[ANNOUNCE] Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.9.6 released

[Amit Jain <am...@apache.org>]

The Apache Jackrabbit community is pleased to announce the release of
Apache Jackrabbit Oak. 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 Oak -- Version 1.9.6

Introduction
------------

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 1.9.6 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 1.8.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 1.9.6
--------------------

Sub-task

    [OAK-7626] - Strict lease check mode
    [OAK-7628] - Prevent commits after lease end
    [OAK-7636] - Replace usage of deprecated
    DocumentNodeStoreBuilder.setLeaseCheck()

Technical task

    [OAK-7632] - remove JSR 305 annotations in Groovy code

Bug

    [OAK-7564] - Commit fails when forced journal push throws
    exception
    [OAK-7610] - Active blob deletion fails on composite setups
    [OAK-7630] - Suggest directory update doesn't close
    AnalyzingInfixSuggester after building
    [OAK-7638] - Race condition when simultaneous request to stage
    file for async upload

New Feature

    [OAK-7604] - Add FileStoreStatsMBean#getSegmentCount for
    monitoring the number of segments
    [OAK-7617] - Metric for DocumentNodeStore lease update

Improvement

    [OAK-3883] - Avoid commit from too far in the future (due to clock
    skews) to go through
    [OAK-7180] - The error message "postings highlighting failed"
    should be warn or debug
    [OAK-7316] - Greedy ClusterNodeInfo
    [OAK-7334] - Transform CacheWeightEstimator into a unit test
    [OAK-7615] - Speed up site generation
    [OAK-7621] - Metric for background read lag
    [OAK-7627] - Update the dependency on biz.aQute.bndlib
    [OAK-7629] - Lucene index: hide the settings COR and COW

Test

    [OAK-7620] - Update to Mockito 2.x

Task

    [OAK-7257] - oak-examples: update Tomcat dependency
    [OAK-7609] - Update jackson dependencies to 2.9.6
    [OAK-7614] - Update Oak trunk to Jackrabbit 2.17.4
    [OAK-7622] - Update httpcomponent dependencies to 4.4.10/4.5.6
    (and declare the versions globally)
    [OAK-7624] - Add "org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.document.spi"
    to package export filter
    [OAK-7625] - remove @Nonnegative annotation in NodeDocumentCache
    [OAK-7641] - various internal APIs missing in package export
    filter

Documentation

    [OAK-7616] - Document metrics

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
----------------

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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