Jackson 2.7.1 was released and should bring a long-standing bug fix for: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TINKERPOP-732
which has to do with serialization of Tree to JSON. Since we shade Jackson the upgrade to users is pretty painless and Jackson doesn't bring any transient dependencies with it so it shouldn't introduce new conflict. anyway, I think we should look to bump this dependency from 2.5.3 to this new version for 3.1.2. I'll assume lazy consensus and move forward if there are no objections in the next 72 hours - Sunday (February 14th, 2016) at 1PM EST. Thanks, Stephen
