[ANNOUNCE] Apache Jackrabbit 2.0 alpha8 released

[Jukka Zitting <ju...@apache.org>]

The Apache Jackrabbit community is pleased to announce the release of
Apache Jackrabbit 2.0 alpha8. The release is available for download
at:

    http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html

See the full release notes below for details about this release.


Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit -- Version 2.0-alpha8

Introduction
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This is an alpha release of Apache Jackrabbit 2.0. This release implements
a pre-release version of the JCR 2.0 API, specified by the Java Specification
Request 283 (JSR 283, http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=283).

The purpose of this alpha release is to allow people to test and review
the new JCR 2.0 features before they are finalized. Feedback to both the
Jackrabbit project and the JSR 283 expert group is highly appreciated.
Note that an alpha release is not expected to be feature-complete or
otherwise suitable for production use.

Changes in this release
-----------------------

Jackrabbit 2.0 is a major upgrade from the earlier 1.x releases. The most
notable changes in this release are:

  * Upgrade to JCR 2.0. This Jackrabbit release implements and is based
    on a pre-release version of the JCR 2.0 API. See below for a status
    listing of the issues related to JCR 2.0 changes. We expect to achieve
    full feature-completeness in time for the final Jackrabbit 2.0 release.

  * Upgrade to Java 5. All of Jackrabbit (except the jcr-tests component)
    now requires Java 5 as the base platform. Java 1.4 environments are no
    longer supported.

  * Removal of deprecated classes and features. Jackrabbit 2.0 is not
    backwards compatible with client code that used any classes or features
    that had been deprecated during the 1.x release cycle.

  * Separate JCR Commons components. Many of the general-purpose JCR
    components like JCR-RMI and OCM are now developed and released
    separately from the Jackrabbit content repository. See the individual
    components for their most recent releases.

  * Data store feature enabled in the default repository configuration.

For more detailed information about all the changes in this and other
Jackrabbit releases, please see the Jackrabbit issue tracker at

    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR

JCR 2.0 feature completeness
----------------------------

The following 43 top level JCR 2.0 implementation issues are being tracked in
the Jackrabbit issue tracker.

Open (3 issues)
  [JCR-1590] JSR 283: Locking
  [JCR-2085] test case (TCK) maintenance for JCR 2.0
  [JCR-2208] update tests so that both Query.XPATH and Query:SQL are ...

Resolved (40 issues)
  [JCR-1564] JSR 283 namespace handling
  [JCR-1565] JSR 283 lifecycle management
  [JCR-1588] JSR 283: Access Control
  [JCR-1589] JSR 283: Retention & Hold Management
  [JCR-1591] JSR 283: NodeType Management
  [JCR-1592] JSR 283: Activities
  [JCR-1593] JSR 283: Simple versioning
  [JCR-1608] JSR 283: Workspace Management
  [JCR-1609] JSR 283: new Property Types
  [JCR-1712] JSR 283: JCR Names
  [JCR-1834] JSR 283: Create RepositoryFactory implementation
  [JCR-1839] JSR 283: Introduce Event.getDate()
  [JCR-1849] JSR 283: EventJournal
  [JCR-1904] JSR 283: Event user data
  [JCR-1947] JSR 283: Node Type Attribute Subtyping Rules
  [JCR-1974] JSR 283: Evaluate Capabilities
  [JCR-2028] JSR 283: JCR Path
  [JCR-2053] JSR 283: Shareable nodes support in query
  [JCR-2056] JSR 283: Binary interfaces
  [JCR-2058] JSR 283: VersionManager and new versioning methods
  [JCR-2059] JSR 283: Access Property/Node from Session
  [JCR-2060] JSR 283: Access Nodes and Properties by Array of "NameGlob"
  [JCR-2061] JSR 283: References and Dereferencing of Property Values
  [JCR-2062] JSR 283: Repository Compliance
  [JCR-2074] JSR 283: New Event Types
  [JCR-2075] JSR 283: Identifier based event filtering
  [JCR-2076] JSR 283: QOM and SQL2
  [JCR-2086] JSR 283: Implementation of EventIterator.getDate
  [JCR-2090] JSR 283: new methods on NodeType
  [JCR-2091] Searchability settings in PropertyDefinition
  [JCR-2092] make spi query code compatible with JCR 2.0
  [JCR-2093] Implement QueryObjectModelFactory.fullTextSearch() in ...
  [JCR-2116] JSR 283: Built-In Node Types
  [JCR-2117] JSR 283: adopt CND syntax changes
  [JCR-2137] Use type StaticOperand for fullTextSearchExpression
  [JCR-2140] JSR 283: Configuration and Baselines
  [JCR-2198] Text.escapeIllegalJCRChars should be adjusted to match the ...
  [JCR-2200] Implement Query.getBindVariableNames()
  [JCR-2201] Implement QueryResult.getSelectorNames()
  [JCR-2234] changed behavior of javax.jcr.Value get* methods

Release Contents
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This release consists of a single source archive packaged as a jar file.
The archive can be unpacked with the jar tool from your JDK installation.
See the README.txt 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
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jackrabbit/dist/KEYS.

About Apache Jackrabbit
-----------------------

Apache Jackrabbit is a fully conforming implementation of the Content
Repository for Java Technology API (JCR). A content repository is a
hierarchical content store with support for structured and unstructured
content, full text search, versioning, transactions, observation, and
more.

For more information, visit http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

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