What's Changed

• feat: add global OmitEmpty encoding option by @bwplotka in #691
• chore: clarify omitempty behaviour. by @bwplotka in #696
• Treat output from TextMarshaler as string by @shuheiktgw in #698
• Update golangci-lint to v2.1.2 by @shuheiktgw in #701
• Tidy benchmarks/go.mod by @eikemeier in #686
• Remove testmod task by @goccy in #715
• Clean up encoder.go by @shuheiktgw in #703
• Fix validation error position for container type by @goccy in #716
• Add nil checking for error handling by @goccy in #719
• Ignore validation for alias map key by @goccy in #720
• Avoid returning an error for null document by @shuheiktgw in #721
• Add Go 1.24 to test matrix by @shuheiktgw in #722
• Set null value for empty document by @goccy in #725
• Support implicit null by @goccy in #727
• Support omitzero by @goccy in #729
• feat: Dont make copies of structs for validation by @shuheiktgw in #737
• Prevent panic when decoding string named types by @shuheiktgw in #743
• Fix misaligned indentation in comments by @shuheiktgw in #734
• Add support for multi-line double-quoted strings with CRLF line endings by @shuheiktgw in #744
• Update custom marshaler and unmarshaler to accept context by @pgeiem in #745

New Contributors

• @bwplotka made their first contribution in #691
• @eikemeier made their first contribution in #686
• @pgeiem made their first contribution in #745

Full Changelog: v1.17.1...v1.18.0