Prep for 2.20.1 release

Author: cowtowncoder

pom.xml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson</groupId>
     <artifactId>jackson-base</artifactId>
-    <version>2.20.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.20.1</version>
   </parent>
   <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
   <artifactId>jackson-dataformats-text</artifactId>

release-notes/VERSION-2.x

@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ Active Maintainers:
 === Releases ===
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+2.20.1 (30-Oct-2025)
+
+No changes since 2.20.0
+
 2.20.0 (28-Aug-2025)
 
 #497: (csv, toml, yaml): `UTF8Reader` throws "Need to move partially decoded character;