Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.10.2

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.

Jackrabbit Oak 1.10.2 is a patch release that contains fixes and
improvements over Oak 1.10. Jackrabbit Oak 1.10.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 1.10.2
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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

Bug

    [OAK-6749] - Segment-Tar standby sync fails with "in-memory" blobs present in the source repo
    [OAK-8013] - [Direct Binary Access] DataRecordDownloadOptions creates invalid Content-Disposition headers - Workaround
    [OAK-8051] - PersistentCache: error during open can lead to incomplete initialization and subsequent NPEs
    [OAK-8063] - The cold standby client doesn't correctly handle backward references
    [OAK-8092] - The cold standby server cannot handle blob requests for long blob IDs
    [OAK-8095] - VersionStorageEditor can prevent upgrade of version store
    [OAK-8106] - High memory usage when large branch is reset
    [OAK-8108] - Branch reset does not remove all branch commit entries
    [OAK-8122] - MongoDocumentStore init may fail with authentication
    [OAK-8124] - Sidegrade operation doesn't run security-related commit hooks

Improvement

    [OAK-8084] - LogCustomizer should allow instantiation with Java class (in addition to class name)
    [OAK-8088] - Add refresh head revision time to background update stats

Task

    [OAK-8085] - Upgrade spotbugs to 3.1.11
    [OAK-8112] - Change log pattern to have complete date for oak-run datastore command
    [OAK-8115] - Allow disabling of BlobTracker when not required
    [OAK-8118] - Index selected properties to enhance feature vector similarity search results
    [OAK-8119] - Let similarity search rerank use distance as exact score

Technical task

    [OAK-8071] - Logging to detect commits carrying over from previous GC generation can block other threads from committing
    [OAK-8080] - RDB*Store: move DB-specific config hints from Javadoc into oak-doc
    [OAK-8087] - RDB*Store: update mssql-jdbc driver reference to 7.2.1.jre8


In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.10.x release.
  
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 a 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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