• fix: Fix ClassCastException on resolving JsonSchema. This solves issu… (#4950)

• chore: bump jackson versions to 2.19.2 (#4943)
• Bump github classgraph version to 4.8.181 (#4940)
• chore: update common lang3 to 3.18 (#4938)
• chore: add GitHub issue and pull request templates (#4934)
• docs: provide a better formatting for README (#4930)
• Revert temp workarounds for sonatype 502 (#4922)
• Ticket-4910 | Added FailedApiResponse.java (#4911)

• fix: add condition for prefixing parameter (#4916)

• fix: refs #4907 - fix 'openapi.openapi' field processing for 3.1 (#4912)
• fix 1.5 README update (#4902)

What's Changed

• update 1.5 Readme with new v2 version 2.2.28 by @sonatypeoss in #4833
• migrate Sonatype OSSRH to Central Portal by @frantuma in #4895

Full Changelog: v1.6.15...v1.6.16

• Add $dynamicRef (#4891)
• chore: migrate Sonatype OSSRH to Central Portal (#4890)

• Consistent usage of TestNG (#4885)
• refs #4878 - fix model resolution for global path parameters with openAPI 3.1 (#4884)
• fix Schema/JSONSchema instance creation for oas31 (#4883)
• issue-4850: fix extensions 'x-' prefix decoration for oas 3.1 (#4880)
• Add support for jakarta.validation.constraints.Email (#4876)
• Include Nonnull annotation from Jakarta Annotations for required items (#4875)
• feat: Support other types than string in enum schemas (#4874)
• refs #4065 - fix 'explode' resolution for parameters (#4873)
• Add unittest for v3.1 which has both ref and description (#4815)

• refs #4862 - resolve @notblank / @notempty as required (#4870)
• fix ArbitrarySchema (#4869)
• update Schema resolution and casting - add explicit-object-schema and use-arbitrary-schema sys/env props (#4868)
• refs #4859, refs #4860 - fix minLength and ModelResolver compatibility break (#4867)
• fix patternproperties handling in SpecFilter (#4818)

• add better support for validation groups (#4853)
• fix: Replace $ in the FQN of the class (#4803)
• [BUGFIX] Jackson/@JsonUnwrapped - unwrapping fails when innerModel.$ref not null (#4597

NOTE:

ModelResolver.addRequiredItem breaks compatibility in this version, please use 2.2.30 to get back to a compatible release

• fix DateSchema enum and default serialization (#4830)
• update deps (Jackson to 2.18.2, fix quotes in tests) (#4828)
• fix #4316 - additionalProperties and ArraySchema.implementation processing (#4823)
• allow specifying openAPI version (e.g. 3.0.4, 3.1.1) (#4816)
• Fix: Avoid caching AnnotationIntrospector to support custom module loading (#4728)