👻 Ghost Serializer — Release v1.2.4 (Hotfix)

We are releasing v1.2.4 as an urgent hotfix addressing critical compilation and runtime crashes when matching JSON field names. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade immediately.

🚀 What's Fixed

Perfect Hash Collision Resolution in KSP & Runtime (Issue #10)

Previously in v1.2.3 and below, classes containing properties of the exact same character length that also shared overlapping prefixes/suffixes (e.g., modelCode vs modelName, dateCreated vs dateUpdated, or inviterUsername vs inviteeUsername) could trigger identical key hashes in the perfect hashing algorithm.
This resulted in:

• Compile-time KSP failures due to the generator being unable to resolve a collision-free multiplier.
• Runtime deserialization crashes (GhostJsonException: Expected '"') or silent data mapping corruption when fields resolved to the same slot during O(1) matching.
  How we fixed it:
  We refactored PerfectHashFinder (compiler) and JsonReaderOptions (runtime) to utilize a zero-allocation polynomial accumulation while loop (hash multiplier of 31) over all remaining bytes of the field name upon detecting a collision. This completely resolves collision overlapping, guaranteeing correct field dispatch with zero extra memory overhead.

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📦 Dependency Info

[versions]
ghost = "1.2.4"
ksp   = "2.1.10-1.0.31"
[libraries]
ghost-api           = { module = "com.ghostserializer:ghost-api", version.ref = "ghost" }
ghost-serialization = { module = "com.ghostserializer:ghost-serialization", version.ref = "ghost" }
ghost-compiler      = { module = "com.ghostserializer:ghost-compiler", version.ref = "ghost" }

plugins {
    id("com.google.devtools.ksp") version "2.1.10-1.0.31"
    id("com.ghostserializer.ghost") version "1.2.4"
}