prepare for 2.8.1

Author: cowtowncoder

pom.xml

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 
   <properties>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-    <version.jackson.core>2.8.0</version.jackson.core>
+    <version.jackson.core>2.8.1</version.jackson.core>
     <version.asm>5.1</version.asm>
   </properties>
 

release-notes/VERSION

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Modules:
 === Releases ===
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-2.8.1 (not yet released
+2.8.1 (20-Jul-2016)
 
 - (protobuf) Add optimized ProtobufParser.nextTextValue() implementation