Jackson Release 2.10.4

Patch version of 2.10, not yet releasde.

Following fixes will be included.

Changes, core

Streaming

#605: Handle case when system property access is restricted

Databind

#2679: ObjectMapper.readValue("123", Void.TYPE) throws "should never occur"

Changes, data formats

Properties

• #179: JavaPropsMapper doesn't close the .properties file properly after reading
• #184: jackson-databind should not be optional/provided dependency

Protobuf

• #202: Parsing a protobuf message doesn't properly skip unknown fields

YAML

• #182: Negative numbers not quoted correctly wrt `ALWAYS_QUOTE_NUMBERS_AS_STRINGS
• #187: Update to SnakeYAML to 1.26 (from 1.24) to address CVE-2017-18640

Changes, datatypes

JSR-353

• #16: Null being deserialized as null literal instead of JsonValue.NULL