Merge branch '2.8' into 2.9
diff --git a/release-notes/VERSION b/release-notes/VERSION
index aca2a0d..00bf8f8 100644
--- a/release-notes/VERSION
+++ b/release-notes/VERSION
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 #1799: Allow creation of custom sub-types of `NullNode`, `BooleanNode`, `MissingNode`
 #1804: `ValueInstantiator.canInstantiate()` ignores `canCreateUsingArrayDelegate()`
  (reported byb henryptung@github)
+#1807: Jackson-databind caches plain map deserializer and use it even map has `@JsonDeserializer`
+ (reported by lexas2509@github)
 
 2.9.2 (14-Oct-2017)