Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.2.18

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 1.2.18 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 1.2.18
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Technical task

    [OAK-4477] - RDBDatasourceFactory should use pool config similar to sling datasource defaults
    [OAK-4554] - RDBBlobStoreTest should use RDBDatasourceWrapper
    [OAK-4557] - RDBPreparedStatementWrapper: do not hide implementation bugs
    [OAK-4559] - RDB*Store: failures with Tomcat JDBC pool's StatementCache interceptor
    [OAK-4562] - BasicDocumentStore max id test might return misleading results
    [OAK-4629] - Make it possible to override blob accessing methods in DataStoreBlobStore


Bug

    [OAK-4503] - Update count increases with rebase
    [OAK-4527] - [oak-blob-cloud] Access parameters configured leak out in the exception message
    [OAK-4565] - S3Backend fails to upload large metadata records
    [OAK-4599] - SecurityProviderRegistration fails to update config param of SecurityConfiguration(s)


Improvement

    [OAK-2761] - Persistent cache: add data in a different thread
    [OAK-3997] - Include eviction cause to the LIRS removal callback
    [OAK-4123] - Persistent cache: allow to configure the add data concurrency
    [OAK-4454] - Create consistent API in ExternalSort to write and read escaped line breaks
    [OAK-4563] - Specify thread pool name which should be used by Async Indexing task
    [OAK-4573] - S3 fetching record leads to multiple calls and background download
    [OAK-4574] - [BlobGC] Remove adding of paths in file maintained for blob references
    [OAK-4636] - PropertyIndexLookup#getIndexNode should be more tolerant towards property types


New Feature

    [OAK-3095] - Add eviction listener to LIRS cache


Task

    [OAK-3611] - upgrade H2DB dependency to 1.4.190


In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.2.17 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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