Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.2.20

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 1.2.20 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 1.2.20
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Technical task

    [OAK-4583] - RDB*Store: update Tomcat JDBC pool dependency
    [OAK-4794] - RDBDocumentStore: update PostgresQL JDBC driver
    [OAK-4885] - RDB*Store: update mysql JDBC driver reference to 5.1.40
    [OAK-4905] - RDB*Store: update postgresql JDBC driver reference to 9.4.1211


Bug

    [OAK-3917] - SuggestionHelper creating unnecessary temporary directories
    [OAK-4082] - RDBDocumentStore on MySQL may fail when using useServerPrepStmts=true
    [OAK-4805] - Misconfigured lucene index definition can render the whole system unusable
    [OAK-4879] - Proper implementation of getOrCreateReferenceKey in CachingFDS


Improvement

    [OAK-3253] - Support caching in FileDataStoreService
    [OAK-4819] - Improve revision GC resilience
    [OAK-4851] - Update httpclient to 4.3.6 in Oak 1.4- branches


Task

    [OAK-4827] - Backport OAK-3415 into 1.2.x


Test

    [OAK-3277] - Turn VersionGarbageCollectorTest into an integration test


In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.2.19 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
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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.

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

About The Apache Software Foundation
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