Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit Oak -- Version 2.6.0

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 2.6.0 is an incremental feature release based
on and compatible with earlier stable Jackrabbit Oak 1.x
releases. This release is 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 2.6.0
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** Bug
    * [OAK-10410] - document-store: potential NPE in AbstractMongoConnectionTest teardown
    * [OAK-12017] - CommitFailedException thrown by EditorHook does not contain path to node
    * [OAK-12300] - ServiceListener not removed from BundleContext in awaitServiceEvent
    * [OAK-12309] - DocumentNodeStoreService may fail to register or double register the NodeStore due to race conditions
    * [OAK-12326] - Flacky test TokenCleanupTest#testBatchSizeLimitsCleanup
    * [OAK-12339] - bump org.apache.felix.framework to 7.0.5
    * [OAK-12349] - Update lz4-java to 1.11.2

** Story
    * [OAK-12219] - Add support for Azure SDK V12 in oak-blob-azure

** Improvement
    * [OAK-11600] - DocumentNodeStoreConfigTest failure
    * [OAK-12266] - Move fastQuerySize tests in oak-search
    * [OAK-12290] - Lock Contention in SegmentCache
    * [OAK-12299] - PersistentDiskCache: precompute elementCount and currentWeight to avoid expensive filesystem traversal on metrics reads
    * [OAK-12315] - removeDescendantsAndSelfWithLeavesFirst() should optionally keep the root node
    * [OAK-12325] - High-frequency direct ByteBuffer allocation in AbstractBlob.equals() may cause large bursts of native memory usage leading to OOMKill risk
    * [OAK-12330] - Simplified index management - allow updating "secure"
    * [OAK-12334] - Update MySql JDBC driver version to com.mysql:mysql-connector-j:9.2.0 in profile rdb-mysql
    * [OAK-12340] - Simplified index management improvements
    * [OAK-12343] - Document (and test) that ORDER BY on a type=Date ordered property fails when values aren't valid dates

** Task
    * [OAK-12118] - LogCustomizer: avoid logback signatures, implement Closeable
    * [OAK-12239] - Remove FT_PREFETCH_OAK-9780 and remove "non prefetch" code path
    * [OAK-12255] - SystemPropertySupplier logSuccessAs can throw IAE
    * [OAK-12276] - Upgrade jackson-databind dependency to 2.21.x (latest LTS)
    * [OAK-12281] - Upgrade jackson-databind dependency to 2.21.x
    * [OAK-12295] - update mongodb-driver-sync version to 5.3.1
    * [OAK-12298] - SystemPropertySupplier: document how to signal that property is not present (implies default value)
    * [OAK-12302] - Add Bundle-SCM entries to the bundle manifests.
    * [OAK-12311] - parent: jackson version - warn wrt non-LTS versions
    * [OAK-12312] - oak-pojosr: remove unintended org.testcontainers.shaded.com.fasterxml.jackson import
    * [OAK-12314] - Builds failing because request to https://www.slf4j.org/apidocs/  times out
    * [OAK-12316] - Remove FT_NOCOCLEANUP_OAK-10660 and remove its related code path
    * [OAK-12317] - bump aws sdk to 2.36.3
    * [OAK-12318] - bump testcontainers to v2.0.5
    * [OAK-12320] - Update commons-codec dependency to 1.21.0
    * [OAK-12321] - update gson dependencies to 2.14.0
    * [OAK-12322] - update Tomcat dependency to 9.0.120
    * [OAK-12323] - bump netty versions to 4.1.136.Final
    * [OAK-12324] - bump dropwizard Metrics bundles to 3.2.6
    * [OAK-12328] - Update build.yml to use Java 21 for SonarQube Analysis
    * [OAK-12332] - oak-store-document: update org.quartz-scheduler dependency to 2.4.1
    * [OAK-12333] - RDBMK: update PostgreSQL driver to version 42.7.13
    * [OAK-12336] - RDBMK: update PostgreSQL driver/database
    * [OAK-12337] - Update Oak trunk to Jackrabbit 2.22.4
    * [OAK-12342] - remove unused httpmime dependency
    * [OAK-12345] - Change checkpoint lifetime of "async - force modified" to 4 days
    * [OAK-12356] - Improve log warning
    * [OAK-12367] - SegmentCache: Disable flacky test added for L1 hits should notify L2 (caffeine)

In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains all
changes up to the previous 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 SHA512 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://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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