Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.4.19

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 1.4.19 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 1.4.19
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Technical task

    [OAK-6237] - Tomcat JDBC pool's StatementCache interceptor may
    cache borked PreparedStatements with DB2
    [OAK-6652] - RDB*Store: update postgresql JDBC driver reference to
    42.1.4
    [OAK-6660] - RDB*Store: update mysql JDBC driver reference to
    5.1.44 (2017-08-30)
    [OAK-6696] - RDB*Store: update Tomcat JDBC pool dependency to
    7.0.81
    [OAK-6782] - RDBDocumentStore: inconsistent handling of cache
    invalidation on remove()
    [OAK-6903] - RDB*Store: update Tomcat JDBC pool dependency to
    7.0.82
    [OAK-6906] - RDB*Store: update Tomcat JDBC pool dependency to
    8.5.23 (for branches compatible with Java 7)
    [OAK-7068] - RDBBlobStore may wrap SQLExceptions into
    RuntimeExceptions
    [OAK-7069] - RDBDataSourceWrapper: properly name
    setTemporaryUpdateException

Bug

    [OAK-4518] - ConcurrentAddReferenceTest fails occasionally
    [OAK-4734] - AsyncIndexUpdateClusterTestIT fails occasionally
    [OAK-5878] - SplitDocumentCleanup iterates twice over
    splitDocGarbage
    [OAK-5933] - Checkpoints are not sorted correctly in
    RepositorySidegrade
    [OAK-6011] - Test failure: JdbcToSegmentTest:validateMigration
    [OAK-6306] - upgrade uses lucene wrong version (transient
    dependency)
    [OAK-6360] - Failed to retrieve previously indexed checkpoint in
    composite node store
    [OAK-6454] - Inaccurate data in the oak-upgrade progress logger
    [OAK-6560] - Sidegrade uses too much memory
    [OAK-6611] - [upgrade][oak-blob-cloud] Many S3DataStore errors
    during migration with oak-upgrade
    [OAK-6633] - Overwriting a versionable node with the
    copy-versions=false doesn't remove versionable properties
    [OAK-6656] - OrderedPropertyIndexEditorProvider does not return
    Editor to IndexUpdate leading to "ordered" being marked as missing
    type
    [OAK-6685] - Background operation may fail when document is
    malformed
    [OAK-6750] - Lucene facets don't work with relative properties
    [OAK-6953] - CacheLIRS cannot be disabled
    [OAK-7007] - Test failure: FacetTest.testFacetsNA()
    [OAK-7070] - rep:excerpt selector broken as regression of OAK-6750
    [OAK-7078] - NullPointerException in
    FilteredSortedSetDocValuesFacetCounts during query evaluation
    [OAK-7101] - Stale documents in RDBDocumentStore cache

Improvement

    [OAK-5317] - MongoBlobStore creates _id index unnecessarily
    [OAK-6188] - Allow to exclude nodes containing name fragment
    during the migration
    [OAK-6190] - Allow to migrate checkpoints even if the custom
    include paths are specified
    [OAK-6218] - Including id in DocumentStoreException which wrap
    MongoException
    [OAK-6336] - Use the oak-blob-cloud for s3 support in oak-upgrade
    [OAK-6650] - new release checksum requirements
    [OAK-6792] - rep:facet not supported in xpath
    [OAK-6878] - Populate S3DataStore fields with the passed
    properties in oak-upgrade

Task

    [OAK-6655] - Update travis build configuration
    [OAK-6657] - Remove travis webhook configuration
    [OAK-6751] - Update Oak 1.2 and 1.4 to Jackrabbit 2.12.8
    [OAK-6952] - add SHA512 checksums to releases
    [OAK-6971] - Remove composite node store-related features from the
    oak-upgrade
    [OAK-7120] - Use specific MongoDB version on travis-ci

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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