RELEASE-NOTES.txt

Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.8.14

Introduction
------------

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.

Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.14 is a patch release that contains fixes and
improvements over Oak 1.8. Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.x releases are
considered stable and targeted for production use.

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

Changes in Oak 1.8.14
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Technical task

    [OAK-6812] - UpdateOp Condition: be consistent about the support
    for non-revision properties
    [OAK-7896] - RDB*Store: update mysql driver reference to 8.0.13
    [OAK-7970] - RDB*Store: add profile for DB2 11.1 JDBC driver
    [OAK-7971] - RDB*Store: update DB2 JDBC reference to 4.19.77
    [OAK-8002] - RDBDocumentStore: add RDB-specific
    MissingLastRevSeeker
    [OAK-8074] - RDB*Store: update mysql-connector-java dependency to
    8.0.15
    [OAK-8080] - RDB*Store: move DB-specific config hints from Javadoc
    into oak-doc
    [OAK-8083] - RDB*Store: add SQLServer specific documentation
    [OAK-8087] - RDB*Store: update mssql-jdbc driver reference to
    7.2.1.jre8
    [OAK-8147] - RDBBlobStore: add perf logging for JDBC read
    operations
    [OAK-8307] - RDBDocumentStore: add DEBUG logging when fetching
    index metadata fails
    [OAK-8311] - RDBDocumentStore: allow to turn off RDB-specific
    MissingLastRevSeeker
    [OAK-8332] - update Tomcat JDBC dependency to 8.5.41
    [OAK-8337] - RDBDocumentStore: refactor index dumping code
    [OAK-8338] - RDBDocumentStoreJDBC: fix theoretically possible NPE
    in perflogging code
    [OAK-8346] - RDBDocumentStore*: fix several potential but
    improbable NPEs
    [OAK-8349] - RDBDocumentStore*: "reset clusterId tool" in oak-run
    [OAK-8368] - RDBDocumentNodeStoreBuilder: refactor
    setRDBConnection for consistency
    [OAK-8371] - Stop using deprecated DocumentMK.Builder in RDB tests
    [OAK-8378] - rdb/oak-run: update usage and documentation for
    garbage command

Bug

    [OAK-7155] - Executor in S3DataStoreFactory is not shut down
    [OAK-7378] - Continuous Revision GC counts _deletedOnce with every
    run
    [OAK-7543] - MissingLastRevSeekerTest fails on MongoDB with
    secondary preferred
    [OAK-7564] - Commit fails when forced journal push throws
    exception
    [OAK-7886] - Re-registering node type may corrupt registry
    [OAK-7956] - Conflict may leave behind _collisions entry
    [OAK-8024] - oak-http generates invalid html
    [OAK-8207] - Read-only DocumentNodeStore tries to create root
    document
    [OAK-8271] - Lucene path transformed result doesn't accomodate
    wildcards in relative path
    [OAK-8437] - direct children, exact, and parent path restrictions
    don't work when path transformation takes place

Improvement

    [OAK-7213] - Avoid call for child node when bundle contains all
    children
    [OAK-7310] - Empty package-info.java causes unnecessary rebuild
    [OAK-8135] - HTTP service may not select correct media type if
    multiple are specified in Accept header field
    [OAK-8310] - Potentially misleading conflict exception message

Test

    [OAK-8353] - Additional test for OAK-8012

Task

    [OAK-7220] - add benchmark focused on string write performance
    [OAK-7787] - oak-it: NoClassDefFoundError in log with Java 11
    [OAK-7842] - solr: suppress problematic commons-fileupload
    dependency
    [OAK-8163] - examples: update Tomcat dependency to 7.0.93
    [OAK-8179] - Update jacoco to 0.8.3
    [OAK-8180] - Update mockito to 2.25.1
    [OAK-8196] - Update httpclient/mime dependencies to 4.5.8
    [OAK-8208] - oak-run/rdb: add --rdbtableprefix option
    [OAK-8235] - Upgrade Solr to version 6.6.6
    [OAK-8286] - Update jetbrains nullability annotations to 17.0.0
    [OAK-8290] - Update org.apache.felix.framework for jdk13
    [OAK-8312] - MissingLastRevSeeker and NodeDocumentSweeper: improve
    progress logging
    [OAK-8331] - Update Tika dependency to 1.21
    [OAK-8334] - Update Jackson dependency to 2.9.9
    [OAK-8341] - Include tomcat-jdbc/juli in oak-run
    [OAK-8348] - Update surefire/failsafe dependencies to 2.22.2
    [OAK-8350] - Update animal-sniffer dependency to 1.18
    [OAK-8376] - update commons-codec dependency to 1.12
    [OAK-8414] - Update jar-plugin dependency to 3.1.2

In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.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 SHA512 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
https://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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