Jackson Release 3.1.7

Patch version of 3.1, under development as of August 2026.

Following fixes will be included in this patch release.

• #1668: WriterBasedJsonGenerator throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when a zero-length custom escape ends exactly at the output buffer boundary
• #1673: Fix AIOOBE in readString(Writer) at output buffer boundary

• #6157: @JsonIncludeProperties not honored for Throwable types with @JsonAnySetter
• #6174: Honor @JsonView in ThrowableDeserializer.deserializeFromObject()
• #6179: Validate number length when coercing String to double
• #6182: StdDateFormat.<clinit> degrades JIT compilation of UTF8JsonGenerator._writeStringSegment
• #6185: Unresolved IPv6 InetSocketAddress serialized without brackets, losing port on round-trip

• #745: Fix Avro bugs

• #761: Async Smile parser misses #312 NUL-padding: short property name collides with NUL-prefixed longer one
• #770: Fix async parser decoding of short ASCII values split across input feeds

• #894: Read stream to end for negative length in writeBinary(InputStream)