Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.4.6

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.

Jackrabbit Oak 1.4.6 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 1.4.6
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Technical task

    [OAK-4477] - RDBDatasourceFactory should use pool config similar
    to sling datasource defaults
    [OAK-4554] - RDBBlobStoreTest should use RDBDatasourceWrapper
    [OAK-4557] - RDBPreparedStatementWrapper: do not hide
    implementation bugs
    [OAK-4559] - RDB*Store: failures with Tomcat JDBC pool's
    StatementCache interceptor
    [OAK-4562] - BasicDocumentStore max id test might return
    misleading results
    [OAK-4629] - Make it possible to override blob accessing methods
    in DataStoreBlobStore

Bug

    [OAK-4345] - Bulk update constructs malformed query
    [OAK-4503] - Update count increases with rebase
    [OAK-4527] - [oak-blob-cloud] Access parameters configured leak
    out in the exception message
    [OAK-4565] - S3Backend fails to upload large metadata records
    [OAK-4588] - Upgrade from JCR2 with S3DataStore doesn't work
    [OAK-4599] - SecurityProviderRegistration fails to update config
    param of SecurityConfiguration(s)

Improvement

    [OAK-4112] - Replace the query exclusive lock with a cache tracker
    [OAK-4168] - Replace the massive lock acquire with cache tracker
    in bulk createOrUpdate()
    [OAK-4169] - Make the bulk createOrUpdate retry count configurable
    in Mongo
    [OAK-4454] - Create consistent API in ExternalSort to write and
    read escaped line breaks
    [OAK-4563] - Specify thread pool name which should be used by
    Async Indexing task
    [OAK-4569] - Clean-up the oak-upgrade dependencies
    [OAK-4573] - S3 fetching record leads to multiple calls and
    background download
    [OAK-4574] - [BlobGC] Remove adding of paths in file maintained
    for blob references
    [OAK-4587] - Don't ignore the cached NULLs in bulk createOrUpdate
    for Mongo
    [OAK-4624] - Optionally ignore missing blobs during sidegrade
    [OAK-4636] - PropertyIndexLookup#getIndexNode should be more
    tolerant towards property types

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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