RELEASE-NOTES.txt

Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.7.11

Introduction
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Jackrabbit Oak is a scalable, high-performance hierarchical content
repository designed for use as the foundation of modern world-class
web sites and other demanding content applications.

Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.7.11 is an unstable release cut directly from
Jackrabbit Oak trunk, with a focus on new features and other
improvements. For production use we recommend the latest stable 1.6.x
release.

The Oak effort is a part of the Apache Jackrabbit project.
Apache Jackrabbit is a project of the Apache Software Foundation.

Changes in Oak 1.7.11
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Sub-task

    [OAK-2382] - Move NodeStore implementations to separate modules

Technical task

    [OAK-5650] - RDBDocumentStore on Oracle:
    ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in Oracle JDBC driver
    [OAK-6813] - DocumentStore conditional remove: reduce set of
    supported conditions to what the Version GC needs
    [OAK-6857] - Lucene unique index should check path validity for
    uniqueness constraint
    [OAK-6863] - RDB*Store: update Oracle JDBC dependency to 12.2.0.1
    [OAK-6903] - RDB*Store: update Tomcat JDBC pool dependency to
    7.0.82
    [OAK-6906] - RDB*Store: update Tomcat JDBC pool dependency to
    8.5.23 (for branches compatible with Java 7)
    [OAK-6907] - RDB*Store: require ojdbc 12.2.0.1 because of known
    issues in earlier versions

Bug

    [OAK-5521] - CommunicationObserver and its MBeans need proper
    synchronization
    [OAK-6740] - Test failure: StandbyTestIT.testSyncLoop()
    [OAK-6748] - Test failure:
    ExternalPrivateStoreIT.testSyncBigBlob()
    [OAK-6796] - DataStoreTestBase.testSyncBigBlob failures
    [OAK-6829] -
    ExternalPrivateStoreIT/ExternalSharedStoreIT.testSyncBigBlob
    failures
    [OAK-6861] - Warn messages when building oak-query-spi
    [OAK-6864] - IndexUpdate should disable superseded indexes only
    during an async cycle run
    [OAK-6866] - Force compaction timeout logs wrong number of seconds
    [OAK-6869] - oak-http and oak-remote use potentially vulnerable
    versions of com.fasterxml.jackson
    [OAK-6871] - Composite roles are not compatible with Windows
    [OAK-6874] - Segment-Tar-Cold fixture doesn't correctly set up
    standby blob store
    [OAK-6875] - Lucene index: the query read limit is ignored
    [OAK-6876] - IndexDisabler should not use NodeBuilder#isReplaced
    [OAK-6877] - NodeBuilder#isReplaced behaves incorrectly for
    SegmentNodeStore
    [OAK-6885] - Add missing id field setting in CloudSolrServer
    [OAK-6888] - Flushing the FileStore might return before data is
    persisted
    [OAK-6889] - Followup on OAK-6755: fix OSGi component descriptors
    [OAK-6890] - Background threads might not be automatically
    restarted
    [OAK-6894] -
    org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.segment.upgrade.UpgradeIT.offRCUpgradesSegments
    failing
    [OAK-6895] - Suggest directory lookup (query) isn't closed
    [OAK-6901] - Unknown channel option 'TCP_NODELAY' for channel
    warning in cold standby
    [OAK-6902] - Cost estimation for path tranformable queries is
    incorrect
    [OAK-6909] - FileStore.compact does not persist compacted head to
    journal

Documentation

    [OAK-5424] - Add documentation about revision garbage collection

Improvement

    [OAK-2621] - Too many reads for child nodes
    [OAK-3878] - Avoid caching of NodeDocument while iterating in
    BlobReferenceIterator
    [OAK-6626] - Replace standby blob chunk size configuration with
    feature flag
    [OAK-6735] - Lucene Index: improved cost estimation by using
    document count per field
    [OAK-6775] - Suggest directory should utilize CopyOnRead if
    available
    [OAK-6807] - Query Recorder
    [OAK-6859] - Schedule Revision GC in DocumentNodeStoreService
    [OAK-6868] - Simplify setup of access tracking of the file store
    caches
    [OAK-6878] - Populate S3DataStore fields with the passed
    properties in oak-upgrade
    [OAK-6883] - The compaction estimator should take the compaction
    type (tail vs. full) into consideration
    [OAK-6887] - Change default value for autoCompact
    [OAK-6896] - Log SegmentStore size at startup
    [OAK-6908] - Change RDB default scheduling on RDB

Task

    [OAK-2046] - Cleaning-up double test artifacts between oak-core
    and oak-jcr
    [OAK-6893] - Add BasicWriteTest benchmark

Wish

    [OAK-1327] - Cleanup NodeStore and MK implementations

In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.7.x release.

For more detailed information about all the changes in this and other
Oak releases, please see the Oak issue tracker at

  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK

Release Contents
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This release consists of a single source archive packaged as a zip file.
The archive can be unpacked with the jar tool from your JDK installation.
See the README.md file for instructions on how to build this release.

The source archive is accompanied by SHA1 and MD5 checksums and a PGP
signature that you can use to verify the authenticity of your download.
The public key used for the PGP signature can be found at
http://www.apache.org/dist/jackrabbit/KEYS.

About Apache Jackrabbit Oak
---------------------------

Jackrabbit Oak is a scalable, high-performance hierarchical content
repository designed for use as the foundation of modern world-class
web sites and other demanding content applications.

The Oak effort is a part of the Apache Jackrabbit project.
Apache Jackrabbit is a project of the Apache Software Foundation.

For more information, visit http://jackrabbit.apache.org/oak

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