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
  • Matching annotations issue: annotations#42

Functionality improvements

• Fix handling of null Type Id with JsonGenerator.writeTypePrefix() (and databind-level TypeIdSerializer)
  • Issue: databind#4407
  • Background:
    • See databind#4354 for immediate problem with null type id
    • See databind#3307 that seems like regression

Performance improvements

• More optimized JsonParser.getFloatValue() / JsonParser.getDoubleValue(): avoid String creation when calling FastDoubleParser
  • Issue reported: core#1229: Add char[] versions for NumberInput parseFloat, parseDouble, parseBigInteger
  • possible regression for "Deferred" number parsing

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Full Change list

Changes, core

Annotations

Streaming

• #1251: InternCache - replace synchronized with ReentrantLock

Databind

Changes, data formats

CSV

• #468: Remove synchronization from CsvMapper

Changes, other

Jackson-jr

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