Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.3.7

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 1.3.7 is an unstable release cut directly from
Jackrabbit Oak trunk, with a focus on new features and other
improvements. For production use we recommend the latest stable 1.2.x
release.

The Oak effort is a part of the Apache Jackrabbit project.
Apache Jackrabbit is a project of the Apache Software Foundation.

Changes in Oak 1.3.7
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Bug

    [OAK-955] - Query: Filter doesn't contain fulltext constraints from joins 
    [OAK-1501] - Property index on "jcr:primaryType" returns the wrong cost
    [OAK-2852] - Query engine: if counter index is not available, cost of traversing is too low
    [OAK-3201] - Use static references in SecurityProviderImpl for composite services
    [OAK-3318] - IndexRule not respecting inheritence based on mixins
    [OAK-3325] - MissingIndexProviderStrategy should warn when setting the reindex flag
    [OAK-3343] - LIRS Cache: investigate concurrency behavior
    [OAK-3390] - Avoid instanceof check in DocumentNodeStore
    [OAK-3395] - RevisionGC fails for JCR paths having line feed characters
    [OAK-3400] - ClusterNodeInfo should not be osgi-dependent (for lease check failure handling)
    [OAK-3411] - Inconsistent read on DocumentNodeStore startup
    [OAK-3416] - Query: join on different property types fails
    [OAK-3418] - ClusterNodeInfo uses irrelevant network interface IDs on Windows
    [OAK-3419] - ClusterNodeInfo.createInstance fails to clean up random entries
    [OAK-3420] - DocumentNodeStoreService fails to restart DocumentNodeStore
    [OAK-3423] - RandomAuthorizableNodeName should not be part of the default configuration of SecurityProviderImpl
    [OAK-3431] - SecurityProviderRegistration should not be part of an exported package
    [OAK-3432] - ConcurrentTest.testLoaderBlock fails because of waiting issue
    [OAK-3433] - Background update may create journal entry with incorrect id
    [OAK-3434] - Revert backwards-incompatible changes to SecurityProviderImpl
    [OAK-3442] - Intermittent IllegalMonitorStateException seen while releaseing IndexNode

Improvement

    [OAK-2679] - Query engine: faster cost calculation
    [OAK-3183] - [Blob GC] Improvements/tools for blob garbage collection
    [OAK-3358] - Make SecurityProviderImpl independent from OSGi
    [OAK-3397] - stop oak-core bundle on lease failure
    [OAK-3398] - make lease update more robust
    [OAK-3399] - 5sec retry loop before declaring lease failure (was: as a last resort try to update it there)
    [OAK-3425] - Improve DocumentNodeStore startup/shutdown diagnostics
    [OAK-3435] - LastRevRecoveryAgent/MissingLastRevSeeker improvements
    [OAK-3440] - MemoryNodeBuilder creates superfluous instances of ConnectedHead
    [OAK-3441] - SecurityProviderImpl should not be an OSGi component

New Feature
    
    [OAK-3148] - Online migration process for the binaries

Task

    [OAK-2185] - Fix intermittent failure in JaasConfigSpiTest

Sub-task

    [OAK-2171] - oak-run should support repository upgrades with all available options
    [OAK-2986] - RDB: switch to tomcat datasource implementation 
    [OAK-3133] - Make compaction map more efficient for offline compaction
    [OAK-3443] - Track the start time of mark in GC

Technical task

    [OAK-3394] - RDBDocumentStore startup: log more DDL information (incl. index information)
    [OAK-3408] - RDBDocumentStore: improve MySQL diagnostics
    [OAK-3410] - RDB*Store diagnostics: strip line feeds from product information
    [OAK-3413] - RDBDocumentStorePerformanceTest leaks PreparedStatements
    [OAK-3414] - RDBDocumentStore: improve DB2 diagnostics
    [OAK-3422] - RDBDocumentStore: improve index diagnostics
    [OAK-3438] - RDBDocumentStoreDB: leaking resultset
    [OAK-3445] - RDBDocumentStore: when generating SQL for queries, leave out unneeded constraints
    [OAK-3446] - RDBDocumentStore: update PostgresQL and MySQL JDBC drivers
    

In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.2.x 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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