Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.6.8 Introduction ------------ 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. Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.8 is a patch release that contains fixes and improvements over Oak 1.6. Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.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 1.6.8 --------------------- Technical task [OAK-7068] - RDBBlobStore may wrap SQLExceptions into RuntimeExceptions [OAK-7069] - RDBDataSourceWrapper: properly name setTemporaryUpdateException Bug [OAK-6047] - incorrect metatype annotations [OAK-7007] - Test failure: FacetTest.testFacetsNA() [OAK-7050] - Offline compaction corrupts repository [OAK-7070] - rep:excerpt selector broken as regression of OAK-6750 [OAK-7078] - NullPointerException in FilteredSortedSetDocValuesFacetCounts during query evaluation [OAK-7101] - Stale documents in RDBDocumentStore cache [OAK-7119] - Restrict de-serialization mechanism for older serialized cache map in DataStoreCacheUtils to the classes required Improvement [OAK-7121] - DocumentStore testing: allow config of DocumentMK.Builder in AbstractDocumentStoreTest Task [OAK-6952] - add SHA512 checksums to releases [OAK-7120] - Use specific MongoDB version on travis-ci In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains all changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.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 ---------------- 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 ------------------------------------ Established in 1999, The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal, and financial support for more than 140 freely-available, collaboratively-developed Open Source projects. The pragmatic Apache License enables individual and commercial users to easily deploy Apache software; the Foundation's intellectual property framework limits the legal exposure of its 3,800+ contributors. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/