[ANNOUNCE] Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.1 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 1.6.1

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 1.6.1 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 1.6.1
---------------------

Sub-task

    [OAK-4648] - Improve documentation about structure of TAR files

Technical task

    [OAK-5547] - Document TarMK design
    [OAK-5554] - RDB*Store: update postgresql JDBC driver reference to
    9.4.1212
    [OAK-5555] - RDB*Store: update Tomcat JDBC pool dependency to
    7.0.73
    [OAK-5751] - RDBDocumentStore: properly handle null values for
    system properties

Bug

    [OAK-5017] - Standby test failures
    [OAK-5239] - Test failure:
    ExternalPrivateStoreIT. testSyncUpdatedBinaryProperty()
    [OAK-5388] - Test failure:
    persistentCache.BroadcastTest.broadcastTCP
    [OAK-5408] - Test failure: segment.standby.BrokenNetworkTest
    [OAK-5482] - Test failure: LdapProviderTest - Address already in
    use
    [OAK-5485] - Test failure: LdapDefaultLoginModuleTest address
    already in use
    [OAK-5536] - Facets on relative properties do not work properly
    [OAK-5542] - Test failure:
    security.authentication.ldap.LdapProviderTest (Address already in
    use)
    [OAK-5557] - incomplete diffManyChildren during commitHook
    evaluation in a persisted branch
    [OAK-5561] - TestFailure:
    org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.index.lucene.LucenePropertyIndexTest.longRepExcerpt
    [OAK-5587] - Node counter index estimates must not be used before
    first async index cycle
    [OAK-5601] - documentMk backgroundRead should handle missing
    journal entries
    [OAK-5612] - Test failure:
    org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.run.osgi.DocumentNodeStoreConfigTest.testRDBDocumentStoreRestart
    [OAK-5619] - withIncludeAncestorsRemove reports unrelated
    top-level node deletion
    [OAK-5621] - Warn traversal queries: false positives for joins and
    SQL-2 queries using "or"
    [OAK-5626] - ChangeProcessor doesn't reset 'blocking' flag when
    items from queue gets removed and commit-rate-limiter is null
    [OAK-5636] - potential NPE in ReplicaSetInfo
    [OAK-5649] - Error in RefreshPolicy can lead to IndexNode lock
    leak
    [OAK-5651] - java.lang.IllegalStateException logged when migrating
    Segment to Document
    [OAK-5657] - leverage project.version in oak-examples
    [OAK-5668] - Test failure:
    observation.ObservationQueueFullWarnTest.warnOnRepeatedQueueFull
    [OAK-5703] - The replica set info gets invalid cluster id
    [OAK-5738] - Potential NPE in LargeLdapProviderTest
    [OAK-5773] - BlobCache does not implement Closeable
    [OAK-5783] - Test failure:
    security.authentication.ldap.LdapProviderTest.testSplitDNIntermediatePath2
    [OAK-5875] - project.version in oak-example fails release-plugin

Epic

    [OAK-4243] - Oak Segment Tar Module

Improvement

    [OAK-5275] - The check command should accept the path to the store
    as a positional argument
    [OAK-5276] - The check command overloads the meaning of the "deep"
    option
    [OAK-5350] - Improve code coverage of oak-segment-tar
    [OAK-5559] - Reduce reads with overlapping previous documents
    [OAK-5589] - GlobbingPathFilter constructor is expensive
    [OAK-5594] - leaderboard of consolidated listener stats should
    show path as well
    [OAK-5595] - The check command should do deep traversals by
    default
    [OAK-5604] - The check command should accept a non-argument "bin"
    option for checking binaries
    [OAK-5654] - Improve log output with UserImporter
    [OAK-5666] - oak-upgrade should validate the paths
    [OAK-5742] - more logging when ChangeProcessor.stopAndWait fails
    [OAK-5784] - hashCode of RestrictionImpl doesn't include value
    [OAK-5873] - Improve SegmentNodeStoreService OSGi description for
    customBlobStore to remove default False

New Feature

    [OAK-5210] - Ability to resolve principal name from
    ExternalIdentityRef without IDP roundtrip

Task

    [OAK-4292] - Document oak-segment-tar

Test

    [OAK-5633] - Builds on travis-ci time out
    [OAK-5663] - Improve LogCutomizer to allow filtering on log
    messages too

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

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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