Jackson Release 2.18

Jackson Version 2.18 development is planned to start in March, 2024.

This wiki page gives a list of links to all changes (with brief descriptions) that will be included, as well as about original plans for bigger changes (and in some cases changes to plans, postponing).

Status

Branch is waiting to be created.

Patches

No release yet

Documentation

Articles, Blog posts

Changes, compatibility

Compatibility: platform requirements

JDK

Same as Jackson 2.17

Changes, behavior

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Major focus areas, features included

The Focus!

• REWRITE BEAN PROPERTY INTROSPECTION -- AND ESPECIALLY CREATOR INTROSPECTION

Most Wanted features planned

• #512: Add @JsonWrapped

Functionality improvements

• Fix handling of null Type Id with JsonGenerator.writeTypePrefix() (and databind-level TypeIdSerializer)
  • Issue: databind#4407
  • See databind#4354 for background

Performance improvements

• More optimized JsonParser.getFloatValue() / JsonParser.getDoubleValue(): avoid String creation when calling FastDoubleParser
  • possible regression for "Deferred" number parsing

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Full Change list

Changes, core

Annotations

Streaming

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