Jackson Release 2.18.8

Patch version of 2.18, under development as of May 2026.

Following fixes will be included in this patch release.

Changes, core

Streaming

None yet

Databind

• #5950: Improve UUIDeserializer error handling
• #5951: Improve InetSocketAddress deserialization
• #5974: @JsonIgnore on Record property ignored with PropertyNamingStrategy
• #5981: BasicPolymorphicTypeValidator setting allowIfSubTypeIsArray() should validate element type
• #5988: PolymorphicTypeValidator needs to validate generic type parameters too

Changes, data formats

XML

• #863: Fix to support Woodstox 7.2.0 (but no dep version bump)