Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.6.13

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 1.6.13 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 1.6.13
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Technical task

    [OAK-7062] - RDB*Store: update mysql driver reference to 5.1.45
    [OAK-7184] - LengthCachingDataStoreTest: Remove unused import of Guava InputSupplier
    [OAK-7204] - RDB*Store: update postgresql JDBC driver reference to 42.2.0
    [OAK-7299] - RDB*Store: update postgresql JDBC driver reference to 42.2.1
    [OAK-7430] - RDB*Store: update postgresql JDBC driver reference to 42.2.2
    [OAK-7432] - RDB*Store: update mysql driver reference to 5.1.46


Bug

    [OAK-6023] - UserImporter: handlePropInfo for rep:authorizableId never returns true
    [OAK-6028] - UserImporter.start: should return false for User tree
    [OAK-6294] - The "missing" node cache value breaks the DocumentNodeStore#applyChanges
    [OAK-6869] - oak-http and oak-remote use potentially vulnerable versions of com.fasterxml.jackson
    [OAK-7593] - NodeDocument.getLatestValue() may throw IllegalStateException
    [OAK-7594] - datastorecheck command in oak-run for S3 needs jackson-annotations dependency


Improvement

    [OAK-5894] - IndexDefinitionBuilder shouldn't set type=lucene if type=disabled in existing tree
    [OAK-5895] - Avoid jcr-path conversion in AuthorizableIterator
    [OAK-6018] - UserImporter: session field can avoided by passing to init method
    [OAK-6019] - UserImporter: Redundant assignment of UserManager
    [OAK-6027] - UserImporter.Impersonators : use Oak path to user instead of ID
    [OAK-6029] - UserImporter.startChildInfo: rather check state than for currentMembership being null
    [OAK-6662] - Extend CredentialsSupport pluggability


Task

    [OAK-7046] - DocumentStore API: clarify key length
    [OAK-7161] - LengthCachingDataStore's use of LineIterator.close()
    [OAK-7255] - Upgrade jackson dependencies to version 2.9.4
    [OAK-7257] - oak-examples: update Tomcat dependency
    [OAK-7272] - improve BackgroundLeaseUpdate warning messages
    [OAK-7275] - Update easymock test dependency to 3.4
    [OAK-7422] - Update jackson dependencies to 2.9.5
    [OAK-7443] - remove jdk 1.6 specific findbugs profile from pom
    [OAK-7536] - Update aws java sdk version to 1.11.330
    [OAK-7596] - define jackson version globally
    [OAK-7609] - Update jackson dependencies to 2.9.6
    [OAK-7611] - Disable org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.segment.standby.ExternalPrivateStoreIT.testProxyFlippedIntermediateByte(Change)2


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

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