Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.7.1

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 1.7.1 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 1.6.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 1.7.1
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Sub-task

    [OAK-6227] - There should be a way to retrieve oldest timestamp to
    keep from nodestores

Technical task

    [OAK-4612] - Multiplexing support for CugPermissionProvider
    [OAK-6196] - Improve Javadoc of multiplexing SPI
    [OAK-6270] - There should be a way for editors to be notified by
    AsyncIndexUpdate about success/failure of indexing commit
    [OAK-6282] - Implement a DummyDataStore to be used to test setup
    with no BlobStore access

Bug

    [OAK-5573] -
    org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.segment.standby.StandbyTestIT.testSyncLoop
    [OAK-6266] - SolrQueryIndexProviderService should always have
    NodeAggregator
    [OAK-6267] - Version restore fails if restore would not change
    bundling root but changes bundled nodes
    [OAK-6273] -
    FilteringNodeStateTest#shouldHaveCorrectChildOrderProperty is
    failing
    [OAK-6277] - UserQueryManager: redundant check for colliding bound
    and offset
    [OAK-6278] - UserQueryManager: scope filtering for everyone
    groupId compares to principal name
    [OAK-6283] - FileCache should ignore when file evicted with
    replacement
    [OAK-6290] - UserQueryManager.findAuthorizables fails with
    IllegalArgumentException when there are multiple selectors
    [OAK-6292] - SecurityProviderRegistration.maybeUnregister: typo on
    comment
    [OAK-6293] - Enable test log creation for oak-blob-plugins
    [OAK-6300] - CacheConsistencyTestBase: potential NPE in teardown
    [OAK-6306] - upgrade uses lucene wrong version (transient
    dependency)

Improvement

    [OAK-2808] - Active deletion of 'deleted' Lucene index files from
    DataStore without relying on full scale Blob GC
    [OAK-3498] - DN can't be used as the group name in the external
    auth handler
    [OAK-4513] - Detect and log references across stores
    [OAK-5525] - VisibleEditor should use the NodeStateUtils to
    determine visibility
    [OAK-5935] - AbstractSharedCachingDataStore#getRecordIfStored
    should use the underlying cache.get
    [OAK-6256] - Prevent creating the across-mounts references
    [OAK-6272] - AbstractNodeState.toString does not scale to many
    child nodes
    [OAK-6289] - Unreferenced argument reference in method
    SegmentBufferWriter.writeRecordId
    [OAK-6296] - Move JACKRABBIT_2_SINGLE_QUOTED_PHRASE from
    o.a.j.oak.query.ask.FullTextSearchImpl to
    oak.fulltext.FullTextParser
    [OAK-6298] - FacetHelper should have private constructor
    [OAK-6299] - FilterIterators should have a private constructor
    [OAK-6301] - Make QueryEngineSettingsMBeanImpl an inner class of
    o.a.j.oak.Oak
    [OAK-6302] - UserInitializer: createSystemRoot can get null value
    for QueryEngineSettings
    [OAK-6307] - Function to find all large docs in Mongo

Task

    [OAK-6280] - Expose whiteboard from NodeStoreFixture to provide
    access to NodeStore components
    [OAK-6281] - Dump metrics data to system out if metrics option is
    enabled

Test

    [OAK-5882] - Improve coverage for oak.security code in oak-core

In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.7.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

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