Jansson

Jansson is a C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data. It features:

• Simple and intuitive API and data model
• Comprehensive documentation
• No dependencies on other libraries
• Full Unicode support (UTF-8)
• Extensive test suite

Jansson is licensed under the MIT license.

Jansson's mailing list is jansson-users at Google Groups. You're welcome to ask for help, send suggestions, submit patches, etc.

News

• No more posts about Jansson releases, on 2016-08-31
• Jansson 2.6 released, on 2014-04-01
• Jansson 2.5 released, on 2013-09-23
• Jansson's documentation moved to Read the Docs, on 2013-08-21
• Jansson 2.4 released, on 2012-09-23

Releases

The latest release is Jansson v2.10, released on 2016-03-02.

• Download source: tar.gz (sig), tar.bz2 (sig)
• Documentation
• Release notes

For the source code and downloadable documentation of older releases, see the release archive. The documentation of older releases can also be viewed online: 2.9, 2.8, 2.7, 2.6, 2.5, 2.4, 2.3, 2.2, 2.1, 2.0, 1.3, 1.2, 1.1, 1.0

Development

The Jansson source repository is hosted at GitHub.

• Source repository
• Mailing list
• Issue tracker
• Latest documentation built from git master branch
• Wiki contains some development documentation

Clone the source:

git clone https://github.com/akheron/jansson