Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.5.17

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 1.5.17 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 1.5.17
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Sub-task

    [OAK-5167] - Document garbage collection

Bug

    [OAK-5251] - Test failure:
    externalAddOffline(org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.blob.datastore.BlobIdTrackerTest)
    [OAK-5260] - Incorrect handling of subpaths with leading left
    curly bracket
    [OAK-5262] - Test failure:
    NodeTypeIndexingUtilsTest.testSynonymsFileCreation
    [OAK-5285] - Test failures in
    org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.blob
    [OAK-5336] - Update milestone dependency to
    org.apache.directory.api.api-all
    [OAK-5339] - Test failure:
    BackgroundObserverTest.testExcludeSomeCommits()
    [OAK-5349] - RepositoryManager does not register VersionHook
    [OAK-5353] - Services registered by SegmentNodeStoreService should
    consistently expose the role
    [OAK-5354] - Security: the order of child should be correct if the
    child nodes are readable.
    [OAK-5358] - test failures for oak-auth-ldap on Windows
    [OAK-5359] - Cancelled garbage collection not reported to
    GCMonitor

Documentation

    [OAK-5235] - Document the new caching datastore

Improvement

    [OAK-2821] - PersistentCache not used for RDBBlobStore
    [OAK-4873] - Avoid running GC too frequently
    [OAK-5273] - Reintroduce tests disabled or removed for OAK-5223
    [OAK-5337] - LastRevRecoveryAgent should avoid recovering
    documents from its own cluster id if the instance is running
    [OAK-5366] - Optimize pre-filtering with long paths

Task

    [OAK-4309] - Align property labels and descriptions in
    SegmentNodeStoreService
    [OAK-5293] - Static code analysis and code cleanup
    [OAK-5318] - Update Oak trunk to Jackrabbit 2.13.7
    [OAK-5351] - Disable RevisionGCMBean registration for non primary
    SegmentNodeStore

In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.5.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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