[ANNOUNCE] Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.4 released

[Julian Reschke <re...@apache.org>]

The Apache Jackrabbit community is pleased to announce the release of
Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.4. 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 1.8.4

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.

Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.4 is a patch release that contains fixes and
improvements over Oak 1.8. Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.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 1.8.4
---------------------

Technical task

     [OAK-7149] - RDBDocumentStore.getStats() for Derby
     [OAK-7159] - RDBDocumentStore: use try-with-resources for nodes
     cache locks
     [OAK-7181] - RDBDocumentStore: use try-with-resources for
     ChangesTracker
     [OAK-7184] - LengthCachingDataStoreTest: Remove unused import of
     Guava InputSupplier
     [OAK-7185] - Upgrade jclouds dependency to 2.0.3
     [OAK-7186] - avoid use of guava Iterators.emptyIterator()
     [OAK-7329] - RDB*Store for SQLServer: name the PK index for better
     readability
     [OAK-7330] - RDBDocumentStore: make indices on SD* sparse where
     possible
     [OAK-7331] - RDBDocumentStore: add index on _MODIFIED to improve
     VersionGC performance
     [OAK-7333] - RDBDocumentStore: refactor index report
     [OAK-7430] - RDB*Store: update postgresql JDBC driver reference to
     42.2.2
     [OAK-7432] - RDB*Store: update mysql driver reference to 5.1.46

Bug

     [OAK-7339] - Fix all sidegrades breaking with
     UnsupportedOperationException on MissingBlobStore by introducing
     LoopbackBlobStore
     [OAK-7513] - Possible NPE in exact size calculation for
     SolrQueryIndex

Improvement

     [OAK-7442] - Remove dependency to commons-codec

Task

     [OAK-7156] - CacheChangesTracker should implement Closeable
     [OAK-7160] - Update commons-codec dependency to 1.11
     [OAK-7161] - LengthCachingDataStore's use of LineIterator.close()
     [OAK-7163] - Upgrade commons-io dependency to 2.6
     [OAK-7240] - create announcement mail template for releases
     [OAK-7255] - Upgrade jackson dependencies to version 2.9.4
     [OAK-7268] - document store: create charset encoding utility that
     detects malformed input
     [OAK-7272] - improve BackgroundLeaseUpdate warning messages
     [OAK-7275] - Update easymock test dependency to 3.4
     [OAK-7364] - code coverage checks fail on Java 10
     [OAK-7368] - update to findbugs version compatible with jdk 10
     [OAK-7422] - Update jackson dependencies to 2.9.5
     [OAK-7443] - remove jdk 1.6 specific findbugs profile from pom
     [OAK-7451] - Upgrade tika-parsers dependency to 2.18
     [OAK-7482] - update maven-javadoc-plugin to 3.0.0
     [OAK-7483] - add "javadoc" profile for Jenkins matrix builds
     [OAK-7493] - RDB*Store: update Derby dependency to 10.14.2.0

In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.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
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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 SHA512 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
https://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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