Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.6.2

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 1.6.2 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 1.6.2
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Technical task

    [OAK-5627] - RDBDocumentStore: improve long query logging
    [OAK-5652] - RDB*Store: update Oracle JDBC driver reference to
    12.1.0.2.0
    [OAK-5667] - RDBDocumentStore: remove support for DBs without
    support for CASE statements in SELECT
    [OAK-5852] - RDB*Store: update Tomcat JDBC pool dependency to
    7.0.75
    [OAK-5981] - SegmentTar version check with disabled mmaping
    [OAK-5982] - SegmentMk version check with disabled mmaping
    [OAK-6134] - RDB*Store: update PostgreSQL JDBC
    [OAK-6143] - RDB*store fixtures: shorten table name prefixes for
    Oracle
    [OAK-6226] - RDBDocumentStoreDB: missing @Override statements
    [OAK-6244] - RDB*Store: update postgresql JDBC driver reference to
    42.1.1
    [OAK-6247] - RDB*Store: update Tomcat JDBC pool dependency to
    7.0.78

Bug

    [OAK-4390] - DocumentStoreStatsIT.update fails when RDB's append
    mode is disabled
    [OAK-5573] -
    org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.segment.standby.StandbyTestIT.testSyncLoop
    [OAK-5603] - Test failure: oak.upgrade.cli.blob.CopyBinariesTest
    [OAK-5705] - Negative cost calculation for native Solr query
    [OAK-5736] - Test failure:
    org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.run.osgi.SegmentNodeStoreConfigTest.testDeadlock
    [OAK-5876] - SplitDocumentCleanup should implement Closeable
    [OAK-5878] - SplitDocumentCleanup iterates twice over
    splitDocGarbage
    [OAK-5920] - Checkpoint migration will fail if the
    MissingBlobStore is used
    [OAK-5930] - incorrect test assumption in CacheConsistencyTestBase
    wrt batching
    [OAK-5934] - AbstractSharedCachingDataStore initializes a loader
    which closes input stream retrieved prematurely
    [OAK-5943] - oak-examples/standalone using Spring fwk version
    referencing vulnerable version of commons-collections
    [OAK-5993] - Utils.isIdFromLongPath() may throw
    StringIndexOutOfBoundsException
    [OAK-6086] - Incorrect usage of RDBDocumentStore.unwrap()
    [OAK-6116] - SQL generated from xpath with 3 or more ORed paths
    along with order by clause throws parseException
    [OAK-6149] - AtomicCounter fails with LuceneIndexEditorProvider
    [OAK-6208] - oak-run compact should have an option to
    disable/enable memory mapping
    [OAK-6229] - NPE when running datastorecheck command with S3
    [OAK-6230] - Minor cleanup for S3 tests
    [OAK-6233] - Typed properties not handled properly in the
    initialization of DataStore in oak-run
    [OAK-6266] - SolrQueryIndexProviderService should always have
    NodeAggregator
    [OAK-6267] - Version restore fails if restore would not change
    bundling root but changes bundled nodes
    [OAK-6283] - FileCache should ignore when file evicted with
    replacement
    [OAK-6317] - LMSEstimator update amount depending on cost amount

Epic

    [OAK-4933] - Create a data store implementation that integrates
    with Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

Improvement

    [OAK-5886] - Confusing log message from lease update
    [OAK-5921] - Make import org.apache.log4j optional
    [OAK-5935] - AbstractSharedCachingDataStore#getRecordIfStored
    should use the underlying cache.get
    [OAK-5961] - Handle scenario where jansi library cannot be loaded
    [OAK-6223] - Expose socket keep-alive option
    [OAK-6242] - Add 'container' as an acceptable property name for s3
    bucket

New Feature

    [OAK-5741] - DocumentStore UpdateOp: support removal of properties

Task

    [OAK-5641] - Update AWS sdk dependency to latest version in
    oak-blob-cloud
    [OAK-5945] - update h2db dependency
    [OAK-6159] - BlobReferenceIterator: improve test coverage for RDB
    [OAK-6251] - Update Oak 1.6 to Jackrabbit 2.14.1

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
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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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