Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.5.9

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 1.5.9 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 1.5.9
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Bug

    [OAK-4110] - Test failure: testProxySkippedBytesIntermediateChange
    [OAK-4664] - Disabling lease check via DocumentMK builder does not
    work
    [OAK-4682] - ConcurrentModificationException in
    JournalEntry.TreeNode
    [OAK-4684] - RepositorySidegrade should also run commit hooks as
    they are run in upgrade
    [OAK-4692] - DocumentNodeStore does not close journal persistent
    cache
    [OAK-4717] - TarNodeStore.checkpoint methods represent endless
    loop
    [OAK-4718] - Tests in oak-upgrade depend on an archived repository

Improvement

    [OAK-4543] - Add info about event generation and consumption by
    observer
    [OAK-4623] - Log more information when null DocumentNodeState is
    read for a child while fetching children
    [OAK-4668] - Make async index more resilient on documentmk
    [OAK-4677] - stop oak-core bundle only transiently on lease
    failure
    [OAK-4680] - Unify the usage of Commons Math 3 across the project
    [OAK-4691] - Use utility backends from oak-segment-tar in oak-run
    [OAK-4697] - Optimize read of old node state
    [OAK-4703] - Update Jackrabbit version to 2.13.2
    [OAK-4715] - Reduce DocumentStore reads for local changes
    [OAK-4716] - Upgrade dependency to oak-segment-tar to version
    0.0.10

Task

    [OAK-4686] - DocumentNodeStoreTest#compareOnBranch fails for
    update.limit=10000
    [OAK-4720] - segment-tar should be used for the inplace JCR2
    upgrade


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

About The Apache Software Foundation
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