test: drop a trailing NUL byte from the nativejson-benchmark 1e308 fixture

The "doubles" compliance test built its 1e308 literal as a std::string sized to 312 bytes with an explicit trailing '\0' at index 311, relying on the old NUL-as-EOF lexer behavior removed earlier in this branch: with that removed, the NUL is ordinary (invalid) trailing data instead of being silently swallowed, so json::parse() correctly rejected it with parse_error.101 - breaking CI across every compiler/platform, since this one nativejson-benchmark TEST_CASE is exercised by every test job. No padding is needed at all: json::parse(const std::string&) already uses the string's own size(), not a NUL terminator. Drop the trailing byte and shrink the string by one to match (index 310 - the new last index - is where ']' now goes), fixing this the same way the other pre-existing tests in this branch that depended on the same bug were already fixed. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <niels.lohmann@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N4RQ1Ahan5YAGbnAQGjZTY
fix: treat a NUL byte in the input as an ordinary byte, not EOF
2026-09-26 01:40:32 +00:00 · 2026-09-15 10:22:47 +00:00 · 2026-09-15 07:12:35 +00:00 · 2026-08-19 22:50:21 +02:00 · 2026-08-19 22:46:12 +02:00 · 2026-08-19 22:41:46 +02:00
222 changed files with 5444 additions and 28115 deletions
@@ -108,9 +108,7 @@ The tests are located in [`tests/src/unit-*.cpp`](https://github.com/nlohmann/js
 are structured along the features of the library or the nature of the tests. Usually, it should be clear from the
 context which existing file needs to be extended, and only very few cases require creating new test files.

-When fixing a bug, edit `unit-regression3.cpp` and add a section referencing the fixed issue.
-`unit-regression2.cpp` holds the older tests; the two files exist because a single one grew large enough for the
-MinGW linker to fail relocating it, so please keep adding to the smaller file rather than growing the larger one.
+When fixing a bug, edit `unit-regression2.cpp` and add a section referencing the fixed issue.

 #### Exceptions

@@ -158,15 +156,6 @@ make amalgamate
 Running `make amalgamate` will also apply automatic formatting to the source files using
 [`Artistic Style`](https://astyle.sourceforge.net/). This formatting may modify your source files in-place. Be certain to review and commit any changes to avoid unintended formatting diffs in commits.

-If you add, rename, or remove a header in `include/nlohmann`, also regenerate the header list in
-[`BUILD.bazel`](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/blob/develop/BUILD.bazel) (requires CMake) by executing:
-
-```shell
-make BUILD.bazel
-```
-
-The amalgamation check in CI fails if any of these generated files is out of date.
-
 ## Recommended documentation

 - The library’s [README file](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/blob/master/README.md) is an excellent starting point to
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@

 - [ ] The changes are described in detail, both the what and why.
 - [ ] If applicable, an [existing issue](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/issues) is referenced.
- [ ] If applicable, a fixed [OSS-Fuzz](https://issues.oss-fuzz.com) issue is referenced as `OSS-Fuzz: <id>` (see [fuzz testing](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/blob/develop/tests/fuzzing.md#handling-oss-fuzz-reports)).
 - [ ] The [Code coverage](https://coveralls.io/github/nlohmann/json) remained at 100%. A test case for every new line of code.
 - [ ] If applicable, the [documentation](https://json.nlohmann.me) is updated.
 - [ ] The source code is amalgamated by running `make amalgamate`.
@@ -29,27 +29,6 @@ labels:
  files:
    - ".github/external_ci/.*"

- label: "CI"
-  files:
-    - ".github/(dependabot|labeler)\\.yml"
-
- label: "aspect: binary formats"
-  files:
-    - "include/nlohmann/detail/input/binary_reader\\.hpp"
-    - "include/nlohmann/detail/output/binary_writer\\.hpp"
-    - "tests/src/unit-(bson|cbor|msgpack|ubjson|bjdata|bon8|binary_formats)"
-    - "tests/src/fuzzer-parse_(bson|cbor|msgpack|ubjson|bjdata|bon8)"
-    - "docs/mkdocs/docs/features/binary_formats/"
-    - "docs/mkdocs/docs/(api/basic_json|examples)/(to|from)_(bson|cbor|msgpack|ubjson|bjdata|bon8)"
-
- label: "aspect: binary formats"
-  title: "(?i)(bson|cbor|msgpack|messagepack|ubjson|bjdata|bon8|binary format)"
-
- label: "python"
-  files:
-    - "\\.py$"
-    - "requirements[^/]*\\.txt$"
-
 - label: "S"
  size-below: 10
 - label: "M"
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Harden Runner
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@e14015d583714f6e62063499dc959a02595150a1 # v2.21.1
+        uses: step-security/harden-runner@b09bb98e06d4d774595224525879c09bc6e98c40 # v2.20.1
        with:
          egress-policy: audit

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ jobs:

    steps:
      - name: Harden Runner
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@e14015d583714f6e62063499dc959a02595150a1 # v2.21.1
+        uses: step-security/harden-runner@b09bb98e06d4d774595224525879c09bc6e98c40 # v2.20.1
        with:
          egress-policy: audit

@@ -57,31 +57,18 @@ jobs:
          python3 -mvenv venv
          venv/bin/pip3 install -r $MAIN_DIR/tools/astyle/requirements.txt

-      - name: Regenerate amalgamation, formatting, and BUILD.bazel
+      - name: Regenerate amalgamation and formatting
        run: |
          cd $MAIN_DIR

          python3 $TOOL_DIR/amalgamate.py -c $TOOL_DIR/config_json.json -s .
          python3 $TOOL_DIR/amalgamate.py -c $TOOL_DIR/config_json_fwd.json -s .

-          # the header list of the Bazel "json" target must match the files in include/
-          cmake -P cmake/scripts/gen_bazel_build_file.cmake
-
          ${{ github.workspace }}/venv/bin/astyle --project=tools/astyle/.astylerc --suffix=none --quiet \
            $INCLUDE_DIR/json.hpp $INCLUDE_DIR/json_fwd.hpp

-          # fail loudly if a directory is renamed or removed: find would only warn
-          # about the missing path and silently drop its files from the check
-          SOURCE_DIRS="docs/mkdocs/docs/examples include tests"
-          for DIR in $SOURCE_DIRS; do
-            if [ ! -d "$DIR" ]; then
-              echo "::error::source directory '$DIR' does not exist"
-              exit 1
-            fi
-          done
-
          ${{ github.workspace }}/venv/bin/astyle --project=tools/astyle/.astylerc --suffix=none --quiet \
-            $(find $SOURCE_DIRS -type f \( -name '*.hpp' -o -name '*.cpp' -o -name '*.cu' \) -not -path 'tests/thirdparty/*' -not -path 'tests/abi/include/nlohmann/*' | sort)
+            $(find docs/examples include tests -type f \( -name '*.hpp' -o -name '*.cpp' -o -name '*.cu' \) -not -path 'tests/thirdparty/*' -not -path 'tests/abi/include/nlohmann/*' | sort)

      - name: Build patch and check for differences
        id: diff
@@ -90,7 +77,7 @@ jobs:
          mkdir -p ${{ github.workspace }}/patch
          git diff --patch --no-color > ${{ github.workspace }}/patch/amalgamation.patch
          if [ -s ${{ github.workspace }}/patch/amalgamation.patch ]; then
-            echo "The source code has not been amalgamated/formatted correctly or BUILD.bazel is out of date. Diff:"
+            echo "The source code has not been amalgamated/formatted correctly. Diff:"
            cat ${{ github.workspace }}/patch/amalgamation.patch
            echo "has_diff=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
          else
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    steps:
    - name: Harden Runner
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@e14015d583714f6e62063499dc959a02595150a1 # v2.21.1
+      uses: step-security/harden-runner@b09bb98e06d4d774595224525879c09bc6e98c40 # v2.20.1
      with:
        egress-policy: audit

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ jobs:

    steps:
    - name: Harden Runner
-      uses: step-security/harden-runner@e14015d583714f6e62063499dc959a02595150a1 # v2.21.1
+      uses: step-security/harden-runner@b09bb98e06d4d774595224525879c09bc6e98c40 # v2.20.1
      with:
        egress-policy: audit

@@ -38,14 +38,14 @@ jobs:

    # Initializes the CodeQL tools for scanning.
    - name: Initialize CodeQL
-      uses: github/codeql-action/init@b96794f015dfd88f77b49b1c93e0fa7110f94c63 # v4.38.0
+      uses: github/codeql-action/init@5595ccaf912efad79be6eef63a5619ff05969be3 # v4.37.6
      with:
        languages: c-cpp

    # Autobuild attempts to build any compiled languages  (C/C++, C#, or Java).
    # If this step fails, then you should remove it and run the build manually (see below)
    - name: Autobuild
-      uses: github/codeql-action/autobuild@b96794f015dfd88f77b49b1c93e0fa7110f94c63 # v4.38.0
+      uses: github/codeql-action/autobuild@5595ccaf912efad79be6eef63a5619ff05969be3 # v4.37.6

    - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
-      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@b96794f015dfd88f77b49b1c93e0fa7110f94c63 # v4.38.0
+      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@5595ccaf912efad79be6eef63a5619ff05969be3 # v4.37.6
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ jobs:
      pull-requests: write
    steps:
      - name: Harden Runner
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@e14015d583714f6e62063499dc959a02595150a1 # v2.21.1
+        uses: step-security/harden-runner@b09bb98e06d4d774595224525879c09bc6e98c40 # v2.20.1
        with:
          egress-policy: audit

@@ -95,13 +95,13 @@ jobs:
              issue_number: issue_number,
              owner: context.repo.owner,
              repo: context.repo.repo,
-              body: '## 🔴 Amalgamation check failed! 🔴\nThe source code has not been amalgamated and/or formatted correctly, or `BUILD.bazel` is out of date.'
+              body: '## 🔴 Amalgamation check failed! 🔴\nThe source code has not been amalgamated and/or formatted correctly.'
                    + (hasPatch ? '\n\n📎 A ready-to-apply patch is attached to the [failed workflow run](' + runUrl + ') as the `amalgamation-patch` artifact.'
                                  + ' Download it, then apply it locally from the repository root with:'
                                  + '\n\n```shell\ngit apply amalgamation.patch\n```\n\n'
                                  + 'This does not require installing astyle yourself.'
                                : '')
                    + (first ? '\n\n@' + author + ' Please read and follow the [Contribution Guidelines]'
-                               + '(https://github.com/nlohmann/json/blob/develop/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#amalgamate-the-source-code).'
+                               + '(https://github.com/nlohmann/json/blob/develop/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#files-to-change).'
                             : '')
              })
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Harden Runner
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@e14015d583714f6e62063499dc959a02595150a1 # v2.21.1
+        uses: step-security/harden-runner@b09bb98e06d4d774595224525879c09bc6e98c40 # v2.20.1
        with:
          egress-policy: audit

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ jobs:
      security-events: write
    steps:
      - name: Harden Runner
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@e14015d583714f6e62063499dc959a02595150a1 # v2.21.1
+        uses: step-security/harden-runner@b09bb98e06d4d774595224525879c09bc6e98c40 # v2.20.1
        with:
          egress-policy: audit

@@ -43,6 +43,6 @@ jobs:
          output: 'flawfinder_results.sarif'

      - name: Upload analysis results to GitHub Security tab
-        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@b96794f015dfd88f77b49b1c93e0fa7110f94c63 # v4.38.0
+        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@5595ccaf912efad79be6eef63a5619ff05969be3 # v4.37.6
        with:
          sarif_file: ${{github.workspace}}/flawfinder_results.sarif
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ jobs:

    steps:
      - name: Harden Runner
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@e14015d583714f6e62063499dc959a02595150a1 # v2.21.1
+        uses: step-security/harden-runner@b09bb98e06d4d774595224525879c09bc6e98c40 # v2.20.1
        with:
          egress-policy: audit

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ on:
      - develop
    paths:
      - docs/mkdocs/**
+      - docs/examples/**
  workflow_dispatch:

 # we don't want to have concurrent jobs, and we don't want to cancel running jobs to avoid broken publications
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    steps:
      - name: Harden Runner
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@e14015d583714f6e62063499dc959a02595150a1 # v2.21.1
+        uses: step-security/harden-runner@b09bb98e06d4d774595224525879c09bc6e98c40 # v2.20.1
        with:
          egress-policy: audit

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ jobs:

    steps:
      - name: Harden Runner
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@e14015d583714f6e62063499dc959a02595150a1 # v2.21.1
+        uses: step-security/harden-runner@b09bb98e06d4d774595224525879c09bc6e98c40 # v2.20.1
        with:
          egress-policy: audit

@@ -76,6 +76,6 @@ jobs:

      # Upload the results to GitHub's code scanning dashboard.
      - name: "Upload to code-scanning"
-        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@b96794f015dfd88f77b49b1c93e0fa7110f94c63 # v4.38.0
+        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@5595ccaf912efad79be6eef63a5619ff05969be3 # v4.37.6
        with:
          sarif_file: results.sarif
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Harden Runner
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@e14015d583714f6e62063499dc959a02595150a1 # v2.21.1
+        uses: step-security/harden-runner@b09bb98e06d4d774595224525879c09bc6e98c40 # v2.20.1
        with:
          egress-policy: audit

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ jobs:

      # Upload SARIF file generated in previous step
      - name: Upload SARIF file
-        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@b96794f015dfd88f77b49b1c93e0fa7110f94c63 # v4.38.0
+        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@5595ccaf912efad79be6eef63a5619ff05969be3 # v4.37.6
        with:
          sarif_file: semgrep.sarif
        if: always()
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ jobs:

    steps:
      - name: Harden Runner
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@e14015d583714f6e62063499dc959a02595150a1 # v2.21.1
+        uses: step-security/harden-runner@b09bb98e06d4d774595224525879c09bc6e98c40 # v2.20.1
        with:
          egress-policy: audit

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Harden Runner
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@e14015d583714f6e62063499dc959a02595150a1 # v2.21.1
+        uses: step-security/harden-runner@b09bb98e06d4d774595224525879c09bc6e98c40 # v2.20.1
        with:
          egress-policy: audit

@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ jobs:
        target: [ci_test_amalgamation, ci_test_single_header, ci_cppcheck, ci_cpplint, ci_reproducible_tests, ci_non_git_tests, ci_offline_testdata, ci_reuse_compliance, ci_test_valgrind]
    steps:
      - name: Harden Runner
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@e14015d583714f6e62063499dc959a02595150a1 # v2.21.1
+        uses: step-security/harden-runner@b09bb98e06d4d774595224525879c09bc6e98c40 # v2.20.1
        with:
          egress-policy: audit

@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ jobs:
    container: ubuntu:focal
    strategy:
      matrix:
-        target: [ci_cmake_flags, ci_test_diagnostics, ci_test_diagnostic_positions, ci_test_noexceptions, ci_test_noimplicitconversions, ci_test_legacycomparison, ci_test_noglobaludls, ci_test_disableenumserialization, ci_test_skiplibraryversioncheck, ci_test_simdutf, ci_test_strict_nul_handling, ci_test_no_thread_local]
+        target: [ci_cmake_flags, ci_test_diagnostics, ci_test_diagnostic_positions, ci_test_noexceptions, ci_test_noimplicitconversions, ci_test_legacycomparison, ci_test_noglobaludls]
    steps:
      - name: Install build-essential
        run: apt-get update ; apt-get install -y build-essential unzip wget git libssl-dev
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Harden Runner
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@e14015d583714f6e62063499dc959a02595150a1 # v2.21.1
+        uses: step-security/harden-runner@b09bb98e06d4d774595224525879c09bc6e98c40 # v2.20.1
        with:
          egress-policy: audit

@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Harden Runner
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@e14015d583714f6e62063499dc959a02595150a1 # v2.21.1
+        uses: step-security/harden-runner@b09bb98e06d4d774595224525879c09bc6e98c40 # v2.20.1
        with:
          egress-policy: audit

@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ jobs:
        target: [ci_test_examples, ci_test_build_documentation]
    steps:
      - name: Harden Runner
-        uses: step-security/harden-runner@e14015d583714f6e62063499dc959a02595150a1 # v2.21.1
+        uses: step-security/harden-runner@b09bb98e06d4d774595224525879c09bc6e98c40 # v2.20.1
        with:
          egress-policy: audit

@@ -124,11 +124,11 @@ jobs:
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
      - name: Run CMake (Release)
-        run: cmake -S . -B build -G "Visual Studio 18 2026" -A ARM64 -DJSON_BuildTests=On -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="/W4 /WX"
+        run: cmake -S . -B build -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -A ARM64 -DJSON_BuildTests=On -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="/W4 /WX"
        if: matrix.build_type == 'Release'
        shell: pwsh
      - name: Run CMake (Debug)
-        run: cmake -S . -B build -G "Visual Studio 18 2026" -A ARM64 -DJSON_BuildTests=On -DJSON_FastTests=ON -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="/W4 /WX"
+        run: cmake -S . -B build -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -A ARM64 -DJSON_BuildTests=On -DJSON_FastTests=ON -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="/W4 /WX"
        if: matrix.build_type == 'Debug'
        shell: pwsh
      - name: Build
@@ -158,10 +158,6 @@ jobs:
      # to fit: IMAGE_REL_AMD64_SECREL against `.debug_line'" because the
      # MinGW linker cannot relocate the debug sections this test produces.
      # The tests are only built and run here, so the debug info is not used.
-      # Do not add -O1 here to shrink the objects further: it does make them
-      # link, but the binaries clang 11.0.1 and clang 18.1.8 then produce crash
-      # before doctest prints its first line - 39 of 102 tests on clang 18.
-      # Keep the objects small by splitting the test files instead.
      - name: Run CMake
        run: cmake -S . -B build ^
             -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER="C:/Program Files/LLVM/bin/clang++.exe" ^
@@ -30,10 +30,8 @@ cc_library(
        "include/nlohmann/detail/input/input_adapters.hpp",
        "include/nlohmann/detail/input/json_sax.hpp",
        "include/nlohmann/detail/input/lexer.hpp",
-        "include/nlohmann/detail/input/number_parse.hpp",
        "include/nlohmann/detail/input/parser.hpp",
        "include/nlohmann/detail/input/position_t.hpp",
-        "include/nlohmann/detail/input/string_scan.hpp",
        "include/nlohmann/detail/iterators/internal_iterator.hpp",
        "include/nlohmann/detail/iterators/iter_impl.hpp",
        "include/nlohmann/detail/iterators/iteration_proxy.hpp",
@@ -51,14 +49,12 @@ cc_library(
        "include/nlohmann/detail/meta/detected.hpp",
        "include/nlohmann/detail/meta/identity_tag.hpp",
        "include/nlohmann/detail/meta/is_sax.hpp",
-        "include/nlohmann/detail/meta/logic.hpp",
        "include/nlohmann/detail/meta/std_fs.hpp",
        "include/nlohmann/detail/meta/type_traits.hpp",
        "include/nlohmann/detail/meta/void_t.hpp",
        "include/nlohmann/detail/output/binary_writer.hpp",
        "include/nlohmann/detail/output/output_adapters.hpp",
        "include/nlohmann/detail/output/serializer.hpp",
-        "include/nlohmann/detail/recursion_depth_limit.hpp",
        "include/nlohmann/detail/string_concat.hpp",
        "include/nlohmann/detail/string_escape.hpp",
        "include/nlohmann/detail/string_utils.hpp",
@@ -71,6 +67,7 @@ cc_library(
    ],
    includes = ["include"],
    visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
+    alwayslink = True,
 )

 cc_library(
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ option(JSON_LegacyDiscardedValueComparison "Enable legacy discarded value compar
 option(JSON_Install                        "Install CMake targets during install step." ${MAIN_PROJECT})
 option(JSON_MultipleHeaders                "Use non-amalgamated version of the library." ON)
 option(JSON_SystemInclude                  "Include as system headers (skip for clang-tidy)." OFF)
-option(JSON_StrictNulHandling              "Build with strict NUL-byte handling enabled." OFF)

 if (JSON_CI)
    include(ci)
@@ -109,10 +108,6 @@ if (JSON_Diagnostics)
    message(STATUS "Diagnostics enabled (JSON_DIAGNOSTICS=1)")
 endif()

-if (JSON_StrictNulHandling)
-    message(STATUS "Strict NUL-byte handling enabled (JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING=1)")
-endif()
-
 if (JSON_Diagnostic_Positions)
    message(STATUS "Diagnostic positions enabled (JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS=1)")
 endif()
@@ -146,7 +141,6 @@ target_compile_definitions(
    $<$<BOOL:${JSON_Diagnostics}>:JSON_DIAGNOSTICS=1>
    $<$<BOOL:${JSON_Diagnostic_Positions}>:JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS=1>
    $<$<BOOL:${JSON_LegacyDiscardedValueComparison}>:JSON_USE_LEGACY_DISCARDED_VALUE_COMPARISON=1>
-    $<$<BOOL:${JSON_StrictNulHandling}>:JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING=1>
 )

 target_include_directories(
@@ -250,16 +250,12 @@ Further documentation:

 ### `BUILD.bazel`

-The build definition for [Bazel](https://bazel.build). The file is generated by
-`cmake/scripts/gen_bazel_build_file.cmake`, which derives the header list from the files in `include`; change the
-script rather than editing the file by hand. The file can be updated by calling
+The file can be updated by calling

 ```shell
 make BUILD.bazel
 ```

-The "Check amalgamation" workflow fails if the file is out of date.
-
 ### `meson.build`

 The build definition for the [Meson](https://mesonbuild.com) build system.
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.PHONY: pretty clean ChangeLog.md release update_hedley update_hedley_undef BUILD.bazel
+.PHONY: pretty clean ChangeLog.md release

 ##########################################################################
 # configuration
@@ -30,21 +30,17 @@ AMALGAMATED_FWD_FILE=single_include/nlohmann/json_fwd.hpp
 # main target
 all:
 	@echo "amalgamate - amalgamate files single_include/nlohmann/json{,_fwd}.hpp from the include/nlohmann sources"
-	@echo "BUILD.bazel - regenerate the Bazel BUILD file from the include/nlohmann sources"
 	@echo "ChangeLog.md - generate ChangeLog file"
-	@echo "check-amalgamation - check whether sources have been amalgamated and BUILD.bazel is up to date"
+	@echo "check-amalgamation - check whether sources have been amalgamated"
 	@echo "clean - remove built files"
 	@echo "doctest - compile example files and check their output"
 	@echo "fuzz_testing - prepare fuzz testing of the JSON parser"
-	@echo "fuzz_testing_bon8 - prepare fuzz testing of the BON8 parser"
 	@echo "fuzz_testing_bson - prepare fuzz testing of the BSON parser"
 	@echo "fuzz_testing_cbor - prepare fuzz testing of the CBOR parser"
 	@echo "fuzz_testing_msgpack - prepare fuzz testing of the MessagePack parser"
 	@echo "fuzz_testing_ubjson - prepare fuzz testing of the UBJSON parser"
 	@echo "pretty - beautify code with Artistic Style"
 	@echo "run_benchmarks - build and run benchmarks"
-	@echo "update_hedley - download Hedley and regenerate hedley.hpp / hedley_undef.hpp"
-	@echo "update_hedley_undef - rebuild hedley_undef.hpp from the JSON_HEDLEY_* #define names in hedley.hpp"


 ##########################################################################
@@ -72,14 +68,6 @@ fuzz_testing:
 	find tests/data/json_tests -size -5k -name *json | xargs -I{} cp "{}" fuzz-testing/testcases
 	@echo "Execute: afl-fuzz -i fuzz-testing/testcases -o fuzz-testing/out fuzz-testing/fuzzer"

-fuzz_testing_bon8:
-	rm -fr fuzz-testing
-	mkdir -p fuzz-testing fuzz-testing/testcases fuzz-testing/out
-	$(MAKE) parse_bon8_fuzzer -C tests CXX=afl-clang++
-	mv tests/parse_bon8_fuzzer fuzz-testing/fuzzer
-	find tests/data -size -5k -name *.bon8 | xargs -I{} cp "{}" fuzz-testing/testcases
-	@echo "Execute: afl-fuzz -i fuzz-testing/testcases -o fuzz-testing/out fuzz-testing/fuzzer"
-
 fuzz_testing_bson:
 	rm -fr fuzz-testing
 	mkdir -p fuzz-testing fuzz-testing/testcases fuzz-testing/out
@@ -182,13 +170,8 @@ check-amalgamation:
 	@diff $(AMALGAMATED_FWD_FILE) $(AMALGAMATED_FWD_FILE)~ || (echo "===================================================================\n  Amalgamation required! Please read the contribution guidelines\n  in file .github/CONTRIBUTING.md.\n===================================================================" ; mv $(AMALGAMATED_FWD_FILE)~ $(AMALGAMATED_FWD_FILE) ; false)
 	@mv $(AMALGAMATED_FILE)~ $(AMALGAMATED_FILE)
 	@mv $(AMALGAMATED_FWD_FILE)~ $(AMALGAMATED_FWD_FILE)
-	@mv BUILD.bazel BUILD.bazel~
-	@$(MAKE) BUILD.bazel
-	@diff BUILD.bazel BUILD.bazel~ || (echo "===================================================================\n  BUILD.bazel is out of date! Please run 'make BUILD.bazel'.\n===================================================================" ; mv BUILD.bazel~ BUILD.bazel ; false)
-	@mv BUILD.bazel~ BUILD.bazel

-# generate the Bazel BUILD file; phony, because a removed header would not trigger a rebuild
-BUILD.bazel:
+BUILD.bazel: $(SRCS)
 	cmake -P cmake/scripts/gen_bazel_build_file.cmake

 ##########################################################################
@@ -258,24 +241,11 @@ update_hedley:
 	rm -f include/nlohmann/thirdparty/hedley/hedley.hpp include/nlohmann/thirdparty/hedley/hedley_undef.hpp
 	curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nemequ/hedley/master/hedley.h -o include/nlohmann/thirdparty/hedley/hedley.hpp
 	$(SED) -i 's/HEDLEY_/JSON_HEDLEY_/g' include/nlohmann/thirdparty/hedley/hedley.hpp
+	grep "[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*undef" include/nlohmann/thirdparty/hedley/hedley.hpp | grep -v "__" | sort | uniq | $(SED) 's/ //g' | $(SED) 's/undef/undef /g' > include/nlohmann/thirdparty/hedley/hedley_undef.hpp
 	$(SED) -i '1s/^/#pragma once\n\n/' include/nlohmann/thirdparty/hedley/hedley.hpp
-	$(MAKE) update_hedley_undef
+	$(SED) -i '1s/^/#pragma once\n\n/' include/nlohmann/thirdparty/hedley/hedley_undef.hpp
 	$(MAKE) amalgamate

-# Rebuild hedley_undef.hpp from every JSON_HEDLEY_* name that hedley.hpp
-# #defines. Hedley does not #undef all of its public macros internally (see
-# #5408), so grepping those #undef lines misses names such as
-# JSON_HEDLEY_PRAGMA. cmake/scripts/gen_hedley_undef_check.cmake is the
-# single source of truth for this extraction (tests/CMakeLists.txt uses the
-# same script, in MODE=checks, to generate the matching leak-check test), so
-# the vendored header, the generated #undef list, and the regression test
-# cannot drift apart.
-update_hedley_undef:
-	cmake -DHEDLEY_HPP=include/nlohmann/thirdparty/hedley/hedley.hpp \
-	      -DOUTPUT=include/nlohmann/thirdparty/hedley/hedley_undef.hpp \
-	      -DMODE=undef \
-	      -P cmake/scripts/gen_hedley_undef_check.cmake
-
 ##########################################################################
 # serve_header.py
 ##########################################################################
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
  - [Implicit conversions](#implicit-conversions)
  - [Conversions to/from arbitrary types](#arbitrary-types-conversions)
  - [Specializing enum conversion](#specializing-enum-conversion)
-  - [Binary formats (BSON, CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON, BJData, and BON8)](#binary-formats-bson-cbor-messagepack-ubjson-bjdata-and-bon8)
+  - [Binary formats (BSON, CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON, and BJData)](#binary-formats-bson-cbor-messagepack-ubjson-and-bjdata)
 - [Customers](#customers)
 - [Ecosystem](#ecosystem)
 - [Supported compilers](#supported-compilers)
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ There is also a [**docset**](https://github.com/Kapeli/Dash-User-Contributions/t
 - **JSON Pointer functions**: [flatten](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/flatten), [unflatten](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/unflatten)
 - **JSON Patch functions**: [patch](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/patch), [patch_inplace](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/patch_inplace), [diff](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/diff), [merge_patch](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/merge_patch)
 - **Static functions**: [meta](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/meta), [get_allocator](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/get_allocator)
- **Binary formats**: [from_bjdata](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_bjdata), [from_bon8](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_bon8), [from_bson](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_bson), [from_cbor](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_cbor), [from_msgpack](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_msgpack), [from_ubjson](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_ubjson), [to_bjdata](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_bjdata), [to_bon8](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_bon8), [to_bson](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_bson), [to_cbor](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_cbor), [to_msgpack](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_msgpack), [to_ubjson](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_ubjson)
+- **Binary formats**: [from_bjdata](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_bjdata), [from_bson](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_bson), [from_cbor](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_cbor), [from_msgpack](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_msgpack), [from_ubjson](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/from_ubjson), [to_bjdata](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_bjdata), [to_bson](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_bson), [to_cbor](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_cbor), [to_msgpack](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_msgpack), [to_ubjson](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_ubjson)
 - **Non-member functions**: [operator<<](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/operator_ltlt/), [operator>>](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/operator_gtgt/), [to_string](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/to_string)
 - **Literals**: [operator""_json](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/operator_literal_json)
 - **Helper classes**: [std::hash&lt;basic_json&gt;](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/std_hash), [std::swap&lt;basic_json&gt;](https://json.nlohmann.me/api/basic_json/std_swap)
@@ -1110,9 +1110,9 @@ Other Important points:
 - When using `get<ENUM_TYPE>()`, undefined JSON values will default to the first pair specified in your map. Select this default pair carefully. If you desire an exception in this circumstance use `NLOHMANN_JSON_SERIALIZE_ENUM_STRICT()` which behaves identically except for throwing an exception on unrecognized values.
 - If an enum or JSON value is specified more than once in your map, the first matching occurrence from the top of the map will be returned when converting to or from JSON.

-### Binary formats (BSON, CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON, BJData, and BON8)
+### Binary formats (BSON, CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON, and BJData)

-Though JSON is a ubiquitous data format, it is not a very compact format suitable for data exchange, for instance over a network. Hence, the library supports [BSON](https://bsonspec.org) (Binary JSON), [CBOR](https://cbor.io) (Concise Binary Object Representation), [MessagePack](https://msgpack.org), [UBJSON](https://ubjson.org) (Universal Binary JSON Specification), [BJData](https://neurojson.org/bjdata) (Binary JData), and [BON8](https://github.com/hikoworks/hikogui/blob/main/docs/BON8.md) (Binary Object Notation 8) to efficiently encode JSON values to byte vectors and to decode such vectors.
+Though JSON is a ubiquitous data format, it is not a very compact format suitable for data exchange, for instance over a network. Hence, the library supports [BSON](https://bsonspec.org) (Binary JSON), [CBOR](https://cbor.io) (Concise Binary Object Representation), [MessagePack](https://msgpack.org), [UBJSON](https://ubjson.org) (Universal Binary JSON Specification) and [BJData](https://neurojson.org/bjdata) (Binary JData) to efficiently encode JSON values to byte vectors and to decode such vectors.

 ```cpp
 // create a JSON value
@@ -1149,14 +1149,6 @@ std::vector<std::uint8_t> v_ubjson = json::to_ubjson(j);

 // roundtrip
 json j_from_ubjson = json::from_ubjson(v_ubjson);
-
-// serialize to BON8
-std::vector<std::uint8_t> v_bon8 = json::to_bon8(j);
-
-// 0x88, 0x63, 0x6F, 0x6D, 0x70, 0x61, 0x63, 0x74, 0xF9, 0x73, 0x63, 0x68, 0x65, 0x6D, 0x61, 0x90
-
-// roundtrip
-json j_from_bon8 = json::from_bon8(v_bon8);
 ```

 The library also supports binary types from BSON, CBOR (byte strings), and MessagePack (bin, ext, fixext). They are stored by default as `std::vector<std::uint8_t>` to be processed outside the library.
@@ -1429,7 +1421,7 @@ I deeply appreciate the help of the following people.
 6. [Joshua C. Randall](https://github.com/jrandall) fixed a bug in the floating-point serialization.
 7. [Aaron Burghardt](https://github.com/aburgh) implemented code to parse streams incrementally. Furthermore, he greatly improved the parser class by allowing the definition of a filter function to discard undesired elements while parsing.
 8. [Daniel Kopeček](https://github.com/dkopecek) fixed a bug in the compilation with GCC 5.0.
-9. [Fiona Johanna Weber](https://github.com/Fiona-J-W) fixed a bug in and improved the performance of the comparison operators.
+9. [Florian Weber](https://github.com/Florianjw) fixed a bug in and improved the performance of the comparison operators.
 10. [Eric Cornelius](https://github.com/EricMCornelius) pointed out a bug in the handling with NaN and infinity values. He also improved the performance of the string escaping.
 11. [易思龙](https://github.com/likebeta) implemented a conversion from anonymous enums.
 12. [kepkin](https://github.com/kepkin) patiently pushed forward the support for Microsoft Visual Studio.
@@ -1531,14 +1523,14 @@ I deeply appreciate the help of the following people.
 108. [Kevin Tonon](https://github.com/ktonon) overworked the C++11 compiler checks in CMake.
 109. [Axel Huebl](https://github.com/ax3l) simplified a CMake check and added support for the [Spack package manager](https://spack.io).
 110. [Carlos O'Ryan](https://github.com/coryan) fixed a typo.
-111. [James Upjohn](https://github.com/jupjohn) fixed a version number in the compilers section.
+111. [James Upjohn](https://github.com/jammehcow) fixed a version number in the compilers section.
 112. [Chuck Atkins](https://github.com/chuckatkins) adjusted the CMake files to the CMake packaging guidelines and provided documentation for the CMake integration.
 113. [Jan Schöppach](https://github.com/dns13) fixed a typo.
 114. [martin-mfg](https://github.com/martin-mfg) fixed a typo.
 115. [Matthias Möller](https://github.com/TinyTinni) removed the dependency from `std::stringstream`.
 116. [agrianius](https://github.com/agrianius) added code to use alternative string implementations.
 117. [Daniel599](https://github.com/Daniel599) allowed to use more algorithms with the `items()` function.
-118. [Julius Rakow](https://github.com/juliusrakow) fixed the Meson include directory and fixed the links to [cppreference.com](https://cppreference.com).
+118. [Julius Rakow](https://github.com/jrakow) fixed the Meson include directory and fixed the links to [cppreference.com](https://cppreference.com).
 119. [Sonu Lohani](https://github.com/sonulohani) fixed the compilation with MSVC 2015 in debug mode.
 120. [grembo](https://github.com/grembo) fixed the test suite and re-enabled several test cases.
 121. [Hyeon Kim](https://github.com/simnalamburt) introduced the macro `JSON_INTERNAL_CATCH` to control the exception handling inside the library.
@@ -1589,7 +1581,7 @@ I deeply appreciate the help of the following people.
 166. [Mark Beckwith](https://github.com/wythe) fixed a typo.
 167. [yann-morin-1998](https://github.com/yann-morin-1998) helped to reduce the CMake requirement to version 3.1.
 168. [Konstantin Podsvirov](https://github.com/podsvirov) maintains a package for the MSYS2 software distro.
-169. [remyabel](https://github.com/remyabel2) added GNUInstallDirs to the CMake files.
+169. [remyabel](https://github.com/remyabel) added GNUInstallDirs to the CMake files.
 170. [Taylor Howard](https://github.com/taylorhoward92) fixed a unit test.
 171. [Gabe Ron](https://github.com/Macr0Nerd) implemented the `to_string` method.
 172. [Watal M. Iwasaki](https://github.com/heavywatal) fixed a Clang warning.
@@ -1616,7 +1608,7 @@ I deeply appreciate the help of the following people.
 193. [Hubert Chathi](https://github.com/uhoreg) made CMake's version config file architecture-independent.
 194. [OmnipotentEntity](https://github.com/OmnipotentEntity) implemented the binary values for CBOR, MessagePack, BSON, and UBJSON.
 195. [ArtemSarmini](https://github.com/ArtemSarmini) fixed a compilation issue with GCC 10 and fixed a leak.
-196. [Evgenii Sopov](https://github.com/sea5kg) integrated the library to the wsjcpp package manager.
+196. [Evgenii Sopov](https://github.com/sea-kg) integrated the library to the wsjcpp package manager.
 197. [Sergey Linev](https://github.com/linev) fixed a compiler warning.
 198. [Miguel Magalhães](https://github.com/magamig) fixed the year in the copyright.
 199. [Gareth Sylvester-Bradley](https://github.com/garethsb-sony) fixed a compilation issue with MSVC.
@@ -1710,7 +1702,7 @@ I deeply appreciate the help of the following people.
 287. [NN](https://github.com/NN---) added the Visual Studio output directory to `.gitignore`.
 288. [Romain Reignier](https://github.com/romainreignier) improved the performance of the vector output adapter.
 289. [Mike](https://github.com/Mike-Leo-Smith) fixed the `std::iterator_traits`.
-290. [Richard Hozák](https://github.com/richardhozak) added macro `JSON_NO_ENUM` to disable default enum conversions.
+290. [Richard Hozák](https://github.com/zxey) added macro `JSON_NO_ENUM` to disable default enum conversions.
 291. [vakokako](https://github.com/vakokako) fixed tests when compiling with C++20.
 292. [Alexander “weej” Jones](https://github.com/alexweej) fixed an example in the README.
 293. [Eli Schwartz](https://github.com/eli-schwartz) added more files to the `include.zip` archive.
@@ -1735,7 +1727,7 @@ I deeply appreciate the help of the following people.
 312. [Gareth Sylvester-Bradley](https://github.com/garethsb) added `operator/=` and `operator/` to construct JSON pointers.
 313. [Michael Macnair](https://github.com/mykter) added support for afl-fuzz testing.
 314. [Berkus Decker](https://github.com/berkus) fixed a typo in the README.
-315. [Illia Polishchuk](https://github.com/ilqvya) improved the CMake testing.
+315. [Illia Polishchuk](https://github.com/effolkronium) improved the CMake testing.
 316. [Ikko Ashimine](https://github.com/eltociear) fixed a typo.
 317. [Raphael Grimm](https://github.com/barcode) added the possibility to define a custom base class.
 318. [tocic](https://github.com/tocic) fixed typos in the documentation.
@@ -1805,66 +1797,6 @@ I deeply appreciate the help of the following people.
 382. [bitFiedler](https://github.com/bitFiedler) made GDB pretty printer work with Python 3.8.
 383. [Gianfranco Costamagna](https://github.com/LocutusOfBorg) fixed a compiler warning.
 384. [risa2000](https://github.com/risa2000) made `std::filesystem::path` conversion to/from UTF-8 encoded string explicit.
-385. [AM](https://github.com/maqnouch) fixed typos in the README.
-386. [dmenendez-gruposantander](https://github.com/dmenendez-gruposantander) fixed typos in the comments of the examples.
-387. [Mihai Stan](https://github.com/mstan-xx) fixed comparisons against the literal `0`.
-388. [Matt Gumbel](https://github.com/intelmatt) fixed some `-Weffc++` warnings.
-389. [vimpunk](https://github.com/vimpunk) moved a lambda out of an unevaluated context to support older compilers.
-390. [Chris Harris](https://github.com/cjh1) fixed the compilation with GCC 4.8.
-391. [Palmer Dabbelt](https://github.com/palmer-dabbelt) generated and installed a pkg-config file.
-392. [Gus Pozuelo](https://github.com/ap-viavi) made `ordered_map` compatible with GCC 5.5, Clang 3.6, and Xcode 9.
-393. [AK](https://github.com/Lioncky) fixed an MSVC build error caused by the `min`/`max` macros from `windows.h`.
-394. [Sergiu Deitsch](https://github.com/sergiud) provided a fallback for missing `char8_t` support.
-395. [Xiaochuan Ye](https://github.com/XueSongTap) fixed `from_msgpack` for `std::byte` input by specializing `std::char_traits`.
-396. [Ville Vesilehto](https://github.com/thevilledev) fixed an overflow in the BJData size calculation and rejected overflowing negative integers in CBOR.
-397. [NmPassTHFan](https://github.com/nmpassthf) replaced the deprecated `std::is_trivial` for C++26.
-398. [Chris Ever](https://github.com/chirsz-ever) added the `ignore_trailing_commas` parser option.
-399. [Kuan-Fu Wu](https://github.com/kfwu1999) fixed the example code for `json_pointer` initialization.
-400. [David Kilzer](https://github.com/ddkilzer) added a missing header to the input adapters.
-401. [Miko](https://github.com/mikomikotaishi) added proper C++20 module support, simplified the module API, and fixed missing exports.
-402. [hitgirl](https://github.com/hitgil) fixed the CMake configuration when cross-compiling.
-403. [Devon Thomas](https://github.com/ThomaDevOSU) mentioned the Artistic Style formatting in the contribution guidelines.
-404. [Erik Hu](https://github.com/Erikhu1) made Coveralls upload errors non-fatal in the CI.
-405. [co63oc](https://github.com/co63oc) fixed typos.
-406. [DmitriBogdanov](https://github.com/DmitriBogdanov) fixed broken package manager links in the documentation.
-407. [Bander](https://github.com/banderzhm) improved the MSVC compatibility of the C++ modules.
-408. [Andy Choi](https://github.com/ccpong) removed an unnecessary `template` keyword before `get` in the README and the documentation.
-409. [SamareshSingh](https://github.com/ssam18) fixed single-element brace initialization to copy/move instead of wrapping in an array, fixed the `WITH_DEFAULT` macros for `ordered_map`, and handled moved events in `serve_header.py`.
-410. [Aditya](https://github.com/Lumowhisp) improved the documentation of the documentation generation.
-411. [cheese1](https://github.com/cheese1) clarified the README.
-412. [KhloodElhossiny](https://github.com/khloodelhossiny) enabled `std::string_view` keys in `operator[]`.
-413. [Charles Cabergs](https://github.com/cacharle) fixed a `-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare` warning.
-414. [EALePain](https://github.com/EALePain) made the `std::tuple` conversion work with reference types such as `std::tie`.
-415. [koala_oishi](https://github.com/chibi-dogs) fixed grammatical wording in the README.
-416. [riccardoori11](https://github.com/riccardoori11) fixed a typo in the documentation.
-417. [Swastik Bose](https://github.com/VasuBhakt) fixed the parent pointers after `update()` with `JSON_DIAGNOSTICS` and fixed the Doxygen autolinking of requirements.
-418. [trdesilva](https://github.com/trdesilva) added `front`, `pop_front`, and `push_front` to `json_pointer`.
-419. [Akhilesh Arora](https://github.com/akhilesharora) fixed an incomplete-type error with `ordered_json`.
-420. [Hariom Phulre](https://github.com/hariomphulre) fixed the C++20 modules compilation with GCC.
-421. [Kirill Lokotkov](https://github.com/RUSLoker) fixed printing `long double` values.
-422. [George Sedov](https://github.com/radistmorse) added the `NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_*_WITH_NAMES` macros.
-423. [Caillin Nugent](https://github.com/nugentcaillin) added the `NLOHMANN_JSON_SERIALIZE_ENUM_STRICT` macro.
-424. [Cosmin D.](https://github.com/drcosmin) fixed `std::filesystem::path` conversions and added an MSVC workaround for `std::unique_ptr`.
-425. [Paul Dreik](https://github.com/pauldreik) fixed a test relying on implementation-specific behavior.
-426. [Daniel Falk](https://github.com/daniel-falk) added missing copyright notices to the SBOM.
-427. [Federico Sfriso](https://github.com/federicosfriso05-dotcom) added support for constructing JSON values from C++20 range views.
-428. [Luke Banicevic](https://github.com/banaboi) fixed corrupt BSON output for lengths exceeding `INT32_MAX`, cleaned up the BSON writer, and improved the documentation.
-429. [Patrick Armstrong](https://github.com/Patrick10199) updated the CBOR references and the half-precision float assertions.
-430. [Yash Bavadiya](https://github.com/xevrion) added checks to all BSON reads.
-431. [hum4nBeing](https://github.com/hum4nBeing) fixed the overflow handling of high-precision numbers in UBJSON.
-432. [tomatotomata](https://github.com/tomatotomata) added checks for reading CBOR tagged subtypes.
-433. [YingqiDuan](https://github.com/YingqiDuan) documented the BSON interoperability.
-434. [KBS](https://github.com/youdie006) documented the standards compliance and the strictness of `parse()` and `operator>>`.
-435. [Petr Bělohlávek](https://github.com/petrbel) added Clang 21 and 22 to the CI.
-436. [Dmitry Rantovov](https://github.com/darkdi) fixed the placement of a CBOR documentation block.
-437. [ljcjclljc](https://github.com/ljcjclljc) fixed the comparison of large unsigned integers with signed integers.
-438. [Sahil Kamate](https://github.com/sahilkamate03) fixed the handling of CBOR tags 0-5 and 21-23.
-439. [Krishnanand G](https://github.com/Krishnanand-G) made the UBJSON writer reject `use_type` without `use_size`.
-440. [whn](https://github.com/Whning0513) documented the lenient BSON input handling and corrected the complexity of `to_bson`.
-441. [elix3r](https://github.com/22elix3r) fixed `update()` with `merge_objects` when merging a primitive into an object.
-442. [Avionic Harshit](https://github.com/avionicharshit-byte) made `diff()` linear when an array shrinks.
-443. [Qatadaha Bin Matloob](https://github.com/qatcod) fixed comparisons between integers and floats and fixed unparsable BJData output.
-444. [Wu Shuwen](https://github.com/dajiaohuang) removed an unused include.

 Thanks a lot for helping out! Please [let me know](mailto:mail@nlohmann.me) if I forgot someone.

@@ -213,38 +213,18 @@ add_custom_target(ci_test_legacycomparison
 )

 ###############################################################################
-# Validate UTF-8 with simdutf.
+# Enable brace-init copy semantics.
 ###############################################################################

-add_custom_target(ci_test_simdutf
+add_custom_target(ci_test_brace_init_copy_semantics
    COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND}
    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -GNinja
-    -DJSON_BuildTests=ON -DJSON_TestSimdutf=ON
-    # simdutf needs C++17, so the library falls back to its scalar validator
-    # below that: build the suite at C++11 to cover the fallback with the macro
-    # defined, and at C++17 to run every test against simdutf itself
-    "-DJSON_TestStandards=11\;17"
-    -S${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR} -B${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_simdutf
-    COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} --build ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_simdutf
-    COMMAND cd ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_simdutf && ${CMAKE_CTEST_COMMAND} --parallel ${N} --output-on-failure
-    COMMENT "Compile and test with simdutf UTF-8 validation enabled"
-)
-
-###############################################################################
-# Enable strict NUL-byte handling.
-###############################################################################
-
-add_custom_target(ci_test_strict_nul_handling
-    COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND}
-    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -GNinja
-    -DJSON_BuildTests=ON -DJSON_FastTests=ON -DJSON_StrictNulHandling=ON
-    -S${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR} -B${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_strict_nul_handling
-    COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} --build ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_strict_nul_handling
-    # unit-testsuites contains a fixture (a "1e308" test value) that relies on the
-    # legacy NUL-as-end-of-input behavior this macro disables; exclude it here, as
-    # it is expected to fail under strict NUL handling and is out of scope for it
-    COMMAND cd ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_strict_nul_handling && ${CMAKE_CTEST_COMMAND} --parallel ${N} --output-on-failure -E "test-testsuites"
-    COMMENT "Compile and test with strict NUL-byte handling enabled"
+    -DJSON_BuildTests=ON -DJSON_FastTests=ON
+    -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-DJSON_BRACE_INIT_COPY_SEMANTICS=1
+    -S${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR} -B${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_brace_init_copy_semantics
+    COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} --build ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_brace_init_copy_semantics
+    COMMAND cd ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_brace_init_copy_semantics && ${CMAKE_CTEST_COMMAND} --parallel ${N} --output-on-failure
+    COMMENT "Compile and test with brace-init copy semantics enabled"
 )

 ###############################################################################
@@ -262,59 +242,6 @@ add_custom_target(ci_test_noglobaludls
    COMMENT "Compile and test with global UDLs disabled"
 )

-###############################################################################
-# Disable enum serialization.
-###############################################################################
-
-add_custom_target(ci_test_disableenumserialization
-    COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND}
-    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -GNinja
-    -DJSON_BuildTests=ON -DJSON_FastTests=ON -DJSON_DisableEnumSerialization=ON
-    -S${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR} -B${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_disableenumserialization
-    COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} --build ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_disableenumserialization
-    COMMAND cd ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_disableenumserialization && ${CMAKE_CTEST_COMMAND} --parallel ${N} --output-on-failure
-    COMMENT "Compile and test with enum serialization disabled"
-)
-
-###############################################################################
-# Skip the multiple-inclusion library version check.
-###############################################################################
-
-# tests/src/skip_library_version_check.cpp deliberately simulates a scenario
-# (mixing two differently-versioned inclusions of the library in one
-# translation unit) that unavoidably triggers the compiler's own "macro
-# redefined" warning, so -- unlike the ci_test_* targets above -- it is
-# compiled directly here, with a modest warning set, instead of being folded
-# into the library's own -Weverything/-Werror unit test matrix.
-add_custom_target(ci_test_skiplibraryversioncheck
-    COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E make_directory ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/skip_library_version_check
-    COMMAND ${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER} -std=c++11 -Wall -Wextra
-        -I${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/include
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/tests/src/skip_library_version_check.cpp
-        -o ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/skip_library_version_check/skip_library_version_check
-    COMMAND ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/skip_library_version_check/skip_library_version_check
-    COMMENT "Compile and run a translation unit simulating a mismatched library version, with JSON_SKIP_LIBRARY_VERSION_CHECK defined"
-)
-
-###############################################################################
-# Disable thread-local storage.
-###############################################################################
-
-# Without thread-local storage, copying and comparing cannot bound their
-# descent and handle every object and array without the call stack. Those paths
-# are otherwise only reached by values nested deeper than the bound, so this
-# target is what runs the whole test suite through them.
-add_custom_target(ci_test_no_thread_local
-    COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND}
-    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -GNinja
-    -DJSON_BuildTests=ON
-    -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-DJSON_NO_THREAD_LOCAL
-    -S${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR} -B${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_no_thread_local
-    COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} --build ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_no_thread_local
-    COMMAND cd ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_no_thread_local && ${CMAKE_CTEST_COMMAND} --parallel ${N} --output-on-failure
-    COMMENT "Compile and test without thread-local storage"
-)
-
 ###############################################################################
 # Coverage.
 ###############################################################################
@@ -367,7 +294,7 @@ file(GLOB_RECURSE INDENT_FILES
        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/tests/src/*.cpp
        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/tests/src/*.hpp
        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/tests/benchmarks/src/benchmarks.cpp
-    ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/docs/mkdocs/docs/examples/*.cpp
+    ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/docs/examples/*.cpp
 )

 set(include_dir ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/single_include/nlohmann)
@@ -542,7 +469,7 @@ add_custom_target(ci_infer

 add_custom_target(ci_offline_testdata
    COMMAND mkdir -p ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_offline_testdata/test_data
-    COMMAND cd ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_offline_testdata/test_data && ${GIT_TOOL} clone -c advice.detachedHead=false --branch v3.2.0 https://github.com/nlohmann/json_test_data.git --quiet --depth 1
+    COMMAND cd ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_offline_testdata/test_data && ${GIT_TOOL} clone -c advice.detachedHead=false --branch v3.1.0 https://github.com/nlohmann/json_test_data.git --quiet --depth 1
    COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND}
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -GNinja
        -DJSON_BuildTests=ON -DJSON_FastTests=ON -DJSON_TestDataDirectory=${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/build_offline_testdata/test_data/json_test_data
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 set(JSON_TEST_DATA_URL     https://github.com/nlohmann/json_test_data)
-set(JSON_TEST_DATA_VERSION 3.2.0)
+set(JSON_TEST_DATA_VERSION 3.1.0)

 include(ExternalProject)

@@ -1,57 +1,24 @@
 # generate Bazel BUILD file
-#
-# usage: cmake -P cmake/scripts/gen_bazel_build_file.cmake (or: make BUILD.bazel)
-#
-# The header list of the "json" target is derived from the files in include/. Everything else is fixed text below,
-# so edit this script rather than BUILD.bazel.

-get_filename_component(PROJECT_ROOT "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/../.." ABSOLUTE)
+set(PROJECT_ROOT "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/../..")
 set(BUILD_FILE "${PROJECT_ROOT}/BUILD.bazel")

-file(GLOB_RECURSE HEADERS LIST_DIRECTORIES false RELATIVE "${PROJECT_ROOT}" "${PROJECT_ROOT}/include/*.hpp")
-list(SORT HEADERS)
-
-set(CONTENT [=[
-load("@rules_cc//cc:cc_library.bzl", "cc_library")
-load("@rules_license//rules:license.bzl", "license")
-
-package(
-    default_applicable_licenses = [":license"],
-)
-
-exports_files([
-    "LICENSE.MIT",
-])
-
-license(
-    name = "license",
-    license_kinds = ["@rules_license//licenses/spdx:MIT"],
-    license_text = "LICENSE.MIT",
-)
+file(GLOB_RECURSE HEADERS LIST_DIRECTORIES false RELATIVE "${PROJECT_ROOT}" "include/*.hpp")

+file(WRITE "${BUILD_FILE}" [=[
 cc_library(
    name = "json",
    hdrs = [
 ]=])

 foreach(header ${HEADERS})
-    string(APPEND CONTENT "        \"${header}\",\n")
+    file(APPEND "${BUILD_FILE}" "        \"${header}\",\n")
 endforeach()

-string(APPEND CONTENT [=[
+file(APPEND "${BUILD_FILE}" [=[
    ],
    includes = ["include"],
    visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
-)
-
-cc_library(
-    name = "singleheader-json",
-    hdrs = [
-        "single_include/nlohmann/json.hpp",
-    ],
-    includes = ["single_include"],
-    visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
+    alwayslink = True,
 )
 ]=])
-
-file(WRITE "${BUILD_FILE}" "${CONTENT}")
@@ -1,112 +0,0 @@
-# Shared extractor for the JSON_HEDLEY_* macro names defined in hedley.hpp.
-#
-# Every macro that hedley.hpp #defines must be #undef-ed again once json.hpp
-# has been fully processed (see include/nlohmann/detail/macro_unscope.hpp
-# and https://github.com/nlohmann/json/issues/5408). Deriving the macro list
-# straight from hedley.hpp here -- instead of hand-maintaining it in two
-# places -- means hedley_undef.hpp and the regression test that checks for
-# leaked macros can never drift apart, even after a future `make
-# update_hedley` pulls in new macros from upstream Hedley.
-#
-#   MODE=undef  (default): write hedley_undef.hpp (SPDX header, #pragma once,
-#               one #undef per macro name) -- used by `make update_hedley_undef`
-#   MODE=checks:            write one #ifdef/FAIL_CHECK/#endif per macro name,
-#               meant to be #include-d inside a TEST_CASE -- used by
-#               tests/CMakeLists.txt to (re)generate the include for
-#               tests/src/unit-no-macro-leak.cpp
-#
-# Required variables:
-#   HEDLEY_HPP  path to include/nlohmann/thirdparty/hedley/hedley.hpp
-#   OUTPUT      path of the file to (over)write
-# Optional:
-#   MODE        "undef" (default) or "checks"
-
-if(NOT DEFINED HEDLEY_HPP OR NOT DEFINED OUTPUT)
-    message(FATAL_ERROR "HEDLEY_HPP and OUTPUT must be set")
-endif()
-
-if(NOT EXISTS "${HEDLEY_HPP}")
-    message(FATAL_ERROR "Hedley header not found: ${HEDLEY_HPP}")
-endif()
-
-if(NOT DEFINED MODE)
-    set(MODE undef)
-endif()
-
-if(NOT MODE STREQUAL "undef" AND NOT MODE STREQUAL "checks")
-    message(FATAL_ERROR "MODE must be undef or checks, got: ${MODE}")
-endif()
-
-# Line-anchored, like `grep -oE "^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*define[[:blank:]]+JSON_HEDLEY_[A-Za-z0-9_]+"`.
-# Unanchored matching would also pick up JSON_HEDLEY_* mentions inside
-# comments or string literals elsewhere in the file, which must not turn
-# into #undef lines.
-file(STRINGS "${HEDLEY_HPP}" hedley_lines)
-set(macro_names)
-foreach(line IN LISTS hedley_lines)
-    if("${line}" MATCHES "^[ \t]*#[ \t]*define[ \t]+(JSON_HEDLEY_[A-Za-z0-9_]+)")
-        list(APPEND macro_names "${CMAKE_MATCH_1}")
-    endif()
-endforeach()
-
-if(NOT macro_names)
-    message(FATAL_ERROR "No JSON_HEDLEY_* macros found in ${HEDLEY_HPP}")
-endif()
-
-list(REMOVE_DUPLICATES macro_names)
-# Lexicographic, locale-independent (ASCII-only names) -- matches `LC_ALL=C sort`.
-list(SORT macro_names COMPARE STRING)
-list(LENGTH macro_names macro_count)
-
-set(generated "")
-if(MODE STREQUAL "undef")
-    # Same banner `make update_hedley_undef` would stamp by hand, so the
-    # recipe is self-contained and its output is byte-stable across reruns.
-    # The embedded SPDX tags below are part of the *generated* file's
-    # content, not a REUSE header for this .cmake script itself (which is
-    # already covered by the blanket "Files: *" rule in .reuse/dep5) -- keep
-    # them wrapped in REUSE-IgnoreStart/End so `reuse lint` does not try to
-    # parse "MIT\n")" as this file's own SPDX-License-Identifier value.
-    # REUSE-IgnoreStart
-    string(APPEND generated "//     __ _____ _____ _____\n")
-    string(APPEND generated "//  __|  |   __|     |   | |  JSON for Modern C++\n")
-    string(APPEND generated "// |  |  |__   |  |  | | | |  version 3.12.0\n")
-    string(APPEND generated "// |_____|_____|_____|_|___|  https://github.com/nlohmann/json\n")
-    string(APPEND generated "//\n")
-    string(APPEND generated "// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013-2026 Niels Lohmann <https://nlohmann.me>\n")
-    string(APPEND generated "// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT\n")
-    # REUSE-IgnoreEnd
-    string(APPEND generated "\n")
-    string(APPEND generated "#pragma once\n")
-    string(APPEND generated "\n")
-    foreach(name IN LISTS macro_names)
-        string(APPEND generated "#undef ${name}\n")
-    endforeach()
-else()
-    string(APPEND generated "// This file is generated by cmake/scripts/gen_hedley_undef_check.cmake\n")
-    string(APPEND generated "// from include/nlohmann/thirdparty/hedley/hedley.hpp. Do not edit it by\n")
-    string(APPEND generated "// hand -- it is regenerated on every build. ${macro_count} macros checked.\n\n")
-    foreach(name IN LISTS macro_names)
-        string(APPEND generated "#ifdef ${name}\n")
-        string(APPEND generated "    FAIL_CHECK(\"${name} leaked after including nlohmann/json.hpp\");\n")
-        string(APPEND generated "#endif\n")
-    endforeach()
-endif()
-
-get_filename_component(output_dir "${OUTPUT}" DIRECTORY)
-if(output_dir)
-    file(MAKE_DIRECTORY "${output_dir}")
-endif()
-
-# Avoid rewriting the file (and busting downstream incremental rebuilds)
-# when the content has not actually changed.
-set(write_output TRUE)
-if(EXISTS "${OUTPUT}")
-    file(READ "${OUTPUT}" existing_content)
-    if(existing_content STREQUAL generated)
-        set(write_output FALSE)
-    endif()
-endif()
-if(write_output)
-    file(WRITE "${OUTPUT}" "${generated}")
-endif()
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::from_bjdata', 'Fu
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::from_bson', 'Function', 'api/basic_json/from_bson/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::from_cbor', 'Function', 'api/basic_json/from_cbor/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::from_msgpack', 'Function', 'api/basic_json/from_msgpack/index.html');
-INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::from_bon8', 'Function', 'api/basic_json/from_bon8/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::from_ubjson', 'Function', 'api/basic_json/from_ubjson/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::front', 'Method', 'api/basic_json/front/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::get', 'Method', 'api/basic_json/get/index.html');
@@ -122,7 +121,6 @@ INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::to_bjdata', 'Func
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::to_bson', 'Function', 'api/basic_json/to_bson/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::to_cbor', 'Function', 'api/basic_json/to_cbor/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::to_msgpack', 'Function', 'api/basic_json/to_msgpack/index.html');
-INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::to_bon8', 'Function', 'api/basic_json/to_bon8/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::to_string', 'Method', 'api/basic_json/to_string/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::to_ubjson', 'Function', 'api/basic_json/to_ubjson/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('basic_json::value', 'Method', 'api/basic_json/value/index.html');
@@ -173,7 +171,6 @@ INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('Binary Formats: BJData', 'Gui
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('Binary Formats: BSON', 'Guide', 'features/binary_formats/bson/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('Binary Formats: CBOR', 'Guide', 'features/binary_formats/cbor/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('Binary Formats: MessagePack', 'Guide', 'features/binary_formats/messagepack/index.html');
-INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('Binary Formats: BON8', 'Guide', 'features/binary_formats/bon8/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('Binary Formats: UBJSON', 'Guide', 'features/binary_formats/ubjson/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('Binary Values', 'Guide', 'features/binary_values/index.html');
 INSERT INTO searchIndex(name, type, path) VALUES ('Comments', 'Guide', 'features/comments/index.html');
@@ -90,10 +90,6 @@ Linear in the length of the input. The parser is a predictive LL(1) parser.

 A UTF-8 byte order mark is silently ignored.

-By default, a `'\0'` (NUL) byte anywhere in the input is treated as end of input, rather than as an ordinary (and,
-outside of a string, invalid) byte; see the [FAQ entry](../../home/faq.md#nul-bytes-in-the-input) for details and the
-[`JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING`](../macros/json_strict_nul_handling.md) macro to opt into rejecting it instead.
-
 ## Examples

 ??? example
@@ -115,8 +111,6 @@ outside of a string, invalid) byte; see the [FAQ entry](../../home/faq.md#nul-by
 - [parse](parse.md) - deserialize from a compatible input
 - [sax_parse](sax_parse.md) - parse input using the SAX interface
 - [operator>>](../operator_gtgt.md) - deserialize from stream
- [`JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING`](../macros/json_strict_nul_handling.md) - opt in to rejecting a NUL byte in the input
-  instead of treating it as end of input

 ## Version history

@@ -126,8 +120,6 @@ outside of a string, invalid) byte; see the [FAQ entry](../../home/faq.md#nul-by
 - Added `ignore_trailing_commas` in version 3.13.0.
 - Extended container support (1) to include types with lvalue-only ADL `begin`/`end` (matching `std::begin`/`std::end` semantics) in version 3.13.0.
 - Extended overload (2) to accept heterogeneous iterator+sentinel pairs (C++20 ranges support) in version 3.13.0.
- `JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING` added in version 3.13.0 to optionally reject a NUL byte in the input instead of treating
-  it as end of input; planned to become the default in version 4.0.0.

 !!! warning "Deprecation"

@@ -14,11 +14,7 @@ To store objects in C++, a type is defined by the template parameters explained
 ## Template parameters

 `ArrayType`
-:   container type to store arrays. It must be a vector-like container: the library uses `operator[]`, `at()`, and
-    `resize()`, and requires random-access iterators. `#!cpp std::vector` and `#!cpp std::deque` qualify;
-    `#!cpp std::list` does not. See
-    [Template Parameter Requirements](../../features/types/template_parameters.md#arraytype) for the full list of
-    requirements.
+:   container type to store arrays (e.g., `std::vector` or `std::list`)

 `AllocatorType`
 :   the allocator to use for objects (e.g., `std::allocator`)
@@ -70,4 +66,3 @@ Arrays are stored as pointers in a `basic_json` type. That is, for any access to
 ## Version history

 - Added in version 1.0.0.
- Made `capacity()` optional, so that array types such as `#!cpp std::deque` can be used, in version 3.13.0.
@@ -42,9 +42,7 @@ represent a byte array in modern C++.
    `value_type` must additionally be exactly one byte wide (e.g., `std::uint8_t`/`char`/`std::byte`): the binary
    serializers (CBOR, MessagePack, BSON, UBJSON) read and write the container's raw bytes via
    `reinterpret_cast`, which is only correct for byte-sized elements -- a container like
-    `#!cpp std::vector<std::intptr_t>` will not work as `BinaryType`. The elements must be stored contiguously, and
-    the binary readers additionally require `resize()` and `operator[]`. See
-    [Template Parameter Requirements](../../features/types/template_parameters.md#binarytype) for the full list.
+    `#!cpp std::vector<std::intptr_t>` will not work as `BinaryType`.

 ## Notes

@@ -52,11 +50,6 @@ represent a byte array in modern C++.

 The default values for `BinaryType` is `#!cpp std::vector<std::uint8_t>`.

-#### Supported byte types
-
-`#!cpp std::vector<std::uint8_t>`, `#!cpp std::vector<char>`, and `#!cpp std::vector<std::byte>` are supported.
-Regardless of which of them is configured, [`dump`](dump.md) writes the bytes as the numbers 0..255.
-
 #### Custom BinaryType behavior

 When a custom `BinaryType` is configured (other than the default `#!cpp std::vector<std::uint8_t>`), you can assign
@@ -133,6 +126,3 @@ type `#!cpp binary_t*` must be dereferenced.
 ## Version history

 - Added in version 3.8.0. Changed the type of subtype to `std::uint64_t` in version 3.10.0.
- Fixed [`dump`](dump.md), [`std::hash`](std_hash.md), and [`to_ubjson`](to_ubjson.md) for byte types that are not
-  integers (e.g., `#!cpp std::byte`) in version 3.13.0. `dump` now writes the bytes of a signed byte type (e.g.,
-  `#!cpp char`) as 0..255 rather than as negative numbers.
@@ -11,14 +11,6 @@ literals `#!json true` and `#!json false`.

 To store boolean values in C++, a type is defined by the template parameter  `BooleanType` which chooses the type to use.

-## Template parameters
-
-`BooleanType`
-:   the type to store booleans. As it is stored directly inside a `basic_json` value (in a union), it must be a
-    trivially default-constructible, trivially copyable, and trivially destructible type that is convertible to and
-    from `#!cpp bool`. See
-    [Template Parameter Requirements](../../features/types/template_parameters.md#booleantype).
-
 ## Notes

 #### Default type
@@ -104,7 +104,6 @@ Linear in the size of the input.
 - [from_msgpack](from_msgpack.md) create a JSON value from an input in MessagePack format
 - [from_bson](from_bson.md) create a JSON value from an input in BSON format
 - [from_ubjson](from_ubjson.md) create a JSON value from an input in UBJSON format
- [from_bon8](from_bon8.md) create a JSON value from an input in BON8 format

 ## Version history

@@ -1,108 +0,0 @@
-# <small>nlohmann::basic_json::</small>from_bon8
-
-```cpp
-// (1)
-template<typename InputType>
-static basic_json from_bon8(InputType&& i,
-                            const bool strict = true,
-                            const bool allow_exceptions = true);
-// (2)
-template<typename IteratorType, typename SentinelType = IteratorType>
-static basic_json from_bon8(IteratorType first, SentinelType last,
-                            const bool strict = true,
-                            const bool allow_exceptions = true);
-```
-
-Deserializes a given input to a JSON value using the BON8 (Binary Object Notation 8) serialization format.
-
-1. Reads from a compatible input.
-2. Reads from an iterator range, or an iterator and a sentinel of a different type (C++20 ranges support).
-
-The exact mapping and its limitations are described on a [dedicated page](../../features/binary_formats/bon8.md).
-
-## Template parameters
-
-`InputType`
-:   A compatible input, for instance:
-
-    - an `std::istream` object
-    - a `FILE` pointer
-    - a C-style array of characters
-    - a pointer to a null-terminated string of single byte characters
-    - a container `obj` for which `begin(obj)` and `end(obj)` produce a valid pair of iterators
-      (as found via ADL or member functions, with semantics compatible to `std::begin` and `std::end`)
-
-`IteratorType`
-:   a compatible iterator type
-
-`SentinelType`
-:   defaults to `IteratorType`; may be a different type comparable to `IteratorType` via `operator!=`, for instance.
-
-    - a custom sentinel type for C++20 ranges
-    - `std::default_sentinel_t`, when `IteratorType` is `std::counted_iterator`
-
-## Parameters
-
-`i` (in)
-:   an input in BON8 format convertible to an input adapter
-
-`first` (in)
-:   iterator to the start of the input
-
-`last` (in)
-:   iterator to the end of the input, or a sentinel value that compares equal to the end iterator with `operator!=`
-
-`strict` (in)
-:   whether to expect the input to be consumed until EOF (`#!cpp true` by default)
-
-`allow_exceptions` (in)
-:   whether to throw exceptions in case of a parse error (optional, `#!cpp true` by default)
-
-## Return value
-
-deserialized JSON value; in case of a parse error and `allow_exceptions` set to `#!cpp false`, the return value will be
-`value_t::discarded`. The latter can be checked with [`is_discarded`](is_discarded.md).
-
-## Exception safety
-
-Strong guarantee: if an exception is thrown, there are no changes in the JSON value.
-
-## Exceptions
-
- Throws [parse_error.110](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionparse_error110) if the given input ends prematurely or
-  the end of the file was not reached when `strict` was set to true
- Throws [parse_error.112](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionparse_error112) if a parse error occurs, for instance
-  an invalid byte, a string that is not valid UTF-8, or an object key that is not a string
-
-## Complexity
-
-Linear in the size of the input.
-
-## Examples
-
-??? example
-
-    The example shows the deserialization of a byte vector in BON8 format to a JSON value.
-     
-    ```cpp
-    --8<-- "examples/from_bon8.cpp"
-    ```
-    
-    Output:
-    
-    ```json
-    --8<-- "examples/from_bon8.output"
-    ```
-
-## See also
-
- [to_bon8](to_bon8.md) create a BON8 serialization of a JSON value
- [from_cbor](from_cbor.md) create a JSON value from an input in CBOR format
- [from_msgpack](from_msgpack.md) create a JSON value from an input in MessagePack format
- [from_bson](from_bson.md) create a JSON value from an input in BSON format
- [from_ubjson](from_ubjson.md) create a JSON value from an input in UBJSON format
- [from_bjdata](from_bjdata.md) create a JSON value from an input in BJData format
-
-## Version history
-
- Added in version 3.13.0.
@@ -104,7 +104,6 @@ Linear in the size of the input.
 - [from_msgpack](from_msgpack.md) for the related MessagePack format
 - [from_ubjson](from_ubjson.md) for the related UBJSON format
 - [from_bjdata](from_bjdata.md) for the related BJData format
- [from_bon8](from_bon8.md) for the related BON8 format

 ## Version history

@@ -110,7 +110,6 @@ Linear in the size of the input.
 - [from_bson](from_bson.md) create a JSON value from an input in BSON format
 - [from_ubjson](from_ubjson.md) create a JSON value from an input in UBJSON format
 - [from_bjdata](from_bjdata.md) create a JSON value from an input in BJData format
- [from_bon8](from_bon8.md) create a JSON value from an input in BON8 format

 ## Version history

@@ -103,7 +103,6 @@ Linear in the size of the input.
 - [from_bson](from_bson.md) create a JSON value from an input in BSON format
 - [from_ubjson](from_ubjson.md) create a JSON value from an input in UBJSON format
 - [from_bjdata](from_bjdata.md) create a JSON value from an input in BJData format
- [from_bon8](from_bon8.md) create a JSON value from an input in BON8 format

 ## Version history

@@ -104,7 +104,6 @@ Linear in the size of the input.
 - [from_msgpack](from_msgpack.md) create a JSON value from an input in MessagePack format
 - [from_bson](from_bson.md) create a JSON value from an input in BSON format
 - [from_bjdata](from_bjdata.md) create a JSON value from an input in BJData format
- [from_bon8](from_bon8.md) create a JSON value from an input in BON8 format

 ## Version history

@@ -21,10 +21,6 @@ This overload is chosen if:
 - `ValueType` is not `basic_json`,
 - `json_serializer<ValueType>` has a `from_json()` method of the form `void from_json(const basic_json&, ValueType&)`

-`v` must not be `const`. Passing a `const` object is a compile-time error. For types such as arithmetic types, enums,
-and C arrays, the error is a `static_assert` that names the problem. For other types, the overload is not viable, and
-the compiler reports that no matching `get_to` was found.
-
 ## Template parameters

 `ValueType`
@@ -71,4 +67,3 @@ Depends on the `json_serializer<ValueType>::from_json()` implementation.
 ## Version history

 - Since version 3.3.0.
- Added a `static_assert` with a clear message for `const` arguments in version 3.13.0.
@@ -35,10 +35,6 @@ class basic_json;
 | `BinaryType`         | type for binary arrays                                                    | [`binary_t`](binary_t.md)                   |
 | `CustomBaseClass`    | extension point for user code                                             | [`json_base_class_t`](json_base_class_t.md) |

-The library imposes a number of requirements on these types that are not expressed as C++ concepts, such as the
-container operations `object_t` and `array_t` must provide, or the fact that `StringType` must be `char`-based. They
-are collected in [Template Parameter Requirements](../../features/types/template_parameters.md).
-
 ## Specializations

 - [**json**](../json.md) - default specialization
@@ -290,13 +286,11 @@ Access to the JSON value
 ### Binary formats

 - [**from_bjdata**](from_bjdata.md) (_static_) - create a JSON value from an input in BJData format
- [**from_bon8**](from_bon8.md) (_static_) - create a JSON value from an input in BON8 format
 - [**from_bson**](from_bson.md) (_static_) - create a JSON value from an input in BSON format
 - [**from_cbor**](from_cbor.md) (_static_) - create a JSON value from an input in CBOR format
 - [**from_msgpack**](from_msgpack.md) (_static_) - create a JSON value from an input in MessagePack format
 - [**from_ubjson**](from_ubjson.md) (_static_) - create a JSON value from an input in UBJSON format
 - [**to_bjdata**](to_bjdata.md) (_static_) - create a BJData serialization of a given JSON value
- [**to_bon8**](to_bon8.md) (_static_) - create a BON8 serialization of a given JSON value
 - [**to_bson**](to_bson.md) (_static_) - create a BSON serialization of a given JSON value
 - [**to_cbor**](to_cbor.md) (_static_) - create a CBOR serialization of a given JSON value
 - [**to_msgpack**](to_msgpack.md) (_static_) - create a MessagePack serialization of a given JSON value
@@ -7,8 +7,7 @@ enum class input_format_t {
    msgpack,
    ubjson,
    bson,
-    bjdata,
-    bon8
+    bjdata
 };
 ```

@@ -32,9 +31,6 @@ bson
 bjdata
 :   BJData (Binary JData)

-bon8
-:   BON8 (Binary Object Notation 8)
-
 ## Examples

 ??? example
@@ -88,8 +88,6 @@ Strong exception safety: if an exception occurs, the original value stays intact
      do not belong to the same JSON value; example: `"iterators do not fit"`
    - Throws [`invalid_iterator.211`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptioninvalid_iterator211) if `first` or `last`
      are iterators into container for which insert is called; example: `"passed iterators may not belong to container"`
-    - Throws [`invalid_iterator.202`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptioninvalid_iterator202) if `first` or `last`
-      do not point to an array; example: `"iterators first and last must point to arrays"`
 4. The function can throw the following exceptions:
    - Throws [`type_error.309`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptiontype_error309) if called on JSON values other than
      arrays; example: `"cannot use insert() with string"`
@@ -21,11 +21,8 @@ The default value for `CustomBaseClass` is `void`. In this case, an

 #### Limitations

-The type `CustomBaseClass` has to be a default-constructible, non-`final` class.
+The type `CustomBaseClass` has to be a default-constructible class.
 `basic_json` only supports copy/move construction/assignment if `CustomBaseClass` does so as well.
-A `CustomBaseClass` with non-static data members forfeits `basic_json`'s
-[standard layout](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/named_req/StandardLayoutType) guarantee. See
-[Template Parameter Requirements](../../features/types/template_parameters.md#custombaseclass).

 ## Examples

@@ -19,12 +19,6 @@ using json_serializer = JSONSerializer<T, SFINAE>;

 The default values for `json_serializer` is [`adl_serializer`](../adl_serializer/index.md).

-#### Requirements
-
-A custom serializer must provide `#!cpp static void to_json(basic_json&, T)` for every type it serializes, and either
-`#!cpp static void from_json(const basic_json&, T&)` or `#!cpp static T from_json(const basic_json&)` for every type it
-deserializes. See [Template Parameter Requirements](../../features/types/template_parameters.md#jsonserializer).
-
 ## Examples

 ??? example
@@ -20,16 +20,6 @@ used.
 To store floating-point numbers in C++, a type is defined by the template parameter `NumberFloatType` which chooses the
 type to use.

-## Template parameters
-
-`NumberFloatType`
-:   the type to store floating-point numbers. Parsing and serialization are implemented in terms of
-    `#!cpp std::strtof`/`#!cpp std::strtod`/`#!cpp std::strtold` and `#!cpp std::snprintf`, so the type must be
-    `#!cpp float`, `#!cpp double`, or `#!cpp long double`. The
-    [binary formats](../../features/binary_formats/index.md) additionally require `#!cpp float` or `#!cpp double`,
-    because they have no encoding for `#!cpp long double`. See
-    [Template Parameter Requirements](../../features/types/template_parameters.md#numberfloattype).
-
 ## Notes

 #### Default type
@@ -20,13 +20,6 @@ used.
 To store integer numbers in C++, a type is defined by the template parameter `NumberIntegerType` which chooses the type
 to use.

-## Template parameters
-
-`NumberIntegerType`
-:   the type to store signed integers. It must be a **signed integral** type (`#!cpp std::is_integral`) with a
-    `#!cpp std::numeric_limits` specialization, and it is stored directly inside a `basic_json` value. See
-    [Template Parameter Requirements](../../features/types/template_parameters.md#numberintegertype-and-numberunsignedtype).
-
 ## Notes

 #### Default type
@@ -20,14 +20,6 @@ used.
 To store unsigned integer numbers in C++, a type is defined by the template parameter `NumberUnsignedType` which chooses
 the type to use.

-## Template parameters
-
-`NumberUnsignedType`
-:   the type to store unsigned integers. It must be an **unsigned integral** type (`#!cpp std::is_integral`) with a
-    `#!cpp std::numeric_limits` specialization, and it must be able to represent the absolute value of every
-    [`number_integer_t`](number_integer_t.md) value. See
-    [Template Parameter Requirements](../../features/types/template_parameters.md#numberintegertype-and-numberunsignedtype).
-
 ## Notes

 #### Default type
@@ -30,5 +30,3 @@ and [`default_object_comparator_t`](default_object_comparator_t.md) otherwise.
 - Added in version 3.0.0.
 - Changed to be conditionally defined as `#!cpp typename object_t::key_compare` or `default_object_comparator_t` in
  version 3.11.0.
- Fixed the fallback to `default_object_comparator_t`, which previously failed to compile for object types without a
-  `key_compare` member type, in version 3.13.0.
@@ -18,11 +18,7 @@ To store objects in C++, a type is defined by the template parameters described
 ## Template parameters

 `ObjectType`
-:   the container to store objects. Its template parameters must have the same order and meaning as those of
-    `std::map`; in particular, the third parameter is a comparator. `#!cpp std::unordered_map`, whose third parameter
-    is a hash function, therefore needs an adapter -- see
-    [Template Parameter Requirements](../../features/types/template_parameters.md#objecttype) for the full list of
-    requirements, an adapter example, and the containers that are known to work.
+:   the container to store objects (e.g., `std::map` or `std::unordered_map`)

 `StringType`
 :   the type of the keys or names (e.g., `std::string`). The comparison function `std::less<StringType>` is used to
@@ -126,4 +122,3 @@ the object is silently converted as an array of key-value pairs, which is incorr
 ## Version history

 - Added in version 1.0.0.
- Allowed object types whose `erase(iterator)` returns `#!cpp void` in version 3.13.0.
@@ -103,10 +103,6 @@ A UTF-8 byte order mark is silently ignored.
 Invalid Unicode escapes and unpaired surrogates in the input are reported as
 [`parse_error.101`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionparse_error101) with a detailed message.

-By default, a `'\0'` (NUL) byte anywhere in the input is treated as end of input, rather than as an ordinary (and,
-outside of a string, invalid) byte; see the [FAQ entry](../../home/faq.md#nul-bytes-in-the-input) for details and the
-[`JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING`](../macros/json_strict_nul_handling.md) macro to opt into rejecting it instead.
-
 ## Examples

 ??? example "Parsing from a character array"
@@ -240,8 +236,6 @@ outside of a string, invalid) byte; see the [FAQ entry](../../home/faq.md#nul-by
 - [accept](accept.md) - check if the input is valid JSON
 - [sax_parse](sax_parse.md) - parse input using the SAX interface
 - [operator>>](../operator_gtgt.md) - deserialize from stream
- [`JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING`](../macros/json_strict_nul_handling.md) - opt in to rejecting a NUL byte in the input
-  instead of treating it as end of input

 ## Version history

@@ -252,8 +246,6 @@ outside of a string, invalid) byte; see the [FAQ entry](../../home/faq.md#nul-by
 - Added `ignore_trailing_commas` in version 3.13.0.
 - Extended container support (1) to include types with lvalue-only ADL `begin`/`end` (matching `std::begin`/`std::end` semantics) in version 3.13.0.
 - Extended overload (2) to accept heterogeneous iterator+sentinel pairs (C++20 ranges support) in version 3.13.0.
- `JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING` added in version 3.13.0 to optionally reject a NUL byte in the input instead of treating
-  it as end of input; planned to become the default in version 4.0.0.

 !!! warning "Deprecation"

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ class parse_error : public exception;
 ```

 The library throws this exception when a parse error occurs. Parse errors can occur during the deserialization of
-JSON text, BJData, BON8, BSON, CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON, as well as when using JSON Patch.
+JSON text, BSON, CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON, as well as when using JSON Patch.

 Member `byte` holds the byte index of the last read character in the input file (see note below).

@@ -34,10 +34,6 @@ Strong guarantee: if an exception is thrown, there are no changes in the JSON va
  ("add", "remove", "move")
 - Throws [`out_of_range.411`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range411) if an "add" operation's target
  location has a parent that is neither an object nor an array.
- Throws [`out_of_range.413`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range413) if a "remove" operation's target
-  location has a parent that is neither an object nor an array.
- Throws [`out_of_range.414`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range414) if a "move" operation's "from"
-  location is a proper prefix of its "path" location.
 - Throws [`other_error.501`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionother_error501) if "test" operation was
  unsuccessful.

@@ -79,7 +75,3 @@ is thrown. In any case, the original value is not changed: the patch is applied
 - Added in version 2.0.0.
 - Added [`out_of_range.411`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range411) and stopped relying on an internal assertion when an "add" operation's
  target location has a non-object/non-array parent in version 3.13.0.
- Added [`out_of_range.413`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range413) and stopped silently ignoring a "remove" operation whose target
-  location has a non-object/non-array parent in version 3.13.0.
- Added [`out_of_range.414`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range414) and rejected a "move" operation whose "from" location is a proper
-  prefix of its "path" location instead of silently producing a corrupted result in version 3.13.0.
@@ -30,10 +30,6 @@ No guarantees, value may be corrupted by an unsuccessful patch operation.
  ("add", "remove", "move")
 - Throws [`out_of_range.411`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range411) if an "add" operation's target
  location has a parent that is neither an object nor an array.
- Throws [`out_of_range.413`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range413) if a "remove" operation's target
-  location has a parent that is neither an object nor an array.
- Throws [`out_of_range.414`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range414) if a "move" operation's "from"
-  location is a proper prefix of its "path" location.
 - Throws [`other_error.501`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionother_error501) if "test" operation was
  unsuccessful.

@@ -76,7 +72,3 @@ function throws an exception.
 - Added in version 3.11.0.
 - Added [`out_of_range.411`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range411) and stopped relying on an internal assertion when an "add" operation's
  target location has a non-object/non-array parent in version 3.13.0.
- Added [`out_of_range.413`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range413) and stopped silently ignoring a "remove" operation whose target
-  location has a non-object/non-array parent in version 3.13.0.
- Added [`out_of_range.414`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range414) and rejected a "move" operation whose "from" location is a proper
-  prefix of its "path" location instead of silently producing a corrupted result in version 3.13.0.
@@ -65,14 +65,12 @@ The SAX event lister must follow the interface of [`json_sax`](../json_sax/index
 :   SAX event listener (must not be null)

 `format` (in)
-:    the format to parse (JSON, BJData, BON8, BSON, CBOR, MessagePack, or UBJSON) (optional, `input_format_t::json` by
-     default), see
+:    the format to parse (JSON, CBOR, MessagePack, or UBJSON) (optional, `input_format_t::json` by default), see
     [`input_format_t`](input_format_t.md) for more information

 `strict` (in)
 :   whether the input has to be consumed completely (optional, `#!cpp true` by default); when `#!cpp false` and the
-    input is a `#!cpp std::istream`, the character that terminates a number is consumed unless
-    [`JSON_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION`](../macros/json_precise_stream_position.md) is defined to `1`; see [`operator>>`](../operator_gtgt.md#notes)
+    input is a `#!cpp std::istream`, the stream is left positioned right after the parsed value

 `ignore_comments` (in)
 :   whether comments should be ignored and treated like whitespace (`#!cpp true`) or yield a parse error
@@ -139,8 +137,8 @@ A UTF-8 byte order mark is silently ignored.
 - Added `ignore_trailing_commas` in version 3.13.0.
 - Extended container support (1) to include types with lvalue-only ADL `begin`/`end` (matching `std::begin`/`std::end` semantics) in version 3.13.0.
 - Extended overload (2) to accept heterogeneous iterator+sentinel pairs (C++20 ranges support) in version 3.13.0.
- `JSON_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION` added in version 3.13.0 to optionally leave a `#!cpp std::istream` positioned right
-  after the parsed value when `strict` is `#!cpp false`.
+- Changed in version 4.0.0 to leave a `#!cpp std::istream` positioned right after the parsed value when `strict` is
+  `#!cpp false`; see [`operator>>`](../operator_gtgt.md#notes).

 !!! warning "Deprecation"

@@ -23,11 +23,6 @@ JSON class into byte-sized characters during deserialization.
    `StringType`. To work with wide-character data, convert it to/from UTF-8 at the boundary instead -- see the
    FAQ's [wide string handling](../../home/faq.md#wide-string-handling) section for a conversion recipe.

-    Beyond the character type, the library expects a substantial part of the `#!cpp std::string` interface (contiguous
-    null-terminated `data()`, `substr()`, `find()`, `append()`, ...). See
-    [Template Parameter Requirements](../../features/types/template_parameters.md#stringtype) for the full list and
-    for the string types that are known to work.
-
 ## Notes

 #### Default type
@@ -83,5 +78,3 @@ and an example.
 ## Version history

 - Added in version 1.0.0.
- Removed the requirement that `string_t` be implicitly convertible from `#!cpp std::string`, which the BSON writer and
-  the UBJSON reader relied on, in version 3.13.0.
@@ -34,14 +34,10 @@ void swap(typename binary_t::container_type& other);
 ```

 1. Exchanges the contents of the JSON value with those of `other`. Does not invoke any move, copy, or swap operations on
-   individual elements. All iterators and references remain valid. The past-the-end iterator is invalidated. If macro
-   [`JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS`](../macros/json_diagnostic_positions.md) is defined to `#!cpp 1`, the
-   [`start_pos()`](start_pos.md)/[`end_pos()`](end_pos.md) diagnostic positions are exchanged along with the value.
+   individual elements. All iterators and references remain valid. The past-the-end iterator is invalidated. 
 2. Exchanges the contents of the JSON value from `left` with those of `right`. Does not invoke any move, copy, or swap
   operations on individual elements. All iterators and references remain valid. The past-the-end iterator is
-   invalidated. Implemented as a friend function callable via ADL. If macro
-   [`JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS`](../macros/json_diagnostic_positions.md) is defined to `#!cpp 1`, the
-   [`start_pos()`](start_pos.md)/[`end_pos()`](end_pos.md) diagnostic positions are exchanged along with the value.
+   invalidated. Implemented as a friend function callable via ADL.
 3. Exchanges the contents of a JSON array with those of `other`. Does not invoke any move, copy, or swap operations on
   individual elements. All iterators and references remain valid. The past-the-end iterator is invalidated. 
 4. Exchanges the contents of a JSON object with those of `other`. Does not invoke any move, copy, or swap operations on
@@ -52,11 +52,6 @@ optional, `#!cpp bjdata_version_t::draft2` by default.

 Strong guarantee: if an exception is thrown, there are no changes in the JSON value.

-## Exceptions
-
- Throws [`other_error.502`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionother_error502) if `use_type` is true and `use_size`
-  is false.
-
 ## Complexity

 Linear in the size of the JSON value `j`.
@@ -84,7 +79,6 @@ Linear in the size of the JSON value `j`.
 - [to_msgpack](to_msgpack.md) create a MessagePack serialization of a JSON value
 - [to_bson](to_bson.md) create a BSON serialization of a JSON value
 - [to_ubjson](to_ubjson.md) create a UBJSON serialization of a JSON value
- [to_bon8](to_bon8.md) create a BON8 serialization of a JSON value

 ## Version history

@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
-# <small>nlohmann::basic_json::</small>to_bon8
-
-```cpp
-// (1)
-static std::vector<std::uint8_t> to_bon8(const basic_json& j);
-
-// (2)
-static void to_bon8(const basic_json& j, detail::output_adapter<std::uint8_t> o);
-static void to_bon8(const basic_json& j, detail::output_adapter<char> o);
-```
-
-Serializes a given JSON value `j` to a byte vector using the BON8 (Binary Object Notation 8) serialization format. BON8
-is a compact binary serialization format that stores strings as UTF-8 without a length prefix.
-
-1. Returns a byte vector containing the BON8 serialization.
-2. Writes the BON8 serialization to an output adapter.
-
-The exact mapping and its limitations are described on a [dedicated page](../../features/binary_formats/bon8.md).
-
-## Parameters
-
-`j` (in)
-:   JSON value to serialize
-
-`o` (in)
-:   output adapter to write serialization to
-
-## Return value
-
-1. BON8 serialization as a byte vector
-2. (none)
-
-## Exception safety
-
-Strong guarantee: if an exception is thrown, there are no changes in the JSON value `j`, which is never modified.
-With (2), the bytes written before the exception remain in the output adapter.
-
-## Exceptions
-
- Throws [out_of_range.407](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range407) if `j` contains an unsigned integer
-  above 9223372036854775807, which BON8 cannot represent
- Throws [type_error.316](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptiontype_error316) if `j` contains a string that is not
-  valid UTF-8
-
-## Complexity
-
-Linear in the size of the JSON value `j`.
-
-## Examples
-
-??? example
-
-    The example shows the serialization of a JSON value to a byte vector in BON8 format.
-     
-    ```cpp
-    --8<-- "examples/to_bon8.cpp"
-    ```
-    
-    Output:
-    
-    ```json
-    --8<-- "examples/to_bon8.output"
-    ```
-
-## See also
-
- [from_bon8](from_bon8.md) create a JSON value from an input in BON8 format
- [to_cbor](to_cbor.md) create a CBOR serialization of a JSON value
- [to_msgpack](to_msgpack.md) create a MessagePack serialization of a JSON value
- [to_bson](to_bson.md) create a BSON serialization of a JSON value
- [to_ubjson](to_ubjson.md) create a UBJSON serialization of a JSON value
- [to_bjdata](to_bjdata.md) create a BJData serialization of a JSON value
-
-## Version history
-
- Added in version 3.13.0.
@@ -46,9 +46,7 @@ Strong guarantee: if an exception is thrown, there are no changes in the JSON va

 ## Complexity

-Proportional to the size of the JSON value `j` multiplied by its maximum nesting
-depth, `O(n × d)`. BSON length prefixes are computed recursively before nested
-values are written.
+Linear in the size of the JSON value `j`.

 ## Examples

@@ -73,7 +71,6 @@ values are written.
 - [to_msgpack](to_msgpack.md) create a MessagePack serialization of a JSON value
 - [to_ubjson](to_ubjson.md) create a UBJSON serialization of a JSON value
 - [to_bjdata](to_bjdata.md) create a BJData serialization of a JSON value
- [to_bon8](to_bon8.md) create a BON8 serialization of a JSON value

 ## Version history

@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ Linear in the size of the JSON value `j`.
 - [to_bson](to_bson.md) create a BSON serialization of a JSON value
 - [to_ubjson](to_ubjson.md) create a UBJSON serialization of a JSON value
 - [to_bjdata](to_bjdata.md) create a BJData serialization of a JSON value
- [to_bon8](to_bon8.md) create a BON8 serialization of a JSON value

 ## Version history

@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ Linear in the size of the JSON value `j`.
 - [to_bson](to_bson.md) create a BSON serialization of a JSON value
 - [to_ubjson](to_ubjson.md) create a UBJSON serialization of a JSON value
 - [to_bjdata](to_bjdata.md) create a BJData serialization of a JSON value
- [to_bon8](to_bon8.md) create a BON8 serialization of a JSON value

 ## Version history

@@ -45,11 +45,6 @@ The exact mapping and its limitations are described on a [dedicated page](../../

 Strong guarantee: if an exception is thrown, there are no changes in the JSON value.

-## Exceptions
-
- Throws [`other_error.502`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionother_error502) if `use_type` is true and `use_size`
-  is false.
-
 ## Complexity

 Linear in the size of the JSON value `j`.
@@ -77,7 +72,6 @@ Linear in the size of the JSON value `j`.
 - [to_msgpack](to_msgpack.md) create a MessagePack serialization of a JSON value
 - [to_bson](to_bson.md) create a BSON serialization of a JSON value
 - [to_bjdata](to_bjdata.md) create a BJData serialization of a JSON value
- [to_bon8](to_bon8.md) create a BON8 serialization of a JSON value

 ## Version history

@@ -37,14 +37,7 @@ Linear in the size of the JSON value.
 ## Notes

 Empty objects and arrays are flattened by [`flatten()`](flatten.md) to `#!json null` values and cannot unflattened to
-their original type.
-
-A flattened array and a flattened object whose keys are array indices are indistinguishable, because both are
-described by the same JSON pointers. A value is therefore restored as an array if and only if one of its keys is the
-reference token `0`, and as an object otherwise: `#!json {"2": 1}` is restored unchanged, whereas `#!json {"0": 1}` is
-restored as `#!json [1]`. This decision does not depend on the order in which the flattened object is iterated.
-
-Apart from these two cases, for a JSON value `j`, the following is always true:
+their original type. Apart from this example, for a JSON value `j`, the following is always true:
 `#!cpp j == j.flatten().unflatten()`.

 ## Examples
@@ -70,4 +63,3 @@ Apart from these two cases, for a JSON value `j`, the following is always true:
 ## Version history

 - Added in version 2.0.0.
- Made the array/object decision independent of the object's iteration order in version 3.13.0.
@@ -14,13 +14,6 @@ header. See also the [macro overview page](../../features/macros.md).
 - [**JSON_DIAGNOSTIC_POSITIONS**](json_diagnostic_positions.md) - access positions of elements
 - [**JSON_NOEXCEPTION**](json_noexception.md) - switch off exceptions

-## Parsing
-
- [**JSON_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION**](json_precise_stream_position.md) - opt in to leaving an input stream positioned
-  right after a parsed number
- [**JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING**](json_strict_nul_handling.md) - opt in to rejecting a NUL byte in the input instead of
-  treating it as end of input
-
 ## Language support

 - [**JSON_HAS_CPP_11**<br>**JSON_HAS_CPP_14**<br>**JSON_HAS_CPP_17**<br>**JSON_HAS_CPP_20**](json_has_cpp_11.md) - set supported C++ standard
@@ -29,10 +22,8 @@ header. See also the [macro overview page](../../features/macros.md).
 - [**JSON_HAS_STD_FORMAT**](json_has_std_format.md) - control `std::format`/`std::formatter` support
 - [**JSON_HAS_THREE_WAY_COMPARISON**](json_has_three_way_comparison.md) - control 3-way comparison support
 - [**JSON_NO_IO**](json_no_io.md) - switch off functions relying on certain C++ I/O headers
- [**JSON_NO_THREAD_LOCAL**](json_no_thread_local.md) - switch off the use of `thread_local` storage
 - [**JSON_SKIP_UNSUPPORTED_COMPILER_CHECK**](json_skip_unsupported_compiler_check.md) - do not warn about unsupported compilers
 - [**JSON_USE_GLOBAL_UDLS**](json_use_global_udls.md) - place user-defined string literals (UDLs) into the global namespace
- [**JSON_USE_SIMDUTF**](json_use_simdutf.md) - use the simdutf library to accelerate UTF-8 validation

 ## Library version

@@ -38,28 +38,6 @@ The default value is `0` (disabled — existing behavior is preserved).

    This macro must be defined **before** including `<nlohmann/json.hpp>`. Defining it after the include has no effect.

-!!! warning "Applies to every single-element list"
-
-    The macro does not only affect a single JSON value in braces. **Any** single-element braced list is treated as its
-    element, so it no longer creates a one-element array:
-
-    ```cpp
-    json j1 = {1};       // 1, not [1]
-    json j2 = {"text"};  // "text", not ["text"]
-    json j3 = {{1, 2}};  // [1,2], not [[1,2]]
-    ```
-
-    Code that relies on these producing arrays must use `json::array()` instead (see below). Lists with more than one
-    element, and a single `[string, value]` pair such as `{{"key", "value"}}`, which still creates an object, are not
-    affected. The library's own conversions are not affected either: for example, `std::tuple<int>{5}` still becomes
-    `[5]`.
-
-!!! note "ABI compatibility"
-
-    The value of this macro is encoded in the [namespace](../../features/namespace.md) (tag `_bics`), resulting in
-    distinct symbol names. Translation units compiled with and without it can therefore be linked into the same program
-    without One Definition Rule (ODR) violations, but they cannot exchange instances of library types.
-
 !!! tip "Workaround without the macro"

    To explicitly create a single-element array without enabling this macro, use `json::array()`:
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-# JSON_NO_THREAD_LOCAL
-
-```cpp
-#define JSON_NO_THREAD_LOCAL
-```
-
-When defined, the library does not use `#!cpp thread_local` storage. This is relevant for the few environments whose
-toolchain does not support it.
-
-Copying a value and comparing two values both descend into the first levels by letting the containers copy or compare
-themselves, and finish whatever is nested deeper than that without the call stack, so that neither can exhaust the stack
-however deeply the values are nested. Each counts the levels it has descended into in a `#!cpp thread_local` variable, as
-a counter shared between threads would be raced.
-
-Without those counters, no descent can be bounded safely, so objects and arrays are copied and compared without the call
-stack right away. Both keep working exactly as they do otherwise - the same values come out, the same comparisons hold,
-and deeply nested values are handled just as safely - but both are slower, because the containers no longer copy or
-compare themselves. Copying the benchmark documents takes 9% (`canada.json`) to 34% (`twitter.json`) longer, and
-comparing two equal ones 10% (`citm_catalog.json`) to 90% (`canada.json`) longer.
-
-## Default definition
-
-By default, `#!cpp JSON_NO_THREAD_LOCAL` is not defined.
-
-```cpp
-#undef JSON_NO_THREAD_LOCAL
-```
-
-The library defines it by itself for Clang targeting MinGW, which does not survive the `#!cpp thread_local` storage:
-copying a value segfaults there, with both old and current Clang versions, while GCC targeting MinGW is unaffected.
-Copying and comparing fall back to working without the call stack there, as they do whenever the macro is defined.
-
-## Examples
-
-??? example
-
-    The code below forces the library not to use `#!cpp thread_local` storage.
-
-    ```cpp
-    #define JSON_NO_THREAD_LOCAL 1
-    #include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
-
-    ...
-    ```
-
-## Version history
-
- Added in version 3.12.1.
@@ -1,131 +0,0 @@
-# JSON_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION
-
-```cpp
-#define JSON_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION /* value */
-```
-
-When defined to `1`, [`operator>>`](../operator_gtgt.md) and [`sax_parse`](../basic_json/sax_parse.md) with
-`strict = false` leave a `#!cpp std::istream` positioned right after the parsed value for every value type. By default,
-the character that terminates a number is consumed as well.
-
-The macro only affects reading from a `#!cpp std::istream` when the rest of the stream is not required to be consumed.
-[`parse`](../basic_json/parse.md), [`accept`](../basic_json/accept.md), and all other inputs (strings, iterators,
-containers, `#!cpp FILE*`) are never affected.
-
-## Default definition
-
-The default value is `0` (disabled — existing behavior is preserved).
-
-```cpp
-#define JSON_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION 0
-```
-
-## Notes
-
-!!! note "Background"
-
-    A number is the only JSON value whose end can be detected solely by reading the character that follows it. By
-    default, that character is consumed and not put back, so the stream is left one byte too far after a number, and
-    only after a number:
-
-    ```cpp
-    std::istringstream input("1true");
-    json j;
-    input >> j;  // j == 1, but the stream now starts at "rue"
-    ```
-
-    With this macro, the character is only looked at and left in the stream, so the stream starts at `true`. This
-    does not require the stream buffer to support putting a character back.
-
-    This was not changed unconditionally, because code can depend on the consumed character, even unknowingly (see
-    [#5340](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/issues/5340)). Both of the following work by default only because the
-    character after each number is swallowed, and behave differently with this macro:
-
-    ```cpp
-    std::istringstream input("1,2,3");
-    json j1, j2, j3;
-    input >> j1 >> j2 >> j3;  // default: 1, 2, 3
-                              // with the macro: throws parse_error.101 at the ','
-    ```
-
-    ```cpp
-    std::istringstream input("42\nfoo");
-    json j;
-    std::string line;
-    input >> j;
-    std::getline(input, line);  // default: "foo"
-                                // with the macro: "" (like after reading an int with >>)
-    ```
-
-    In both cases, the behavior with the macro is what you already get today when the value is not a number: `"a","b"`
-    fails at the `,`, and `std::getline` after `{}` returns an empty string. This macro offers an opt-in path to
-    the consistent behavior ahead of version 4.0.0, where it is planned to become the default.
-
-!!! warning "Opt-in only"
-
-    This macro must be defined **before** including `<nlohmann/json.hpp>`. Defining it after the include has no
-    effect.
-
-!!! note "ABI compatibility"
-
-    The value of this macro is encoded in the [namespace](../../features/namespace.md) (tag `_psp`), resulting in
-    distinct symbol names. Translation units compiled with and without it can therefore be linked into the same program
-    without One Definition Rule (ODR) violations, but they cannot exchange instances of library types.
-
-!!! tip "Workaround without the macro"
-
-    Separate the values in the stream with whitespace. The character consumed after a number is then the separator,
-    and whitespace before the next value is skipped anyway.
-
-## Examples
-
-??? example "Default behavior (macro not defined)"
-
-    Without the macro, the character after a number is consumed:
-
-    ```cpp
-    #include <iostream>
-    #include <sstream>
-    #include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
-
-    using json = nlohmann::json;
-
-    int main()
-    {
-        std::istringstream input("1true");
-        json j1, j2;
-        input >> j1;  // j1 == 1
-        input >> j2;  // throws parse_error.101: the stream now starts at "rue"
-    }
-    ```
-
-??? example "Opt-in precise stream position (macro defined to 1)"
-
-    With the macro, the stream is positioned right after the number:
-
-    ```cpp
-    #define JSON_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION 1
-    #include <iostream>
-    #include <sstream>
-    #include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
-
-    using json = nlohmann::json;
-
-    int main()
-    {
-        std::istringstream input("1true");
-        json j1, j2;
-        input >> j1;  // j1 == 1
-        input >> j2;  // j2 == true
-    }
-    ```
-
-## See also
-
- [**operator>>**](../operator_gtgt.md) - deserialize from stream
- [**sax_parse**](../basic_json/sax_parse.md) - generate SAX events
-
-## Version history
-
- Added in version 3.13.0.
- Planned to become the default (with the macro removed) in version 4.0.0.
@@ -1,126 +0,0 @@
-# JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING
-
-```cpp
-#define JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING /* value */
-```
-
-When defined to `1`, a `'\0'` (NUL) byte in JSON text input is rejected with `parse_error.101`, like any other
-unexpected byte, instead of being silently treated as end of input.
-
-The macro only affects the JSON text parser ([`parse`](../basic_json/parse.md), [`accept`](../basic_json/accept.md),
-[`sax_parse`](../basic_json/sax_parse.md), and [`operator>>`](../operator_gtgt.md)). There are three cases where a NUL
-byte is still not rejected:
-
- The binary formats ([`from_bjdata`](../basic_json/from_bjdata.md), [`from_bon8`](../basic_json/from_bon8.md),
-  [`from_bson`](../basic_json/from_bson.md), [`from_cbor`](../basic_json/from_cbor.md),
-  [`from_msgpack`](../basic_json/from_msgpack.md), [`from_ubjson`](../basic_json/from_ubjson.md)) are never affected: there, `0x00` is ordinary data.
- A bare `const char*` pointer has no length of its own, so its length is still determined with `strlen()`. The first
-  NUL byte therefore still marks the end of the input, and nothing after it is read.
- One trailing `'\0'` at the end of a `char` array (e.g., a string literal) is trimmed; see the warning below.
-
-## Default definition
-
-The default value is `0` (disabled — existing behavior is preserved).
-
-```cpp
-#define JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING 0
-```
-
-## Notes
-
-!!! note "Background"
-
-    By default, a `'\0'` byte anywhere in the input is treated the same as the real end of the input, rather than as
-    an ordinary (and, outside of a string, invalid) byte. Everything from that byte onward is silently ignored,
-    without a parse error - including further, otherwise well-formed JSON:
-
-    ```cpp
-    json::parse(std::string("123") + '\0');          // == 123, no error
-    json::parse(std::string("123") + '\0' + "true"); // == 123, the "true" is silently ignored too
-    ```
-
-    This falls out of the same convention used when no explicit input length is given at all: parsing from a
-    `const char*` already stops at the first NUL byte via `strlen()`, since a bare pointer has no length of its own.
-    The library applies that same NUL-terminated-C-string convention uniformly, rather than only when a length is
-    genuinely unavailable - so a `std::string`, iterator range, or container whose content happens to include a NUL
-    byte is affected the same way a raw `const char*` would be (see the
-    [FAQ entry](../../home/faq.md#nul-bytes-in-the-input) for a fuller explanation).
-
-    This was not fixed unconditionally, because doing so is backwards-incompatible for any caller who happens to
-    depend on the current behavior - even unknowingly, for instance because their input already contains trailing
-    padding they never noticed was being discarded (see [#5530](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/issues/5530)).
-    This macro instead offers an opt-in path to the corrected behavior ahead of version 4.0.0, where it is planned to
-    become the default.
-
-!!! warning "Opt-in only"
-
-    This macro must be defined **before** including `<nlohmann/json.hpp>`. Defining it after the include has no
-    effect.
-
-    Enabling it also changes how a `char` array (including a string literal, e.g. `json::parse("123")`) is read: such
-    an array normally carries a trailing `'\0'` contributed by the compiler, not by the source text. With this macro
-    enabled, that one trailing byte is trimmed if present so that parsing a string literal keeps working; every other
-    byte in the array - including any `'\0'` that is not the very last element - is read as real data and rejected
-    like any other unexpected byte. Arrays of any other element type (`unsigned char`, `std::uint8_t`, ...), as used
-    for CBOR or MessagePack, are never affected by this trimming; their full extent - including a genuine trailing
-    `0x00` - is always preserved, in both states of this macro.
-
-!!! tip "Workaround without the macro"
-
-    To reject a NUL byte without enabling this macro, trim your input yourself before calling `parse()`:
-
-    ```cpp
-    s.resize(s.find('\0')); // drop everything from the first NUL onward, if any
-    json::parse(s);
-    ```
-
-## Examples
-
-??? example "Default behavior (macro not defined)"
-
-    Without the macro, a NUL byte silently ends parsing at that point:
-
-    ```cpp
-    #include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
-
-    using json = nlohmann::json;
-
-    int main()
-    {
-        json j = json::parse(std::string("123") + '\0' + "true");
-        // j is 123 -- the '\0' and everything after it is silently ignored
-    }
-    ```
-
-??? example "Opt-in strict handling (macro defined to 1)"
-
-    With the macro, a NUL byte is rejected like any other unexpected byte:
-
-    ```cpp
-    #define JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING 1
-    #include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
-
-    using json = nlohmann::json;
-
-    int main()
-    {
-        json j = json::parse(std::string("123") + '\0' + "true");
-        // throws parse_error.101 -- the NUL byte is now invalid input,
-        // exactly like any other unexpected trailing byte
-
-        json ok = json::parse("123");
-        // ok is 123 -- parsing from a string literal still works
-    }
-    ```
-
-## See also
-
- [FAQ: NUL bytes in the input](../../home/faq.md#nul-bytes-in-the-input)
- [**parse**](../basic_json/parse.md) - deserialize from a compatible input
- [**accept**](../basic_json/accept.md) - check if the input is valid JSON
- [**operator>>**](../operator_gtgt.md) - deserialize from stream
-
-## Version history
-
- Added in version 3.13.0.
- Planned to become the default (with the macro removed) in version 4.0.0.
@@ -12,11 +12,9 @@
 Controls how exceptions are handled by the library.

 1. This macro overrides [`#!cpp catch`](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/try_catch) calls inside the library.
-   The argument is the type of the exception to catch. The library uses it in a single place: to swallow any exception
-   escaping the parent-pointer check that [`JSON_DIAGNOSTICS`](json_diagnostics.md) adds to the class invariant. The
-   places where the library catches its own [`json::out_of_range`](../../home/exceptions.md#out-of-range) exceptions
-   use `JSON_INTERNAL_CATCH` instead, which `JSON_CATCH_USER` also overrides unless `JSON_INTERNAL_CATCH_USER` is
-   defined. The macro is always followed by a scope.
+   The argument is the type of the exception to catch. As of version 3.8.0, the library only catches `std::out_of_range`
+   exceptions internally to rethrow them as [`json::out_of_range`](../../home/exceptions.md#out-of-range) exceptions.
+   The macro is always followed by a scope.
 2. This macro overrides `#!cpp throw` calls inside the library. The argument is the exception to be thrown. Note that
   `JSON_THROW_USER` should leave the current scope (e.g., by throwing or aborting), as continuing after it may yield
   undefined behavior.
@@ -24,14 +24,6 @@ By default, implicit conversions are enabled.
    You can prepare existing code by already defining `JSON_USE_IMPLICIT_CONVERSIONS` to `0` and replace any implicit
    conversions with calls to [`get`](../basic_json/get.md).

-!!! tip "Automatic migration"
-
-    The community-maintained clang-tidy check `modernize-nlohmann-json-explicit-conversions` rewrites implicit
-    conversions into explicit calls to [`get`](../basic_json/get.md); for example, `#!cpp int i = j;` becomes
-    `#!cpp int i = j.get<int>();`. The check is not part of clang-tidy itself, and it does not catch every case (for
-    example, constructing a `std::optional` from a JSON value), so review the result. See
-    [discussion #4610](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/discussions/4610) for how to build and use it.
-
 !!! hint "CMake option"

    Implicit conversions can also be controlled with the CMake option
@@ -1,71 +0,0 @@
-# JSON_USE_SIMDUTF
-
-```cpp
-#define JSON_USE_SIMDUTF
-```
-
-When defined, the parser validates the UTF-8 content of JSON strings that come from a **contiguous byte input**
-(`std::string`, `std::vector<char>`/`<std::uint8_t>`, string literals, `const char*` ranges, …) using the
-[simdutf](https://github.com/simdutf/simdutf) library instead of the built-in scalar validator. On text with many
-non-ASCII characters (e.g. CJK or emoji) this can validate several times faster.
-
-This is an **opt-in external dependency**. The library itself remains header-only and its behavior is unchanged: the
-same input is accepted or rejected either way, and every parse error is reported at the same position with the same
-message (simdutf is only used to fast-path *valid* runs; anything it flags falls back to the scalar path so the exact
-diagnostic is preserved). Streaming inputs (files, `std::istream`, wide strings, user-defined adapters) always use the
-scalar path.
-
-When `JSON_USE_SIMDUTF` is defined you must make the `simdutf.h` header available on the include path and link the
-simdutf library. When it is not defined, no simdutf header is included and there is no dependency.
-
-!!! note "Requires C++17"
-
-    simdutf requires C++17 and its header rejects older standards with an `#!cpp #error`. The backend is therefore only
-    compiled in from C++17 on. In C++11 and C++14 the macro has no effect and the scalar validator is used, which
-    accepts and rejects exactly the same input -- only throughput differs. Setting the macro project-wide is therefore
-    safe even when some translation units are built with an older standard.
-
-!!! warning "Define consistently"
-
-    The macro selects between two definitions of the same inline validation function. It must therefore be defined
-    identically for **every** translation unit that includes the library; mixing translation units that define it with
-    ones that do not is an ODR violation. Prefer setting it as a compile definition on the target rather than with
-    `#!cpp #define` in individual source files.
-
-## Default definition
-
-By default, `#!cpp JSON_USE_SIMDUTF` is not defined and the portable C++11 scalar validator is used.
-
-```cpp
-#undef JSON_USE_SIMDUTF
-```
-
-## Examples
-
-??? example
-
-    The code below enables the simdutf backend for UTF-8 validation.
-
-    ```cpp
-    #define JSON_USE_SIMDUTF 1
-    #include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
-
-    ...
-    ```
-
-    The project must also link against simdutf, e.g. with CMake:
-
-    ```cmake
-    target_compile_definitions(your_target PRIVATE JSON_USE_SIMDUTF)
-    target_link_libraries(your_target PRIVATE simdutf::simdutf)
-    ```
-
-!!! hint "Testing this configuration"
-
-    The unit tests can be built against the simdutf backend with the CMake option `JSON_TestSimdutf` (`OFF` by
-    default), which fetches simdutf and defines `JSON_USE_SIMDUTF` for every test target. The `ci_test_simdutf` target
-    runs the whole test suite in that configuration.
-
-## Version history
-
- Added in version 3.13.0.
@@ -33,54 +33,30 @@ A UTF-8 byte order mark is silently ignored.
 Invalid Unicode escapes and unpaired surrogates in the input are reported as
 [`parse_error.101`](../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionparse_error101) with a detailed message.

-`operator>>` parses exactly one JSON value, so it can be called repeatedly to read a sequence of concatenated JSON
-values from the same stream:
+`operator>>` parses exactly one JSON value and leaves the stream positioned right after it, so it can be called
+repeatedly to read a sequence of concatenated JSON values from the same stream:

 ```cpp
-json j1, j2;
-input >> j1;  // parses the first value
-input >> j2;  // parses the next value
+std::istringstream input("1true[2]");
+json j1, j2, j3;
+input >> j1;  // j1 == 1,      stream now positioned right after it
+input >> j2;  // j2 == true
+input >> j3;  // j3 == [2]
 ```

-!!! warning "A number must be followed by whitespace"
+!!! note "Changed behavior for numbers"

-    A number is only terminated by the character that follows it. That character is read from the stream to detect the
-    end of the number, and it is **not** put back. When a value that is a number is immediately followed by the next
-    value, the first character of that next value is lost:
+    A number is the only value whose end can be detected solely by reading the character that follows it. Up to
+    version 3.13.0 that character was consumed and not put back, so the stream was left one byte too far whenever a
+    number was immediately followed by another value: reading `1true` yielded `1` and left the stream at `rue`.
+    Values had to be separated by whitespace to work around this.

-    ```cpp
-    std::istringstream input("1true");
-    json j1, j2;
-    input >> j1;  // j1 == 1
-    input >> j2;  // throws parse_error.101: the stream now starts at "rue"
-    ```
-
-    Separating the values with whitespace avoids this, because the character that is eaten is then the separator:
-
-    ```cpp
-    std::istringstream input("1 true");
-    json j1, j2;
-    input >> j1;  // j1 == 1
-    input >> j2;  // j2 == true
-    ```
-
-    Only numbers are affected. Values ending in a self-delimiting character do not read past themselves, so
-    `truefalse`, `[1][2]`, `{"a":1}{"b":2}`, and `"a""b"` can be read back to back without a separator.
-
-    Define [`JSON_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION`](macros/json_precise_stream_position.md) to `1` to leave the terminating character in the stream
-    instead, so that the stream is positioned right after the value for every value type and no separator is
-    needed. This is tracked in [#5340](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/issues/5340).
+    The terminating character is now only looked at and left in the stream, so no separator is required. Code that
+    relied on the extra byte being swallowed will observe it again.

 Note that reading concatenated values does **not** work for [JSON Lines](../features/parsing/json_lines.md)
 (newline-delimited JSON) input -- see that page for why and for the recommended alternative.

-By default, a `'\0'` (NUL) byte encountered while reading a value is treated as end of input, rather than as an
-ordinary (and, outside of a string, invalid) byte; see the [FAQ entry](../home/faq.md#nul-bytes-in-the-input) for
-details and the [`JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING`](macros/json_strict_nul_handling.md) macro to opt into rejecting it
-instead. Because `operator>>` only parses a single value and does not require the rest of the stream to be consumed,
-a NUL byte *after* a complete value has no effect on `operator>>` either way; it only matters while a value is still
-being read.
-
 !!! warning "Deprecation"

    This function replaces function `#!cpp std::istream& operator<<(basic_json& j, std::istream& i)` which has
@@ -107,14 +83,9 @@ being read.

 - [accept](basic_json/accept.md) - check if the input is valid JSON
 - [parse](basic_json/parse.md) - deserialize from a compatible input
- [`JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING`](macros/json_strict_nul_handling.md) - opt in to rejecting a NUL byte in the input
-  instead of treating it as end of input
- [`JSON_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION`](macros/json_precise_stream_position.md) - opt in to leaving the stream positioned right after a number

 ## Version history

 - Added in version 1.0.0.
- `JSON_STRICT_NUL_HANDLING` added in version 3.13.0 to optionally reject a NUL byte in the input instead of treating
-  it as end of input; planned to become the default in version 4.0.0.
- `JSON_PRECISE_STREAM_POSITION` added in version 3.13.0 to optionally leave the character that terminates a number in
-  the stream; planned to become the default in version 4.0.0.
+- Changed in version 4.0.0 to leave the character that terminates a number in the stream, so that the stream is
+  positioned right after the parsed value for every value type.
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-# Assurance case
-
-This page argues why the library meets its security requirements. It describes the threats the library faces, where the
-trust boundaries lie, and how the library's design and the [quality assurance](quality_assurance.md) counter these
-threats. To report a vulnerability, see the [security policy](security_policy.md).
-
-## Threat model
-
-The library parses, stores, and serializes JSON values in memory. It does not open network connections, does not open
-files (it only reads from streams or `std::FILE*` handles that the caller has already opened), does not read environment
-variables, and does not implement cryptography or handle credentials.
-
-The primary threat is therefore **untrusted input**: JSON text or binary data (BJData, BSON, CBOR, MessagePack, UBJSON)
-that an attacker controls, passed to [`parse`](../api/basic_json/parse.md), [`accept`](../api/basic_json/accept.md),
-[`sax_parse`](../api/basic_json/sax_parse.md), or one of the `from_*` functions such as
-[`from_cbor`](../api/basic_json/from_cbor.md). Such input may try to
-
- make the library read or write out of bounds (malformed lengths, truncated input, invalid UTF-8),
- trigger undefined behavior (integer overflow in sizes or numbers, invalid casts),
- exhaust memory (huge announced sizes), or
- exhaust the call stack (deeply nested arrays and objects).
-
-## Trust boundaries
-
- **Untrusted:** all serialized input read by the parser, the SAX interface, and the binary readers. The library must
-  handle every possible input by either producing a value or throwing a [`parse_error`](../home/exceptions.md#parse-errors)
-  (or returning `false` when exceptions are disabled for the call).
- **Trusted:** the C++ code that calls the library. Calling a function with violated preconditions, for instance
-  accessing an array with [`operator[]`](../api/basic_json/operator%5B%5D.md) out of range, is a programming error and
-  not a security boundary. Such preconditions are checked with [runtime assertions](../features/assertions.md) in debug
-  builds; functions such as [`at`](../api/basic_json/at.md) offer checked access with exceptions.
-
-## Secure design
-
- **Strict parsing.** The parser accepts exactly the JSON grammar of [RFC 8259](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8259).
-  Extensions such as [comments](../features/comments.md) and [trailing commas](../features/trailing_commas.md) must be
-  enabled explicitly. Invalid UTF-8 is rejected.
- **Errors are reported, not ignored.** Malformed input results in a [`parse_error`](../home/exceptions.md#parse-errors)
-  with the byte position of the error. Binary readers do not trust announced sizes: strings and binary values grow
-  only as bytes are actually read, arrays reserve at most a fixed number of elements up front, and sizes that no
-  container can hold are rejected.
- **Memory is owned by values.** Each `basic_json` value owns its content, and there is no manual memory management in
-  user code. The destructor does not recurse, so destroying a deeply nested value does not exhaust the stack.
- **Bounded recursion.** The JSON parser and the binary readers keep their state in explicit stacks instead of
-  recursing per nesting level. Operations that walk a value, such as [`dump`](../api/basic_json/dump.md), copying,
-  hashing, and [`merge_patch`](../api/basic_json/merge_patch.md), recurse only up to a fixed depth and continue with an
-  explicit stack below it. Some operations, such as comparison, [`diff`](../api/basic_json/diff.md),
-  [`flatten`](../api/basic_json/flatten.md), and the binary writers, still recurse once per nesting level; work on them
-  is in progress. Applications that process untrusted input can limit its nesting depth with a
-  [parser callback](../features/parsing/parser_callbacks.md).
- **Invariants are checked.** The class invariant (for instance, that the pointer for the stored type is never null) is
-  checked with runtime assertions throughout the test suite.
-
-## Common weaknesses
-
-The following table maps the relevant classes of the [Common Weakness Enumeration](https://cwe.mitre.org) to the
-measures that counter them. The measures are described in detail in [Quality assurance](quality_assurance.md).
-
-| Weakness                                                                  | Countermeasures                                                                                  |
-|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
-| Out-of-bounds read/write ([CWE-125](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/125.html), [CWE-787](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/787.html)) | bounds checks on all reads from the input; AddressSanitizer and Valgrind on the test suite; OSS-Fuzz      |
-| Integer overflow ([CWE-190](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/190.html)) | UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer with integer overflow detection; Clang-Tidy; Cppcheck                 |
-| Use after free, double free ([CWE-416](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/416.html), [CWE-415](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/415.html)) | ownership of all memory by values; AddressSanitizer and Valgrind; Clang Static Analyzer          |
-| Memory leaks ([CWE-401](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/401.html)) | Valgrind (Memcheck) on the test suite                                                            |
-| Uncontrolled recursion ([CWE-674](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/674.html)) | iterative parser, binary readers, and destructor; bounded recursion in value operations; tests with deeply nested inputs |
-| Uncontrolled resource consumption ([CWE-400](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html)) | allocations based on announced sizes are capped; OSS-Fuzz with memory limits                     |
-| Undefined behavior in general ([CWE-758](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/758.html)) | UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer; runtime assertions; Clang-Tidy, Cppcheck, Clang Static Analyzer, Infer |
-
-In addition, every line of the library is covered by the unit tests, and all parsers are fuzz-tested around the clock
-by [OSS-Fuzz](https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/tree/master/projects/json).
@@ -5,6 +5,4 @@
 - [Contribution Guidelines](contribution_guidelines.md) - guidelines how to contribute to this project
 - [Governance](governance.md) - the governance model of this project
 - [Quality Assurance](quality_assurance.md) - how the quality of this project is assured
- [Roadmap](roadmap.md) - what the project will and will not do
 - [Security Policy](security_policy.md) - the security policy of the project
- [Assurance Case](assurance_case.md) - why the library meets its security requirements
@@ -164,9 +164,6 @@ Note: Some modern features (like C++20 ranges or filesystem support) may be disa
 - [x] The parser is tested against extensive correctness suites for JSON compliance.
 - [x] In addition, the library is continuously fuzz-tested at [OSS-Fuzz](https://google.github.io/oss-fuzz/) where the
  library is checked against billions of inputs.
- [x] Every crash reported by OSS-Fuzz is fixed together with a unit test that reproduces it, and the fix references
-  the OSS-Fuzz issue. The round-trip checks of the fuzzer drivers are also part of the unit tests. See the
-  [fuzz testing documentation](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/blob/develop/tests/fuzzing.md#handling-oss-fuzz-reports).

 ## Static analysis

@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-# Roadmap
-
-This page describes what the project intends to do, and what it does not intend to do, over the next year. Concrete
-work items are tracked in the [GitHub milestones](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/milestones) and the
-[issue tracker](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/issues).
-
-## What the project will do
-
- **Keep the C++11 baseline.** The library will continue to compile with every
-  [supported C++11 compiler](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/blob/develop/README.md#supported-compilers). Features of
-  later standards are only used when they are guarded by the `JSON_HAS_CPP_*` macros.
- **Stay conformant to JSON.** The parser and serializer follow [RFC 8259](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8259).
-  Extensions such as [comments](../features/comments.md) or [trailing commas](../features/trailing_commas.md) remain
-  opt-in.
- **Keep the 3.x public API stable.** Releases follow [semantic versioning](https://semver.org). Changes that would
-  break existing code are only added behind a feature macro, so users can opt in and test their code before a next
-  major release.
- **Support a broad range of compilers and platforms.** The [CI](quality_assurance.md) keeps testing old and new
-  versions of GCC, Clang, MSVC, and other compilers on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
- **Keep the quality assurance up.** Every change keeps the test coverage at 100%, passes the static and dynamic
-  analysis, and is fuzz-tested by OSS-Fuzz, see [Quality assurance](quality_assurance.md).
- **Harden the library against hostile input.** Handling deeply nested values without exhausting the call stack is
-  ongoing work.
- **Fix bugs and security issues** reported through the issue tracker and the [security policy](security_policy.md).
-
-## What the project will not do
-
- **Break the public API of version 3.x.** See the
-  [contribution guidelines](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/blob/develop/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#break-the-public-api)
-  for what counts as a breaking change.
- **Require a newer C++ standard than C++11.**
- **Break JSON conformance** or enable non-standard extensions by default.
- **Add dependencies** or require a build step. The library remains header-only, and the single header
-  `json.hpp` remains a complete distribution.
- **Trade simplicity for speed or memory efficiency.** Performance improvements are welcome, but the library is not
-  meant to compete with the fastest JSON libraries, see [Design goals](../home/design_goals.md).
-
-## Version 4.0
-
-There is no decision yet on whether or when a version 4.0 with breaking changes will be released. Proposals that need
-a major version, for instance stricter type conversions, are collected in issue
-[#3453](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/issues/3453). Until then, such changes are only added as opt-in behavior
-behind feature macros.
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-#include <iostream>
-#include <map>
-
-#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
-
-#include "custom_array_type.hpp"
-
-using custom_json = nlohmann::basic_json<std::map, custom_array_type>;
-
-int main()
-{
-    custom_json j = custom_json::array();
-    j.push_back(1);
-    j.push_back(2);
-    j.push_back(3);
-
-    std::cout << j.dump() << std::endl;
-    std::cout << std::boolalpha << (custom_json::parse(j.dump()) == j) << std::endl;
-}
@@ -1,152 +0,0 @@
-#pragma once
-
-#include <memory>
-#include <utility>
-#include <vector>
-
-// A minimal, self-contained ArrayType built around a private std::vector.
-// See https://json.nlohmann.me/features/types/template_parameters/#arraytype
-template<class T, class Allocator = std::allocator<T>>
-class custom_array_type
-{
-    using vector_t = std::vector<T, Allocator>;
-    vector_t data_;
-
-  public:
-    using value_type = typename vector_t::value_type;
-    using size_type = typename vector_t::size_type;
-    using iterator = typename vector_t::iterator;
-    using const_iterator = typename vector_t::const_iterator;
-
-    custom_array_type() = default;
-    custom_array_type(const custom_array_type&) = default;
-    custom_array_type(custom_array_type&&) = default;
-    custom_array_type& operator=(const custom_array_type&) = default;
-    custom_array_type& operator=(custom_array_type&&) = default;
-
-    template<class InputIt>
-    custom_array_type(InputIt first, InputIt last) : data_(first, last) {}
-
-    custom_array_type(size_type count, const T& value) : data_(count, value) {}
-
-    iterator begin()
-    {
-        return data_.begin();
-    }
-    iterator end()
-    {
-        return data_.end();
-    }
-    const_iterator begin() const
-    {
-        return data_.begin();
-    }
-    const_iterator end() const
-    {
-        return data_.end();
-    }
-    const_iterator cbegin() const
-    {
-        return data_.cbegin();
-    }
-    const_iterator cend() const
-    {
-        return data_.cend();
-    }
-
-    bool empty() const
-    {
-        return data_.empty();
-    }
-    size_type size() const
-    {
-        return data_.size();
-    }
-    size_type max_size() const
-    {
-        return data_.max_size();
-    }
-    void clear()
-    {
-        data_.clear();
-    }
-    void resize(size_type n)
-    {
-        data_.resize(n);
-    }
-
-    T& operator[](size_type pos)
-    {
-        return data_[pos];
-    }
-    const T& operator[](size_type pos) const
-    {
-        return data_[pos];
-    }
-
-    T& back()
-    {
-        return data_.back();
-    }
-    const T& back() const
-    {
-        return data_.back();
-    }
-
-    void push_back(const T& value)
-    {
-        data_.push_back(value);
-    }
-    void push_back(T&& value)
-    {
-        data_.push_back(std::move(value));
-    }
-
-    template<class... Args>
-    void emplace_back(Args&& ... args)
-    {
-        data_.emplace_back(std::forward<Args>(args)...);
-    }
-
-    void pop_back()
-    {
-        data_.pop_back();
-    }
-
-    iterator insert(const_iterator pos, const T& value)
-    {
-        return data_.insert(pos, value);
-    }
-    iterator insert(const_iterator pos, size_type count, const T& value)
-    {
-        return data_.insert(pos, count, value);
-    }
-    template<class InputIt>
-    iterator insert(const_iterator pos, InputIt first, InputIt last)
-    {
-        return data_.insert(pos, first, last);
-    }
-
-    iterator erase(const_iterator pos)
-    {
-        return data_.erase(pos);
-    }
-    iterator erase(const_iterator first, const_iterator last)
-    {
-        return data_.erase(first, last);
-    }
-
-    void swap(custom_array_type& other)
-    {
-        data_.swap(other.data_);
-    }
-
-    friend bool operator==(const custom_array_type& lhs, const custom_array_type& rhs)
-    {
-        return lhs.data_ == rhs.data_;
-    }
-    friend bool operator<(const custom_array_type& lhs, const custom_array_type& rhs)
-    {
-        return lhs.data_ < rhs.data_;
-    }
-};
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-[1,2,3]
-true
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-#include <cstdint>
-#include <iostream>
-#include <map>
-#include <string>
-#include <vector>
-
-#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
-
-#include "custom_binary_type.hpp"
-
-using custom_json = nlohmann::basic_json<std::map, std::vector, std::string, bool,
-      std::int64_t, std::uint64_t, double, std::allocator,
-      nlohmann::adl_serializer, custom_binary_type>;
-
-int main()
-{
-    const auto j = custom_json::binary({0x01, 0x02, 0x03});
-
-    std::cout << j.dump() << std::endl;
-    std::cout << std::boolalpha << (custom_json::from_cbor(custom_json::to_cbor(j)) == j) << std::endl;
-}
@@ -1,112 +0,0 @@
-#pragma once
-
-#include <cstdint>
-#include <initializer_list>
-#include <vector>
-
-// A minimal, self-contained BinaryType built around a private std::vector.
-// See https://json.nlohmann.me/features/types/template_parameters/#binarytype
-class custom_binary_type
-{
-    using vector_t = std::vector<std::uint8_t>;
-    vector_t data_;
-
-  public:
-    using value_type = vector_t::value_type;
-    using size_type = vector_t::size_type;
-    using iterator = vector_t::iterator;
-    using const_iterator = vector_t::const_iterator;
-
-    custom_binary_type() = default;
-    custom_binary_type(const custom_binary_type&) = default;
-    custom_binary_type(custom_binary_type&&) = default;
-    custom_binary_type& operator=(const custom_binary_type&) = default;
-    custom_binary_type& operator=(custom_binary_type&&) = default;
-
-    template<class InputIt>
-    custom_binary_type(InputIt first, InputIt last) : data_(first, last) {}
-
-    // so basic_json::binary({0x01, 0x02}) can build one directly
-    custom_binary_type(std::initializer_list<std::uint8_t> init) : data_(init) {}
-
-    size_type size() const
-    {
-        return data_.size();
-    }
-    bool empty() const
-    {
-        return data_.empty();
-    }
-    void clear()
-    {
-        data_.clear();
-    }
-    void resize(size_type n)
-    {
-        data_.resize(n);
-    }
-
-    // read-only is enough: the writers only ever read from a binary value
-    const std::uint8_t* data() const
-    {
-        return data_.data();
-    }
-
-    std::uint8_t& operator[](size_type pos)
-    {
-        return data_[pos];
-    }
-    std::uint8_t operator[](size_type pos) const
-    {
-        return data_[pos];
-    }
-
-    std::uint8_t& back()
-    {
-        return data_.back();
-    }
-    std::uint8_t back() const
-    {
-        return data_.back();
-    }
-
-    iterator begin()
-    {
-        return data_.begin();
-    }
-    iterator end()
-    {
-        return data_.end();
-    }
-    const_iterator begin() const
-    {
-        return data_.begin();
-    }
-    const_iterator end() const
-    {
-        return data_.end();
-    }
-    const_iterator cbegin() const
-    {
-        return data_.cbegin();
-    }
-    const_iterator cend() const
-    {
-        return data_.cend();
-    }
-
-    template<class InputIt>
-    iterator insert(const_iterator pos, InputIt first, InputIt last)
-    {
-        return data_.insert(pos, first, last);
-    }
-
-    friend bool operator==(const custom_binary_type& lhs, const custom_binary_type& rhs)
-    {
-        return lhs.data_ == rhs.data_;
-    }
-    friend bool operator<(const custom_binary_type& lhs, const custom_binary_type& rhs)
-    {
-        return lhs.data_ < rhs.data_;
-    }
-};
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-{"bytes":[1,2,3],"subtype":null}
-true
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-#include <iostream>
-#include <type_traits>
-#include <vector>
-
-#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
-
-#include "custom_object_type.hpp"
-
-using custom_json = nlohmann::basic_json<custom_object_type, std::vector>;
-
-int main()
-{
-    custom_json j;
-    j["pi"] = 3.141;
-    j["happy"] = true;
-    j["list"] = {1, 2, 3};
-
-    std::cout << j.dump(2) << std::endl;
-    std::cout << std::boolalpha << (custom_json::parse(j.dump()) == j) << std::endl;
-
-    // custom_object_type has no key_compare member, so object_comparator_t
-    // falls back to its default
-    std::cout << std::boolalpha
-              << std::is_same<custom_json::object_comparator_t, custom_json::default_object_comparator_t>::value
-              << std::endl;
-}
@@ -1,144 +0,0 @@
-#pragma once
-
-#include <map>
-#include <utility>
-
-// A minimal, self-contained ObjectType built around a private std::map.
-// key_compare is deliberately not exposed: when an ObjectType has no
-// key_compare member, the library falls back to its own default comparator.
-// See https://json.nlohmann.me/features/types/template_parameters/#objecttype
-template<class Key, class T, class Compare, class Allocator>
-class custom_object_type
-{
-    using map_t = std::map<Key, T, Compare, Allocator>;
-    map_t data_;
-
-  public:
-    using key_type = typename map_t::key_type;
-    using mapped_type = typename map_t::mapped_type;
-    using value_type = typename map_t::value_type;
-    using size_type = typename map_t::size_type;
-    using iterator = typename map_t::iterator;
-    using const_iterator = typename map_t::const_iterator;
-
-    custom_object_type() = default;
-    custom_object_type(const custom_object_type&) = default;
-    custom_object_type(custom_object_type&&) = default;
-    custom_object_type& operator=(const custom_object_type&) = default;
-    custom_object_type& operator=(custom_object_type&&) = default;
-
-    template<class InputIt>
-    custom_object_type(InputIt first, InputIt last) : data_(first, last) {}
-
-    iterator begin()
-    {
-        return data_.begin();
-    }
-    iterator end()
-    {
-        return data_.end();
-    }
-    const_iterator begin() const
-    {
-        return data_.begin();
-    }
-    const_iterator end() const
-    {
-        return data_.end();
-    }
-    const_iterator cbegin() const
-    {
-        return data_.cbegin();
-    }
-    const_iterator cend() const
-    {
-        return data_.cend();
-    }
-
-    bool empty() const
-    {
-        return data_.empty();
-    }
-    size_type size() const
-    {
-        return data_.size();
-    }
-    size_type max_size() const
-    {
-        return data_.max_size();
-    }
-    void clear()
-    {
-        data_.clear();
-    }
-
-    iterator find(const key_type& key)
-    {
-        return data_.find(key);
-    }
-    const_iterator find(const key_type& key) const
-    {
-        return data_.find(key);
-    }
-    size_type count(const key_type& key) const
-    {
-        return data_.count(key);
-    }
-
-    std::pair<iterator, bool> emplace(const key_type& key, const mapped_type& value)
-    {
-        return data_.emplace(key, value);
-    }
-
-    std::pair<iterator, bool> insert(const value_type& value)
-    {
-        return data_.insert(value);
-    }
-
-    template<class InputIt>
-    void insert(InputIt first, InputIt last)
-    {
-        data_.insert(first, last);
-    }
-
-    mapped_type& operator[](const key_type& key)
-    {
-        return data_[key];
-    }
-
-    mapped_type& at(const key_type& key)
-    {
-        return data_.at(key);
-    }
-    const mapped_type& at(const key_type& key) const
-    {
-        return data_.at(key);
-    }
-
-    iterator erase(iterator pos)
-    {
-        return data_.erase(pos);
-    }
-    iterator erase(iterator first, iterator last)
-    {
-        return data_.erase(first, last);
-    }
-    size_type erase(const key_type& key)
-    {
-        return data_.erase(key);
-    }
-
-    void swap(custom_object_type& other)
-    {
-        data_.swap(other.data_);
-    }
-
-    friend bool operator==(const custom_object_type& lhs, const custom_object_type& rhs)
-    {
-        return lhs.data_ == rhs.data_;
-    }
-    friend bool operator<(const custom_object_type& lhs, const custom_object_type& rhs)
-    {
-        return lhs.data_ < rhs.data_;
-    }
-};
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "happy": true,
-  "list": [
-    1,
-    2,
-    3
-  ],
-  "pi": 3.141
-}
-true
-true
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-#include <iostream>
-#include <map>
-#include <vector>
-
-#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
-
-#include "custom_string_type.hpp"
-
-using custom_json = nlohmann::basic_json<std::map, std::vector, custom_string_type>;
-
-int main()
-{
-    custom_json j;
-    j["pi"] = 3.141;
-    j["happy"] = true;
-    j["list"] = {1, 2, 3};
-
-    std::cout << j.dump(2) << std::endl;
-    std::cout << std::boolalpha << (custom_json::parse(j.dump()) == j) << std::endl;
-}
@@ -1,134 +0,0 @@
-#pragma once
-
-#include <ostream>
-#include <string>
-
-// A minimal, self-contained StringType built around a private std::string.
-// Wraps rather than inherits, so it exposes exactly what the library needs
-// and nothing more of std::string's interface.
-//
-// Covers the "Always required" members, the extras needed for the binary
-// formats, and the extras needed for JSON Pointer / flatten / unflatten /
-// diff. Extending it further (e.g. for std::hash<basic_json> or to_bson) is
-// a matter of adding the extra members listed in the "Required for other
-// functionality" table.
-//
-// See https://json.nlohmann.me/features/types/template_parameters/#stringtype
-class custom_string_type
-{
-    std::string data_;
-
-  public:
-    using value_type = char;
-    using size_type = std::string::size_type;
-    using iterator = std::string::iterator;
-    using const_iterator = std::string::const_iterator;
-
-    static constexpr size_type npos = std::string::npos;
-
-    custom_string_type() = default;
-    custom_string_type(const custom_string_type&) = default;
-    custom_string_type(custom_string_type&&) = default;
-    custom_string_type& operator=(const custom_string_type&) = default;
-    custom_string_type& operator=(custom_string_type&&) = default;
-
-    // not explicit: the library relies on being able to hand it a string literal
-    custom_string_type(const char* s) : data_(s) {}
-    custom_string_type(const char* s, size_type count) : data_(s, count) {}
-    custom_string_type(size_type count, char ch) : data_(count, ch) {}
-
-    size_type size() const
-    {
-        return data_.size();
-    }
-    bool empty() const
-    {
-        return data_.empty();
-    }
-    void clear()
-    {
-        data_.clear();
-    }
-    void resize(size_type n)
-    {
-        data_.resize(n);
-    }
-    void resize(size_type n, char c)
-    {
-        data_.resize(n, c);
-    }
-    void reserve(size_type n)
-    {
-        data_.reserve(n);
-    }
-
-    // must stay null-terminated -- the parser hands this to std::strtoull &
-    // friends; std::string::data() has guaranteed that since C++11
-    const char* data() const
-    {
-        return data_.data();
-    }
-
-    void push_back(char c)
-    {
-        data_.push_back(c);
-    }
-
-    char& operator[](size_type pos)
-    {
-        return data_[pos];
-    }
-    char operator[](size_type pos) const
-    {
-        return data_[pos];
-    }
-
-    custom_string_type& append(const char* s, size_type count)
-    {
-        data_.append(s, count);
-        return *this;
-    }
-    custom_string_type& append(const custom_string_type& other)
-    {
-        data_.append(other.data_);
-        return *this;
-    }
-
-    size_type find_first_of(char c, size_type pos = 0) const
-    {
-        return data_.find_first_of(c, pos);
-    }
-
-    iterator begin()
-    {
-        return data_.begin();
-    }
-    iterator end()
-    {
-        return data_.end();
-    }
-    const_iterator begin() const
-    {
-        return data_.begin();
-    }
-    const_iterator end() const
-    {
-        return data_.end();
-    }
-
-    friend bool operator==(const custom_string_type& lhs, const custom_string_type& rhs)
-    {
-        return lhs.data_ == rhs.data_;
-    }
-    friend bool operator<(const custom_string_type& lhs, const custom_string_type& rhs)
-    {
-        return lhs.data_ < rhs.data_;
-    }
-
-    // not required by the library itself, but dump() returns a custom_string_type
-    // and this makes `std::cout << j.dump()` work as expected
-    friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, const custom_string_type& s)
-    {
-        return os << s.data_;
-    }
-};
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "happy": true,
-  "list": [
-    1,
-    2,
-    3
-  ],
-  "pi": 3.141
-}
-true
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-#include <iostream>
-#include <iomanip>
-#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
-
-using json = nlohmann::json;
-
-int main()
-{
-    // create byte vector
-    std::vector<std::uint8_t> v = {0x89, 0x63, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x70, 0x61, 0x63, 0x74,
-                                   0xf9, 0x66, 0x6f, 0x72, 0x6d, 0x61, 0x74, 0xff,
-                                   0x42, 0x4f, 0x4e, 0x38, 0xff, 0x73, 0x63, 0x68,
-                                   0x65, 0x6d, 0x61, 0x90
-                                  };
-
-    // deserialize it with BON8
-    json j = json::from_bon8(v);
-
-    // print the deserialized JSON value
-    std::cout << std::setw(2) << j << std::endl;
-}
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "compact": true,
-  "format": "BON8",
-  "schema": 0
-}
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 Hello, world!
 1 2 3 4 5 

+string: "Hello, world!"
 number: {"floating-point":17.23,"integer":42}
 null: null
-string: "Hello, world!"
 boolean: true
 array: [1,2,3,4,5]
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 Hello, world!
 1 2 3 4 5 

+string: "Hello, world!"
 number: {"floating-point":17.23,"integer":42}
 null: null
-string: "Hello, world!"
 boolean: true
 array: [1,2,3,4,5]
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 Hello, world!
 1 2 3 4 5 

+string: "Hello, world!"
 number: {"floating-point":17.23,"integer":42}
 null: null
-string: "Hello, world!"
 boolean: true
 array: [1,2,3,4,5]
 [json.exception.type_error.302] type must be boolean, but is string
@@ -9,13 +9,13 @@ int main()
    auto text = R"({"IDs": [116, 943], "Width": 800})";

    // discard the array when the parser reads its opening bracket
-    json j_array_start = json::parse(text, [](int /*depth*/, json::parse_event_t event, json& /*parsed*/)
+    json j_array_start = json::parse(text, [](int /*depth*/, json::parse_event_t event, json & /*parsed*/)
    {
        return event != json::parse_event_t::array_start;
    });

    // discard the same array when the parser reads its closing bracket
-    json j_array_end = json::parse(text, [](int /*depth*/, json::parse_event_t event, json& /*parsed*/)
+    json j_array_end = json::parse(text, [](int /*depth*/, json::parse_event_t event, json & /*parsed*/)
    {
        return event != json::parse_event_t::array_end;
    });
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ int main()
    });

    // discard the top-level object
-    json j_root = json::parse(text, [](int /*depth*/, json::parse_event_t event, json& /*parsed*/)
+    json j_root = json::parse(text, [](int /*depth*/, json::parse_event_t event, json & /*parsed*/)
    {
        return event != json::parse_event_t::object_end;
    });
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-#include <iostream>
-#include <iomanip>
-#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
-
-using json = nlohmann::json;
-using namespace nlohmann::literals;
-
-int main()
-{
-    // create a JSON value
-    json j = R"({"compact": true, "format": "BON8", "schema": 0})"_json;
-
-    // serialize it to BON8
-    std::vector<std::uint8_t> v = json::to_bon8(j);
-
-    // print the vector content
-    for (auto& byte : v)
-    {
-        std::cout << "0x" << std::hex << std::setw(2) << std::setfill('0') << (int)byte << " ";
-    }
-    std::cout << std::endl;
-}
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-0x89 0x63 0x6f 0x6d 0x70 0x61 0x63 0x74 0xf9 0x66 0x6f 0x72 0x6d 0x61 0x74 0xff 0x42 0x4f 0x4e 0x38 0xff 0x73 0x63 0x68 0x65 0x6d 0x61 0x90 
@@ -116,22 +116,17 @@ The library uses the following mapping from JSON values types to BJData types ac
    ```

    Likewise, when a JSON object in the above form is serialized using
-    [`to_bjdata`](../../api/basic_json/to_bjdata.md), it is automatically converted into a compact BJData ND-array.
+    [`to_bjdata`](../../api/basic_json/to_bjdata.md), it is automatically converted into a compact BJData ND-array. When
+    the 1-dimensional vector stored in `"_ArraySize_"` contains a single integer or two integers with one being 1, a
+    regular 1-D optimized array is generated instead.

-    When parsing, an ND-array whose dimension vector is empty, contains a single integer, contains two integers with the
-    first being 1, or contains a 0 is returned as a regular (possibly empty) array rather than an annotated object.
-
-    An object is only converted if the annotation describes a packed array that is parsed back into the same annotated
-    object; otherwise it is serialized as a regular JSON object, so the annotation is never lost in a round trip. This requires
-    all of the following:
+    An object is only converted if the annotation actually describes a packed array; otherwise it is serialized as a
+    regular JSON object. This requires all of the following:

    - `"_ArrayType_"` is one of `uint8`, `int8`, `uint16`, `int16`, `uint32`, `int32`, `uint64`, `int64`, `single`,
      `double`, `char`, or `byte`,
-    - `"_ArraySize_"` is an array, since the dimensions are written as the ND-array header's length,
-    - `"_ArraySize_"` has at least two entries and is not a 1×N row vector (first entry 1), since other shapes are
-      parsed back as a regular array,
-    - every entry of `"_ArraySize_"` is a positive integer, and their product is representable as a `std::size_t`,
-    - `"_ArrayData_"` is an array holding exactly that many elements, and
+    - every entry of `"_ArraySize_"` is a non-negative integer, and their product is representable as a `std::size_t`,
+    - `"_ArrayData_"` holds exactly that many elements, and
    - every element of `"_ArrayData_"` is a number of the kind named by `"_ArrayType_"` (a floating-point number for
      `single` and `double`, an integer otherwise).

@@ -208,16 +203,6 @@ The library maps BJData types to JSON value types as follows:

    The mapping is **complete** in the sense that any BJData value can be converted to a JSON value.

-!!! info "Round trips"
-
-    A value returned by [`from_bjdata`](../../api/basic_json/from_bjdata.md) can be serialized with
-    [`to_bjdata`](../../api/basic_json/to_bjdata.md) using any combination of options and parsed back into an equal
-    value, and serializing that value again with the same options produces the same bytes. The exception is binary
-    values: they are only written as an optimized binary array (`[$B`) if Draft 3 is enabled and both `use_size` and
-    `use_type` are set. Otherwise, they are written as arrays of integers and parsed back as such (see the notes on
-    binary values above), and serializing such an array again may choose different, but equally valid, type markers.
-    The bytes can then differ, but parsing them again yields the same value.
-
 ??? example

    ```cpp
@@ -1,159 +0,0 @@
-# BON8
-
-BON8 (Binary Object Notation 8) is a compact binary serialization format for JSON values. It uses the byte values that
-cannot begin a UTF-8 character as type markers, so strings are stored as plain UTF-8 without a length prefix: a string
-ends at the first byte that cannot continue it. Integers from -10 to 39, `true`, `false`, `null`, and the floating-point
-values -1.0, 0.0, and 1.0 take a single byte, and arrays and objects with up to four elements need no terminator.
-
-!!! abstract "References"
-
-    - [BON8 specification](https://github.com/hikoworks/hikogui/blob/main/docs/BON8.md)
-    - [Reference implementation](https://github.com/hikoworks/hikogui/blob/main/src/hikogui/codec/BON8.hpp) in HikoGUI
-
-## Serialization
-
-The library uses the following mapping from JSON values types to BON8 types according to the BON8 specification:
-
-| JSON value type | value/range                                  | BON8 type                     | first byte |
-|-----------------|----------------------------------------------|-------------------------------|------------|
-| null            | `null`                                       | null                          | 0xFA       |
-| boolean         | `true`                                       | true                          | 0xF9       |
-| boolean         | `false`                                      | false                         | 0xF8       |
-| number_integer  | -9223372036854775808..-2147483649            | int64                         | 0x8D       |
-| number_integer  | -2147483648..-33818507                       | int32                         | 0x8C       |
-| number_integer  | -33818506..-264075                           | 4-byte negative integer       | 0xF0..0xF7 |
-| number_integer  | -264074..-1931                               | 3-byte negative integer       | 0xE0..0xEF |
-| number_integer  | -1930..-11                                   | 2-byte negative integer       | 0xC2..0xDF |
-| number_integer  | -10..-1                                      | 1-byte negative integer       | 0xB8..0xC1 |
-| number_integer  | 0..39                                        | 1-byte positive integer       | 0x90..0xB7 |
-| number_integer  | 40..3879                                     | 2-byte positive integer       | 0xC2..0xDF |
-| number_integer  | 3880..528167                                 | 3-byte positive integer       | 0xE0..0xEF |
-| number_integer  | 528168..67637031                             | 4-byte positive integer       | 0xF0..0xF7 |
-| number_integer  | 67637032..2147483647                         | int32                         | 0x8C       |
-| number_integer  | 2147483648..9223372036854775807              | int64                         | 0x8D       |
-| number_unsigned | 0..39                                        | 1-byte positive integer       | 0x90..0xB7 |
-| number_unsigned | 40..3879                                     | 2-byte positive integer       | 0xC2..0xDF |
-| number_unsigned | 3880..528167                                 | 3-byte positive integer       | 0xE0..0xEF |
-| number_unsigned | 528168..67637031                             | 4-byte positive integer       | 0xF0..0xF7 |
-| number_unsigned | 67637032..2147483647                         | int32                         | 0x8C       |
-| number_unsigned | 2147483648..9223372036854775807              | int64                         | 0x8D       |
-| number_float    | `-1.0`                                       | -1.0                          | 0xFB       |
-| number_float    | `0.0`                                        | 0.0                           | 0xFC       |
-| number_float    | `1.0`                                        | 1.0                           | 0xFD       |
-| number_float    | *any other value representable by a float*   | binary32                      | 0x8E       |
-| number_float    | *any value NOT representable by a float*     | binary64                      | 0x8F       |
-| string          | *empty*                                      | end of string                 | 0xFF       |
-| string          | *non-empty*                                  | UTF-8 string                  | 0x00..0x7F, 0xC2..0xF4 |
-| array           | *size*: 0..4                                 | array with count              | 0x80..0x84 |
-| array           | *size*: 5 or more                            | array (terminated by 0xFE)    | 0x85       |
-| object          | *size*: 0..4                                 | object with count             | 0x86..0x8A |
-| object          | *size*: 5 or more                            | object (terminated by 0xFE)   | 0x8B       |
-| binary          | *size*: 0..4                                 | array with count              | 0x80..0x84 |
-| binary          | *size*: 5 or more                            | array (terminated by 0xFE)    | 0x85       |
-
-An integer that takes 2 to 4 bytes starts with a UTF-8 lead byte (0xC2..0xF7) that is followed by a byte that cannot
-continue a UTF-8 character: 0x00..0x7F for positive and 0xC0..0xFF for negative integers. A string is terminated by
-0xFF only if it is empty, if another string follows it, or if it is the last value of the message; otherwise, the first
-byte of the next value ends it.
-
-!!! success "Complete mapping"
-
-    Except for the values listed below, any JSON value can be converted to a BON8 value.
-
-    Any BON8 output created by `to_bon8` can be successfully parsed by `from_bon8`.
-
-!!! warning "Unsupported values"
-
-    The following values can **not** be converted to a BON8 value:
-
-      - unsigned integers above 9223372036854775807, because BON8 has no unsigned 64-bit integer type
-        ([out_of_range.407](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range407))
-      - strings that are not valid UTF-8, because the end of a string is determined from its encoding
-        ([type_error.316](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptiontype_error316))
-
-!!! info "NaN/infinity handling"
-
-    `-0.0`, `Infinity`, and `-Infinity` are serialized as binary32 (type 0x8E, 5 bytes total). `NaN` is serialized as
-    the binary32 value 0x7F800001 that the specification recommends. This is in contrast to the
-    [dump](../../api/basic_json/dump.md) function which serializes NaN or Infinity to `null`.
-
-!!! warning "Binary values"
-
-    BON8 has no binary type. Binary values are serialized as arrays of integers (0..255), so they are read back as
-    arrays. The subtype is not serialized.
-
-!!! info "Canonical representation"
-
-    The output follows the specification's canonical representation rules: every value uses the shortest encoding,
-    floating-point numbers use binary32 whenever that loses no precision, and object keys are sorted by their UTF-8
-    code units. There are two exceptions:
-
-    - Strings are not normalized to Unicode Normalization Form C (NFC).
-    - Object keys are written in the order of the object type, which is sorted for `json`, but not for
-      [`ordered_json`](../../api/ordered_json.md).
-
-??? example
-
-    ```cpp
-    --8<-- "examples/to_bon8.cpp"
-    ```
-
-    Output:
-
-    ```c
-    --8<-- "examples/to_bon8.output"
-    ```
-
-## Deserialization
-
-The library maps BON8 types to JSON value types as follows:
-
-| BON8 type                     | JSON value type | first byte             |
-|-------------------------------|-----------------|------------------------|
-| UTF-8 string                  | string          | 0x00..0x7F             |
-| array with count              | array           | 0x80..0x84             |
-| array (terminated by 0xFE)    | array           | 0x85                   |
-| object with count             | object          | 0x86..0x8A             |
-| object (terminated by 0xFE)   | object          | 0x8B                   |
-| int32                         | number_unsigned or number_integer | 0x8C |
-| int64                         | number_unsigned or number_integer | 0x8D |
-| binary32                      | number_float    | 0x8E                   |
-| binary64                      | number_float    | 0x8F                   |
-| 1-byte positive integer       | number_unsigned | 0x90..0xB7             |
-| 1-byte negative integer       | number_integer  | 0xB8..0xC1             |
-| UTF-8 string                  | string          | 0xC2..0xF4, followed by 0x80..0xBF |
-| 2- to 4-byte positive integer | number_unsigned | 0xC2..0xF7, followed by 0x00..0x7F |
-| 2- to 4-byte negative integer | number_integer  | 0xC2..0xF7, followed by 0xC0..0xFF |
-| false                         | `false`         | 0xF8                   |
-| true                          | `true`          | 0xF9                   |
-| null                          | `null`          | 0xFA                   |
-| -1.0                          | number_float    | 0xFB                   |
-| 0.0                           | number_float    | 0xFC                   |
-| 1.0                           | number_float    | 0xFD                   |
-| empty string                  | string          | 0xFF                   |
-
-Non-negative integers are read as number_unsigned, negative integers as number_integer.
-
-!!! info
-
-    Values that do not use the canonical representation, such as integers with a longer encoding than necessary,
-    arrays and objects with up to four elements that are terminated by 0xFE, unsorted object keys, or a 0xFF after a
-    string that would also end without it, are accepted. A second 0xFF is not a terminator but an empty string.
-
-    Strings must be valid UTF-8, and the last string of a message must be terminated by 0xFF.
-
-!!! info
-
-    Any BON8 output created by `to_bon8` can be successfully parsed by `from_bon8`.
-
-??? example
-
-    ```cpp
-    --8<-- "examples/from_bon8.cpp"
-    ```
-
-    Output:
-
-    ```json
-    --8<-- "examples/from_bon8.output"
-    ```
@@ -98,17 +98,6 @@ The library maps BSON record types to JSON value types as follows:
    This library deserializes BSON type `0x11` (Timestamp) as a `number_unsigned` value. The 64-bit value is preserved,
    but the Timestamp type information is not.

-!!! warning "Lenient BSON input handling"
-
-    The BSON reader is lenient in a few areas where the BSON specification is more restrictive:
-
-    - array element keys are not checked against the required decimal sequence (`0`, `1`, `2`, ...),
-    - any non-zero byte is accepted as `true` for the boolean type, and
-    - the payload for binary subtype `0x02` is returned as-is, including its inner length prefix.
-
-    If BSON input must be validated for strict specification compliance, validate it separately before passing it to
-    `from_bson()`.
-
 ??? example

    ```cpp
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ Though JSON is a ubiquitous data format, it is not a very compact format suitabl
 a network. Hence, the library supports

 - [BJData](bjdata.md) (Binary JData),
- [BON8](bon8.md) (Binary Object Notation 8),
 - [BSON](bson.md) (Binary JSON),
 - [CBOR](cbor.md) (Concise Binary Object Representation),
 - [MessagePack](messagepack.md), and
@@ -19,7 +18,6 @@ to efficiently encode JSON values to byte vectors and to decode such vectors.
 | Format      | Serialization                                 | Deserialization                              |
 |-------------|-----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|
 | BJData      | complete                                      | complete                                     |
-| BON8        | incomplete: no unsigned integers above int64  | complete                                     |
 | BSON        | incomplete: top-level value must be an object | incomplete, but all JSON types are supported |
 | CBOR        | complete                                      | incomplete, but all JSON types are supported |
 | MessagePack | complete                                      | complete                                     |
@@ -30,7 +28,6 @@ to efficiently encode JSON values to byte vectors and to decode such vectors.
 | Format      | Binary values | Binary subtypes |
 |-------------|---------------|-----------------|
 | BJData      | not supported | not supported   |
-| BON8        | not supported | not supported   |
 | BSON        | supported     | supported       |
 | CBOR        | supported     | supported       |
 | MessagePack | supported     | supported       |
@@ -45,7 +42,6 @@ See [binary values](../binary_values.md) for more information.
 | BJData             | 53.2 %      | 91.1 %       | 78.1 %            | 96.6 %        |
 | BJData (size)      | 58.6 %      | 92.1 %       | 86.7 %            | 97.4 %        |
 | BJData (size+type) | 58.6 %      | 92.1 %       | 86.5 %            | 97.4 %        |
-| BON8               | 50.5 %      | 83.8 %       | 63.5 %            | 87.5 %        |
 | BSON               | 85.8 %      | 95.2 %       | 95.8 %            | 106.7 %       |
 | CBOR               | 50.5 %      | 86.3 %       | 68.4 %            | 88.0 %        |
 | MessagePack        | 50.5 %      | 86.0 %       | 68.5 %            | 87.9 %        |
@@ -69,13 +69,6 @@ The library uses the following mapping from JSON values types to UBJSON types ac
    Note that `use_size = true` alone may result in larger representations - the benefit of this parameter is that the
    receiving side is immediately informed on the number of elements of the container.

-    An array whose type marker is `Z` (null), `T` (true) or `F` (false) stores no payload at all, because the marker
-    already is the value. Its declared count is therefore the only thing that decides how much memory the receiving side
-    allocates, and a handful of bytes can describe billions of elements. `from_ubjson` rejects such an array with
-    [`out_of_range.408`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range408) when the count exceeds 1,048,576
-    (`1 << 20`), and `to_ubjson` writes longer arrays of these types without the annotation, so any value it produces
-    can be read back.
-
 !!! info "Binary values"

    If the JSON data contains the binary type, the value stored is a list of integers, as suggested by the UBJSON
@@ -187,41 +187,6 @@ as an array of uint8 values. The library implements this translation.
    }
    ```

-### BON8
-
-[BON8](binary_formats/bon8.md) neither supports binary values nor subtypes. The library serializes binary values as an
-array of integers.
-
-??? example
-
-    Code:
-
-    ```cpp
-    // create a binary value of subtype 42 (will be ignored in BON8)
-    json j;
-    j["binary"] = json::binary({0xCA, 0xFE, 0xBA, 0xBE}, 42);
-
-    // convert to BON8
-    auto v = json::to_bon8(j);
-    ```
-
-    `v` is a `std::vector<std::uint8_t>` with the following 16 elements:
-
-    ```c
-    0x87                                     // object with 1 member
-        0x62 0x69 0x6E 0x61 0x72 0x79        // "binary"
-        0x84                                 // array with 4 elements
-            0xC3 0x22 0xC3 0x56 0xC3 0x12 0xC3 0x16  // content (each byte as a 2-byte integer)
-    ```
-
-    Note that the subtype is lost, and deserializing `v` would yield the following value:
-
-    ```json
-    {
-      "binary": [202, 254, 186, 190]
-    }
-    ```
-
 ### BSON

 [BSON](binary_formats/bson.md) supports binary values and subtypes. If a subtype is given, it is used and added as an
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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Niels LohmannandClaude Sonnet 5	55ff4c9eff	test: drop a trailing NUL byte from the nativejson-benchmark 1e308 fixture The "doubles" compliance test built its 1e308 literal as a std::string sized to 312 bytes with an explicit trailing '\0' at index 311, relying on the old NUL-as-EOF lexer behavior removed earlier in this branch: with that removed, the NUL is ordinary (invalid) trailing data instead of being silently swallowed, so json::parse() correctly rejected it with parse_error.101 - breaking CI across every compiler/platform, since this one nativejson-benchmark TEST_CASE is exercised by every test job. No padding is needed at all: json::parse(const std::string&) already uses the string's own size(), not a NUL terminator. Drop the trailing byte and shrink the string by one to match (index 310 - the new last index - is where ']' now goes), fixing this the same way the other pre-existing tests in this branch that depended on the same bug were already fixed. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <niels.lohmann@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N4RQ1Ahan5YAGbnAQGjZTY	2026-09-15 10:22:47 +00:00
Niels LohmannandClaude Sonnet 5	633eef8494	fix: treat a NUL byte in the input as an ordinary byte, not EOF The lexer's token dispatch had `case '\0':` fall through to the same `end_of_input` handling as the real end-of-file sentinel, with a comment claiming the NUL case was "needed when parsing from string literals". That rationale no longer holds: input_adapter(const char) already uses strlen() to compute its range, so it never hands the lexer a trailing NUL, and the const-char overload is the only "string literal" path the comment could be referring to. In practice, `case '\0':` only ever fired on a genuine embedded or trailing NUL byte in real input data (e.g. a std::string with '\0' appended), which was then silently swallowed as if it were EOF instead of producing the parse_error.101 any other unexpected byte gets. Two more spots in the comment-skipping logic had the same NUL-as-EOF idiom, stopping a `//` or `/* /` comment scan early at an embedded NUL instead of continuing to the real terminator. Removing all three still left one real regression: input_adapter's T(&array)[N] overload (used for a string literal like json::parse("123"), as opposed to a decayed const char pointer) passes the array's full extent through unchanged, trailing '\0' included. That path was relying on the lexer's old NUL-as-EOF behavior to make ordinary literal parsing work at all. It now gets its own strlen()-like handling for char arrays specifically: a single trailing NUL terminator is excluded, mirroring the pointer overload, while non-char arrays (e.g. uint8_t buffers for binary formats) are left untouched since a trailing zero byte there may be data. Also updates a few existing tests that (mostly incidentally) depended on a trailing NUL being swallowed - std::array<uint8_t, 5>{"true"} left the 5th element zero-initialized - and adds an FAQ entry. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <niels.lohmann@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N4RQ1Ahan5YAGbnAQGjZTY	2026-09-15 07:12:35 +00:00
Niels Lohmann	e5f84e1ebf	refactor: split the strict and non-strict paths in parser Folding the release_lookahead() call into the existing strict check left the "in strict mode" comment on an else-if branch, and made the strict condition in sax_parse() redundant with the branch it followed. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>	2026-08-19 22:50:21 +02:00
Niels Lohmann	7fc3a7d87e	docs: drop the whitespace-separator caveat from the parsing pages The caveat added in #5343 describes the behavior this branch fixes: a number no longer consumes the character that terminates it, so concatenated values need no separator. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>	2026-08-19 22:46:12 +02:00
Niels Lohmann	43b689b9b6	Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/develop' into claude/issue-5340-restore-unget Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>	2026-08-19 22:41:46 +02:00
Niels Lohmann	a13902a33f	docs: match the version history wording to the peek-based fix Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>	2026-08-04 14:44:23 +02:00
Niels Lohmann	c021a09b08	fix: leave the character that terminates a number in the input Read the character following a number without consuming it, instead of consuming it and putting it back. input_stream_adapter now peeks with sgetc() and only steps over the character when the next one is requested or when the adapter is destroyed, so releasing it cannot fail - no putback position is required from the streambuf. Suggested by gregmarr in #5344. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>	2026-08-04 14:39:05 +02:00
Niels Lohmann	e4aaf46d38	Merge branch 'develop' into claude/issue-5340-restore-unget Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>	2026-08-04 14:25:17 +02:00
Niels Lohmann	5bc24e876b	tests: fix CI failures in the #5340 test helpers Four CI failures, all in the new test code: - GCC (-Werror=useless-cast): drop the `json(...)` wrapper around `json::parse(...)`, which already returns a `json`. - GCC (-Werror=unused-result): assign the discarded `json::parse()` result to a dummy, the idiom used elsewhere in the test suite, and catch `json::parse_error&` for consistency. - clang-tidy (google-default-arguments): remove the default argument from the `pbackfail()` override; `sungetc()` supplies the base declaration's default. - MSVC (bad allocation): `no_putback_streambuf::underflow()` set a one-character get area without advancing `m_pos`, so an implementation whose `istream::get` peeks before it bumps re-read the same character forever. Keep no get area at all: `underflow()` peeks, `uflow()` consumes, and `sungetc()` still always lands in `pbackfail()`, which is what the test needs. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>	2026-08-03 19:42:06 +02:00
Niels Lohmann	da7b9bdb3d	fix: restore the character that terminates a number (#5340 ) operator>> is documented to leave the stream positioned right after the parsed value, so that concatenated JSON values can be read back to back. That did not hold for numbers: a number is only terminated by the character following it, and lexer::scan_number() reads that character and calls unget() -- which is simulated and rewinds only the lexer's own bookkeeping. input_stream_adapter consumes via sbumpc() with no matching sungetc(), so the terminating character stayed consumed and the next extraction started one byte too late ('1true' left the stream at 'rue'). Propagating unget() to the adapter directly does not work: next_unget makes the following get() replay the cached character, so the terminator would be delivered twice. Instead, restore the still-pending character once at the end of a non-strict parse, where the input is handed back to the caller: - input_stream_adapter gains unget_character() (sungetc()) and advertises it via supports_unget, detected the same way as supports_seek. - lexer::restore_pending_unget() turns a pending simulated unget of a real (non-EOF) character into a real one and clears next_unget so the character is not also replayed. It is a no-op for adapters that cannot unget, and reports failure when sungetc() fails, in which case the input is left as it was before. - parser calls it on the three non-strict paths, i.e. for operator>> and sax_parse(strict = false). Strict parse()/accept() are unaffected: they require the input to end after the value, so the character is consumed by the end-of-input check anyway. Parse error messages and reported positions are unchanged. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>	2026-08-01 07:33:11 +02:00
Niels Lohmann	634f49bc5b	docs: qualify the operator>> stream positioning guarantee operator>>'s notes state that it leaves the stream positioned right after the parsed value, so that concatenated JSON values can be read back to back. That does not hold when the value is a number: a number is only terminated by the character that follows it, and the lexer's unget() is simulated (it rewinds only the lexer's own bookkeeping), so that character stays consumed from the stream. Document the actual behaviour: the guarantee holds for all value types except numbers, which must be followed by whitespace. Also qualify the cross-reference on the JSON Lines page, which repeated the unqualified claim. Documentation only; the behaviour itself is tracked in #5340. Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>	2026-08-01 07:27:53 +02:00
				`@@ -1 +0,0 @@`
				`0x89 0x63 0x6f 0x6d 0x70 0x61 0x63 0x74 0xf9 0x66 0x6f 0x72 0x6d 0x61 0x74 0xff 0x42 0x4f 0x4e 0x38 0xff 0x73 0x63 0x68 0x65 0x6d 0x61 0x90`