Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.8.13

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.

Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.13 is a patch release that contains fixes and
improvements over Oak 1.8. Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.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 1.8.13
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Technical task

    [OAK-7547] - commons: avoid use of Guava beta APIs in StringSort
    [OAK-8016] - RDBDocumentStore: minor improvements to GZIP
    compression of BLOB contents
    [OAK-8200] - MongoDocumentStore in ReadOnly mode should never
    modify persistence
    [OAK-8201] - RDBDocumentStore in ReadOnly mode should never modify
    persistence
    [OAK-8273] - RDBDocumentStore: createOrUpdate with less than 3 ops
    suboptimal

Bug

    [OAK-7778] - PasswordUtil#isPlainTextPassword doesn't validate
    PBKDF2 scheme
    [OAK-7912] - ValidNamesTest: potential NPE in teardown
    [OAK-8012] - Unmerged branch changes visible after restart
    [OAK-8052] - PersistentCache: failure during construction may lead
    to resource leak
    [OAK-8054] - RepMembersConflictHandler creates property with wrong
    type
    [OAK-8089] - DocumentNodeStore dispose can fail when duration of
    final background ops exceeds lease time
    [OAK-8106] - High memory usage when large branch is reset
    [OAK-8108] - Branch reset does not remove all branch commit
    entries
    [OAK-8124] - Sidegrade operation doesn't run security-related
    commit hooks
    [OAK-8133] - Word SHA1 no longer allowed
    [OAK-8139] - DocumentDiscoveryLiteService hasBacklog silencing
    must support maven version format
    [OAK-8199] - DocumentStore in ReadOnly mode should never modify
    persistence
    [OAK-8214] - RDBDocumentStore may not inherit ReadOnly flag from
    DocumentNodeStore
    [OAK-8220] - CommitRootUpdateTest creates malformed value
    [OAK-8258] - Active deletion can delete blobs despite indexing
    cycle deleting them failed

New Feature

    [OAK-8146] - oak-run support for inspecting clusterNodeInfo

Improvement

    [OAK-8111] - Create read-only DocumentNodeStore for oak-run
    recovery dry run
    [OAK-8301] - Ensure travis-ci uses trusty image

Task

    [OAK-7577] - Update maven plugins from org.apache.maven.plugins
    [OAK-7586] - Update bundle plugin to 3.5.0
    [OAK-7689] - Update maven plugins from org.apache.maven.plugins
    [OAK-7827] - examples: update Spring dependencies to
    1.5.16.RELEASE
    [OAK-7831] - examples: update htmlunit dependency to 2.33
    [OAK-7833] - oak-examples/webapp: update groovy dependency
    [OAK-7848] - update maven-bundle-plugin to 3.5.1
    [OAK-7902] - Update osgi-mock to 2.3.10
    [OAK-8072] - Aggregate jcr:content result nodes as their parent
    [OAK-8085] - Upgrade spotbugs to 3.1.11
    [OAK-8098] - oak-examples/webapp: update spring boot dependency to
    1.5.19
    [OAK-8120] - Update http components to 4.5.7/4.4.11
    [OAK-8291] - Update Oak 1.8 to Jackrabbit 2.16.4
    [OAK-8296] - DocumentNodeStoreBranchesTest uses
    javax.annotation.Nonnull

In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.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 SHA512 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
https://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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