Jackson Release 2.9

Version 2.9 development has not yet been started, as of July 2016, but will start soon.

New Modules, status changes

Changes: compatibility

Major features of 2.8

Planned

1. Rewrite of property/creator introspection code, to resolve many open issue wrt Creator auto-detection and name-detection
2. Per-property overwrite-vs-merge annotation/handling, to allow for merging of configuration information (for example)
3. Support for @JsonIncludeProperties (opposite of @JsonIgnoreProperties)
4. Per-property custom serialization inclusion (@JsonInclude(value=Include.CUSTOM, comparator=MyExcluder.class)
5. Non-blocking JSON/Smile parser?