Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.7.5

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 1.7.5 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 1.7.5
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Technical task

    [OAK-6487] - IndexUpdate should not reindex newly imported index
    definitions

Bug

    [OAK-6481] - Missing versionable path property for
    oak:mount-libs-crx.default
    [OAK-6486] - NPE in CompositeNodeStore
    [OAK-6490] - Pre-Extraction support fails for empty binaries
    [OAK-6493] - LuceneIndexProviderService.enableHybridIndexing=false
    results in NullPointerException
    [OAK-6499] - MultiplexingPermissionProvider wrong privileges
    composition
    [OAK-6502] - Property index: include/exclude key pattern list
    (escaping)

Documentation

    [OAK-6370] - Improve documentation for text pre-extraction

Improvement

    [OAK-5602] - Avoid missing journal entries
    [OAK-6359] - Change behavior for very complex queries
    [OAK-6409] - Oak-run indexing: improved (user friendly) output
    [OAK-6461] - Merge all security related validators into a single
    hook
    [OAK-6469] - CompositePermissionProvider should implement
    AggregatedPermissionProvider
    [OAK-6470] - Remove extra call to createGroupPrincipal in
    UserPrincipalProvider
    [OAK-6472] - Expose constructor in JsonSerializer which takes
    filer and JsopBuilder
    [OAK-6475] - JsonSerializer should not emit :childNodeCount
    property
    [OAK-6482] - Remove org.apache.sling.testing.osgi-mock dependency
    from oak-run
    [OAK-6488] - Move journal maxRevisionAge to DocumentNodeStore
    [OAK-6491] - Add JCR_CREATED support to
    JcrLastModifiedConflictHandler
    [OAK-6492] - Allow DummyDataStore to read files written by it
    [OAK-6494] - Change journalGCMaxAge default
    [OAK-6495] - Fallback to classic diff when journal is broken

New Feature

    [OAK-3349] - Partial compaction
    [OAK-6456] - Include the tail generation in the TAR index
    [OAK-6458] - Increment the manifest version number
    [OAK-6468] - Include the tail generation in the binary references
    index
    [OAK-6471] - Support adding or updating index definitions via
    oak-run
    [OAK-6476] - Support deserializing json as NodeState
    [OAK-6477] - RevisionGC metrics for DocumentNodeStore
    [OAK-6484] - Include tail generation in the GC journal
    [OAK-6485] - Expose tail and full compaction via different methods

Task

    [OAK-6265] - Remove Mounts.defaultMount methods
    [OAK-6473] - Use JsonSerializer instead of custom json logic in
    IndexDefinitionPrinter
    [OAK-6478] - Move LoggingGCMonitor from segment-tar to core-spi

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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