[ANNOUNCE] Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.7 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 1.6.7

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.

Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.7 is a patch release that contains fixes and
improvements over Oak 1.6. Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.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 1.6.7
---------------------

Sub-task

    [OAK-3262] - oak-jcr: update test exclusions once JCR-3901 is
    resolved

Technical task

    [OAK-6716] - RDB*Store: update DB2 JDBC dependency to 4.19.66
    [OAK-6811] - BasicDocumentStore: avoid use of API edge case in
    test of cache invalidation
    [OAK-6860] - RDB*Store: update Derby to release 10.14
    [OAK-6903] - RDB*Store: update Tomcat JDBC pool dependency to
    7.0.82
    [OAK-6906] - RDB*Store: update Tomcat JDBC pool dependency to
    8.5.23 (for branches compatible with Java 7)
    [OAK-6907] - RDB*Store: require ojdbc 12.2.0.1 because of known
    issues in earlier versions
    [OAK-6985] - RDBDocumentStoreJDBC: remove unused parameter

Bug

    [OAK-5458] - Test failure: RepositoryBootIT.repositoryLogin
    [OAK-5933] - Checkpoints are not sorted correctly in
    RepositorySidegrade
    [OAK-6011] - Test failure: JdbcToSegmentTest:validateMigration
    [OAK-6057] - incorrect system property check in blob/upgrade tests
    [OAK-6300] - CacheConsistencyTestBase: potential NPE in teardown
    [OAK-6306] - upgrade uses lucene wrong version (transient
    dependency)
    [OAK-6360] - Failed to retrieve previously indexed checkpoint in
    composite node store
    [OAK-6454] - Inaccurate data in the oak-upgrade progress logger
    [OAK-6560] - Sidegrade uses too much memory
    [OAK-6633] - Overwriting a versionable node with the
    copy-versions=false doesn't remove versionable properties
    [OAK-6750] - Lucene facets don't work with relative properties
    [OAK-6784] - Exceptions are inhibited in oak-run compact
    [OAK-6789] - RDB: RevisionGC performance on Oracle
    [OAK-6852] - RDBDocumentStore conditional remove: check condition
    properly
    [OAK-6953] - CacheLIRS cannot be disabled

Improvement

    [OAK-5940] - Remove CachedNodeDocument
    [OAK-6003] - Allow to migrate checkpoints for all type of
    sidegrades
    [OAK-6131] - No need to rebuild the counter/uuid index anymore
    [OAK-6188] - Allow to exclude nodes containing name fragment
    during the migration
    [OAK-6190] - Allow to migrate checkpoints even if the custom
    include paths are specified
    [OAK-6792] - rep:facet not supported in xpath
    [OAK-6839] - RDBDocumentStore: queries done by GC processes should
    not thrash the cache
    [OAK-6931] - Enable the -Dcache of offline compaction

Task

    [OAK-5028] - Remove DocumentStore.update()
    [OAK-6872] - Update Oak 1.6 to Jackrabbit 2.14.4
    [OAK-6971] - Remove composite node store-related features from the
    oak-upgrade

Test

    [OAK-6007] - Introduce a FailingDocumentStore

In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.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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