Patch version of 2.7, released on 04 February 2017.

This is planned to be the last full 2.7 release of all components: further releases, if any, will be micro-releases (like next hypothetical one, 2.7.9.1) of specific components with issues.

Following fixes are included.

• #1367: No Object Id found for an instance when using @ConstructorProperties
• #1392: Custom UnmodifiableSetMixin Fails in Jackson 2.7+ but works in Jackson 2.6
• #1411: MapSerializer._orderEntries should check for null keys
• #1432: Off by 1 bug in PropertyValueBuffer
• #1439: NPE when using with filter id, serializing java.util.Map types
• #1456: TypeFactory type resolution broken in 2.7 for generic types when using constructType with context
• #1476: Wrong constructor picked up when deserializing object
• #1506: Missing KeyDeserializer for CharSequence

• Support multiple root-level value writes (via SequenceWriter)
• Support multiple root-level value reads (via MappingIterator)

• #80: Fix UTF8Writer when used in same thread

• #49: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when parsing large Map

• #63: Error in type resolution of reference type (Optional)