[ANNOUNCE] Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.1 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 1.8.1

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 1.8.1 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 1.8.1
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Technical task

    [OAK-7060] - RDBDocumentStore.getStats() for SQLServer
    [OAK-7137] - Upgrade to scr bnd plugin that places the metatype
    files in the correct location
    [OAK-7138] - Move metatype files in source control to correct
    location
    [OAK-7141] - Remove unused metatype.properties
    [OAK-7142] - RDBDocumentStoreDB: use try-with-resources in new
    code introduced for getStats()

Bug

    [OAK-4401] - Excerpt Highlighting for a property is not correct
    [OAK-7131] - xpath to sql2 conversion drops order by clause for
    some cases
    [OAK-7132] - SNFE after full compaction
    [OAK-7136] - Stop storing metatype.properties files under
    OSGI-INF/metatype
    [OAK-7147] - Oak run LuceneIndexer indexes excluded parent nodes
    [OAK-7152] - CacheMap.clear() never returns
    [OAK-7162] - Race condition on revisions head between compaction
    and scheduler could result in skipped commit
    [OAK-7168] - The debug command returns a zero exit code on error
    [OAK-7169] - The datastorecheck returns a zero exit code on error
    [OAK-7171] - The history command returns a zero exit code on error
    [OAK-7174] - The check command returns a zero exit code on error
    [OAK-7176] - RevisionVector from empty string throws
    StringIndexOutOfBoundsException

Improvement

    [OAK-6031] - Add TarFiles to the architecture diagram
    [OAK-7157] - Minimize the amount of generations retained by the
    Cold Standby
    [OAK-7158] - Users shouldn't be able to change the number of
    retained generations

Task

    [OAK-7075] - Document oak-run compact arguments and system
    properties
    [OAK-7126] - make RDBCacheConsistency2Test store-agnostic
    [OAK-7130] - Update README.md with Java 8 requirement
    [OAK-7172] - Document TarMK specific MBeans
    [OAK-7173] - Update documentation for oak-run check

Documentation

    [OAK-6941] - Compatibility matrix for oak-run compact
    [OAK-6964] - Document tail compaction
    [OAK-7112] - Update documentation for cold standby

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 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
---------------------------

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

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