Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.7.8

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 1.7.8 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 1.7.8
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Technical task

    [OAK-6649] - Provide callback support for newly inserted entries
    in unique index
    [OAK-6652] - RDB*Store: update postgresql JDBC driver reference to
    42.1.4
    [OAK-6660] - RDB*Store: update mysql JDBC driver reference to
    5.1.44 (2017-08-30)
    [OAK-6669] - Blob serializer to serialize BlobStoreBlob
    [OAK-6671] - Enable support for custom types in ExternalSort
    [OAK-6679] - Remove dependency on SimpleCommitContext
    [OAK-6686] - Move OakVersion to oak-commons
    [OAK-6696] - RDB*Store: update Tomcat JDBC pool dependency to
    7.0.81
    [OAK-6697] - Use OakVersion in oak-commons
    [OAK-6705] - Replace usage of RootFactory and TreeFactory in
    spi.security test
    [OAK-6706] - Replaces usage of NamePathMapper implementations in
    AbstractAccessControlListTest
    [OAK-6712] - Move ChangeSet/Builder to oak-core-spi

Bug

    [OAK-5656] - InitialContent depends on
    document.bundlor.BundlingConfigInitializer
    [OAK-6193] - IllegalStateException when closing the FileStore
    during garbage collection
    [OAK-6259] - Test failure: VersionGCTest.gcMonitorInfoMessages
    [OAK-6562] - OakDirectory should recreate file node upon create
    [OAK-6635] - IndexReader closed exception in DocumentQueue
    [OAK-6641] - test failure in
    org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.segment.standby.ExternalPrivateStoreIT
    [OAK-6648] - test failure seen in
    org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.segment.upgrade.UpgradeIT
    [OAK-6653] - Standby server must always send the persisted head to
    clients
    [OAK-6656] - OrderedPropertyIndexEditorProvider does not return
    Editor to IndexUpdate leading to "ordered" being marked as missing
    type
    [OAK-6659] - Cold standby should fail loudly when a big blob can't
    be timely transferred
    [OAK-6685] - Background operation may fail when document is
    malformed
    [OAK-6691] - RepeatedRepositorySidegradeTest flushes an already
    closed FileStore
    [OAK-6704] - Set default merge polity to tiered as
    CommitMitigatingTieredMergePolicy seems to be bad for performance

Improvement

    [OAK-6123] - Filter documents not matching path restriction in
    LucenePropertyIndex even when evaluatePathRestriction isn't set
    [OAK-6638] - Add a composite-prepare command in oak-run
    [OAK-6644] - Use ReadOnlyNodeBuilder for the read-only mounts
    [OAK-6647] - Reduce reads by RevisionGC
    [OAK-6654] - Remove duplicate code in OakRepositoryStub classes
    [OAK-6661] - ResponseDecoder should check that the length of the
    received blob matches the length of the sent blob
    [OAK-6662] - Extend CredentialsSupport pluggability
    [OAK-6663] - Revisit MountInfoProvider usage in
    AuthorizationConfigurationImpl
    [OAK-6664] - Revisit MountInfoProvider usage in CugConfiguration
    [OAK-6667] - Refactor StandbyDiff for better clarity and
    understandability
    [OAK-6681] - Remove PropInfo dependency on EffectiveNodeType
    [OAK-6683] - Use less resource intensive method to determine
    number of docs in lucene index
    [OAK-6684] - IndexPathService should work with Oak 1.0 setups
    [OAK-6690] - Refactor constants classes NodeTypeConstants,
    NamespaceConstants, VersionConstants
    [OAK-6692] - Log exception in case of import via JMX operation
    fails
    [OAK-6693] - Ensure that IndexNodeManager releases lock in case of
    error in acquiring it
    [OAK-6694] - Expose TokenConstants.java
    [OAK-6695] - Expose an abstract Credentials class
    [OAK-6703] - Refactor oak.namepath package
    [OAK-6708] - Move plugins.value.jcr package to oak-store-spi

Task

    [OAK-6544] - Enable active blob deletion feature by default
    [OAK-6582] - Review MBean interactions in a composite setup
    [OAK-6616] - Update Oak trunk to Jackrabbit 2.15.6
    [OAK-6655] - Update travis build configuration
    [OAK-6657] - Remove travis webhook configuration
    [OAK-6670] - Move FSBlobSerializer to oak-blob-plugins module
    [OAK-6673] - Improve cold standby logging
    [OAK-6675] - Implement CompositeNodeStoreStatsMBean
    [OAK-6698] - Refactor UUID utilites from IdentifierManager to new
    UUIDUtils in oak-commons

Test

    [OAK-6639] -
    ObservationQueueFullWarnTest.testQueueFullThenFlushing fails
    sometimes

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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