Bump version to 4.97.0-SNAPSHOT

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: jdereg

changelog.md

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 ### Revision History
 
-#### 4.96.0 (Unreleased)
+#### 4.97.0 (Unreleased)
+
+#### 4.96.0 - 2026-02-28
 * **BUG FIX**: `ClassUtilities.trySetAccessible()` no longer caches successful `setAccessible(true)` results. The `WeakHashMap`-based cache uses `equals()` for lookup, but `Field.equals()` matches by declaring class, name, and type — not identity. When `getDeclaredFields()` was called with different predicates, the JVM returned different `Field` instances for the same logical field; the cache returned `TRUE` for the second instance without ever calling `setAccessible(true)` on it, leaving it inaccessible. This caused `Traverser` to silently skip inaccessible fields, breaking `GraphComparator.applyDelta()`. Only failures (`FALSE`) are now cached to avoid expensive repeated exceptions on JPMS-sealed modules.
 
 #### 4.95.0 - 2026-02-28

pom.xml

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     <groupId>com.cedarsoftware</groupId>
     <artifactId>java-util</artifactId>
     <packaging>bundle</packaging>
-    <version>4.96.0</version>
+    <version>4.97.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <description>Java Utilities</description>
     <url>https://github.com/jdereg/java-util</url>