Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.9.4

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 1.9.4 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 1.9.4
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Technical task

    [OAK-7527] - Drop mandatory constraint on "rep:system" node for
    "rep:privileges"
    [OAK-7529] - Define and register oak namespace
    [OAK-7533] - NameValidator is not using namespaces defined in the
    current transaction
    [OAK-7537] - Allow for initial registration of 'xml' namespace
    [OAK-7546] - add maven profile to build with Guava beta checks
    [OAK-7547] - commons: avoid use of Guava beta APIs in StringSort

Bug

    [OAK-7521] - Command line params to modify query and read limits
    don't work for large values
    [OAK-7540] - Unique property index update fails in composite
    NodeStore setup
    [OAK-7543] - MissingLastRevSeekerTest fails on MongoDB with
    secondary preferred

Improvement

    [OAK-7506] - Prevent user enumeration by exploiting time delay
    vulnerability
    [OAK-7530] - PrivilegeInitializer should not attempt to create
    jcr:system node
    [OAK-7550] - Make running cleanup before compaction the default
    strategy

Task

    [OAK-7512] - RestoreTest.testRestoreNameJcr2 occasionally failing
    [OAK-7536] - Update aws java sdk version to 1.11.330

In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.7.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 MD5 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
http://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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