Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.2.6

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 1.2.6 is a patch release that contains fixes and
improvements over Oak 1.2. Jackrabbit Oak 1.2.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 in Oak 1.2.6
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Node name index support (OAK-1752) - With this queries involving
node name constraint can make use of index and perform better. Refer to
http://jackrabbit.apache.org/oak/docs/query/lucene.html#index-node-name
for usage details.

Changes in Oak 1.2.6
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Sub-tasks

 [OAK-2634] - QueryEngine should expose name query as property restriction
 [OAK-2986] - RDB: switch to tomcat datasource implementation 
 [OAK-3031] - [Blob GC] Mbean for reporting shared repository GC stats
 [OAK-3261] - consider existing locks when creating new ones
 [OAK-3279] - Create StringUtils.estimateMemoryUsage(String)
 [OAK-3338] - Deprecate CIHelper travis methods with profile 
 [OAK-3360] - Tracking the start time of mark in GC for a shared datastore

Technical tasks

 [OAK-3369] - OakDocumentRDBRepositoryStub should have working default for JDBC URL
 [OAK-3385] - Make compress-interval configurable
 [OAK-3391] - RDBBlobStore: speed up testBigBlob(), also improve memory usage
 [OAK-3408] - RDBDocumentStore: improve MySQL diagnostics
 [OAK-3410] - RDB*Store diagnostics: strip line feeds from product information

Bugs

 [OAK-2712] - Possible null-dereference when calling ItemImpl#perform
 [OAK-3265] - Test failures: NodeLocalNameTest, NodeNameTest
 [OAK-3281] - Test failures on trunk: SolrIndexQueryTestIT.sql2
 [OAK-3282] - DataStoreBlobStore cache ignores key for memory calculation
 [OAK-3283] - Background read does not close StringSort
 [OAK-3310] - Write operations on Property do not check checked-out state of Node
 [OAK-3313] - Many tests leak DocumentNodeStore instances
 [OAK-3333] - SplitOperations purges _commitRoot entries too eagerly
 [OAK-3367] - Boosting fields not working as expected
 [OAK-3376] - DocumentNodeStoreTest.dispose() waiting indefinitely on ArrayBlockingQueue.put()
 [OAK-3383] - "The unbindBlobDataSource method has thrown an exception" message on shutdown of the RDBMK 
 [OAK-3395] - RevisionGC fails for JCR paths having line feed characters
 [OAK-3411] - Inconsistent read on DocumentNodeStore startup

Improvements

 [OAK-1752] - Node name queries should use an index
 [OAK-3144] - Support multivalue user properties for Ldap users
 [OAK-3146] - ExternalLoginModuleFactory should inject SyncManager and ExternalIdentityProviderManager
 [OAK-3259] - Optimize NodeDocument.getNewestRevision()
 [OAK-3288] - clarify DocumentStore contract with respect to number formats
 [OAK-3365] - Wording in Log statements inconsistent

Tasks

 [OAK-1743] - Cleanup documentation of _modCount

Tests

 [OAK-3312] - [Blob GC] Test case for GC / OAK-3167
 [OAK-3337] - CIHelper methods related to travis outdated


In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.2.4 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.

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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