Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.4.16

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.

Jackrabbit Oak 1.4.16 is a patch release that contains fixes and
improvements over Oak 1.4. Jackrabbit Oak 1.4.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 1.4.16
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Technical task

    [OAK-5652] - RDB*Store: update Oracle JDBC driver reference to
    12.1.0.2.0
    [OAK-5667] - RDBDocumentStore: remove support for DBs without
    support for CASE statements in SELECT
    [OAK-6134] - RDB*Store: update PostgreSQL JDBC
    [OAK-6143] - RDB*store fixtures: shorten table name prefixes for
    Oracle
    [OAK-6226] - RDBDocumentStoreDB: missing @Override statements
    [OAK-6244] - RDB*Store: update postgresql JDBC driver reference to
    42.1.1
    [OAK-6247] - RDB*Store: update Tomcat JDBC pool dependency to
    7.0.78

Bug

    [OAK-4390] - DocumentStoreStatsIT.update fails when RDB's append
    mode is disabled
    [OAK-5612] - Test failure:
    org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.run.osgi.DocumentNodeStoreConfigTest.testRDBDocumentStoreRestart
    [OAK-5651] - java.lang.IllegalStateException logged when migrating
    Segment to Document
    [OAK-5920] - Checkpoint migration will fail if the
    MissingBlobStore is used
    [OAK-5993] - Utils.isIdFromLongPath() may throw
    StringIndexOutOfBoundsException
    [OAK-6057] - incorrect system property check in blob/upgrade tests
    [OAK-6086] - Incorrect usage of RDBDocumentStore.unwrap()
    [OAK-6229] - NPE when running datastorecheck command with S3
    [OAK-6233] - Typed properties not handled properly in the
    initialization of DataStore in oak-run
    [OAK-6266] - SolrQueryIndexProviderService should always have
    NodeAggregator

Improvement

    [OAK-4771] - Clarify exceptions in DocumentStore
    [OAK-4863] - Reduce query batch size for deleted documents
    [OAK-5666] - oak-upgrade should validate the paths
    [OAK-5886] - Confusing log message from lease update
    [OAK-6003] - Allow to migrate checkpoints for all type of
    sidegrades
    [OAK-6131] - No need to rebuild the counter/uuid index anymore
    [OAK-6223] - Expose socket keep-alive option

New Feature

    [OAK-5741] - DocumentStore UpdateOp: support removal of properties

Task

    [OAK-5945] - update h2db dependency
    [OAK-5997] - Update Oak 1.2 and 1.4 to Jackrabbit 2.12.7
    [OAK-6159] - BlobReferenceIterator: improve test coverage for RDB

In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.4.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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