Release 2.8.0

[cowtowncoder]

We need 2.8.0 release now as well.

[gheine]

+1

[brettcave]

+1

[christophercurrie]

For now, I have released rc1 and rc2 to Maven, but these are unlikely to work with the final release of 2.8.0, due to interactions with the final fix for FasterXML/jackson-databind#1277.

[cowtowncoder]

Ouch. I was worried there might be something with this fix; did not add than in 2.7.x.
Somewhat ironically I think this was actually for Scala performance.

Still, need to figure out what gives; there was one vague report for jackson-databind that I think is similar or same root cause. If worst comes to worst, will just prevent caching.

Reproduction would be great, I'll try to repro with scala module master.

[cowtowncoder]

I filed this:

FasterXML/jackson-databind#1302

and will fix that. What this means is that for Scala module we'll probably just have to wait for 2.8.1.
I also need to ensure that in future I verify every rc and before official release -- in this case this was a late change (... which I end up regretting... ) which unfortunately did not break any other modules.

[christophercurrie]

Is it the sort of issue that the Scala module could work around and/or defend against? Would be nice to get a 2.8.0 out, even if it meant disabling caching in some manner.

[cowtowncoder]

@christophercurrie I was trying to think of that, but didn't see an obvious place.
If Scala module does/did override TypeFactory, it'd e possible to override

protected JavaType _fromClass(...)

but that's quite a bit of work. And I don't think module replaces TypeFactory.
If it did, however, another simpler way might be to override

LruMap<...> _typeCache

and its putIfAbsent method.

Fwtw, skipping 2.8.0 is unfortunate, but not unheard of. For 2.7 we just have 2.7.2 and later.

[christophercurrie]

Upgrading to 2.8.1-SNAPSHOT eliminated the issue, so we may as well just wait for the next release.

[cowtowncoder]

Ok. I'll try to go over open issues list and see if there are things I'd like to close off first, but there are enough issues resolved that I'll do 2.8.1 fairly soon (possibly by this weekend; if not, definitely within 2 weeks).

[cowtowncoder]

Soon was bit sooner: I released 2.8.1 today. We should get the the type modifier patch in yet at least. Not sure if other things are pending?

[bryce-anderson]

Sorry to pester, but is there an ETA on a 2.8.x release?

[cowtowncoder]

Being discussed; 2.8.1 should be releasable now.

[nbauernfeind]

2.8.1 and 2.8.2 are now released; we're skipping 2.8.0 per the discussion above.