Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.8.16 Introduction ------------ 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 1.8.16 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 1.8.16 --------------------- Technical task [OAK-8150] - RDB*Store: add Oracle specific documentation [OAK-8396] - documentation steps missing to run sweep on RDBDocumentStore [OAK-8445] - RDB documentation: minor fixes to documentation of "revisions" command [OAK-8481] - RDB*Store: update postgresql jdbc driver reference to 42.2.6 [OAK-8483] - RDB*Store: update mysql jdbc driver reference to 8.0.16 [OAK-8485] - RDB*Store: update mssql jdbc driver reference to 7.2.2 Bug [OAK-8212] - ImporterImpl.importProperties prone to NPE [OAK-8448] - VersionGC may get stuck at 60s scope [OAK-8472] - Typo in oak-run console refresh command help [OAK-8476] - RDBVersionGCSupport returns incorrect value for "oldest deleted document" Improvement [OAK-7251] - BinaryTextExtractor should not ignore parse exception - they should at least be logged at DEBUG in all cases [OAK-8041] - IndexDefinitionBuilder should support facets and boost for property definitions [OAK-8066] - Nodes with many direct children can lead to OOME when saving [OAK-8114] - IndexDefinitionBuilder should be smarter when to reindex while updating a definition [OAK-8451] - GCMonitor: fix compiler warnings and Javadoc [OAK-8453] - Refactor VersionGarbageCollector to extract Recommendations class [OAK-8526] - IndexDefinitionBuilder should support setting up index tags [OAK-8559] - Backport OAK-8066 to 1.10 and 1.8 Task [OAK-7680] - oak-commons: upgrade to project default mockito version [OAK-8424] - Update jar-plugin dependency to version 3.1.1 [OAK-8427] - reactor pom: let assembly-plugin version default to what parent specifies [OAK-8428] - Update checkstyle-plugin dependency to version 3.1.0 [OAK-8430] - Update compiler-plugin dependency to version 3.8.1 [OAK-8431] - Update shade-plugin dependency to version 3.2.1 [OAK-8432] - Update war-plugin dependency to version 3.2.3 [OAK-8456] - Update httpclient/mime dependencies to 4.5.9 [OAK-8479] - update rat plugin to 0.13 [OAK-8486] - update jackson-databind dependency to 2.9.9.1 [OAK-8501] - oak-examples/webapp: update htmlunit dependency to 2.35.0 [OAK-8502] - oak-examples/standalone: update spring boot dependency to 1.5.21 [OAK-8503] - oak-benchmarks: update commons-compress dependency to 1.18 [OAK-8504] - oak-run: update groovy dependency to 2.4.17 [OAK-8560] - Update jackson-databind dependency to 2.9.9.3 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 ---------------- 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 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 ------------------------------------ Established in 1999, The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal, and financial support for more than 140 freely-available, collaboratively-developed Open Source projects. The pragmatic Apache License enables individual and commercial users to easily deploy Apache software; the Foundation's intellectual property framework limits the legal exposure of its 3,800+ contributors. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/