Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.8.8

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 1.8.8 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 1.8.8
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Technical task

    [OAK-7472] - tests should pass with locking disabled
    [OAK-7587] - RDB*Store: update mysql driver reference to 8.0.11
    [OAK-7590] - RDB*Store: update Tomcat JDBC pool dependency to 8.5.32
    [OAK-7670] - RDB*Store: update postgresql JDBC driver reference to 42.2.4
    [OAK-7673] - RDB*Store: update mysql driver reference to 8.0.12
    [OAK-7690] - RDB*Store: update SQLServer JDBC dependency to 7.0.0.jre*
    [OAK-7704] - RDB*Store: log message after failed DB upgrade too verbose

Bug

    [OAK-7588] - Build failure: unapproved license
    [OAK-7721] - Records of specific size bring SegmentBufferWriter#flush to fail

New Feature

    [OAK-7575] - Make it possible to index and search over similar feature vectors

Improvement

    [OAK-7367] - Unify mockito versions and update to latest
    [OAK-7720] - Log hex dump of too big segments

Test

    [OAK-6517] - ActiveDeletedBlobCollectionIT.simpleAsyncIndexUpdateBasedBlobCollection failing intermittently

Task

    [OAK-7578] - Update spotbugs plugin to 3.1.5
    [OAK-7579] - remove obsolete findbugs reference from reactor pom
    [OAK-7581] - oak-examples: remove special case for failsafe plugin
    [OAK-7583] - oak-examples/webapp: update jetty-maven-plugin dependency
    [OAK-7585] - oak-examples/standalone: update spring boot version
    [OAK-7622] - Update httpcomponent dependencies to 4.4.10/4.5.6 (and declare the versions globally)
    [OAK-7624] - Add "org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.document.spi" to package export filter
    [OAK-7641] - various internal APIs missing in package export filter
    [OAK-7653] - upgrade to Jacoco version compatible with Java 11
    [OAK-7675] - oak-pojosr: replace mockito-all by mockito-core
    [OAK-7678] - Update to default mockito version (defined in oak-parent)
    [OAK-7679] - oak-core: update Mockito version and fix test case to be compatible with it
    [OAK-7685] - Update easymock dependency to 3.6

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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