Patch version of 2.8, released 14th Oct 2016.

Following fixes are included.

• #466: Jackson ignores Type information when raw return type is BigDecimal or BigInteger
• #1001: Parameter names module gets confused with delegate creator which is a static method
• #1324: Boolean parsing with StdDeserializer is too slow with huge integer value
• #1383: Problem with @JsonCreator with 1-arg factory-method, implicit param names
• #1384: @JsonDeserialize(keyUsing = ...) does not work correctly together with DefaultTyping.NON_FINAL
• #1385: Polymorphic type lost when using @JsonValue
• #1389: Problem with handling of multi-argument creator with Enums
• #1392: Custom UnmodifiableSetMixin Fails in Jackson 2.7+ but works in Jackson 2.6
• #1395: Problems deserializing primitive long field while using TypeResolverBuilder

• #211: Disable SUPPORT_DTD for XMLInputFactory unless explicitly overridden

• #77: Boolean-like content of string must never be unquoted

• #49: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when parsing large Map

• #22: Allow use of Guice 4.x (still only require 3.x)

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

• #112: Update LinkDescriptionObject to remove redundant 'jsonSchema' property