Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.5.18

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 1.5.18 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 1.5.18
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Technical task

    [OAK-5414] - Refactor LuceneIndexEditor to move out logic related
    to making Lucene Document to separate class
    [OAK-5415] - Refactor Binary text extraction logic from
    LuceneIndexEditor
    [OAK-5430] - Provide an extension point in DocumentNodeStore
    Journal support
    [OAK-5431] - Expose withAsyncIndexing name variant in Jcr builder

Bug

    [OAK-4954] - SetPropertyTest benchmark fails on Segment Tar
    [OAK-5304] - DefaultSyncContext.sync(ExternalIdentity) does not
    verify same identity provider
    [OAK-5326] - Not able to move segment store directory on
    filesystem after closing FileStore
    [OAK-5328] - Fix the errors reported by the Javadoc tool in JDK8
    [OAK-5348] - ChangeCollectorProvider should be registered as
    EditorProvider
    [OAK-5413] - XPath: "union" combined with "or" is not converted
    correctly
    [OAK-5416] - Async reindex of a sync property does't release
    created checkpoint
    [OAK-5423] - MultiplexingNodeStoreService: Missing element AD in
    element OCD
    [OAK-5436] - o.a.j.o.segment.file.Manifest#load leaks a file
    descriptor
    [OAK-5454] - Failed test:
    org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.blob.CachingDataStoreTest.zeroStagingCacheAddGetDelete
    [OAK-5461] - [BlobGC] BlobIdTracker remove() should merge
    generations
    [OAK-5462] - Expensive NodeDocument.split() with multi-valued
    binary property
    [OAK-5465] - StandbyClientSyncExecution uses an unbound segment
    cache
    [OAK-5471] - Too many files with unapproved license

Improvement

    [OAK-4808] - Index external changes as part of NRT indexing
    [OAK-4809] - JMX Stats for NRT Indexing
    [OAK-5406] - LuceneIndexEditor context should only log perf log if
    index is updated
    [OAK-5417] - Refactor registration of PropertyIndexAsyncReindex
    [OAK-5421] - Add LuceneDoc directly to queue from
    LuceneIndexEditor
    [OAK-5425] - Log warning when revision GC is skipped
    [OAK-5438] - FileStore and ReadOnlyFileStore might leak journal
    file descriptors
    [OAK-5443] - VersionGarbageCollector:measure time to sort docIds
    separately
    [OAK-5448] - Aggregate logic should optimize for case where
    patterns do not include wildcard
    [OAK-5452] - Fix typo in CheckpointMBean type value
    [OAK-5456] - Reduce reads in NodeDocument.getVisibleChanges()
    [OAK-5474] - Use random ports when running Cold Standby tests

Task

    [OAK-5136] - remove prefiltering testmode (feature/config) before
    1.6
    [OAK-5230] - AsyncIndexService should ensure that async lanes
    should confirm to naming convention
    [OAK-5320] - Update Oak trunk to Jackrabbit 2.14.0
    [OAK-5335] - Clarify the various directories and their usages in
    SegmentNodeStoreService
    [OAK-5422] - Increase the DocumentQueue size to 10000
    [OAK-5432] - update html unit test dependency
    [OAK-5445] - Log the path of LuceneDoc while adding it to queue
    [OAK-5466] - Switch to oak-segment-tar in pojosr module

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
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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.

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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