• New feature - Improved support for deserializing objects using non-default constructors
• New feature - JsonConverterAttribute now allowed on constructor parameters
• New feature - JsonPropertyAttribute now allowed on constructor parameters
• New feature - Added Serializable attribute to exceptions
• New feature - JsonObject and JsonProperty attributes can now be placed on an interface and used when serializing implementing objects
• New feature - Improve TypeNameHandling.Auto to skip adding an unneeded type name for collection interfaces
• New feature - LINQ to JSON internals rewritten to use lists and dictionaries rather than linked lists
• New feature - Added support for deserializing to readonly collections and dictionaries on classes with non-default constructors
• New feature - Added serialization constructors to all Exceptions
• New feature - Added support for serialization event attributes on base classes
• New feature - Added support for BindToName on SerializationBinder
• New feature - Missing JSON errors can now be handled using JsonSerializer error handling
• New feature - Added Populate and IgnoreAndPopulate options to DefaultValueHandling for automatically populating default values during deserialization
• New feature - Added support for setting readonly fields when marked up with JsonPropertyAttribute
• New feature - Added Order to JsonPropertyAttribute to override the order of serialized JSON
• New feature - Added Culture to JsonTextReader to use when converting values from JSON text
• New feature - Added support for reading byte arrays from JSON integer arrays
• New feature - Added support for deserializing IDictionary properties
• New feature - Added ToObject to JToken for deserializing LINQ to JSON objects to a .NET object
• New feature - Added support for Guid, TimeSpan and Uri to LINQ to JSON
• Change - Changed WriteEndObject, WriteEndArray, WriteEndConstructor on JsonWriter to be virtual
• Change - Moved JPropertyDescriptor to Newtonsoft.Json.Linq namespace
• Change - Additional content after the $ref property now ignored when reading schema references
• Change - Changed JToken.Children to return an empty iterator rather than erroring
• Change - Changed the assembly file names to all be Newtonsoft.Json.dll to fix NuGet referencing
• Change - Changed $id and $ref properties to allow null
• Fix - Changed .NET 2.0 version to use LinqBridge source code rather than ilmerge to fix error
• Fix - Fixed deserializing to IEnumerable properties
• Fix - Fixed DataTable and DataColumn names not being modified by CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver
• Fix - Fixed JObject loading JSON with comments
• Fix - Fixed error when using a Specified property with no setter
• Fix - Fixed transient constructor error on Windows Phone 7
• Fix - Fixed deserializing null values into nullable generic dictionaries
• Fix - Fixed potential casting error when writing JSON using a JsonReader
• Fix - Fixed converting emtpy XML elements with an array attribute not writing other attributes
• Fix - Fixed deserializing null values into DataTables
• Fix - Fixed error when deserializing readonly IEnumerable array properties
• Fix - Fixed not including type name for byte[] values
• Fix - Fixed BsonWriter failing silently when writing values outside of an Object or Array
• Fix - Fixed serializer attempting to use dynamic code generation in partial trust
• Fix - Fixed serializing objects with DataContract and DataMember attributes on base classes