prepare release 4.2.6

Author: mpv1989

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+v4.2.6 (2017-10-23)
+---------------------------
+* issue #151: fixed de-/serialization of negative int values
+* exclude junit dependency of json-simple
+
 v4.2.5 (2017-10-16)
 ---------------------------
 * issue #146: added ArangoCollection.exists()

pom.xml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 	<groupId>com.arangodb</groupId>
 	<artifactId>arangodb-java-driver</artifactId>
-	<version>4.2.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>4.2.6</version>
 	<inceptionYear>2016</inceptionYear>
 	<packaging>jar</packaging>
 
@@ -23,12 +23,11 @@
 	<properties>
 		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
 		<slf4j-api.version>1.7.13</slf4j-api.version>
-		<json-simple.version>1.1.1</json-simple.version>
 		<logback-classic.version>1.1.3</logback-classic.version>
 		<hamcrest-all.version>1.3</hamcrest-all.version>
 		<junit.version>4.12</junit.version>
 		<httpclient.version>4.5.1</httpclient.version>
-		<arangodb.velocypack.version>1.0.11</arangodb.velocypack.version>
+		<arangodb.velocypack.version>1.0.12</arangodb.velocypack.version>
 	</properties>
 
 	<developers>
@@ -213,10 +212,6 @@
 			<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
 			<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
 		</dependency>
-		<dependency>
-		    <groupId>com.googlecode.json-simple</groupId>
-		    <artifactId>json-simple</artifactId>
-		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
 			<artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
@@ -251,11 +246,6 @@
 				<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
 				<version>${slf4j-api.version}</version>
 			</dependency>
-			<dependency>
-			    <groupId>com.googlecode.json-simple</groupId>
-			    <artifactId>json-simple</artifactId>
-			    <version>${json-simple.version}</version>
-			</dependency>
 			<dependency>
 				<groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
 				<artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>