So: it has been a while since 2.15.0 was released, in late April 2023, 5 months ago. The intent was to follow up fairly quickly with 2.16 -- and for that to happen, it's time to release the first (and ideally, only -- we don't seem to get tons of feedback from RCs) release candidate soon.
As per https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson/wiki/Jackson-Release-2.16 we already have over 70 changes (fixes, additions). And this is probably missing Kotlin/Scala module changes. So 2.16 will be a non-trivial release. But. Before cutting the RC1 I wanted to see how we are doing with original goals to handle: 1. Completing addition of essential Processing Limits (add max read doc size; max read property-name length; writer-side max nesting) 2. Add support for Canonical JSON (in some form, no formal spec seems to existt) 3. Property Introspection rewrite (my long-term Number #1 absolute must-have) and so far: 1. Processing limits: Fully implemented! 2. Canonical JSON: some aspects implemented (JsonNodeFeature.WRITE_PROPERTIES_SORTED) but not everything; not sure what'd be the best approach -- in particular, number formatting open issue 3. Property Introspection rewrite: not done, not even started (sigh) Given timing, I think 1 out of 3 will have to do; I don't see a realistic change of getting (2) and (3) completed. But aside from this, there is one Feature (or set of smaller pieces) that I do want to get in 2.16: `JsonNode.withArray()/withObject()` regression/change handling (databind issues #3780, #4095, #4096). Once this is tackled, I'd be fine closing set of features to get in 2.16. If anyone feels there are other "Must Have" features -- and ones that in-flight, i.e. may be completed within next, say, 2 weeks -- please LMK ASAP and those can be considered as well. How does this sound? Opinions, suggestions, other feedback? -+ Tatu +- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jackson-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jackson-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jackson-dev/CAL4a10jnoguz-A7fbCNq1eWK8S0RGDUmTqHe3Q2W%2BUO0qY885w%40mail.gmail.com.
