[ANNOUNCE] Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.14 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 1.6.14

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.

Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.14 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 1.6.14
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Technical task

    [OAK-7359] - Update to MongoDB Java driver 3.6

Bug

    [OAK-5750] - Test failure: PojoSR
    run.osgi.SecurityProviderRegistrationTest
    [OAK-6890] - Background threads might not be automatically
    restarted
    [OAK-7389] - Mongo/FileBlobStore does not update timestamp for
    already existing blobs
    [OAK-7428] - LdapIdentityProvider doesn't support creating
    external ids from the uid attribute
    [OAK-7447] - Sporadic test failures when connection is closed
    twice
    [OAK-7686] - Partial migration doesn't update Lucene indexing data
    [OAK-7687] - :async node is being removed during the partial
    migration
    [OAK-7707] - DocumentNodeStoreServiceTest always connects to
    localhost
    [OAK-7713] - Test failure:
    SecurityProviderRegistrationTest.testRequiredUserAuthenticationFactoryNotAvailable()
    [OAK-7721] - Records of specific size bring
    SegmentBufferWriter#flush to fail

Improvement

    [OAK-7706] - Update to MongoDB Java driver 3.6.4
    [OAK-7720] - Log hex dump of too big segments

Task

    [OAK-7100] - update htmlunit test dependency
    [OAK-7435] - Run travis build on MongoDB 3.6
    [OAK-7677] - Announcement mail template lacks line feeds in front
    of release notes
    [OAK-7708] - Backport OAK-6648 to Oak 1.6
    [OAK-7723] - Update Oak 1.6 to Jackrabbit 2.14.6

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
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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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