Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.5.11

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 1.5.11 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 1.4.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 1.5.11
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Technical task

    [OAK-4583] - RDB*Store: update Tomcat JDBC pool dependency
    [OAK-4793] - Check usage of DocumentStoreException in
    RDBDocumentStore
    [OAK-4838] - Move S3 classes to oak-blob-cloud module
    [OAK-4848] - Improve oak-blob-cloud tests

Bug

    [OAK-4734] - AsyncIndexUpdateClusterTestIT fails occasionally
    [OAK-4805] - Misconfigured lucene index definition can render the
    whole system unusable
    [OAK-4807] - SecondaryStoreConfigIT intermittently failing due to
    incorrect MongoURL
    [OAK-4830] - StringUtils.estimateMemoryUsage() can throw
    NullPointerException
    [OAK-4832] - Upgrade breaks if the SecurityManager section in
    repository.xml is empty
    [OAK-4840] - Incorrect branch commit value
    [OAK-4841] - Error during MongoDB initialization
    [OAK-4842] - Upgrade breaks if there's no SearchManager configured
    in repository.xml

Improvement

    [OAK-3858] - Review slow running tests
    [OAK-4043] - Oak run checkpoints needs to account for multiple
    index lanes
    [OAK-4580] - Update to Mongo Java Driver 3.2.x
    [OAK-4806] - Remove usage of Tree in LuceneIndexEditor
    [OAK-4815] - ReferenceIndex slowdown due to OAK-3403
    [OAK-4819] - Improve revision GC resilience
    [OAK-4826] - Auto removal of orphaned checkpoints
    [OAK-4831] - Don't break the upgrade tests if the directory can't
    be cleaned-up
    [OAK-4847] - Support any types of node builders in the
    initializers
    [OAK-4854] - Simplify TarNodeStore
    [OAK-4858] - Use Integer.getInteger() to read system property
    [OAK-4863] - Reduce query batch size for deleted documents
    [OAK-4867] - Avoid queries for first level previous documents
    during GC

New Feature

    [OAK-3574] - Query engine: support p=lowercase('x') and other
    function-based indexes
    [OAK-4412] - Lucene hybrid index
    [OAK-4655] - Enable configuring multiple segment nodestore
    instances in same setup
    [OAK-4712] - Publish S3DataStore stats in JMX MBean
    [OAK-4850] - List checkpoints

Task

    [OAK-4774] - Check usage of DocumentStoreException in
    MongoDocumentStore

Test

    [OAK-4802] - Basic cache consistency test on exception

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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