Jackson Release 2.18.4

Patch version of 2.18, under development.

Following fixes will be included in this patch release.

Changes, core

Streaming

Databind

Changes, data formats

Ion

• ion-java dependency to 1.11.10 (from 1.11.9)

Changes, data types

Java 8 Date/Time

• #291: InstantDeserializer fails to parse negative numeric timestamp strings for pre-1970 values