Prepare for 2.18.4 release

Author: cowtowncoder

pom.xml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson</groupId>
     <artifactId>jackson-base</artifactId>
-    <version>2.18.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.18.4</version>
   </parent>
   <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
   <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>

release-notes/VERSION-2.x

@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ a pure JSON library.
 === Releases ===
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+2.18.4 (06-May-2025)
+
+No changes since 2.18.3
+
 2.18.3 (28-Feb-2025)
 
 #1391: Fix issue where the parser can read back old number state when