Bump version to 4.98.0, update json-io test dependency to 4.97.0

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: jdereg

changelog.md

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ### Revision History
 
+#### 4.98.0 (Unreleased)
+
 #### 4.97.0 - 2026-03-03
 * **PERFORMANCE**: `FastReader.readUntil()` now splits the inner loop into a read-only delimiter scan followed by a bulk `System.arraycopy`, allowing the JIT to optimize the tight scan loop independently from memory writes.
 * **PERFORMANCE**: `FastReader.readUntil()` scan loop now uses a `do-while` with a single array access per iteration and hoists position assignment above the delimiter check to eliminate a duplicate write.

pom.xml

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     <groupId>com.cedarsoftware</groupId>
     <artifactId>java-util</artifactId>
     <packaging>bundle</packaging>
-    <version>4.97.0</version>
+    <version>4.98.0</version>
     <description>Java Utilities</description>
     <url>https://github.com/jdereg/java-util</url>
 
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
         <version.junit-jupiter-params>5.14.2</version.junit-jupiter-params>
         <version.mockito-junit-jupiter>4.11.0</version.mockito-junit-jupiter>   <!-- can't update until they have JDK support -->
         <version.assertj-core>3.27.7</version.assertj-core>
-        <version.json-io>4.96.0</version.json-io>
+        <version.json-io>4.97.0</version.json-io>
         <version.agrona>1.22.0</version.agrona> <!-- do not increase past 1.22.0 until abandoning JDK 8 support, class file format 52 -->
         <version.commons-collections4>4.5.0</version.commons-collections4>
         <version.guava>33.5.0-jre</version.guava>