Jackson Release 2.7.4

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

Changes, core

Streaming

• #209: Make use of _allowMultipleMatches in FilteringParserDelegate

Databind

• #1178: @JsonSerialize(contentAs=superType) behavior disallowed in 2.7
• #1186: SimpleAbstractTypeResolver breaks generic parameters
• #1189: Converter called twice results in ClassCastException
• #1191: Non-matching quotes used in error message for date parsing
• #1194: Incorrect signature for generic type via `JavaType.getGenericSignature
• #1195: JsonMappingException not Serializable due to 2.7 reference to source (parser)
• #1198: Problem with @JsonTypeInfo.As.EXTERNAL_PROPERTY, defaultImpl, missing type id, NPE

Changes, dataformats

Avro

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

XML

• #190: Ensure that defaults for XMLInputFactory have expansion of external parsed general entities disabled

Changes, datatypes

JDK8

• #31: Support @JsonSerialize(contentUsing=) and @JsonDeserialize(contentUsing=) for Optional
• #34: Fix OptionalSerializer.isEmpty() from an incorrect class cast exception

Java 8 Date

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

Changes, JAX-RS

• #80: Non-JSON providers don't support custom MIME types with extensions

Changes, other modules

Afterburner

• #4: Serialization with Afterburner causes Java VerifyError for generic with String as type

Mr Bean

• #8: Problem with Optional<T>, AtomicReference<T> valued properties

Parameter Names (Java 8)

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