[ANNOUNCE] Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.2.4 released

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

The Apache Jackrabbit community is pleased to announce the release of
Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.2.4. 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 1.2.4

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 1.2.4 is a patch release that contains fixes and
improvements over Oak 1.2. Jackrabbit Oak 1.2.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 1.2.4
--------------------


Bugs

    [OAK-2827] - [oak-blob-cloud] Test Failures: Add joda-time dependency
explicitly with definite version range
    [OAK-2880] - NPE in SegmentWriter.writeMap
    [OAK-2973] - [Blob GC] Report accurate deleted count
    [OAK-3116] - SolrQueryIndexProviderService should not blindly register
a QueryIndexProvider
    [OAK-3130] - ReferenceEditor may not enforce referential integrity
    [OAK-3143] - lucene command for oak-run console doesn't work
    [OAK-3155] - AsyncIndex stats do not capture execution for runs where
no indexing is performed
    [OAK-3157] - Lucene suggestions don't work if suggested phrases don't
return documents on :fulltext search
    [OAK-3164] - MemoryNodeStore issues duplicate checkpoint
    [OAK-3167] - [Blob GC] Wrong time units for blobGcMaxAge are passed
from SegmentNodeStoreService
    [OAK-3169] - rep:versionablePaths mixin not always set for versionable
nodes
    [OAK-3171] - Conflict Exception logs path information only on DEBUG
    [OAK-3199] - DocumentNodeState ignores binary value for memory
calculation
    [OAK-3231] - Change default maxCachedBinarySize to match lucene
DEFAULT_BLOB_SIZE
    [OAK-3246] - MultiDocumentStoreTest might fail to clean up test nodes

Improvements

    [OAK-3129] - SolrQueryIndex making too many Solr requests per jCR query
    [OAK-3135] - Solr index should not be used for path/pt restrictions only
    [OAK-3142] - All children path and primary type restrictions should be
converted to filter queries
    [OAK-3147] - Make it possible to collapse results under jcr:content
nodes
    [OAK-3174] - [Blob GC] Make actual deletion of blobs synchronous
    [OAK-3204] - oak-core version diagnostics
    [OAK-3257] - speed up BasicDocumentStoreTest

New Features

    [OAK-2619] - Repeated upgrades

Sub-tasks

    [OAK-3198] - reduce RDBDocumentStore class size, avoid code duplication
with RDBBlobStore
    [OAK-3206] - DocumentStorePerformanceTest executed together with unit
tests
    [OAK-3222] - RDBDocumentStore: add missing RDBHelper support for
JOURNAL table

Tests

    [OAK-2545] - SegmentMk IT tests are too intensive


In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.2.3 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 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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