Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.7.4

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 1.7.4 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 1.6.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 1.7.4
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Technical task

    [OAK-6117] - Enable lucene indexing via oak-run
    [OAK-6271] - Support for importing index files
    [OAK-6414] - Use Tika config to determine non indexed mimeTypes
    [OAK-6415] - Use dynamic service loader by default

Bug

    [OAK-5740] - deliver overflow change even without new commit
    [OAK-6061] - Test failure: StandbyTestIT.testSyncLoop
    [OAK-6376] - Race condition in the CompositeNodeStore#merge
    [OAK-6413] - FileCache getIfPresent doesn't update cache hit/miss
    counters
    [OAK-6420] - Incorrect revisions sweep stats
    [OAK-6423] - MongoDocumentStore re-creates old index on
    _deletedOnce
    [OAK-6424] - LuceneSupportTest::fullTextSearch is still flaky
    [OAK-6438] - LuceneSupportTest.fullTextSearch failing
    [OAK-6440] - Incorrect node type diff
    [OAK-6443] - NodeStoreFixtureProvider not closing
    DocumentNodeStore
    [OAK-6447] - CompositeNodeStore initialisation fails if
    ignoreReadOnlyWrites config property is not set
    [OAK-6451] - MultiplexingPermissionProvider is ignored by the
    CompositeAuthorizationConfiguration
    [OAK-6455] - Don't call observer concurrently from the
    CompositeNodeStore
    [OAK-6462] - Incorrect memory calculation for bundled node states
    [OAK-6463] - Property index update fails in composite NodeStore
    setup

Improvement

    [OAK-3987] - Indexer dry run mode
    [OAK-4732] - (Slightly) prioritise reads over writes
    [OAK-5048] - Upgrade to Tika 1.15 version
    [OAK-5899] - PropertyDefinitions should allow for some
    tweakability to declare usefulness
    [OAK-6333] - IndexPlanner should use actual entryCount instead of
    limiting it to 1000
    [OAK-6341] - oak-run redirects reindexing info to STDERR
    [OAK-6350] - Improve log reporting if multiple indexes compete for
    same query
    [OAK-6425] - Make the CompositeNodeStore thread-safe
    [OAK-6428] - Add flag for controlling percentile of commit time
    used in scheduler
    [OAK-6430] - Remove Apache Commons Math3 dependency from Segment
    Tar
    [OAK-6432] - Make dynamic reference greedy and static to simplify
    LuceneIndexProviderService
    [OAK-6436] - Log message on checkpoint MBean invocation
    [OAK-6437] - NodeStateCopyUtils should not copy hidden props and
    node in JCR mode
    [OAK-6459] - VisibleValidator duplicated in chain for each
    hierarchy level
    [OAK-6464] - Public constructor for RandomStream
    [OAK-6466] - Suppress NOP info message from revision GC

New Feature

    [OAK-6081] - Indexing tooling via oak-run
    [OAK-6246] - Support for out of band indexing with read only
    access to NodeStore
    [OAK-6276] - expose way to detect "eventual consistency delay"

Task

    [OAK-6337] - Decide major version bump of o.a.j.o.api.jmx
    [OAK-6417] - Change log level for tests in oak-remote to INFO
    [OAK-6439] - Add dependency to lucene-suggest in oak-pojosr

Test

    [OAK-6427] - Duplicate class: MongoDocumentStoreHelper

In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.7.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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