Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 0.18

Introduction
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Jackrabbit Oak is an effort to implement a scalable and performant
hierarchical content repository 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.

Jackrabbit Oak 0.18 is to alpha-level software. Use at your own risk.

Changes in Oak 0.18
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New Features

  [OAK-180] More real world benchmarks
  [OAK-527] Implement Permission evaluation
  [OAK-1325] Support native pass-through queries (e.g. Lucene)
  [OAK-1391] Use an existing data store during migration
  [OAK-1397] VersionHistory#removeVersion

Improvements

  [OAK-942] Permissions: Document changes wrt Jackrabbit
  [OAK-1204] Analyze behaviour while running Oak cluster on Mongo
  [OAK-1240] RTC: move classes in org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.util to org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.commons
  [OAK-1265] Add some more tests for o.a.j.o.security.authorization.evaluation.TreeTest
  [OAK-1286] Enable/expose MoreLikeThis queries
  [OAK-1399] Drop TODO.java again from the oak utils
  [OAK-1427] Improve DocumentNodeStore scalability
  [OAK-1439] LDAP: SSL/TLS support
  [OAK-1459] Many extra events are dispatched from a move event
  [OAK-1461] Merge DocumentNodeState with Node
  [OAK-1474] ConfigurationBase must not use 'componentAbstract'
  [OAK-1481] clarify DS.find caching behavior
  [OAK-1492] Make the SolrQueryIndex catch all field configurable
  [OAK-1493] Export OSGi headers for o.a.j.o.plugins.segment and segment.http
  [OAK-1495] Unify Root.commit(String) and Root.commit(Map)
  [OAK-1498] SolrQueryIndex shouldn't be provided if Solr cannot be reached

Bugs

  [OAK-1211] Add GetPoliciesTest
  [OAK-1260] Using multiple cluster nodes can corrupt the data
  [OAK-1406] Background operations block writes
  [OAK-1460] :childOrder out of sync when node is made orderable concurrently
  [OAK-1464] FileStoreBackup NPE in retrieving old state
  [OAK-1466] Document _modCount not monotonic increasing
  [OAK-1467] Commit.rollback() may remove changes from other commit
  [OAK-1468] DocumentNodeStore.readChildDocs can return null entries, leading to NPE
  [OAK-1469] Non-provided FindBugs dependency
  [OAK-1470] Incorrect property type for jcr:versionHistory after restore
  [OAK-1473] RepositoryUpgrade creates incorrect SNS names for property and child node definitions
  [OAK-1477] ObservationRefreshTest very slow for DOCUMENT_JDBC fixture
  [OAK-1479] Failing test for MergeSortedIterators
  [OAK-1480] Wrong default value for group-paths in GroupEditor
  [OAK-1482] ConcurrentModificationException in FileStore
  [OAK-1483] Data Stores not initialized through the MongoDocumentStoreService
  [OAK-1486] BackgroundObserverTest occasionally failing
  [OAK-1487] LuceneIndex support for relative properties
  [OAK-1490] Multiple primary types cause ParseException in SolrQueryIndex

In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all the changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit Oak 0.17.1 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.

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The public key used for the PGP signature can be found at
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jackrabbit/dist/KEYS.

About Apache Jackrabbit Oak
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Oak is an effort implement a scalable and performant hierarchical content 
repository 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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