Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.9.5

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 1.9.5 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 1.9.5
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Technical task

    [OAK-7532] - VersionStorageEditor should allow bootstraping of
    initial content
    [OAK-7553] - Extract interface from CommitValueResolver
    [OAK-7554] - Extract InactiveRevisionContext from
    LastRevRecoveryAgent
    [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

Bug

    [OAK-7551] - The compaction deadline should be reset at each
    execution
    [OAK-7559] - CacheActionDispatcher not memory bound
    [OAK-7566] - Rename metrics for DataStore garbage collection
    [OAK-7567] - Migrating an unmodified checkpoint takes a long time
    [OAK-7588] - Build failure: unapproved license
    [OAK-7593] - NodeDocument.getLatestValue() may throw
    IllegalStateException
    [OAK-7594] - datastorecheck command in oak-run for S3 needs
    jackson-annotations dependency
    [OAK-7598] -
    CopyOnWriteDirectory.COWRemoteFileReference#checkIfLocalValid logs
    WARN for segments.gen

New Feature

    [OAK-7555] - Enable collection of simple operation stats for
    Revision garbage collection
    [OAK-7575] - Make it possible to index and search over similar
    feature vectors

Improvement

    [OAK-7561] - Don't migrate the checkpoints in oak-store-composite
    seed initialization
    [OAK-7584] - Add stats for DataStore GC performance
    [OAK-7601] - Exclude org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.value.jcr
    from baseline check

Task

    [OAK-7556] - Update failsafe and surefire plugin versions to
    2.22.0
    [OAK-7563] - Set baseline plugin comparison for trunk to latest
    stable version (1.8.4)
    [OAK-7578] - Update spotbugs plugin to 3.1.5
    [OAK-7579] - remove obsolete findbugs reference from reactor pom
    [OAK-7582] - Make the MountInfo constructor public
    [OAK-7583] - oak-examples/webapp: update jetty-maven-plugin
    dependency
    [OAK-7585] - oak-examples/standalone: update spring boot version
    [OAK-7586] - Update bundle plugin to 3.5.0
    [OAK-7596] - define jackson version globally

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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