# v2.0.8

Released on 2016-12-02.

Adds the [`emplace`](../../api/basic_json/emplace.md) and
[`emplace_back`](../../api/basic_json/emplace_back.md) functions and improves parsing and serialization
performance. All changes are backward-compatible.
[Full release notes](https://github.com/nlohmann/json/releases/tag/v2.0.8).

## API changes

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