gson

The main changes in this release are just newer dependencies.

What's Changed

• Improved packaging of JPMS module declaration in Gson jar
  This fixes an issue where Eclipse and VS Code users could not refer to the Gson module name com.google.gson. See issue https://github.com/google/gson/issues/2679.
• Remove internal class GsonPreconditions by @Marcono1234 in https://github.com/goog...

What's Changed

• Give FieldNamingStrategy the ability to return multiple String names by @mfriesen in https://github.com/google/gson/pull/2776
• Remove outdated android-proguard-example by @Goooler in https://github.com/google/gson/pull/2843
• Adjust Troubleshooting Guide ProGuard / R8 section by @Marcono1234 in https://github.com/google/gson/pull/2844
• Update dependencies, including the p...

What's Changed

• A bug in deserializing collections has been fixed. Previously, if you did something like this:

  gson.fromJson(jsonString, new TypeToken<ImmutableList<String>>() {})
  

  then the inferred type would be ImmutableList<String>, but Gson actually gave you an ArrayList<String>. Usually that would lead to an immediate ClassCastException, but in some circumstanc...

The only difference between this release and 2.12.0 is that OSGi declarations in the Gson jar now specify that com.google.errorprone.annotations is an optional dependency, not a required one. If you do not use OSGi then there is no effective change.

What's Changed

The biggest change is that we no longer support Java 7. People who still need to run on Java 7 will need to use an earlier version of Gson.

Other changes:

• Allow registering adapters for JsonElement again by @Marcono1234 in https://github.com/google/gson/pull/2789
• Add nesting limit for JsonReader by @Marcono1234 in https://github.com/google/gson/pull/2588
• Add `@...