Jackson Release 2.7.4

Patch version of [2.7](Jackson Release 2.7), not yet released (as of March 16, 2016)

Changes, core

Streaming

• #209: Make use of _allowMultipleMatches in FilteringParserDelegate

Databind

• #1178: @JsonSerialize(contentAs=superType) behavior disallowed in 2.7

Changes, dataformats

Avro

• #39: Byte arrays are represented as strings in generated avro schema

Changes, datatypes

JDK8

• #31: Support @JsonSerialize(contentUsing=) and @JsonDeserialize(contentUsing=) for Optional

Java 8 Date

• #68: Handle JSON serialized Dates from JavaScript in LocalDateTimeDeserializer

Changes, other modules

Parameter Names (Java 8)

• #33: Calls to Executable.getParameters() should guard against MalformedParametersException