-Added DateTimeZoneHandling to control reading and writing DateTime time zone details
-Added reader/writer specific Formatting, DateFormatHandling and DateTimeZoneHandling to JsonSerializerSettings
-Added feature of reader/writer specific settings to be set on JsonReader/JsonWriter when serializing
-Added ReadAsDate to JsonReader
-Added ReadAsString to JsonReader
-Changed JsonTextReader to automatically read ISO strings as dates
-Refactored ReadAsXXX methods and reduce code redundancy
-Removed unused JsonDateTimeSerializationMode
-Changed JsonReaders to set TokenType to JsonToken.None after finishing content
-Changed the ReadAsXXX methods to return null instead of throwing an error when there is no content
-Improved JsonSerializer to cache contract/converters where possible to improve performance
-Improved JsonTextReader error message when additional JSON content found
-Fixed internal exception thrown when deserializing Decimal/DateTimeOffset/Byte lists
-Fixed various JsonTextReader bugs
-Added BsonReader, BsonWriter
-Added support for reading and writing byte arrays to JsonReader, JsonWriter and LINQ to JSON classes
-Added ReadAsBytes to JsonReader
-Changed Silverlight build serializer to look for a TypeConverter
-Changed .NET build to not rely on System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations assembly to support .NET 4.0 client profile
-Remove DateTimeOffset stand-in from Compact Framework build
-Fixed .NET 2.0 build to run on environments without .NET 2.0 SP1
-Fixed deserialization to always use a new value created from a JsonConverter
-Fixed XmlNodeConverter to support converting comments in JSON
James Newton-King