Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.9.12

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.

Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.9.12 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 1.8.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 1.9.12
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Sub-task

    [OAK-7898] - Facet queries with UNION should do trivial merge of
    facets from sub-queries

Technical task

    [OAK-6957] - Remove export for org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.security
    [OAK-7894] - RDBDocumentStore: add perf logging for JDBC read
    operations
    [OAK-7896] - RDB*Store: update mysql driver reference to 8.0.13

Bug

    [OAK-7606] - Doing Faceting only on the resultset of one
    constraints when query contain multiple constraint with OR
    condition
    [OAK-7889] - Test failure: Unable to start Docker container
    [OAK-7901] - NodeTypeRegistryTest uses javax.annotation.Nonnull
    [OAK-7903] - Corrupt index metric potentially reporting
    corruptions on every index update
    [OAK-7912] - ValidNamesTest: potential NPE in teardown
    [OAK-7916] - Feature vectors similarity query is too selective

New Feature

    [OAK-7900] - Allow to spot User.disable with a new, dedicated
    UserAction

Improvement

    [OAK-7323] - Log when trying to add "everyone" as member to other
    groups or add user/groups to "everyone"
    [OAK-7824] - Improve search by similar feature vectors with brute
    force nearest neighbour
    [OAK-7910] - Composite node store: Creating a new Lucene index;
    reindex

Task

    [OAK-7893] - Export DW Metrics for Lucene index size and document
    counts
    [OAK-7913] - Update failsafe and surefire versions to 2.22.1

Documentation

    [OAK-7895] - RELEASE-NOTES: minor typo


In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.9.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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