[ANNOUNCE] Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.6 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 1.6.6

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 1.6.6 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 1.6.6
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Technical task

    [OAK-5650] - RDBDocumentStore on Oracle:
    ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in Oracle JDBC driver
    [OAK-5855] - RDBDocumentStore: improve query support for VersionGC
    [OAK-6140] - Create RDB-specific BlobReferenceIterator
    [OAK-6237] - Tomcat JDBC pool's StatementCache interceptor may
    cache borked PreparedStatements with DB2
    [OAK-6652] - RDB*Store: update postgresql JDBC driver reference to
    42.1.4
    [OAK-6660] - RDB*Store: update mysql JDBC driver reference to
    5.1.44 (2017-08-30)
    [OAK-6696] - RDB*Store: update Tomcat JDBC pool dependency to
    7.0.81
    [OAK-6782] - RDBDocumentStore: inconsistent handling of cache
    invalidation on remove()
    [OAK-6863] - RDB*Store: update Oracle JDBC dependency to 12.2.0.1

Bug

    [OAK-5772] - Test failure:
    segment.standby.MBeanIT.testClientAndServerEmptyConfig
    [OAK-6604] - Oak Blob Cloud is not used by oak-upgrade
    [OAK-6611] - [upgrade][oak-blob-cloud] Many S3DataStore errors
    during migration with oak-upgrade
    [OAK-6635] - IndexReader closed exception in DocumentQueue
    [OAK-6656] - OrderedPropertyIndexEditorProvider does not return
    Editor to IndexUpdate leading to "ordered" being marked as missing
    type
    [OAK-6685] - Background operation may fail when document is
    malformed
    [OAK-6777] - IndexReader closed exception in previous reader

Improvement

    [OAK-5985] - add CloseableIterator similar to CloseableIterable
    [OAK-6218] - Including id in DocumentStoreException which wrap
    MongoException
    [OAK-6637] - Release IndexNode lock in finally clause
    [OAK-6650] - new release checksum requirements
    [OAK-6693] - Ensure that IndexNodeManager releases lock in case of
    error in acquiring it
    [OAK-6878] - Populate S3DataStore fields with the passed
    properties in oak-upgrade

Task

    [OAK-6162] - BlobReferenceIterator refactoring
    [OAK-6171] - Refactor MongoBlobReferenceIterator
    [OAK-6631] - Update Oak 1.6 to Jackrabbit 2.14.3
    [OAK-6642] - Backport OAK-6110 to 1.6 (Offline compaction uses too
    much memory)
    [OAK-6655] - Update travis build configuration
    [OAK-6657] - Remove travis webhook configuration

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 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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