to_bson() silently emits corrupt documents when a length exceeds INT32_MAX (#5314)

docs/mkdocs/docs/home/exceptions.md

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     This exception was added in version 3.13.0. Before that, this situation hit an internal assertion (aborting the program in debug builds) or was silently ignored when assertions were disabled.
 
+### json.exception.out_of_range.412
+
+BSON stores the length of documents, arrays, strings, and binary values in a signed 32-bit integer. This exception is thrown when a value is too large to be described by such a length field.
+
+!!! failure "Example message"
+
+    ```
+    BSON length 2147483661 exceeds maximum of 2147483647
+    ```
+
+!!! note
+
+    This exception was added in version 3.13.0. Before that, the length was silently truncated, and
+    [`to_bson`](../api/basic_json/to_bson.md) produced documents with negative length prefixes that
+    [`from_bson`](../api/basic_json/from_bson.md) rejected.
+
 ## Further exceptions
 
 This exception is thrown in case of errors that cannot be classified with the