Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit -- Version 2.1.5

Introduction
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This is Apache Jackrabbit 2.1, a fully compliant and production-ready
implementation of the Content Repository for Java Technology API, version 2.0
(JCR 2.0, http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=283).

Apache Jackrabbit 2.1.5 is a bug fix release that fixes issues reported
against previous releases. This release is fully compatible with the
earlier 2.1.x releases.

Changes in this release
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Bug fixes

  [JCR-2865] a dead lock in DefaultISMLocking
  [JCR-2881] Deadlock on version operations in a clustered environment
  [JCR-2888] Namespace comparison in Namespace.java doesn't work, if a ...
  [JCR-2889] Occasional JCA test failures
  [JCR-2890] Deadlock in acl.EntryCollector / ItemManager
  [JCR-2891] VersionManagerImplRestore internalRestoreFrozen method has ...
  [JCR-2901] JCR-2523 break the transaction handling in container managed ...
  [JCR-2953] PathParser accepts illegal paths containing curly brackets

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

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

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.txt 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
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jackrabbit/dist/KEYS.

About Apache Jackrabbit
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Apache Jackrabbit is a fully conforming implementation of the Content
Repository for Java Technology API (JCR). A content repository is a
hierarchical content store with support for structured and unstructured
content, full text search, versioning, transactions, observation, and
more.

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

About The Apache Software Foundation
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legal, and financial support for more than 100 freely-available,
collaboratively-developed Open Source projects. The pragmatic Apache License
enables individual and commercial users to easily deploy Apache software;
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of its 2,500+ contributors.

For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/