Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.5.8

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 1.5.8 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 1.4.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 1.5.8
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Technical task

    [OAK-4629] - Make it possible to override blob accessing methods
    in DataStoreBlobStore
    [OAK-4633] - Multiplexing store support for Node type indexes

Bug

    [OAK-4196] - EventListener gets removed event for denied node
    [OAK-4301] - Missing protection for system-maintained
    rep:externalId
    [OAK-4599] - SecurityProviderRegistration fails to update config
    param of SecurityConfiguration(s)
    [OAK-4628] - Using non default dir name causes index directory to
    be deleted
    [OAK-4652] - indexName logged in QueryImpl is wrong in case of
    multiple indexes satisfying the query
    [OAK-4658] - Outer join: name(b) and localname(b) can throw a NPE
    [OAK-4660] - TokenProviderImpl.getTokenParent may return
    non-existing tree
    [OAK-4662] - Include Commons Lang Math 3 as a dependency in
    oak-run
    [OAK-4663] - Include Commons Lang Math 3 as a dependency in
    oak-upgrade

Documentation

    [OAK-4466] - Incorrect description for "Simple Inheritance with
    Restrictions" inthe Permission Evaluation Page

Improvement

    [OAK-4500] - Create tooling for reducing a document-based
    repository to a list of paths
    [OAK-4585] - Text extraction: runtime status monitoring
    [OAK-4624] - Optionally ignore missing blobs during sidegrade
    [OAK-4630] - Create segment and segment tar directory only when
    it's missing
    [OAK-4636] - PropertyIndexLookup#getIndexNode should be more
    tolerant towards property types
    [OAK-4640] - Provide a way for commit hook to record meta data for
    a given commit
    [OAK-4641] - Using same index definition for both async and sync
    indexing
    [OAK-4642] - Provide a way to pass indexing related state to
    IndexEditorProvider
    [OAK-4661] - TokenLoginModule: improve log output

New Feature

    [OAK-4129] - Use CredentialsSupport in TokenConfigurationImpl and
    TokenProviderImpl
    [OAK-4566] - Multiplexing store support in Lucene Indexes
    [OAK-4626] - Use oak-upgrade to initialize the DocumentMK local
    cache nodestore

In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.4.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

About The Apache Software Foundation
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