Jackson Release 3.0.3

Patch version of 3.0, under development as of Nov, 2025.

Following fixes will be included in this patch release.

Changes, core

Streaming

• #1418: TokenFilter#includeEmptyArray() causes an error in some cases where an object element is filtered

Databind

• #5393: @JsonAnyGetter property gets included in generated schema
• #5398: @JsonProperty.value + @JsonIgnore on setter does not work anymore since 2.18.4
• #5401: Regression with @JsonCreator that returns null for empty strings
• #5407: Jackson 3 JsonNode#required(java.lang.String) throws JsonNodeException different from JavaDoc
• #5414: NullPointerException in AnnotatedMember.annotations() when no annotations are present
• #5416: Annotations on an interface that's part of a JDK proxy are not honored with Jackson 3

Changes, data formats

CSV

• #10: Missing null writes when writing Object[] values

YAML

• #154: YAML file with no content throws MismatchedInputException when binding to Object type (POJO etc)

Changes, data types