Merge branch '3.0' into 3.x

Author: cowtowncoder

release-notes/CREDITS-2.x

@@ -390,6 +390,8 @@ Manuel Sugawara (@sugmanue)
 Josh Curry (@seadbrane)
  * Reported, contributed fix for #571: Unable to deserialize a pojo with IonStruct
   (2.19.0)
+ * Reported #628: Uncommon parent pom dependency configuration in Jackson 2.20/3.0
+  (2.21.0)
 
 Rafael Winterhalter (@raphw)
  * Reported #589: AvroSchema: Does not include base class for records

release-notes/VERSION-2.x

@@ -20,8 +20,10 @@ Active maintainers:
  (reported by Yohei K)
 #623: (ion) Upgrade `ion-java` dep to 1.11.11 (from 1.11.10)
  (requested by @Shaurya0108)
+#628: Uncommon parent pom dependency configuration in Jackson 2.20/3.0
+ (reported by Josh C)
 
-2.20.1 (not yet released)
+2.20.1 (30-Oct-2025)
 
 #599: (cbor) Unable to deserialize stringref-enabled CBOR with ignored properties
  (reported by Yohei K)
@@ -51,7 +53,8 @@ Active maintainers:
 - Fixes wrt [core#1438] (ParserBase.close() not resetting current token)
 - Generate SBOMs [JSTEP-14]
 
-2.19.3 (not yet released)
+2.19.4 (29-Oct-2025)
+2.19.3 (29-Oct-2025)
 
 #599: (cbor) Unable to deserialize stringref-enabled CBOR with ignored properties
  (reported by Yohei K)
@@ -99,7 +102,7 @@ No changes since 2.19.1
 #571: Unable to deserialize a pojo with IonStruct
  (reported, fix contributed by Josh C)
 
-2.18.5 (not yet released)
+2.18.5 (27-Oct-2025)
 
 #599: (cbor) Unable to deserialize stringref-enabled CBOR with ignored properties
  (reported by Yohei K)