Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Core -- Version 1.4.9 Introduction ------------ This is the 1.4.9 patch release of the jackrabbit-core component of Apache Jackrabbit, a fully conforming implementation of the Content Repository for Java Technology API (JCR). This release is targeted to users who are not yet ready to upgrade to the more recent Jackrabbit 1.5.x releases, but who still need some of the more important recent fixes and improvements, especially related to query performance. See below for the full list of changes in this release. See the Apache Jackrabbit website at http://jackrabbit.apache.org/ for more information. Changes in this release ----------------------- All the changes in this release are listed below. The issue identifier and title is listed for each change and known issue. You can look up individual issues for more details in the Jackrabbit issue tracker at http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR Improvements [JCR-1337] Optimize first execution queries for DescendantSelfAxisWeight/... [JCR-1872] Improve performance of simple path queries [JCR-1884] CachingIndexReader.initializeParents() does not scale well ... [JCR-1998] Initialize hierarchy cache on startup Bug fixes [JCR-1573] Lucene Query Exception: 'attempt to access a deleted document' Release Contents ---------------- Like the previous jackrabbit-core 1.4.x releases this patch release only contains the jackrabbit-core component. The component is distributed both as a source archive and a pre-compiled binary. * Source archive (jackrabbit-core-1.4.9-src.jar) The source archive contains the full source code of this release in a "jackrabbit-core-1.4.9" directory. Use the following commands (or the equivalent in your environment) to build the component with Maven 2 and Java 1.4 or higher: $ jar xf jackrabbit-core-1.4.9-src.jar $ cd jackrabbit-core-1.4.9 $ mvn install * Pre-compiled binary (jackrabbit-core-1.4.9.jar) Core of the Apache Jackrabbit content repository implementation. See the included README.txt file for more information. Each release file is accompanied by SHA1 and MD5 checksums and a PGP signature. The public key used for the signatures can be found in the KEYS file.