Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.5.5

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 1.5.5 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 1.5.5
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Technical task

    [OAK-4369] - Introduce interface for Secondary NodeStore provider
    [OAK-4490] - Expose SegmentNodeStore as a secondary NodeStore
    [OAK-4495] - RDBDocumentStore: consistent handling of invalidate
    methods
    [OAK-4497] - RDBDocumentStore: potential race condition between
    update and invalidate can cause stale cache entries
    [OAK-4509] - RDBDocumentStore: low-level read method should also
    support condition on MODIFIED value
    [OAK-4510] - RDBDocumentStore: can't persist _modified value of
    null
    [OAK-4536] - Avoid premature branch

Bug

    [OAK-2819] - Persistent cache: tool to dump the contents
    [OAK-3629] - Index corruption seen with CopyOnRead when index
    defnition is recreated
    [OAK-4475] - CI failing on branches due to unknown fixture
    SEGMENT_TAR
    [OAK-4493] - Offline compaction persisted mode
    [OAK-4494] - Stale documents after revision GC in cluster
    [OAK-4496] - Enable DataStoreBlobStore#getAllRecords to support
    non-shared DataStore
    [OAK-4502] - LucenePropertyIndex doesn't use filter's path for ACL
    checks of suggest queries
    [OAK-4503] - Update count increases with rebase
    [OAK-4507] - [oak-mongo.js] oak.indexStats() does not compute
    counts properly
    [OAK-4515] - Catch NPE and log serverResult in
    MongoDocumentStore.determineServerTimeDifferenceMillis
    [OAK-4527] - [oak-blob-cloud] Access parameters configured leak
    out in the exception message
    [OAK-4537] - rat-plugin does not ignore oak-segment-tar/target
    [OAK-4538] - IndexDefinition.createCodec class loading deadlock

Improvement

    [OAK-4454] - Create consistent API in ExternalSort to write and
    read escaped line breaks
    [OAK-4488] - Create separate reactor POM to perform releases
    [OAK-4505] - Offline compaction clearer output values
    [OAK-4514] - ResurrectNodeAfterRevisionGCTest's cleanup may
    interfere with DS disposal
    [OAK-4516] - Configurable option to lucene index defs to index
    original (unanalyzed value as well)
    [OAK-4523] - Query: first selector should be main selector

New Feature

    [OAK-4476] - Option to check datastore consistency in oak-run

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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