This release mainly contains bugfixes for various issues, including important broken thread-safety and improper encoding.

Features

• Added support for nullable values, nested and empty collections in protobuf (#1430)

Bugfixes

• Support @JsonNames for enum values (#1473)
• Handle EOF in skipElement correctly (#1475)
• Allow using value classes with primitive carriers as map keys (#1470)
• Read JsonNull only for non-string literals in JsonTreeReader (#1466)
• Properly reuse JsonStringBuilders in CharArrayPool (#1455)
• Properly ensure capacity of the string builder on the append slow-path (#1441)