Patch version released on 10-Apr-2014. Following changes included.

Here are accumulated changes so far.

• #420: Remove 'final' modifier from BeanDeserializerBase.deserializeWithType
• #422: Allow use of "True" and "False" as aliases for booleans when coercing from JSON String
• #423: Fix CalendarSerializer to work with custom format
• #433: ObjectMapper.valueToTree() wraps JsonSerializable objects into a POJONode

• #41: Try to resolve problems with RESTeasy, missing _configForWriting override.

• [#6] (../../jackson-dataformat-avro/issues/6): Nested Map type fields do not work
• [#7] (../../jackson-dataformat-avro/issues/7): Add AvroGenerator.Feature.IGNORE_UNKWNOWN to allow filtering of properties that are not defined in Schema, during output

• #33: CSV is written without column separators if first column is null
• Fix a minor problem with CsvSchema defaults: was setting default escape char to be same as default quote (i.e. double-quote)

• #2: Negative Long values written as zero

• #101: Invalid index error when deserializing unwrapped list element with multiple attributes

• #37: Optional not correctly deserialized from JSON null, if inside a Collection
• #41: Multimap serializer does not honor @JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_EMPTY)

• #47: Feature.USE_TRANSIENT_ANNOTATION does not work

• #32: Support use of @JsonFormat(shape=...) for timestamp/string choice

• #28: JsonCreator deser with single-String-argument constructor fails

• #27: Try to make JaxbAnnotationIntrospector work with Jackson XML module in determining whether property is output as attribute

• #12: Fix problem with Number as Map value (and probably other types too)

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