Jackson Release 2.3.4

Patch version has not yet been released.

Following is the list of changes in 2.3 branch, to be included in this patch release.

Core components

Core Databind

• #459: BeanDeserializerBuilder copy constructor not copying _injectables
• #462: Annotation-provided Deserializers are not contextualized inside CreatorProperties

Data formats

Avro

• #8: Error in creating Avro Schema for java.util.Date (and related) type.

CSV

• #38: Extra column delimiter added when column is escaped and follows empty column
• #41: CvsParser.getText() not working for field name (causing failures for "untyped" deserialization)

Datatypes

Guava

• #42: Polymorphic deserialization involving Guava Optional is broken