Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 1.8.9

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 1.8.9 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 1.8.9
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Technical task

    [OAK-7729] - RDB*Store: update postgresql JDBC driver reference to
    42.2.5
    [OAK-7730] - RDB*Store: update Tomcat JDBC pool dependency to
    8.5.33
    [OAK-7748] - DocumentStore: test (and optionally optimize) bulk
    update fallback logic

Bug

    [OAK-7638] - Race condition when simultaneous request to stage
    file for async upload
    [OAK-7798] - Return stream for downloaded files rather than
    directly from backend
    [OAK-7837] - oak-run check crashes with SNFE
    [OAK-7853] - SegmentBufferWriter not flushed after OnRC
    [OAK-7855] - rdbmk: Invalid SplitDocType when run on non-upgraded
    DB
    [OAK-7858] - S3#getAllIdentifiers may trim listing when filtering
    out metadata objects

Improvement

    [OAK-7832] - oak-run console export should handle exceptions such
    as missing segments
    [OAK-7854] - Add liveliness monitoring for FileStore background
    operations
    [OAK-7862] - Make PermissionEntryCache more resilient against OOME
    (1.8)

Task

    [OAK-7767] - Update tika dependency to 1.19
    [OAK-7814] - Update tika dependency to 1.19.1
    [OAK-7823] - examples: use project-wide logback version 1.2.3
    instead of 1.1.7
    [OAK-7829] - oak-examples: update Tomcat dependency to 7.0.91
    [OAK-7836] - Update jackson dependencies to 2.9.7
    [OAK-7847] - complete "Indexing tooling via oak-run" in 1.8

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 SHA1 and 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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