[ANNOUNCE] Apache Jackrabbit 2.2.8 released

[Jukka Zitting <ju...@apache.org>]

The Apache Jackrabbit community is pleased to announce the release of
Apache Jackrabbit 2.2.8. 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 -- Version 2.2.8

Introduction
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This is Apache Jackrabbit(TM) 2.2, a fully compliant implementation of the
Content Repository for Java(TM) Technology API, version 2.0 (JCR 2.0) as
specified in the Java Specification Request 283 (JSR 283).

Apache Jackrabbit 2.2.8 is patch release that contains fixes and
improvements over previous 2.2.x releases. This release is backwards
compatible with all earlier 2.x releases.

Note that earlier 2.2.x releases (< 2.2.7) had a problem where very large
positive or negative long property values (more than 62 bits) could not be
correctly read from the reepository. The values are still correctly stored
in the reporistory, and can be properly read after upgrading to this release,
but any previous computations or other information derived from such
properties should be checked for correctness.

Changes in this release
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Bug fixes

  [JCR-2951] Item.remove fails if a child-item is not visible to the ...
  [JCR-2980] Nodes that have properties marked for async extraction ...
  [JCR-2996] QOM to SQL2 doesn't cast numeric literals
  [JCR-2999] Access control evaluation does not properly cope with XA ...
  [JCR-3000] SQL2 Join with OR clause still has some issues
  [JCR-3001] DescendantSelfAxisQuery may fail with IOException when ...
  [JCR-3007] setProperty access control evaluation does not properly cope ...
  [JCR-3009] Prefix fulltext queries with Japanese or Chinese characters ...
  [JCR-3013] ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: ConcurrentCache
  [JCR-3015] EntryCollector may log warning for inexistent item
  [JCR-3016] inconsistent repository after overlapping node add operations

For more detailed information about all the changes in this and other
Jackrabbit releases, please see the Jackrabbit issue tracker at

    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR

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.txt 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
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jackrabbit/dist/KEYS.

About Apache Jackrabbit
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Apache Jackrabbit is a fully conforming implementation of the Content
Repository for Java Technology API (JCR). A content repository is a
hierarchical content store with support for structured and unstructured
content, full text search, versioning, transactions, observation, and
more.

For more information, visit http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

About The Apache Software Foundation
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