Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.9.13

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 1.9.13 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 1.9.13
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Sub-task

    [OAK-7930] - Add tape sampling

Technical task

    [OAK-7942] - Fix covariant return type changes in ByteBuffer

Bug

    [OAK-7803] - IndexFormatVersion should be available in oak-lucene
    [OAK-7869] - Commit queue stuck when input stream of blob blocks
    [OAK-7923] - CompositeNodeBuilder#getPath() fails when it wraps a
    ReadOnlyBuilder
    [OAK-7929] - Incorrect Facet Count With Large Dataset and ACLs
    [OAK-7935] - RDB*Store: createOrUpdate may fail on stale cache
    when document was removed on different instance

New Feature

    [OAK-7866] - Add tooling for recovering from an outdated journal
    [OAK-7933] - Expose number of tar readers as metric
    [OAK-7934] - Expose the number of segments as metric

Improvement

    [OAK-7918] - Extract checking logic from ConsistencyChecker
    [OAK-7925] - OakUpgrade for RDBMK: user name and password must
    match
    [OAK-7928] - Avoid reference resolution for user query with scope
    and declaredMembersOnly
    [OAK-7940] - Index importer should warn if there is no index to
    import

Test

    [OAK-7878] - Add unit test for LoggingHook

Task

    [OAK-7915] - Update Oak trunk to Jackrabbit 2.17.7
    [OAK-7931] - Don't allow for weak references between mounts
    [OAK-7943] - Update Oak trunk to Jackrabbit 2.18.0

Documentation

    [OAK-7945] - Document the recover-journal command

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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