Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.5.3 Introduction ------------ 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 1.5.3 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 1.5.3 --------------------- Technical task [OAK-4326] - Add a flag to choose between segment store implementations in the "backup" command [OAK-4327] - Add a flag to choose between segment store implementations in the "restore" command [OAK-4328] - Add a fixture to choose between segment store implementations in the "benchmark" command [OAK-4329] - Add a flag to choose between segment store implementations in the "console" command [OAK-4330] - Add a flag to choose between segment store implementations in the "debug" command [OAK-4331] - Add a flag to choose between segment store implementations in the "graph" command [OAK-4332] - Add a flag to choose between segment store implementations in the "history" command [OAK-4333] - Add a flag to choose between segment store implementations in the "check" command [OAK-4334] - Add a flag to choose between segment store implementations in the "compact" command [OAK-4335] - Add a flag to choose between segment store implementations in the "server" command [OAK-4336] - Add a flag to choose between segment store implementations in the "scalability" command [OAK-4337] - Add a flag to choose between segment store implementations in the "explore" command [OAK-4338] - Add a flag to choose between segment store implementations in the "checkpoints" command [OAK-4339] - Add a flag to choose between segment store implementations in the "tika" command [OAK-4340] - Add a flag to choose between segment store implementations in the "tarmkdiff" command [OAK-4341] - Add a flag to choose between segment store implementations in the "tarmkrecovery" command [OAK-4342] - Add a flag to choose between segment store implementations in the "dumpdatastorerefs" command [OAK-4343] - Add a flag to choose between segment store implementations in the "resetclusterid" command [OAK-4388] - RDBDocumentStore: conditional update to _modified property sometimes applied unconditionally [OAK-4389] - RDBDocumentStore: add system property for disabling appending updates [OAK-4398] - RDBDocumentStore: dead code in internalUpdate [OAK-4425] - RDBDocumentStore: upgrade MySQL JDBC driver dependency to 5.1.39 Bug [OAK-4358] - Stale cluster ids can potentially lead to lots of previous docs traversal in NodeDocument.getNewestRevision [OAK-4366] - SyncMBeanImpl.testSyncExternalUsersLastSyncedProperty makes assumption about System.currentTimeMillis() [OAK-4375] - oak-jcr has compile dependencies on oak-segment and oak-segment-tar [OAK-4376] - XPath: queries starting with "//" are not always converted correctly [OAK-4377] - TestS3Ds overwrites system property 'config' [OAK-4387] - XPath: querying for nodes named "text", "element", and "rep:excerpt" fails [OAK-4397] - DefaultSyncContext.syncMembership may sync group of a foreign IDP [OAK-4423] - Possible overflow in checkpoint creation [OAK-4426] - RepositorySidegrade: oak-segment to oak-segment-tar should drop the name length check Epic [OAK-4215] - Improve test-coverage for External Authentication Improvement [OAK-4361] - Reduce performance impact of observation ACFilter [OAK-4370] - Unreferenced empty VersionHistories should be deleted automatically [OAK-4372] - VersionGarbageCollector uses more temporary memory than needed [OAK-4380] - DocumentNodeState should override getPropertyCount [OAK-4381] - Query engine: decouple nodetype lookup [OAK-4384] - Benchmarks: add support 'automembership' config option [OAK-4385] - Benchmarks: proper init of ExternalPrincipalConfiguration with dynamicMembership [OAK-4413] - IndexCopier logs too verbose [OAK-4424] - Optimize PathUtils.concat by using a properly sized StringBuilder New Feature [OAK-4101] - Consider separate external (group) principal management Task [OAK-4279] - Rework offline compaction [OAK-4364] - Initial Benchmarks for oak-auth-external [OAK-4411] - DocumentNodeStore: Improve test coverage for concurrent updates and queries Test [OAK-4386] - Verify that external login with dynamic membership populates subject 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 ---------------- 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. 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