Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.2.9

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 1.2.9 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.

Changes in Oak 1.2.9
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Technical task

    [OAK-3652] - RDB support: extend RDB export tool for CSV export
    [OAK-3657] - RDBDocumentStore: cache update logic introduced for
    OAK-3566 should only be used for NODES collection
    [OAK-3659] - Stale document in RDBDocumentStore cache
    [OAK-3661] - RDBDocumentStore: improve logging for invalid data in
    persistence
    [OAK-3670] - RDBDocumentStore on SQLServer: off-by-one bug may
    cause truncated JSON to be written
    [OAK-3676] - RDBDocumentStore on SQLServer: append logic creates
    many different PreparedStatements
    [OAK-3684] - RDBBlob/DocumentStore.finalize() do not call
    super.finalize()
    [OAK-3691] - RDBDocumentStore: refactor update logic
    [OAK-3699] - RDBDocumentStore shutdown: improve logging
    [OAK-3714] - RDBDocumentStore diagnostics for Oracle might not
    contain index information
    [OAK-3722] - RDBDataSourceFactory: restore ability to close the
    pool
    [OAK-3731] - Version Garbage Collection: improve logging for split
    documents

Bug

    [OAK-3557] - NodeDocument.isConflicting() reads complete revision
    history for changed property
    [OAK-3638] - NodeAggregator in SolrQueryIndexProviderService
    should be volatile
    [OAK-3639] - Wrong method name for "updated" reference in
    SolrServerProviderService
    [OAK-3682] - Missing lucene-memory dependency in OSGi env breaks
    excerpt

Improvement

    [OAK-3372] - Collapsing external events in BackgroundObserver even
    before queue is full leads to JournalEntry not getting used
    [OAK-3494] - MemoryDiffCache should also check parent paths before
    falling to Loader (or returning null)
    [OAK-3650] - Index based excerpt should be used for binaries
    [OAK-3678] - Use stable reverse revision comparator in
    UpdateUtils.applyChanges()

Task

    [OAK-3223] - Remove MongoDiffCache
    [OAK-3635] - DocumentStore: clarify which methods support checking
    conditions in UpdateOps, and enforce this in implementations

Test

    [OAK-3643] - ConflictResolutionTest fails occasionally
    [OAK-3644] - Run tests with pedantic profile

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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