[ANNOUNCE] Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.17 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 1.6.17

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 1.6.17 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 1.6.17
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Bug

    [OAK-7975] - Facet extraction fails while requesting multiple
    facets and one of the requested facets doesn't have indexed values
    [OAK-8007] - RDBDocumentStore: potential off-heap memory leakage
    due to unclosed GzipInputStream
    [OAK-8033] - Node states sometimes refer to more than a single
    generation of segments after a full compaction
    [OAK-8051] - PersistentCache: error during open can lead to
    incomplete initialization and subsequent NPEs
    [OAK-8070] - The date-based copy-versions directive doesn't work
    correctly with include-paths
    [OAK-8106] - High memory usage when large branch is reset
    [OAK-8123] - Build failure with Maven 3.6.0
    [OAK-8133] - Word SHA1 no longer allowed

Improvement

    [OAK-8084] - LogCustomizer should allow instantiation with Java
    class (in addition to class name)

Task

    [OAK-7219] - Update Logback version to >= 1.2.0, SLF4J accordingly
    [OAK-7892] - LogCustomizer should support slf4j log level

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 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
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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.

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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