[ANNOUNCE] Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.5.12 released

[Davide Giannella <da...@apache.org>]

The Apache Jackrabbit community is pleased to announce the release of
Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.5.12 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 1.5.12

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 1.5.12 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 1.5.12
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Technical task

    [OAK-4885] - RDB*Store: update mysql JDBC driver reference to
    5.1.40
    [OAK-4905] - RDB*Store: update postgresql JDBC driver reference to
    9.4.1211

Bug

    [OAK-4082] - RDBDocumentStore on MySQL may fail when using
    useServerPrepStmts=true
    [OAK-4828] - oak-ugrade tests fail with segment tar 0.0.12 (on
    Windows)
    [OAK-4894] - Potential NPE in Commit.apply()
    [OAK-4909] - NRTIndex can get closed while in use

Improvement

    [OAK-4816] - Property index: cost estimate with path restriction
    is too optimistic
    [OAK-4890] - Invalidate cache on missing previous document
    [OAK-4892] - Speed up DocumentNodeStoreStatsCollectorIT
    [OAK-4904] - For unique indexes avoid consulting indexes other
    than property index
    [OAK-4910] - Update segment tar to 0.0.14

New Feature

    [OAK-4265] - XPath: support limited form of "union"
    [OAK-4522] - Improve CommitRateLimiter to optionally block some
    commits

Task

    [OAK-4823] - Upgrade Oak Segment Tar dependency to 0.0.12
    [OAK-4889] - Update Oak trunk to Jackrabbit 2.13.4

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 at
http://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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