# v2.0.3

Released on 2016-08-31.

Generalizes the parser to accept any contiguous sequence of one-byte elements and deprecates the
input-stream constructor in favor of the [`parse`](../../api/basic_json/parse.md) function. All changes
are backward-compatible. [Full release notes](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/releases/tag/v2.0.3).

## API changes

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