Jackson Release 2.7.9

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.

Changes, core

Streaming

Databind

#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