Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.8.3

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 1.8.3 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 1.8.3
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Technical task

    [OAK-7204] - RDB*Store: update postgresql JDBC driver reference to
    42.2.0
    [OAK-7289] - RDBDocumentStore: potential NPE in error handling
    code
    [OAK-7292] - RDB*Store: update tomcat jdbc dependency to 8.5.28
    [OAK-7299] - RDB*Store: update postgresql JDBC driver reference to
    42.2.1
    [OAK-7313] - RDB*Store: add DEBUG level logging for filters in
    RDBVersionGCSupport
    [OAK-7441] - RDB*Store: update DB2 JDBC dependency to 4.19.72
    [OAK-7446] - RDB*Store: update SQLServer JDBC dependency to
    6.4.0.jre*
    [OAK-7453] - oal-core/oak-store-document: fix broken line ends in
    repo
    [OAK-7454] - oak-lucene: fix broken line ends in repo

Bug

    [OAK-7198] - Index rule with REGEX_ALL_PROPS includes relative
    node
    [OAK-7209] - Race condition can resurrect blobs during blob GC
    [OAK-7265] - Standalone example application fails to start
    [OAK-7266] - Standalone example system console fails to render
    [OAK-7284] - Reindexing using --doc-traversal-mode can hit
    ConcurrentModificationException during aggregation
    [OAK-7285] - Reindexing using --doc-traversal-mode can OOM while
    aggregation in some cases
    [OAK-7291] - MongoStatusTest.testReadConcern fails on MongoDB 3.6
    [OAK-7309] - MongoDocumentStoreMetricsTest fails sporadically
    [OAK-7356] - CugConfiguration may not pick up CugExclude
    [OAK-7375] - Wrong full text parsing in Oak Solr index with
    boolean operators
    [OAK-7466] - Prevent LMSEstimator over/under flow in weights
    [OAK-7490] - oak-run console lc rmdata command uses second
    parameter for index path (and defaults to /oak:index/lucene)

Improvement

    [OAK-6031] - Add TarFiles to the architecture diagram
    [OAK-7262] - LockBasedScheduler#getHeadNodeState poor performance
    due to lock contention in commitTimeHistogram implementation
    [OAK-7290] - Reindexing using --doc-traversal-mode should have
    configurable upper bound for mem usage
    [OAK-7437] - SimpleExcerptProvider highlighting should be case
    insensitive

Task

    [OAK-7173] - Update documentation for oak-run check
    [OAK-7247] - Update Oak 1.8 to Jackrabbit 2.16.1
    [OAK-7304] - Deploy oak-pojosr as part of standard deployment
    [OAK-7314] - RDB*Store: use SDMAXREV column in RevisionGC query
    [OAK-7322] - Mention SHA512 checksums in release notes
    [OAK-7325] - restore line wrapping in release notes
    [OAK-7335] - oak-upgrade long name filter should consider the path
    length
    [OAK-7336] - stop advertising MD5 checksums
    [OAK-7347] - Incorrect link to KEYS in release notes
    [OAK-7350] - stop creating MD5 checksums for releases
    [OAK-7426] - RDB*Store: update Tomcat JDBC pool dependency to
    8.5.30
    [OAK-7452] - fix broken line ends in repo

Documentation

    [OAK-7112] - Update documentation for cold standby

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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