Jackson Release 2.3.3

Patch version has not yet been released.

Here are accumulated changes so far.

Changes, core

Core Databind

• #420: Remove 'final' modifier from BeanDeserializerBase.deserializeWithType
• #422: Allow use of "True" and "False" as aliases for booleans when coercing from JSON String
• #423: Fix CalendarSerializer to work with custom format

Changes, JAX-RS

• #41: Try to resolve problems with RESTeasy, missing _configForWriting override.

Changes, data formats

Avro

• [#6] (../../jackson-dataformat-avro/issues/6): Nested Map type fields do not work
• [#7] (../../jackson-dataformat-avro/issues/7): Add AvroGenerator.Feature.IGNORE_UNKWNOWN to allow filtering of properties that are not defined in Schema, during output

CSV

• #33: CSV is written without column separators if first column is null
• Fix a minor problem with CsvSchema defaults: was setting default escape char to be same as default quote (i.e. double-quote)

CBOR

• #2: Negative Long values written as zero

Changes, data types

Guava

• #37: Optional not correctly deserialized from JSON null, if inside a Collection
• #41: Multimap serializer does not honor @JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_EMPTY)

Hibernate

• #47: Feature.USE_TRANSIENT_ANNOTATION does not work

Joda

• #32: Support use of @JsonFormat(shape=...) for timestamp/string choice

Changes, other modules

JAXB Annotations

• #27: Try to make JaxbAnnotationIntrospector work with Jackson XML module in determining whether property is output as attribute

Mr Bean

• #12: Fix problem with Number as Map value (and probably other types too)

Scala

See Scala module Issue Tracker