Jackson Release 2.4.2

Patch not yet released.

Micro-patches

Between 2.4.1 and 2.4.2, following micro-patches have been released:

• jackson-databind 2.4.1.1 (18-Jun-2014): #491 (see below)
• jackson-core 2.4.1.1 (09-Jul-2014): #145 (see below)

these patches are stand-alone ones in that their dependencies point to 2.4.1 for other components; they are meant to be used for emergency-patching for critical issues. Most users should not need to use these patches.

Changes, core

Streaming API

• #145: NPE at BytesToNameCanonicalizer (NOTE: part of 2.4.1.1 micro-patch)

Databind

• #491: Work around for issue #490, problems with deserialization of Object Ids. (NOTE: part of 2.4.1.1 micro-patch)