Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.6.12

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.

Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.12 is a patch release that contains fixes and
improvements over Oak 1.6. Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.x releases are
considered stable and targeted for production use.

The Oak effort is a part of the Apache Jackrabbit project.
Apache Jackrabbit is a project of the Apache Software Foundation.

Changes in Oak 1.6.12
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Bug

    [OAK-6490] - Pre-Extraction support fails for empty binaries
    [OAK-7339] - Fix all sidegrades breaking with UnsupportedOperationException on MissingBlobStore by introducing LoopbackBlobStore
    [OAK-7466] - Prevent LMSEstimator over/under flow in weights
    [OAK-7490] - oak-run console lc rmdata command uses second parameter for index path (and defaults to /oak:index/lucene)
    [OAK-7513] - Possible NPE in exact size calculation for SolrQueryIndex

Improvement

    [OAK-7437] - SimpleExcerptProvider highlighting should be case insensitive

Task

    [OAK-6532] - Minimise usage of junit-addons
    [OAK-7240] - create announcement mail template for releases
    [OAK-7452] - fix broken line ends in repo
    [OAK-7492] - Oak <= 1.6: revert Derby version to one compatible with Java 7

Technical task

    [OAK-7292] - RDB*Store: update tomcat jdbc dependency to 8.5.28
    [OAK-7441] - RDB*Store: update DB2 JDBC dependency to 4.19.72
    [OAK-7446] - RDB*Store: update SQLServer JDBC dependency to 6.4.0.jre*
    [OAK-7453] - oal-core/oak-store-document: fix broken line ends in repo
    [OAK-7454] - oak-lucene: fix broken line ends in repo


In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.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 SHA512 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
https://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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