Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.8.12

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 1.8.12 is a patch release that contains fixes and
improvements over Oak 1.8. Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.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 1.8.12
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Technical task

    [OAK-7201] - make Guava version configurable at build time
    [OAK-7399] - add build profile "guava-latest" to build with latest
    supported Guava version
    [OAK-7894] - RDBDocumentStore: add perf logging for JDBC read
    operations
    [OAK-7960] - RDB: add to Oak documentation
    [OAK-7978] - guava-latest profile defunct
    [OAK-8004] - oak-run: support "recovery" command for
    RDBDocumentStore
    [OAK-8043] - RDB: expose DDL generation functionality in oak-run
    [OAK-8058] - RDB*Store: update Tomcat JDBC pool dependency to
    8.5.38
    [OAK-8069] - Log warning for too many transient modifications of
    direct child nodes
    [OAK-8071] - Logging to detect commits carrying over from previous
    GC generation can block other threads from committing

Bug

    [OAK-1819] - oak-solr-core test failures on Java 8 and later
    [OAK-6749] - Segment-Tar standby sync fails with "in-memory" blobs
    present in the source repo
    [OAK-7751] - CopyOnReadDirectory#removeDeletedFiles asks
    IndexCopier to check timestamp for (remote only) segments.gen
    leading to failure to clean up local files
    [OAK-7901] - NodeTypeRegistryTest uses javax.annotation.Nonnull
    [OAK-8006] - SegmentBlob#readLongBlobId might cause
    SegmentNotFoundException on standby
    [OAK-8007] - RDBDocumentStore: potential off-heap memory leakage
    due to unclosed GzipInputStream
    [OAK-8033] - Node states sometimes refer to more than a single
    generation of segments after a full compaction
    [OAK-8051] - PersistentCache: error during open can lead to
    incomplete initialization and subsequent NPEs
    [OAK-8063] - The cold standby client doesn't correctly handle
    backward references
    [OAK-8070] - The date-based copy-versions directive doesn't work
    correctly with include-paths

Improvement

    [OAK-7246] - Improve cleanup of locally copied index files
    [OAK-8046] - Result items are not always correctly counted against
    the configured read limit if a query uses a lucene index
    [OAK-8084] - LogCustomizer should allow instantiation with Java
    class (in addition to class name)
    [OAK-8088] - Add refresh head revision time to background update
    stats

Task

    [OAK-7826] - examples: remove unused slf4f related vars from pom
    [OAK-7892] - LogCustomizer should support slf4j log levels
    [OAK-7969] - Update tika dependency to 1.20
    [OAK-8030] - oak-jcr NodeTypeTest improvements
    [OAK-8037] - add test case for making a node type referenceable
    [OAK-8059] - Update Jackson dependency to 2.9.8
    [OAK-8068] - Update slf4j dependency to 1.7.26

In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.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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