[ANNOUNCE] Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.5.0 released

[Amit Jain <am...@apache.org>]

The Apache Jackrabbit community is pleased to announce the release of
Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.5.0 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 1.5.0

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.

Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.5.0 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 1.4.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 1.5.0
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Release Notes - Jackrabbit Oak - Version 1.5.0

Technical task

    [OAK-3977] - RDBDocumentStore: remove PostgreSQL workaround after
upgrading to JDBC driver 9.4.1208
    [OAK-4094] - RDBDocumentStore: upgrade PostgreSQL JDBC driver
dependency to 9.4.1208
    [OAK-4113] - RDBJDBCTools: fix JDBC driver version check
    [OAK-4134] - RDBBlobStore: improve error handling and logging

Bug

    [OAK-3972] - Forward edges missing in SegmentGraph
    [OAK-4065] - Counter index can get out of sync
    [OAK-4083] - Simplify concurrency when loading data from the primary
    [OAK-4088] - CacheLIRS prevents cleanup from being effective
    [OAK-4089] - The standby store shouldn't start the observation subsystem
    [OAK-4091] - The standby store shouldn't initialize the segment
node store with an initial state
    [OAK-4116] - Broadcasting cache: disabled by default
    [OAK-4126] - Suggestion and spellcheck queries throw exception if
result contain lucene query character

Improvement

    [OAK-3563] - Improve DefaultSyncContext
    [OAK-3725] - Add oak:Indexable mixin type
    [OAK-3886] - Delegate supported Credentials types to
ExternalIdentityProvider
    [OAK-4029] - RDBDocumentStore: optimize the bulk update method
    [OAK-4109] - Fix typo in async indexer thread name
    [OAK-4123] - Persistent cache: allow to configure the add data concurrency
    [OAK-4142] - allow skip UT in pedantic profile

Task

    [OAK-4084] - Add 1.4 branch in Jenkins matrix
    [OAK-4100] - ClusterNodeInfo lease renewal: add logging
    [OAK-4118] - Benchmarks for Membership Operations


In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.4.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 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
athttp://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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