-Changed default DefaultContractResolver.IgnoreSerializableAttribute to true
-Fixed MaxDepth on JsonReader recursively throwing error
-Fixed SerializationBinder.BindToName not being called with full assembly names
-Fixed JsonTextReader reading from a slow stream
-Fixed CultureInfo not being overridden on JsonSerializerProxy
-Fixed full trust security check in .NET 2.0 & .NET 3.5
-Improved writing JSON with indent performance
-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 collection type on JsonArrayContract to public
-Changed dictionary key type and dictionary value type on JsonDictionaryContract to public
-Fixed error handling when failing to parse array content
-Fixed error handling when there are missing required properties
-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 Load and Parse helper methods to JToken
-Fixed performance issues when deserializing with partial type names
-Fixed deserializing certain decimal values on classes with non-default constructors
-Fix error message when attempting to deserialize custom dictionary with no default constructor
-Fix serializing private base members marked with JsonProperty attribute
-Fix performance issue when deserializing to object member
-Fix dictionary key encoding when serializing
-Fix WrappedDictionary being set to a property when deserializing
-Fix Silverlight serialization security error
-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
-Added line details to JsonTextReader exception messages and JsonValidatingReader errors
-Change JsonSchemaGenerator to disable additional properties on sealed classes
-Fixed JsonSchemaGenerator to not output enum values and options for flag enums
-Move test serialization objects to TestObjects namespace
-Fixed JsonConvert to always write a floating point number with a decimal place
-Changed Type values to serialize and deserialize to type name string
-Fixed JsonWriter to allow objects and arrays to be written in a constructor
-Added JsonContainerAttribute with Id, Title and Description members. JsonObject and JsonArray inherit from this attribute
-Added JsonArrayAttribute. Has flag to control whether array can contain null items.
-Added IsRequired to JsonProperty
-Replaced protected method GetSerializableMembers with GetMemberMappings on JsonSerializer
-Fixed QuoteChar not getting set when parsing property name
-Added Load(JsonReader) to JProperty, JConstructor
-Fixed error when populating JProperty with content from collection
-Added the ability for JsonTokenWriter to write individual values as well as arrays and objects
-Added CreateReader to JToken
-Added FromObject to JToken
-Added ReadFrom to JToken
Added Skip() method to JsonReader. Skips the current JSON token and any child tokens.
JsonSerializer now has the ability to populate existing members on an object. This behaviour is controlled by the ObjectCreationHandling property.
Changes:
Improved behaviour of JsonReader.Depth property.
Fixes:
Floating point numbers now use ToString("r") to avoid an overflow error when serializing and deserializing a boundary value.
JsonSerializer now correctly serializes and deserializes DBNull.
JsonSerializer no longer errors when skipping a multi-token JSON structure.
James Newton-King