[ANNOUNCE] Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.8 released

[Alex Parvulescu <al...@apache.org>]

The Apache Jackrabbit community is pleased to announce the release of
Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.8. 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 1.0.8

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 1.0.8 is a patch release that contains fixes and
improvements over Oak 1.0. Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.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 1.0.8
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New Features

   [OAK-1915] TarMK Cold Standby
   [OAK-2005] Use separate Lucene index for performing property related
queries
   [OAK-2191] Persistent cache for the DocumentNodeStore

Bug Fixes

   [OAK-1778] Ordered index: explain plan not implemented
   [OAK-1885] Add restore option for oak-run
   [OAK-2052] Node.setProperty(String, Value) fails for binary non
ValueImpls
   [OAK-2117] Reindex removes all nodes under index definition node
   [OAK-2145] TarMK cold standby: file handle leak
   [OAK-2150] TarMK cold standby: logs are too verbose
   [OAK-2174] Non-blocking reindexing doesn't finish properly
   [OAK-2197] Node.getReferences throws IllegalArgumentException
   [OAK-2203] Full reindexing is triggered when the IndexEditor is missing
   [OAK-2226] Aggregate Lucene no results for multiple jcr:contains
   [OAK-2227] Increase package export on
org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.segment
   [OAK-2232] External events incomplete
   [OAK-2235] Lucene index not created if no node is indexed
   [OAK-2237] NodeStoreKernel.getNodes throws when passing filter=""

Improvements

   [OAK-1724] Enable copying of Lucene index to local file system for read
queries
   [OAK-2119] AggregateIndex should support AdvanceQueryIndex
   [OAK-2125] Integrate Lucene logging with Slf4j
   [OAK-2173] Allow specifying custom attributes in IndexPlan
   [OAK-2180] Solr default rows number is too high
   [OAK-2189] TarMK cold standby: update OSGi config example files
   [OAK-2201] Make blobSize in OakDirectory configurable
   [OAK-2212] Add configuration options for ldap connection pools
   [OAK-2213] The unbound connection pool does not verify if the connection
is still alive
   [OAK-2216] LIRS cache: improved concurrency when using the cache loader
   [OAK-2221] Log path for text extraction error on the Lucene index
   [OAK-2229] Provide a way for Index implementation to determine reindex
mode

Sub-tasks

   [OAK-2122] Make LuceneIndex implement AdvanceQueryIndex
   [OAK-2196] Implement sorting based on Lucene sorting
   [OAK-2198] Add support for declaringNodeTypes to only index node with
specific types
   [OAK-2200] Tune cost calculation for lucene property index
   [OAK-2210] Add support for customizing the codec
   [OAK-2211] Use Lucene index on non root node
   [OAK-2236] Support queries with only order by specified
   [OAK-2239] Do not wrap LucenePropertyIndex with AggregateIndex
   [OAK-2240] Support for indexing relative properties

In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included in previous Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.x releases.

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

About The Apache Software Foundation
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