RELEASE-NOTES.txt

Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Core -- Version 1.4.8

Introduction
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This is the 1.4.8 patch release of the jackrabbit-core component of
Apache Jackrabbit, a fully conforming implementation of the Content
Repository for Java Technology API (JCR).

This release fixes a number of issues. See below for the full list of
changes in this release.

See the Apache Jackrabbit website at http://jackrabbit.apache.org/ for
more information.

Changes in this release
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All the changes in this release are listed below. The issue identifier and
title is listed for each change and known issue. You can look up individual
issues for more details in the Jackrabbit issue tracker at
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR

  Bug fixes
  [JCR-1572] DbDataStore connection does not always reconnect
  [JCR-1841] Workspace.xml can't be loaded if it has a BOM
  [JCR-1866] Query may throw ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
  [JCR-1918] DbDataStore keeps ResultSets open

Release Contents
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Like the previous jackrabbit-core 1.4.x releases this patch release only
contains the jackrabbit-core component. The component is distributed both
as a source archive and a pre-compiled binary.

    * Source archive (jackrabbit-core-1.4.8-src.jar)

        The source archive contains the full source code of this release
        in a "jackrabbit-core-1.4.8" directory. Use the following commands
        (or the equivalent in your environment) to build the component
        with Maven 2 and Java 1.4 or higher:

          $ jar xf jackrabbit-core-1.4.8-src.jar
          $ cd jackrabbit-core-1.4.8
          $ mvn install

    * Pre-compiled binary (jackrabbit-core-1.4.8.jar)

        Core of the Apache Jackrabbit content repository implementation.

See the included README.txt file for more information.

Each release file is accompanied by SHA1 and MD5 checksums and a PGP
signature. The public key used for the signatures can be found
in the KEYS file.