Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.0.16

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 1.0.16 is a patch release that contains fixes and
improvements over Oak 1.0. Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.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.

New configuration options since Oak 1.0.15
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The DocumentNodeStore has a new system property, which controls the time a
commit tries to acquire the merge lock: -Doak.maxLockTryTimeMultiplier=30
The default value is 30 and roughly translates to 60 seconds. See OAK-2762
and OAK-2823 for more details.

LuceneIndexEditor now supports CopyOnWrite mode (OAK-2247) for faster indexing.
Refer to http://jackrabbit.apache.org/oak/docs/query/lucene.html#CopyOnWrite
for more details.

Changes in Oak 1.0.16
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Bugs

    [OAK-3000] - SimpleExcerptProvider causes OOM for some wildcard expressions
    [OAK-3019] - VersionablePathHook must not process hidden nodes
    [OAK-3021] - UserValidator and AccessControlValidator must not process hidden nodes
    [OAK-3028] - Hierarchy conflict detection broken
    [OAK-3029] - EmbeddedSolrServerProvider should check if core is / can be loaded

Improvements

    [OAK-3004] - OSGI wrapper service for Jackrabbit CachingFDS
    [OAK-3017] - Log message when a branch is created

New Features

    [OAK-2980] - Fast result size estimate in Solr index

Sub-tasks

    [OAK-2410] - [sonar]Some statements not being closed in RDBDocumentStore
    [OAK-2747] - Admin cannot create versions on a locked page by itself
    [OAK-2982] - BasicDocumentStoreTest: separate actual unit tests from performance tests
    [OAK-2985] - RDBDocumentStore: more diagnostics for long-running queries
    [OAK-2987] - RDBDocumentStore: try PreparedStatement batching
    [OAK-2995] - RDB*Store: check transaction isolation level
    [OAK-3009] - RDBDocumentStore: add support for optional additional index
    [OAK-3010] - RDBDocumentStore: remove hardwired "id-is-binary" flag


In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included in previous Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.x releases.

Please note, the backported RDB support for the DocumentNodeStore is considered
experimental at this point and is not yet ready for production use. Feel free 
to try it out and report any issues you may see to the Oak developers.

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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