Jackson Release 2.21.1

Patch version of 2.21, under development as of January 2026.

Following fixes will be included in this patch release.

Changes, core

Streaming

Databind

• #5184: @JsonIgnore on record method applied to record matching field at deserialization
  • Also fixed duplicate issue #5624
• #5616: ObjectWriter serializes reference types (like AtomicReference, Optional) with subtypes incompletely
• #5674: Fix NPE when deserializing Throwable with null "stackTrace"

Changes, data formats

Avro

• #645: Remove use of Avro Schema.Parser().setValidate() to allow use of Avro core 1.12.1 (2.x)

YAML

• #610: Update to SnakeYAML 2.5