[ANNOUNCE] Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.9.7 released

[Davide Giannella <da...@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 1.9.7

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 1.9.7 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 1.9.7
--------------------

Sub-task

    [OAK-7654] - Remove usage of deprecated MongoDB Java driver 2.x
    API
    [OAK-7655] - Replace fongo dependency with custom test wrapper

Technical task

    [OAK-6770] - Convert oak-segment-tar to OSGi R6 annotations
    [OAK-7603] - [DirectBinaryAccess][DISCUSS] Oak API extensions
    [OAK-7662] - Allow MarkSweepGarbageCollector to retain output
    files
    [OAK-7663] - Make oak-run LoggingInitializer generic
    [OAK-7664] - Add a get method to ClusterRepositoryInfo for read
    only cases
    [OAK-7665] - Add a datastore read-write option to BlobStoreOptions
    when NodeStore read only
    [OAK-7670] - RDB*Store: update postgresql JDBC driver reference to
    42.2.4
    [OAK-7673] - RDB*Store: update mysql driver reference to 8.0.12
    [OAK-7690] - RDB*Store: update SQLServer JDBC dependency to
    7.0.0.jre*
    [OAK-7692] - [DirectBinaryAccess] Upload token HMAC signature must
    be base64 encoded
    [OAK-7704] - RDB*Store: log message after failed DB upgrade too
    verbose

Bug

    [OAK-7652] - Node.getMixinNodeTypes can revive deleted node mixins
    (again)
    [OAK-7686] - Partial migration doesn't update Lucene indexing data
    [OAK-7687] - :async node is being removed during the partial
    migration
    [OAK-7694] - Oak.OakDefaultComponents.INSTANCE is mutable

Epic

    [OAK-7190] - Oak should compile & test on Java 10

New Feature

    [OAK-7623] - SegmentNodeStore - sidegrade support between
    TarPersistence and AzurePersistence
    [OAK-7649] - oak-run command to execute datastore garbage
    collection

Improvement

    [OAK-7246] - Improve cleanup of locally copied index files
    [OAK-7367] - Unify mockito versions and update to latest
    [OAK-7459] - oak-run compact should support Azure Segment Store
    [OAK-7640] - Prevent commits in the past
    [OAK-7647] - Replace usage of deprecated junit.framework.Assert
    [OAK-7672] - Introduce oak-run segment-copy for moving around
    segments in different storages
    [OAK-7688] - Replace usage of static ValueFactoryImpl methods
    [OAK-7699] - Active blob deletion fails on composite setups
    (follow up of OAK-7610)

Test

    [OAK-7646] - UploadStagingCacheTest#testConcurrentSameAddRequest
    fails intermittently

Task

    [OAK-7511] - get rid of JSR 305 dependency - use jetbrains
    nullability annotations instead
    [OAK-7577] - Update maven plugins from org.apache.maven.plugins
    [OAK-7581] - oak-examples: remove special case for failsafe plugin
    [OAK-7607] - Update 7.0.* Tomcat dependencies once 7.0.90 is
    released
    [OAK-7644] - Remove strategy to optimize secondary reads
    [OAK-7650] - upgrade to mockito version compatible with java 11
    [OAK-7651] - oak-solr-core test failures with java 11
    [OAK-7667] - Update Oak 1.8 to Jackrabbit 2.16.3
    [OAK-7674] - Allow to specify the connection string for
    AzureBlobStore
    [OAK-7675] - oak-pojosr: replace mockito-all by mockito-core
    [OAK-7677] - Announcement mail template lacks line feeds in front
    of release notes
    [OAK-7678] - Update to default mockito version (defined in
    oak-parent)
    [OAK-7679] - oak-core: update Mockito version and fix test case to
    be compatible with it
    [OAK-7681] - enable baseline check for oak-search-mt
    [OAK-7682] - fix comparisonVersion for baseline check
    [OAK-7685] - Update easymock dependency to 3.6
    [OAK-7689] - Update maven plugins from org.apache.maven.plugins

Documentation

    [OAK-5923] - Document S3 datastore
    [OAK-7705] - Document the requirement to reset repository id for
    cloned systems

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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