Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.4.8

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 1.4.8 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 1.4.8
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Technical task

    [OAK-4257] - Findbug issues in security modules
    [OAK-4539] - Calculate children cache entry on commit
    [OAK-4583] - RDB*Store: update Tomcat JDBC pool dependency
    [OAK-4794] - RDBDocumentStore: update PostgresQL JDBC driver

Bug

    [OAK-4048] - [regression] SyncHandler.listIdentities() returns all
    users, not only external ones
    [OAK-4174] - SegmentToJdbcTest failing with improvements of
    OAK-4119
    [OAK-4301] - Missing protection for system-maintained
    rep:externalId
    [OAK-4552] - Checkpoints.getOldestRevisionToKeep() returns newest
    valid revision
    [OAK-4568] - JournalEntry.applyTo() creates complete change tree
    in memory
    [OAK-4572] - Overflow to disk threshold too high
    [OAK-4790] - Compilation error with JDK 6 in FileIOUtils
    [OAK-4805] - Misconfigured lucene index definition can render the
    whole system unusable
    [OAK-4811] - MongoToMongoFbsTest fails
    [OAK-4832] - Upgrade breaks if the SecurityManager section in
    repository.xml is empty
    [OAK-4840] - Incorrect branch commit value
    [OAK-4845] - Regression: DefaultSyncContext does not sync
    membership to a local group

Improvement

    [OAK-4043] - Oak run checkpoints needs to account for multiple
    index lanes
    [OAK-4528] - diff calculation in DocumentNodeStore should try to
    re-use journal info on diff cache miss
    [OAK-4553] - Retain journal entries for valid checkpoints
    [OAK-4556] - Track branch on newBranchCommit()
    [OAK-4715] - Reduce DocumentStore reads for local changes
    [OAK-4819] - Improve revision GC resilience
    [OAK-4826] - Auto removal of orphaned checkpoints
    [OAK-4851] - Update httpclient to 4.3.6 in Oak 1.4- branches

New Feature

    [OAK-4712] - Publish S3DataStore stats in JMX MBean
    [OAK-4850] - List checkpoints

Task

    [OAK-4791] - Enable animal sniffer plugin
    [OAK-4821] - Allow use of Java 7 in Oak 1.4

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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