Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.2.16

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 1.2.16 is a patch release that contains fixes and
improvements over Oak 1.2. Jackrabbit Oak 1.2.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 1.2.16
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Technical task

    [OAK-4388] - RDBDocumentStore: conditional update to _modified
    property sometimes applied unconditionally
    [OAK-4389] - RDBDocumentStore: add system property for disabling
    appending updates
    [OAK-4398] - RDBDocumentStore: dead code in internalUpdate
    [OAK-4408] - RDBDocumentStore: synchronize access to BloomFilter
    [OAK-4425] - RDBDocumentStore: upgrade MySQL JDBC driver
    dependency to 5.1.39

Bug

    [OAK-3007] - SegmentStore cache does not take "string" map into
    account
    [OAK-3109] - OOME in tarkmk standby tests
    [OAK-3584] - PathNotFoundException when reading child node and
    property definitions below nt root
    [OAK-3794] - The Cold Standby should expect loops in the segment
    graph
    [OAK-3961] - Cold Standby revisit timeout setup
    [OAK-3963] - Cold Standby optimize sync for checkpoints
    [OAK-4058] - Cold Standby intermittently throws
    RejectedExecutionException
    [OAK-4083] - Simplify concurrency when loading data from the
    primary
    [OAK-4085] - Malformed node type definition when reregistered
    after upgrade
    [OAK-4432] - Ignore files in the root directory of the
    FileDataStore in #getAllIdentifiers
    [OAK-4437] - Backport OAK-4387 (XPath: querying for nodes named
    "text"...) to 1.2 and 1.4
    [OAK-4441] - [BlobGC] Writing of strings should be escaped

Improvement

    [OAK-3094] - Potential ClassCastException with LIRS cache builder
    [OAK-3113] - ColdStandby should provide sync start and end
    timestamps
    [OAK-3273] - ColdStandby make sync start and end timestamp updates
    atomic
    [OAK-3502] - Improve logging during cleanup
    [OAK-3508] - External login module should reduce LDAP lookups for
    pre-authenticated users
    [OAK-4297] - Oak-run console should allow to setup FDS of
    repository
    [OAK-4372] - VersionGarbageCollector uses more temporary memory
    than needed

Task

    [OAK-4411] - DocumentNodeStore: Improve test coverage for
    concurrent updates and queries

In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.2.14 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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