster, `+0.10` means 10% slower;
- `_pvalue` lines report a Mann-Whitney U test of whether the two versions differ. It needs at least 9
-  repetitions, and a p-value below 0.05 means the difference is unlikely to be noise;
- `OVERALL_GEOMEAN` summarizes all benchmarks;
- `-a` shows only the aggregates, not every repetition.
-
-The header you compare with must support everything the benchmarks use. The current benchmarks build against 3.12.0.
-Only benchmarks present in both result files are compared, so for older releases, either filter the benchmarks or
-build that release's own `tests/benchmarks` against its own header.
-
-## Getting stable numbers
-
- Build and run both versions on the same machine, one right after the other.
- Keep the machine otherwise idle: no builds, no browser, and a laptop plugged in.
- On Linux, set the CPU frequency governor to `performance`, e.g. `sudo cpupower frequency-set --governor performance`.
-  Google Benchmark prints a warning when frequency scaling is enabled. Pinning the process to a core
-  (`taskset -c 2 ...`) helps as well.
- Use 10 or more repetitions with random interleaving, compare medians, and treat changes within the `_cv` as noise.
-
-## When to run them
-
-They are a manual step, not part of CI: shared CI runners vary more between runs than most of the effects measured.
-Run the comparison above before a release, comparing the previous release tag with `develop`, and for pull requests
-that claim to change performance.
@@ -131,8 +131,7 @@ static void Dump(benchmark::State& state, const char* filename, int indent)

    while (state.KeepRunning())
    {
-        std::string output = j.dump(indent);
-        benchmark::DoNotOptimize(output);
+        j.dump(indent);
    }

    state.SetBytesProcessed(state.iterations() * j.dump(indent).size());
@@ -274,7 +273,8 @@ enum class binary_format
    ubjson_optimized,
    bjdata,
    bjdata_optimized,
-    bson
+    bson,
+    bon8
 };

 static std::vector<std::uint8_t> to_binary(const json& j, const binary_format format)
@@ -293,6 +293,8 @@ static std::vector<std::uint8_t> to_binary(const json& j, const binary_format fo
            return json::to_bjdata(j);
        case binary_format::bjdata_optimized:
            return json::to_bjdata(j, true, true);
+        case binary_format::bon8:
+            return json::to_bon8(j);
        case binary_format::bson:
        default:
            return json::to_bson(j);
@@ -313,6 +315,8 @@ static json from_binary(const std::vector<std::uint8_t>& bytes, const binary_for
        case binary_format::bjdata:
        case binary_format::bjdata_optimized:
            return json::from_bjdata(bytes);
+        case binary_format::bon8:
+            return json::from_bon8(bytes);
        case binary_format::bson:
        default:
            return json::from_bson(bytes);
@@ -333,6 +337,8 @@ static json from_binary(std::FILE* file, const binary_format format)
        case binary_format::bjdata:
        case binary_format::bjdata_optimized:
            return json::from_bjdata(file);
+        case binary_format::bon8:
+            return json::from_bon8(file);
        case binary_format::bson:
        default:
            return json::from_bson(file);
@@ -407,6 +413,10 @@ BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryBuffer, bjdata / canada, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativ
 BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryBuffer, bjdata / twitter, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/twitter.json", binary_format::bjdata);
 BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryBuffer, bjdata_optimized / canada, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/canada.json", binary_format::bjdata_optimized);
 BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryBuffer, bjdata_optimized / twitter, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/twitter.json", binary_format::bjdata_optimized);
+BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryBuffer, bon8 / jeopardy, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/jeopardy/jeopardy.json", binary_format::bon8);
+BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryBuffer, bon8 / canada, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/canada.json", binary_format::bon8);
+BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryBuffer, bon8 / citm_catalog, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/citm_catalog.json", binary_format::bon8);
+BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryBuffer, bon8 / twitter, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/twitter.json", binary_format::bon8);
 // BSON requires an object at the top level, so the array-rooted test files
 // (jeopardy and the regression files) cannot be captured here
 BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryBuffer, bson / canada, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/canada.json", binary_format::bson);
@@ -450,6 +460,8 @@ BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryFile, cbor / twitter, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejs
 BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryFile, ubjson / canada, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/canada.json", binary_format::ubjson);
 BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryFile, ubjson / twitter, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/twitter.json", binary_format::ubjson);
 BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryFile, bjdata / twitter, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/twitter.json", binary_format::bjdata);
+BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryFile, bon8 / canada, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/canada.json", binary_format::bon8);
+BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryFile, bon8 / twitter, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/twitter.json", binary_format::bon8);
 BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryFile, bson / twitter, TEST_DATA_DIRECTORY "/nativejson-benchmark/twitter.json", binary_format::bson);

 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@@ -530,18 +542,21 @@ BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, nested / msgpack, make_nested, binary_format:
 BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, nested / ubjson, make_nested, binary_format::ubjson);
 BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, nested / bjdata, make_nested, binary_format::bjdata);
 BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, nested / bson, make_nested, binary_format::bson);
+BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, nested / bon8, make_nested, binary_format::bon8);
 BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, containers / cbor, make_containers, binary_format::cbor);
 BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, containers / msgpack, make_containers, binary_format::msgpack);
 BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, containers / ubjson, make_containers, binary_format::ubjson);
 BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, containers / ubjson_optimized, make_containers, binary_format::ubjson_optimized);
 BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, containers / bjdata, make_containers, binary_format::bjdata);
 BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, containers / bson, make_containers, binary_format::bson);
+BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, containers / bon8, make_containers, binary_format::bon8);
 // BSON names every array element, so a large array measures key generation
 // rather than scalar decoding and is left out here
 BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, scalars / cbor, make_scalars, binary_format::cbor);
 BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, scalars / msgpack, make_scalars, binary_format::msgpack);
 BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, scalars / ubjson, make_scalars, binary_format::ubjson);
 BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, scalars / bjdata, make_scalars, binary_format::bjdata);
+BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(FromBinaryShape, scalars / bon8, make_scalars, binary_format::bon8);

 /*!
@brief parse an indefinite-length CBOR string
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Fuzz testing

-Each parser of the library (JSON, BJData, BSON, CBOR, MessagePack, and UBJSON) can be fuzz tested. Currently,
+Each parser of the library (JSON, BJData, BON8, BSON, CBOR, MessagePack, and UBJSON) can be fuzz tested. Currently,
 [libFuzzer](https://llvm.org/docs/LibFuzzer.html) and [afl++](https://github.com/AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus) are supported.

 ## Corpus creation
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@ directory with some simple input files that cover several features of the parser
 for mutations.

 ```shell
-TEST_DATA_VERSION=3.1.0
+TEST_DATA_VERSION=3.2.0
 wget https://github.com/nlohmann/json_test_data/archive/refs/tags/v$TEST_DATA_VERSION.zip
 unzip v$TEST_DATA_VERSION.zip
 rm v$TEST_DATA_VERSION.zip
-for FORMAT in json bjdata bson cbor msgpack ubjson
+for FORMAT in json bjdata bon8 bson cbor msgpack ubjson
 do
  rm -fr corpus_$FORMAT
  mkdir corpus_$FORMAT
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+//     __ _____ _____ _____
+//  __|  |   __|     |   | |  JSON for Modern C++ (supporting code)
+// |  |  |__   |  |  | | | |  version 3.12.0
+// |_____|_____|_____|_|___|  https://github.com/nlohmann/json
+//
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013-2026 Niels Lohmann <https://nlohmann.me>
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
+/*
+This file implements a parser test suitable for fuzz testing. Given a byte
+array data, it performs the following steps:
+
+- j1 = from_bon8(data)
+- vec = to_bon8(j1)
+- j2 = from_bon8(vec)
+- assert(j1 == j2)
+
+It also checks that reading the data from a stream, which reads strings byte by
+byte, gives the same value or error as reading it from contiguous memory, which
+copies strings in bulk.
+
+The provided function `LLVMFuzzerTestOneInput` can be used in different fuzzer
+drivers.
+*/
+
+#include <cassert>
+#include <iostream>
+#include <sstream>
+#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
+
+// the round-trip checks below are assertions; NDEBUG would compile them away
+#ifdef NDEBUG
+    #error "the fuzzer drivers must be built without NDEBUG"
+#endif
+
+using json = nlohmann::json;
+
+namespace
+{
+// the serialization of the value read from @a input, or the error message
+template<typename InputType>
+std::string read_bon8(InputType&& input)
+{
+    try
+    {
+        const auto vec = json::to_bon8(json::from_bon8(std::forward<InputType>(input)));
+        return {vec.begin(), vec.end()};
+    }
+    catch (const json::exception& e)
+    {
+        return e.what();
+    }
+}
+} // namespace
+
+// see http://llvm.org/docs/LibFuzzer.html
+extern "C" int LLVMFuzzerTestOneInput(const uint8_t* data, size_t size)
+{
+    // contiguous and stream input must be read alike
+    {
+        std::istringstream stream(std::string(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(data), size));
+        assert(read_bon8(std::vector<uint8_t>(data, data + size)) == read_bon8(stream));
+    }
+
+    try
+    {
+        // step 1: parse input
+        std::vector<uint8_t> const vec1(data, data + size);
+        json const j1 = json::from_bon8(vec1);
+
+        try
+        {
+            // step 2: round trip
+            std::vector<uint8_t> const vec2 = json::to_bon8(j1);
+
+            // parse serialization
+            json const j2 = json::from_bon8(vec2);
+
+            // serializations must match
+            assert(json::to_bon8(j2) == vec2);
+        }
+        catch (const json::parse_error&)
+        {
+            // parsing a BON8 serialization must not fail
+            assert(false);
+        }
+    }
+    catch (const json::parse_error&)
+    {
+        // parse errors are ok, because input may be random bytes
+    }
+    catch (const json::type_error&)
+    {
+        // type errors can occur during parsing, too
+    }
+    catch (const json::out_of_range&)
+    {
+        // out of range errors may happen if provided sizes are excessive
+    }
+
+    // return 0 - non-zero return values are reserved for future use
+    return 0;
+}
@@ -270,82 +270,6 @@ TEST_CASE("controlled bad_alloc")
    }
 }

-namespace
-{
-// counts the allocations of pairs with a non-const first member: the object
-// types store std::pair<const Key, T>, so only the scratch space of the
-// iterative deep copy allocates std::pair<Key, T>
-std::size_t scratch_pair_allocations = 0;
-
-template<class T>
-struct is_scratch_pair : std::false_type {};
-
-template<class K, class V>
-struct is_scratch_pair<std::pair<K, V>> : std::integral_constant < bool, !std::is_const<K>::value > {};
-
-template<class T>
-struct scratch_counting_allocator : std::allocator<T>
-{
-    using std::allocator<T>::allocator;
-
-    T* allocate(std::size_t n)
-    {
-        if (is_scratch_pair<T>::value)
-        {
-            ++scratch_pair_allocations;
-        }
-        return std::allocator<T>::allocate(n);
-    }
-
-#ifdef __cpp_lib_allocate_at_least
-    // std::allocator<T>::allocate_at_least would bypass the counting, and
-    // libc++'s containers prefer it over allocate from C++23 on
-    auto allocate_at_least(std::size_t n)
-    {
-        if (is_scratch_pair<T>::value)
-        {
-            ++scratch_pair_allocations;
-        }
-        return std::allocator<T>::allocate_at_least(n);
-    }
-#endif
-
-    template <class U>
-    struct rebind
-    {
-        using other = scratch_counting_allocator<U>;
-    };
-};
-} // namespace
-
-TEST_CASE("deep copy uses the provided allocator")
-{
-    using counting_json = nlohmann::basic_json<std::map,
-          std::vector,
-          std::string,
-          bool,
-          std::int64_t,
-          std::uint64_t,
-          double,
-          scratch_counting_allocator>;
-
-    // deeper than the 128 levels the copy constructor descends into, so the
-    // innermost objects are copied by the iterative deep copy
-    counting_json j = 1;
-    for (std::size_t i = 0; i < 300; ++i)
-    {
-        counting_json wrapper = counting_json::object();
-        wrapper["a"] = std::move(j);
-        j = std::move(wrapper);
-    }
-
-    scratch_pair_allocations = 0;
-    // NOLINTNEXTLINE(performance-unnecessary-copy-initialization): the copy is what is tested
-    const counting_json copy(j);
-    CHECK(scratch_pair_allocations > 0);
-    CHECK(copy == j);
-}
-
 namespace
 {
 template<class T>
@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ TEST_CASE("alternative string type")

        CHECK(alt_json::from_cbor(alt_json::to_cbor(doc)) == doc);
        CHECK(alt_json::from_msgpack(alt_json::to_msgpack(doc)) == doc);
+        CHECK(alt_json::from_bon8(alt_json::to_bon8(doc)) == doc);
        // BSON is not covered: it additionally needs string_t::find(value_type),
        // which alt_string does not provide
        CHECK(alt_json::from_ubjson(alt_json::to_ubjson(doc)) == doc);
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
        const auto bjdata_1_size = json::to_bjdata(j).size();
        const auto bjdata_2_size = json::to_bjdata(j, true).size();
        const auto bjdata_3_size = json::to_bjdata(j, true, true).size();
+        const auto bon8_size = json::to_bon8(j).size();
        const auto bson_size = json::to_bson(j).size();
        const auto cbor_size = json::to_cbor(j).size();
        const auto msgpack_size = json::to_msgpack(j).size();
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
        CHECK(bjdata_1_size == 1112030);
        CHECK(bjdata_2_size == 1224148);
        CHECK(bjdata_3_size == 1224148);
+        CHECK(bon8_size == 1055792);
        CHECK(bson_size == 1794522);
        CHECK(cbor_size == 1055552);
        CHECK(msgpack_size == 1056145);
@@ -47,6 +49,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
        CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_1_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(53.199));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_2_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(58.563));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_3_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(58.563));
+        CHECK((100.0 * double(bon8_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(50.509));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(bson_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(85.849));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(cbor_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(50.497));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(msgpack_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(50.526));
@@ -64,6 +67,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
        const auto bjdata_1_size = json::to_bjdata(j).size();
        const auto bjdata_2_size = json::to_bjdata(j, true).size();
        const auto bjdata_3_size = json::to_bjdata(j, true, true).size();
+        const auto bon8_size = json::to_bon8(j).size();
        const auto bson_size = json::to_bson(j).size();
        const auto cbor_size = json::to_cbor(j).size();
        const auto msgpack_size = json::to_msgpack(j).size();
@@ -75,6 +79,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
        CHECK(bjdata_1_size == 425342);
        CHECK(bjdata_2_size == 429970);
        CHECK(bjdata_3_size == 429970);
+        CHECK(bon8_size == 391396);
        CHECK(bson_size == 444568);
        CHECK(cbor_size == 402814);
        CHECK(msgpack_size == 401510);
@@ -86,6 +91,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
        CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_1_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(91.097));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_2_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(92.089));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_3_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(92.089));
+        CHECK((100.0 * double(bon8_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(83.828));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(bson_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(95.215));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(cbor_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(86.273));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(msgpack_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(85.993));
@@ -103,6 +109,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
        const auto bjdata_1_size = json::to_bjdata(j).size();
        const auto bjdata_2_size = json::to_bjdata(j, true).size();
        const auto bjdata_3_size = json::to_bjdata(j, true, true).size();
+        const auto bon8_size = json::to_bon8(j).size();
        const auto bson_size = json::to_bson(j).size();
        const auto cbor_size = json::to_cbor(j).size();
        const auto msgpack_size = json::to_msgpack(j).size();
@@ -114,6 +121,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
        CHECK(bjdata_1_size == 390781);
        CHECK(bjdata_2_size == 433557);
        CHECK(bjdata_3_size == 432964);
+        CHECK(bon8_size == 317879);
        CHECK(bson_size == 479430);
        CHECK(cbor_size == 342373);
        CHECK(msgpack_size == 342473);
@@ -125,6 +133,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
        CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_1_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(78.109));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_2_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(86.659));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_3_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(86.541));
+        CHECK((100.0 * double(bon8_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(63.538));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(bson_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(95.828));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(cbor_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(68.433));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(msgpack_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(68.453));
@@ -142,6 +151,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
        const auto bjdata_1_size = json::to_bjdata(j).size();
        const auto bjdata_2_size = json::to_bjdata(j, true).size();
        const auto bjdata_3_size = json::to_bjdata(j, true, true).size();
+        const auto bon8_size = json::to_bon8(j).size();
        const auto bson_size = json::to_bson({{"", j}}).size(); // wrap array in object for BSON
        const auto cbor_size = json::to_cbor(j).size();
        const auto msgpack_size = json::to_msgpack(j).size();
@@ -153,6 +163,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
        CHECK(bjdata_1_size == 50710965);
        CHECK(bjdata_2_size == 51144830);
        CHECK(bjdata_3_size == 51144830);
+        CHECK(bon8_size == 45942080);
        CHECK(bson_size == 56008520);
        CHECK(cbor_size == 46187320);
        CHECK(msgpack_size == 46158575);
@@ -164,6 +175,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
        CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_1_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(96.576));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_2_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(97.402));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_3_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(97.402));
+        CHECK((100.0 * double(bon8_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(87.494));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(bson_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(106.665));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(cbor_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(87.961));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(msgpack_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(87.906));
@@ -181,6 +193,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
        const auto bjdata_1_size = json::to_bjdata(j).size();
        const auto bjdata_2_size = json::to_bjdata(j, true).size();
        const auto bjdata_3_size = json::to_bjdata(j, true, true).size();
+        const auto bon8_size = json::to_bon8(j).size();
        // BSON cannot process the file as it contains code point  U+0000
        const auto cbor_size = json::to_cbor(j).size();
        const auto msgpack_size = json::to_msgpack(j).size();
@@ -192,6 +205,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
        CHECK(bjdata_1_size == 148695);
        CHECK(bjdata_2_size == 150569);
        CHECK(bjdata_3_size == 150569);
+        CHECK(bon8_size == 144477);
        CHECK(cbor_size == 147095);
        CHECK(msgpack_size == 147017);
        CHECK(ubjson_1_size == 148695);
@@ -202,6 +216,7 @@ TEST_CASE("Binary Formats" * doctest::skip())
        CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_1_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(88.153));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_2_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(89.264));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(bjdata_3_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(89.264));
+        CHECK((100.0 * double(bon8_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(85.653));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(cbor_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(87.205));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(msgpack_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(87.158));
        CHECK((100.0 * double(ubjson_1_size) / double(json_size)) == Approx(88.153));
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 using nlohmann::json;

 #include <cstdint>
+#include <limits>
 #include <string>
 #include <vector>

@@ -49,6 +50,12 @@ std::vector<json> test_values()
    };
 }

+// BON8 has no integers above the int64 range, so to_bon8() rejects them
+bool bon8_representable(const json& j)
+{
+    return !j.is_number_unsigned() || j.get<std::uint64_t>() <= static_cast<std::uint64_t>((std::numeric_limits<std::int64_t>::max)());
+}
+
 // values to_bson() accepts: the document must be an object
 std::vector<json> bson_values()
 {
@@ -92,6 +99,13 @@ TEST_CASE("binary writer output sinks")
            json::to_msgpack(j, msgpack);
            CHECK(json::to_msgpack(j) == msgpack);

+            if (bon8_representable(j))
+            {
+                std::vector<std::uint8_t> bon8;
+                json::to_bon8(j, bon8);
+                CHECK(json::to_bon8(j) == bon8);
+            }
+
            for (const bool use_size :
                    {
                        false, true
@@ -172,6 +186,10 @@ TEST_CASE("binary_reserve_hint never over-reserves")
        CHECK(hint <= json::to_ubjson(j).size());
        CHECK(hint <= json::to_ubjson(j, true, true).size());
        CHECK(hint <= json::to_bjdata(j).size());
+        if (bon8_representable(j))
+        {
+            CHECK(hint <= json::to_bon8(j).size());
+        }
    }

    for (const auto& j : bson_values())
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ using huge_binary_json = nlohmann::basic_json <
 // for *object keys* (e.g. "s" or "nested" below). Only the designated test
 // value is meant to lie about its size - if every huge_string_t (including
 // keys) reported a huge size, the running totals computed while walking the
-// BSON document (see calc_bson_sizes in binary_writer.hpp)
+// BSON document (see calc_bson_object_size & friends in binary_writer.hpp)
 // would need more than 32 bits, and on platforms where std::size_t is only
 // 32 bits wide that arithmetic would silently wrap around, producing wrong
 // (or even unguarded) lengths. The fake size is therefore opt-in via
@@ -1697,140 +1697,3 @@ TEST_CASE("BSON roundtrips" * doctest::skip())
        }
    }
 }
-
-TEST_CASE("BSON: deeply nested values")
-{
-    SECTION("documents and arrays round-trip at every depth")
-    {
-        // nested documents and arrays, with siblings on every level, so
-        // every length prefix covers entries of both kinds
-        json value = "leaf";
-        for (std::size_t depth = 0; depth <= 300; ++depth)
-        {
-            CAPTURE(depth);
-            const json document = {{"value", value}, {"n", depth}};
-            CHECK(json::from_bson(json::to_bson(document)) == document);
-
-value = depth % 2 == 0 ? json{{"a", std::move(value)}, {"b", {1, "x"}}} :
-            json::array({std::move(value), depth, json::object()});
-        }
-    }
-
-    SECTION("a key containing U+0000 is rejected before anything is written")
-    {
-        json value = json::object({{std::string("bad\0key", 7), 1}});
-        for (std::size_t depth = 0; depth < 200; ++depth)
-        {
-            value = json{{"a", {{"b", 1}}}, {"z", std::move(value)}};
-        }
-        std::vector<std::uint8_t> output;
-        CHECK_THROWS_AS(json::to_bson(value, output), json::out_of_range&);
-        CHECK(output.empty());
-    }
-
-    SECTION("values nested too deeply for the call stack (#5392)")
-    {
-        // serializing recursed once per nesting level, and computed every
-        // nested document's length by walking everything below it again.
-        // The values are only parsed, serialized and walked, never copied or
-        // compared, since those recurse too.
-        const std::size_t depth = 100000;
-        for (const bool objects :
-                {
-                    false, true
-                })
-        {
-            CAPTURE(objects);
-            std::string text = "{\"a\":";
-            for (std::size_t i = 0; i < depth; ++i)
-            {
-                text += objects ? "{\"a\":" : "[";
-            }
-            text += "1";
-            text.append(depth, objects ? '}' : ']');
-            text += "}";
-
-            const auto bson = json::to_bson(json::parse(text));
-            const auto result = json::from_bson(bson);
-            const json* p = &result.at("a");
-            for (std::size_t i = 0; i < depth; ++i)
-            {
-                p = objects ? &p->at("a") : &p->at(0);
-            }
-            CHECK(*p == 1);
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-TEST_CASE("Invalid document size handling")
-{
-    SECTION("document size must be at least 5")
-    {
-        std::vector<std::uint8_t> const v = {0x04, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00};
-        json _;
-        CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(_ = json::from_bson(v), "[json.exception.parse_error.112] parse error at byte 5: syntax error while parsing BSON document: document size 4 does not match the number of bytes read (5)", json::parse_error&);
-        CHECK(json::from_bson(v, true, false).is_discarded());
-    }
-
-    SECTION("declared document size must match consumed bytes (extra trailing element)")
-    {
-        // Declares 5-byte empty document but appends an int32 element after the declared end.
-        std::vector<std::uint8_t> const v =
-        {
-            0x05, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
-            0x10, 'a', 'd', 'm', 'i', 'n', 0x00,
-            0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
-            0x00
-        };
-        json _;
-        CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(_ = json::from_bson(v), "[json.exception.parse_error.112] parse error at byte 16: syntax error while parsing BSON document: document size 5 does not match the number of bytes read (16)", json::parse_error&);
-        CHECK(json::from_bson(v, true, false).is_discarded());
-    }
-
-    SECTION("declared document size must match consumed bytes (premature terminator)")
-    {
-        // Declares 32-byte document but only contains the size field followed by an immediate terminator.
-        std::vector<std::uint8_t> const v =
-        {
-            0x20, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
-            0x00
-        };
-        json _;
-        CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(_ = json::from_bson(v), "[json.exception.parse_error.112] parse error at byte 5: syntax error while parsing BSON document: document size 32 does not match the number of bytes read (5)", json::parse_error&);
-        CHECK(json::from_bson(v, true, false).is_discarded());
-    }
-
-    SECTION("array declared size must match consumed bytes")
-    {
-        // Outer object contains an array "a" that declares 5 bytes (empty) but
-        // actually contains an int32 element before its terminator.
-        std::vector<std::uint8_t> const v =
-        {
-            0x14, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,                         // object size = 20
-            0x04, 'a', 0x00,                                // key "a", array type
-            0x05, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,                         // array declared size = 5 (empty)
-            0x10, '0', 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,        // extra int32 element "0" = 1
-            0x00,                                           // array terminator
-            0x00                                            // object terminator
-        };
-        json _;
-        CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(_ = json::from_bson(v), "[json.exception.parse_error.112] parse error at byte 19: syntax error while parsing BSON document: document size 5 does not match the number of bytes read (12)", json::parse_error&);
-        CHECK(json::from_bson(v, true, false).is_discarded());
-    }
-
-    SECTION("BSON string must end with 0x00")
-    {
-        // Length-prefixed string whose terminator byte is 'X' (0x58), not 0x00.
-        std::vector<std::uint8_t> const v =
-        {
-            0x0F, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
-            0x02, 's', 0x00,
-            0x02, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
-            'A', 'X',
-            0x00
-        };
-        json _;
-        CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(_ = json::from_bson(v), "[json.exception.parse_error.112] parse error at byte 13: syntax error while parsing BSON string: BSON string is not null-terminated", json::parse_error&);
-        CHECK(json::from_bson(v, true, false).is_discarded());
-    }
-}
@@ -1833,59 +1833,6 @@ TEST_CASE("CBOR")
            CHECK(json::from_cbor(std::vector<uint8_t>({0xa1, 0xff, 0x01}), true, false).is_discarded());
        }

-        SECTION("invalid UTF-8 in string (see #5529)")
-        {
-            // a two-character text string (major type 3) whose bytes are not
-            // valid UTF-8 (0xC0 0xAE is an overlong encoding of '.') must be
-            // rejected at decode time, matching every other kind of
-            // malformed binary input, rather than only failing later when
-            // the resulting value is dumped
-            json _;
-            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(_ = json::from_cbor(std::vector<uint8_t>({0x62, 0xc0, 0xae})), "[json.exception.parse_error.113] parse error at byte 3: syntax error while parsing CBOR string: invalid string: ill-formed UTF-8 byte", json::parse_error&);
-            CHECK(json::from_cbor(std::vector<uint8_t>({0x62, 0xc0, 0xae}), true, false).is_discarded());
-
-            // a CBOR byte string (major type 2) with the very same bytes is
-            // NOT text and must still be accepted as-is
-            CHECK_NOTHROW(_ = json::from_cbor(std::vector<uint8_t>({0x42, 0xc0, 0xae})));
-            CHECK(_ == json::binary(std::vector<std::uint8_t>({0xc0, 0xae})));
-
-            // valid UTF-8 must still round-trip
-            const json j = "h\xc3\xa9llo, w\xc3\xb6rld! \xe6\x97\xa5\xe6\x9c\xac\xe8\xaa\x9e"; // héllo, wörld! 日本語
-            CHECK(json::from_cbor(json::to_cbor(j)) == j);
-        }
-
-        SECTION("invalid UTF-8 in indefinite-length string")
-        {
-            json _;
-
-            // every chunk must be valid UTF-8 on its own (RFC 8949, Section
-            // 3.2.3), so a code point split across two chunks is rejected
-            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(_ = json::from_cbor(std::vector<uint8_t>({0x7f, 0x61, 0xc3, 0x61, 0xa9, 0xff})), "[json.exception.parse_error.113] parse error at byte 3: syntax error while parsing CBOR string: invalid string: ill-formed UTF-8 byte", json::parse_error&);
-            CHECK(json::from_cbor(std::vector<uint8_t>({0x7f, 0x61, 0xc3, 0x61, 0xa9, 0xff}), true, false).is_discarded());
-
-            // an ill-formed later chunk is rejected after valid ones
-            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(_ = json::from_cbor(std::vector<uint8_t>({0x7f, 0x62, 0xc3, 0xa9, 0x62, 0xc0, 0xae, 0xff})), "[json.exception.parse_error.113] parse error at byte 7: syntax error while parsing CBOR string: invalid string: ill-formed UTF-8 byte", json::parse_error&);
-
-            // valid multi-byte chunks are accepted
-            CHECK(json::from_cbor(std::vector<uint8_t>({0x7f, 0x62, 0xc3, 0xa9, 0x62, 0xc3, 0xb6, 0xff})) == "\xc3\xa9\xc3\xb6");
-        }
-
-        SECTION("many chunks in indefinite-length string")
-        {
-            // only the newly read chunk is validated, not the whole string
-            // collected so far; validating the latter made this input take
-            // quadratic time (about ten seconds for 100000 chunks)
-            constexpr std::size_t chunks = 100000;
-            std::vector<uint8_t> v{0x7f};
-            for (std::size_t i = 0; i < chunks; ++i)
-            {
-                v.push_back(0x61);
-                v.push_back('a');
-            }
-            v.push_back(0xff);
-            CHECK(json::from_cbor(v) == std::string(chunks, 'a'));
-        }
-
        SECTION("strict mode")
        {
            std::vector<uint8_t> const vec = {0xf6, 0xf6};
@@ -11,15 +11,11 @@
 // capture whether JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING was enabled on the command line
 // (e.g. -DJSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING=1) *before* including json.hpp, since the
 // library #undefs JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING itself once the header has been
-// fully processed unless JSON_TEST_KEEP_MACROS is defined (see
-// include/nlohmann/detail/macro_unscope.hpp)
+// fully processed (see include/nlohmann/detail/macro_unscope.hpp)
 #if defined(JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING) && (JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING == 1)
    #define JSON_TEST_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING_ENABLED 1
 #endif

-#define JSON_TEST_STRINGIZE_EX(x) #x
-#define JSON_TEST_STRINGIZE(x) JSON_TEST_STRINGIZE_EX(x)
-
 #define JSON_TESTS_PRIVATE
 #include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
 using nlohmann::json;
@@ -570,16 +566,6 @@ TEST_CASE("parser class")
            // left at its default or forced to 1 (e.g. by the dedicated
            // ci_test_strict_nul_handling CI target), so only the section
            // matching the actual, compiled-in behavior can pass.
-            SECTION("the macro is part of the ABI tag")
-            {
-                const std::string ns = JSON_TEST_STRINGIZE(NLOHMANN_JSON_NAMESPACE);
-#if defined(JSON_TEST_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING_ENABLED)
-                CHECK(ns.find("_snul") != std::string::npos);
-#else
-                CHECK(ns.find("_snul") == std::string::npos);
-#endif
-            }
-
 #if !defined(JSON_TEST_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING_ENABLED)
            SECTION("default behavior (macro not enabled)")
            {
@@ -2761,7 +2747,7 @@ TEST_CASE("diagnostic positions: value lifetime, input adapters, and SAX")

        SECTION("binary formats have no text positions")
        {
-            // binary formats (CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON, BSON, BJData) are
+            // binary formats (BJData, BON8, BSON, CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON) are
            // parsed via detail::binary_reader, which never sets
            // start_position/end_position on the values it produces (they
            // have no notion of a text offset), so every value's position
@@ -2778,6 +2764,10 @@ TEST_CASE("diagnostic positions: value lifetime, input adapters, and SAX")
            CHECK(from_msgpack.start_pos() == std::string::npos);
            CHECK(from_msgpack.end_pos() == std::string::npos);

+            const json from_bon8 = json::from_bon8(json::to_bon8(src));
+            CHECK(from_bon8.start_pos() == std::string::npos);
+            CHECK(from_bon8.end_pos() == std::string::npos);
+
            const json from_ubjson = json::from_ubjson(json::to_ubjson(src));
            CHECK(from_ubjson.start_pos() == std::string::npos);
            CHECK(from_ubjson.end_pos() == std::string::npos);
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ TEST_CASE("binary type whose value type is not std::uint8_t")

        // UBJSON has no binary type, so binary values are written as an array
        CHECK(byte_binary_json::from_ubjson(byte_binary_json::to_ubjson(j)) == byte_binary_json({0, 1, 255}));
+        // the same holds for BON8
+        CHECK(byte_binary_json::from_bon8(byte_binary_json::to_bon8(j)) == byte_binary_json({0, 1, 255}));
    }
 #endif
 }
@@ -297,6 +297,7 @@ TEST_CASE("object type without key_compare")
        const auto j = no_key_compare_json::parse(R"({"a":[1,2,3],"b":"x"})");
        CHECK(no_key_compare_json::from_cbor(no_key_compare_json::to_cbor(j)) == j);
        CHECK(no_key_compare_json::from_msgpack(no_key_compare_json::to_msgpack(j)) == j);
+        CHECK(no_key_compare_json::from_bon8(no_key_compare_json::to_bon8(j)) == j);
    }

    SECTION("flatten and unflatten")
@@ -1554,27 +1554,6 @@ TEST_CASE("MessagePack")
            CHECK(json::from_msgpack(std::vector<uint8_t>({0x81, 0xff, 0x01}), true, false).is_discarded());
        }

-        SECTION("invalid UTF-8 in string (see #5529)")
-        {
-            // a fixstr of length 2 (0xA0 | 2) whose bytes are not valid UTF-8
-            // (0xC0 0xAE is an overlong encoding of '.') must be rejected at
-            // decode time, matching every other kind of malformed binary
-            // input, rather than only failing later when the resulting
-            // value is dumped
-            json _;
-            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(_ = json::from_msgpack(std::vector<uint8_t>({0xa2, 0xc0, 0xae})), "[json.exception.parse_error.113] parse error at byte 3: syntax error while parsing MessagePack string: invalid string: ill-formed UTF-8 byte", json::parse_error&);
-            CHECK(json::from_msgpack(std::vector<uint8_t>({0xa2, 0xc0, 0xae}), true, false).is_discarded());
-
-            // a MessagePack bin8 blob with the very same bytes is NOT text
-            // and must still be accepted as-is
-            CHECK_NOTHROW(_ = json::from_msgpack(std::vector<uint8_t>({0xc4, 0x02, 0xc0, 0xae})));
-            CHECK(_ == json::binary(std::vector<std::uint8_t>({0xc0, 0xae})));
-
-            // valid UTF-8 must still round-trip
-            const json j = "h\xc3\xa9llo, w\xc3\xb6rld! \xe6\x97\xa5\xe6\x9c\xac\xe8\xaa\x9e"; // héllo, wörld! 日本語
-            CHECK(json::from_msgpack(json::to_msgpack(j)) == j);
-        }
-
        SECTION("strict mode")
        {
            std::vector<uint8_t> const vec = {0xc0, 0xc0};
@@ -326,6 +326,15 @@ TEST_CASE("ordered_json across binary formats")
        CHECK(collect_keys(restored) == original_keys);
        CHECK(collect_keys(restored["mango"]) == original_mango_keys);
    }
+
+    SECTION("BON8")
+    {
+        const auto bytes = ordered_json::to_bon8(original);
+        const auto restored = ordered_json::from_bon8(bytes);
+        CHECK(restored == original);
+        CHECK(collect_keys(restored) == original_keys);
+        CHECK(collect_keys(restored["mango"]) == original_mango_keys);
+    }
 }

 TEST_CASE("alt_json (custom string_t) across binary formats")
@@ -353,6 +362,13 @@ TEST_CASE("alt_json (custom string_t) across binary formats")
        CHECK(restored == original);
    }

+    SECTION("BON8")
+    {
+        const auto bytes = alt_json::to_bon8(original);
+        const auto restored = alt_json::from_bon8(bytes);
+        CHECK(restored == original);
+    }
+
    SECTION("BSON")
    {
        const auto bytes = alt_json::to_bson(original);
@@ -332,6 +332,7 @@ TEST_CASE("regression tests 2")
        CHECK(float_json::from_cbor(float_json::to_cbor(j)) == j);
        CHECK(float_json::from_msgpack(float_json::to_msgpack(j)) == j);
        CHECK(float_json::from_ubjson(float_json::to_ubjson(j)) == j);
+        CHECK(float_json::from_bon8(float_json::to_bon8(j)) == j);

        float_json j2 = {1000.0, 2000.0, 3000.0};
        CHECK(float_json::from_ubjson(float_json::to_ubjson(j2, true, true)) == j2);
@@ -894,6 +894,7 @@ TEST_CASE("regression test #5476 - array type without reserve()")
        // the binary formats pass a definite length to start_array()
        CHECK(deque_json::from_cbor(deque_json::to_cbor(j)) == j);
        CHECK(deque_json::from_msgpack(deque_json::to_msgpack(j)) == j);
+        CHECK(deque_json::from_bon8(deque_json::to_bon8(j)) == j);

        // parse() instantiates the callback parser as well, which reserves too
        const auto with_callback = deque_json::parse(R"([1,2,3])", [](int /*depth*/, deque_json::parse_event_t /*event*/, deque_json& /*parsed*/) noexcept
@@ -94,16 +94,6 @@ TEST_CASE("serialization")
            CHECK(j.dump(-1, ' ', true, json::error_handler_t::replace) == "\"\\u00e4\\ufffd\\u00fc\"");
        }

-        SECTION("invalid character (regression guard for shared UTF-8 decoder, see #5529)")
-        {
-            // dump_escaped_impl() now calls the UTF-8 decoder shared with the
-            // binary readers (detail::decode() in string_utils.hpp) instead
-            // of a private copy; the exact type_error.316 message/behavior
-            // must stay byte-for-byte the same as before that extraction
-            const json j = "ä\xA9ü";
-            CHECK_THROWS_WITH_AS(utils::ignore_return_value(j.dump()), "[json.exception.type_error.316] invalid UTF-8 byte at index 2: 0xA9", json::type_error&);
-        }
-
        SECTION("ending with incomplete character")
        {
            const json j = "123\xC2";
@@ -778,193 +778,6 @@ class derived_person_only_serialize_private_3 : person_without_default_construct
    NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE_WITH_NAMES(derived_person_only_serialize_private_3, person_without_default_constructor_3, "json_hair_color", hair_color)
 };

-// Zero-member types for issue #4041: NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_* and
-// NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_* must compile and produce a valid (empty)
-// JSON object when no member arguments are given.
-class empty_intrusive
-{
-  public:
-    bool operator==(const empty_intrusive& /*rhs*/) const
-    {
-        return true;
-    }
-    NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE(empty_intrusive)
-};
-
-class empty_intrusive_with_default
-{
-  public:
-    bool operator==(const empty_intrusive_with_default& /*rhs*/) const
-    {
-        return true;
-    }
-    NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT(empty_intrusive_with_default)
-};
-
-class empty_intrusive_only_serialize
-{
-  public:
-    NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE(empty_intrusive_only_serialize)
-};
-
-class empty_non_intrusive
-{
-  public:
-    bool operator==(const empty_non_intrusive& /*rhs*/) const
-    {
-        return true;
-    }
-};
-// NOLINTNEXTLINE(misc-use-internal-linkage)
-NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE(empty_non_intrusive)
-
-class empty_non_intrusive_with_default
-{
-  public:
-    bool operator==(const empty_non_intrusive_with_default& /*rhs*/) const
-    {
-        return true;
-    }
-};
-// NOLINTNEXTLINE(misc-use-internal-linkage)
-NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT(empty_non_intrusive_with_default)
-
-class empty_non_intrusive_only_serialize {};
-// NOLINTNEXTLINE(misc-use-internal-linkage)
-NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE(empty_non_intrusive_only_serialize)
-
-class empty_derived_intrusive : public person_with_private_data
-{
-  public:
-    empty_derived_intrusive() = default;
-    empty_derived_intrusive(std::string name_, int age_, json metadata_)
-        : person_with_private_data(std::move(name_), age_, std::move(metadata_))
-    {}
-    NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE(empty_derived_intrusive, person_with_private_data)
-};
-
-class empty_derived_intrusive_with_default : public person_with_private_data
-{
-  public:
-    empty_derived_intrusive_with_default() = default;
-    empty_derived_intrusive_with_default(std::string name_, int age_, json metadata_)
-        : person_with_private_data(std::move(name_), age_, std::move(metadata_))
-    {}
-    NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT(empty_derived_intrusive_with_default, person_with_private_data)
-};
-
-class empty_derived_intrusive_only_serialize : public person_with_private_data
-{
-  public:
-    empty_derived_intrusive_only_serialize() = default;
-    empty_derived_intrusive_only_serialize(std::string name_, int age_, json metadata_)
-        : person_with_private_data(std::move(name_), age_, std::move(metadata_))
-    {}
-    NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE(empty_derived_intrusive_only_serialize, person_with_private_data)
-};
-
-class empty_derived_non_intrusive : public person_with_private_data
-{
-  public:
-    empty_derived_non_intrusive() = default;
-    empty_derived_non_intrusive(std::string name_, int age_, json metadata_)
-        : person_with_private_data(std::move(name_), age_, std::move(metadata_))
-    {}
-};
-// NOLINTNEXTLINE(misc-use-internal-linkage)
-NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE(empty_derived_non_intrusive, person_with_private_data)
-
-class empty_derived_non_intrusive_with_default : public person_with_private_data
-{
-  public:
-    empty_derived_non_intrusive_with_default() = default;
-    empty_derived_non_intrusive_with_default(std::string name_, int age_, json metadata_)
-        : person_with_private_data(std::move(name_), age_, std::move(metadata_))
-    {}
-};
-// NOLINTNEXTLINE(misc-use-internal-linkage)
-NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT(empty_derived_non_intrusive_with_default, person_with_private_data)
-
-class empty_derived_non_intrusive_only_serialize : public person_with_private_data
-{
-  public:
-    empty_derived_non_intrusive_only_serialize() = default;
-    empty_derived_non_intrusive_only_serialize(std::string name_, int age_, json metadata_)
-        : person_with_private_data(std::move(name_), age_, std::move(metadata_))
-    {}
-};
-// NOLINTNEXTLINE(misc-use-internal-linkage)
-NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE(empty_derived_non_intrusive_only_serialize, person_with_private_data)
-
-// Types at the documented maximum member count (63) for issue #4041's
-// argument-count dispatch. The derived-type macros carry a two-token
-// Type,BaseType prefix, so they reach two slots further into
-// NLOHMANN_JSON_GET_MACRO than the non-derived ones and are the first to break
-// if the tag dispatch runs out of positional slots.
-class max_members
-{
-  public:
-    int m1{}, m2{}, m3{}, m4{}, m5{}, m6{}, m7{}, m8{}, m9{}, m10{}, m11{}, m12{}, m13{}, m14{}, m15{}, m16{}, m17{}, m18{}, m19{}, m20{}, m21{}, m22{}, m23{}, m24{}, m25{}, m26{}, m27{}, m28{}, m29{}, m30{}, m31{}, m32{}, m33{}, m34{}, m35{}, m36{}, m37{}, m38{}, m39{}, m40{}, m41{}, m42{}, m43{}, m44{}, m45{}, m46{}, m47{}, m48{}, m49{}, m50{}, m51{}, m52{}, m53{}, m54{}, m55{}, m56{}, m57{}, m58{}, m59{}, m60{}, m61{}, m62{}, m63{};
-
-    NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE(max_members, m1, m2, m3, m4, m5, m6, m7, m8, m9, m10, m11, m12, m13, m14, m15, m16, m17, m18, m19, m20, m21, m22, m23, m24, m25, m26, m27, m28, m29, m30, m31, m32, m33, m34, m35, m36, m37, m38, m39, m40, m41, m42, m43, m44, m45, m46, m47, m48, m49, m50, m51, m52, m53, m54, m55, m56, m57, m58, m59, m60, m61, m62, m63)
-};
-
-class max_members_base
-{
-  public:
-    int base_value = 0;
-
-    NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE(max_members_base, base_value)
-};
-
-class max_members_derived : public max_members_base
-{
-  public:
-    int m1{}, m2{}, m3{}, m4{}, m5{}, m6{}, m7{}, m8{}, m9{}, m10{}, m11{}, m12{}, m13{}, m14{}, m15{}, m16{}, m17{}, m18{}, m19{}, m20{}, m21{}, m22{}, m23{}, m24{}, m25{}, m26{}, m27{}, m28{}, m29{}, m30{}, m31{}, m32{}, m33{}, m34{}, m35{}, m36{}, m37{}, m38{}, m39{}, m40{}, m41{}, m42{}, m43{}, m44{}, m45{}, m46{}, m47{}, m48{}, m49{}, m50{}, m51{}, m52{}, m53{}, m54{}, m55{}, m56{}, m57{}, m58{}, m59{}, m60{}, m61{}, m62{}, m63{};
-
-    NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE(max_members_derived, max_members_base, m1, m2, m3, m4, m5, m6, m7, m8, m9, m10, m11, m12, m13, m14, m15, m16, m17, m18, m19, m20, m21, m22, m23, m24, m25, m26, m27, m28, m29, m30, m31, m32, m33, m34, m35, m36, m37, m38, m39, m40, m41, m42, m43, m44, m45, m46, m47, m48, m49, m50, m51, m52, m53, m54, m55, m56, m57, m58, m59, m60, m61, m62, m63)
-};
-
-// User macros named like the dispatch suffixes (EMPTY is a common empty-macro
-// idiom) must not leak into the NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_* dispatch.
-#define EMPTY
-#define MEMBERS clobbered_by_user_macro
-
-class dispatch_with_user_macros_empty
-{
-  public:
-    NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE(dispatch_with_user_macros_empty)
-};
-
-class dispatch_with_user_macros_members
-{
-  public:
-    int value = 0;
-
-    NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE(dispatch_with_user_macros_members, value)
-};
-
-class dispatch_with_user_macros_derived_empty : public dispatch_with_user_macros_members
-{
-};
-// NOLINTNEXTLINE(misc-use-internal-linkage)
-NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE(dispatch_with_user_macros_derived_empty, dispatch_with_user_macros_members)
-
-class dispatch_with_user_macros_derived_members : public dispatch_with_user_macros_members
-{
-  public:
-    int own = 0;
-};
-// NOLINTNEXTLINE(misc-use-internal-linkage)
-NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE(dispatch_with_user_macros_derived_members, dispatch_with_user_macros_members, own)
-
-// testing for the macros also keeps -Wunused-macros from rejecting them
-#if !defined(EMPTY) || !defined(MEMBERS)
-    #error "EMPTY and MEMBERS must stay defined for the tests above"
-#endif
-#undef EMPTY
-#undef MEMBERS
-
 } // namespace persons

 TEST_CASE_TEMPLATE("Serialization/deserialization via NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE and NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE", Pair, // NOLINT(readability-math-missing-parentheses, bugprone-throwing-static-initialization)
@@ -1378,183 +1191,3 @@ TEST_CASE_TEMPLATE("Serialization of non-default-constructible classes via NLOHM
        }
    }
 }
-
-// Regression tests for issue #4041: NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_* and
-// NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_* macros must compile and produce valid
-// (empty, or base-only for the derived case) JSON objects when no member
-// arguments are given, on every supported C++ standard.
-TEST_CASE_TEMPLATE("Serialization/deserialization of zero-member types via NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_* (issue #4041)", Json, // NOLINT(readability-math-missing-parentheses, bugprone-throwing-static-initialization)
-                   nlohmann::json, nlohmann::ordered_json)
-{
-    constexpr bool is_ordered = std::is_same<Json, nlohmann::ordered_json>::value;
-    const char* const derived_dump = is_ordered
-                                     ? R"({"age":1,"name":"Erik","metadata":null})"
-                                     : R"({"age":1,"metadata":null,"name":"Erik"})";
-
-    SECTION("NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE with zero members")
-    {
-        persons::empty_intrusive obj{};
-        Json j = obj;
-        CHECK(j.dump() == "{}");
-        CHECK(j.template get<persons::empty_intrusive>() == obj);
-    }
-
-    SECTION("NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT with zero members")
-    {
-        persons::empty_intrusive_with_default obj{};
-        Json j = obj;
-        CHECK(j.dump() == "{}");
-        CHECK(j.template get<persons::empty_intrusive_with_default>() == obj);
-    }
-
-    SECTION("NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE with zero members")
-    {
-        const persons::empty_intrusive_only_serialize obj{};
-        Json j = obj;
-        CHECK(j.dump() == "{}");
-    }
-
-    SECTION("NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE with zero members")
-    {
-        persons::empty_non_intrusive obj{};
-        Json j = obj;
-        CHECK(j.dump() == "{}");
-        CHECK(j.template get<persons::empty_non_intrusive>() == obj);
-    }
-
-    SECTION("NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT with zero members")
-    {
-        persons::empty_non_intrusive_with_default obj{};
-        Json j = obj;
-        CHECK(j.dump() == "{}");
-        CHECK(j.template get<persons::empty_non_intrusive_with_default>() == obj);
-    }
-
-    SECTION("NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE with zero members")
-    {
-        const persons::empty_non_intrusive_only_serialize obj{};
-        Json j = obj;
-        CHECK(j.dump() == "{}");
-    }
-
-    SECTION("NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE with zero own members")
-    {
-        persons::empty_derived_intrusive obj{"Erik", 1, nullptr};
-        Json j = obj;
-        CHECK(j.dump() == derived_dump);
-        CHECK(j.template get<persons::empty_derived_intrusive>() == obj);
-    }
-
-    SECTION("NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT with zero own members")
-    {
-        persons::empty_derived_intrusive_with_default obj{"Erik", 1, nullptr};
-        Json j = obj;
-        CHECK(j.dump() == derived_dump);
-        CHECK(j.template get<persons::empty_derived_intrusive_with_default>() == obj);
-    }
-
-    SECTION("NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE with zero own members")
-    {
-        const persons::empty_derived_intrusive_only_serialize obj{"Erik", 1, nullptr};
-        Json j = obj;
-        CHECK(j.dump() == derived_dump);
-    }
-
-    SECTION("NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE with zero own members")
-    {
-        persons::empty_derived_non_intrusive obj{"Erik", 1, nullptr};
-        Json j = obj;
-        CHECK(j.dump() == derived_dump);
-        CHECK(j.template get<persons::empty_derived_non_intrusive>() == obj);
-    }
-
-    SECTION("NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_WITH_DEFAULT with zero own members")
-    {
-        persons::empty_derived_non_intrusive_with_default obj{"Erik", 1, nullptr};
-        Json j = obj;
-        CHECK(j.dump() == derived_dump);
-        CHECK(j.template get<persons::empty_derived_non_intrusive_with_default>() == obj);
-    }
-
-    SECTION("NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE_ONLY_SERIALIZE with zero own members")
-    {
-        const persons::empty_derived_non_intrusive_only_serialize obj{"Erik", 1, nullptr};
-        Json j = obj;
-        CHECK(j.dump() == derived_dump);
-    }
-}
-
-// Regression test for the argument-count dispatch added for issue #4041: the
-// documented maximum of 63 members must keep working, including for the
-// derived-type macros whose Type,BaseType prefix consumes two dispatch slots.
-TEST_CASE_TEMPLATE("Serialization/deserialization of maximum-member-count types via NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_*", Json, // NOLINT(readability-math-missing-parentheses, bugprone-throwing-static-initialization)
-                   nlohmann::json, nlohmann::ordered_json)
-{
-    SECTION("NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE with 63 members")
-    {
-        persons::max_members obj{};
-        obj.m1 = 1;
-        obj.m63 = 63;
-        Json j = obj;
-        CHECK(j.size() == 63);
-        const auto obj2 = j.template get<persons::max_members>();
-        CHECK(obj2.m1 == 1);
-        CHECK(obj2.m63 == 63);
-    }
-
-    SECTION("NLOHMANN_DEFINE_DERIVED_TYPE_INTRUSIVE with 63 own members")
-    {
-        persons::max_members_derived obj{};
-        obj.base_value = 7;
-        obj.m1 = 1;
-        obj.m63 = 63;
-        Json j = obj;
-        CHECK(j.size() == 64);
-        const auto obj2 = j.template get<persons::max_members_derived>();
-        CHECK(obj2.base_value == 7);
-        CHECK(obj2.m1 == 1);
-        CHECK(obj2.m63 == 63);
-    }
-}
-
-TEST_CASE_TEMPLATE("NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_* dispatch is unaffected by user macros named EMPTY or MEMBERS", Json, // NOLINT(readability-math-missing-parentheses, bugprone-throwing-static-initialization)
-                   nlohmann::json, nlohmann::ordered_json)
-{
-    SECTION("zero members")
-    {
-        const persons::dispatch_with_user_macros_empty obj{};
-        const Json j = obj;
-        CHECK(j == Json::object());
-        CHECK_NOTHROW(j.template get<persons::dispatch_with_user_macros_empty>());
-    }
-
-    SECTION("one member")
-    {
-        persons::dispatch_with_user_macros_members obj{};
-        obj.value = 42;
-        const Json j = obj;
-        CHECK(j == Json({{"value", 42}}));
-        CHECK(j.template get<persons::dispatch_with_user_macros_members>().value == 42);
-    }
-
-    SECTION("derived with zero own members")
-    {
-        persons::dispatch_with_user_macros_derived_empty obj{};
-        obj.value = 42;
-        const Json j = obj;
-        CHECK(j == Json({{"value", 42}}));
-        CHECK(j.template get<persons::dispatch_with_user_macros_derived_empty>().value == 42);
-    }
-
-    SECTION("derived with own members")
-    {
-        persons::dispatch_with_user_macros_derived_members obj{};
-        obj.value = 42;
-        obj.own = 7;
-        const Json j = obj;
-        CHECK(j == Json({{"value", 42}, {"own", 7}}));
-        const auto obj2 = j.template get<persons::dispatch_with_user_macros_derived_members>();
-        CHECK(obj2.value == 42);
-        CHECK(obj2.own == 7);
-    }
-}
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':

    namespaces = ['nlohmann']
    abi_prefix = 'json_abi'
-    abi_tags = ['_diag', '_ldvcmp', '_dp', '_bics', '_psp', '_snul']
+    abi_tags = ['_diag', '_ldvcmp', '_dp', '_bics', '_psp']
    version = '_v' + args.version.replace('.', '_')
    inline_namespaces = []
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Niels Lohmann	e1e83fae94	Link the BON8 functions from the other binary format pages Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>	2026-09-25 22:15:07 +02:00
Niels Lohmann	43a346cf99	Read BON8 strings in bulk from contiguous input - copy the valid UTF-8 of a string in one step when the input is contiguous (twitter.json is read in 1.68 instead of 2.52 ms, jeopardy.json in 196 instead of 297 ms, close to CBOR and MessagePack) - share the new valid_utf8_prefix() with the writer's UTF-8 check, which now skips ASCII 8 bytes at a time - let the fuzzer check that contiguous and stream input give the same value or error, and test both paths in the unit tests - clarify that a second 0xFF after a string is an empty string Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>	2026-09-25 22:06:54 +02:00
Niels Lohmann	31db00f2b4	Merge branch 'develop' into bon8 Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>	2026-09-25 20:22:39 +02:00
Niels Lohmann	f6d7eaf280	Amalgamate Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>	2026-09-25 20:15:05 +02:00
Niels Lohmann	d3be1bd74d	Merge branch 'develop' into bon8 Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>	2026-09-25 20:11:51 +02:00
Niels Lohmann	344148dc33	Fix the BON8 CI failures - compare the float in write_bon8_float with number_float_t constants, so GCC does not warn about a float-to-double conversion - mark check_bon8_utf8's context as used when exceptions are disabled - choose the compact float prefix in a helper rather than with nested conditional operators (clang-tidy) - use auto for the cast in the BON8 integer reader (clang-tidy) - write the int32 minimum test values as long long literals (MSVC C4146) Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>	2026-09-25 20:11:50 +02:00
Niels Lohmann	64119e9b5b	Rename a test variable that Flawfinder mistakes for read() Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>	2026-09-25 17:58:13 +02:00
Niels Lohmann	2994bcd9e2	Select the BON8 float prefix by type get_bon8_float_prefix only depends on the type of its argument, so make the type a template parameter instead of passing an unused value. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>	2026-09-25 17:55:20 +02:00
Niels Lohmann	9f7c0f3ea7	Merge branch 'develop' into bon8 Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>	2026-09-25 08:26:17 +02:00
Niels Lohmann	5f673b0eae	Address review comments - Reuse detail::validate_one_utf8 to check strings in to_bon8; the error now names the first byte of the invalid sequence. - Document that to_bon8 leaves bytes in the output adapter on an exception, and that string_open is only an output of write_bon8_marker. - Explain why the pushback buffer of the BON8 reader cannot overflow. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>	2026-09-25 08:16:55 +02:00
Niels Lohmann	e94e164b07	Add BON8 support Add to_bon8/from_bon8 and input_format_t::bon8 for BON8, a binary format that uses the byte values that cannot begin a UTF-8 character as type markers, so strings need no length prefix. It is the most compact of the supported binary formats on the benchmark files. The reader is non-recursive like the other binary readers. A string ends at the first byte that cannot continue it, so the reader hands the one or two bytes it reads past a string back to the value that follows. The writer produces the canonical representation of the specification, except for NFC normalization; its output is identical to that of the reference implementation (HikoGUI) on all files of the test data. The round-trip tests need the .bon8 files of json_test_data 3.2.0. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>	2026-09-24 22:53:08 +02:00
				`@@ -0,0 +1 @@`
				`0x89 0x63 0x6f 0x6d 0x70 0x61 0x63 0x74 0xf9 0x66 0x6f 0x72 0x6d 0x61 0x74 0xff 0x42 0x4f 0x4e 0x38 0xff 0x73 0x63 0x68 0x65 0x6d 0x61 0x90`