Release 4.2.0

[oschwald]

• Set release date
• Preparing for 4.2.0

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved decoding for large pointer offsets, unknown four-byte pointers, and UTF-8 text split across buffer chunks.
• Improvements
  • Added safeguards limiting decoded values, skipped content, nested containers, and encoded string or byte payloads.
  • Improved decoder performance and reduced unnecessary memory allocation.
• Documentation
  • Updated installation examples and release information to version 4.2.0.

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Walkthrough

The project version and japicmp baseline were updated to 4.2.0. The README installation examples and changelog heading were updated to match the release.

Changes

4.2.0 release update

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Project version and compatibility baseline pom.xml	The Maven project version and japicmp baseline changed from 4.1.0 to 4.2.0.
Published release references CHANGELOG.md, README.md	The changelog heading and Maven and Gradle installation examples now reference 4.2.0.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~3 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6af91

This release-prep change correctly bumps the version and documentation to 4.2.0, but it also moves the API-compatibility baseline to 4.2.0 instead of keeping it at the previously released 4.1.0. If the compatibility check profile runs as part of the release build, it may fail to download the not-yet-published baseline artifact or fail to catch real API breaks against the last release. This should be fixed before merging to avoid a broken or ineffective release build.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: preparing the project for the 4.2.0 release.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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• Commit unit tests in branch greg/stf-1689

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Inline comments:
In `@pom.xml`:
- Line 171: Set the japicmp.baselineVersion property back to 4.1.0 for this
release, preserving the api-compat comparison against the previous published
artifact; only advance it after the 4.2.0 artifact is available.

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