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Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit -- Version 2.4.1

Introduction
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This is Apache Jackrabbit(TM) 2.4, 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 2.4.1 is patch release that contains fixes and
improvements over Jackrabbit 2.4.0. This release is fully compatible
with earlier 2.x.x releases.

Changes since Jackrabbit 2.4.0
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Improvements

  [JCR-3237] add missing name constants for mix:title
  [JCR-3254] make max size of CachingEntryCollector's cache configurable
  [JCR-3255] Access cluster node id
  [JCR-3259] augment logging information around CachingEntryCollector
  [JCR-3280] SQL2 joins on empty sets are not efficient

Bug fixes

  [JCR-3158] Deadlock in DBCP when accessing node
  [JCR-3227] VolatileIndex not closed properly
  [JCR-3236] Can not instantiate lucene Analyzer in SearchIndex
  [JCR-3247] SQL2 ISDESCENDANTNODE BooleanQuery#TooManyClauses returns
  [JCR-3250] webapp welcome page shows incorrect port when port is the ...
  [JCR-3261] Problems with BundleDbPersistenceManager getAllNodeIds
  [JCR-3266] JCR-SQL2 query with multiple columns in result only returns ...
  [JCR-3268] Re-index fails on corrupt bundle
  [JCR-3270] Error instantiating lucene search index in Turkish Regional ...

Changes since Jackrabbit 2.2.0
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New features

  [JCR-2859] Make open scoped locks recoverable
  [JCR-2936] JMX Bindings for Jackrabbit
  [JCR-3005] Make it possible to get multiple nodes in one call via davex
  [JCR-3040] JMX Stats for the Session
  [JCR-3117] Stats for the PersistenceManager
  [JCR-3118] Configurable actions upon authorizable creation and removal
  [JCR-3124] Stats for Queries
  [JCR-3140] Add configurable hook for password validation
  [JCR-3154] Stats for Queries continued
  [JCR-3183] Add memory based bundle store

Improvements

  [JCR-1443] Make JCAManagedConnectionFactory non final, so it can be extended
  [JCR-2798] JCAManagedConnectionFactory should chain cause exception
  [JCR-2887] Split PrivilegeRegistry in a per-session manager instance ...
  [JCR-2906] Multivalued property sorted by last/random value
  [JCR-2989] Support for embedded index aggregates
  [JCR-3017] Version history recovery fails in case a version does not ...
  [JCR-3030] Permit using different tablespaces for tables and indexes ...
  [JCR-3084] Script for checking releases
  [JCR-3085] better diagnostics when version storage is broken
  [JCR-3091] Lucene Scorer implementations should handle the 'advance' ...
  [JCR-3098] Add hit miss statistics and logging to caches
  [JCR-3102] InternalVersion.getFrozenNode confused about root version?
  [JCR-3107] Speed up hierarchy cache initialization
  [JCR-3109] Move PersistenceManagerTest from o.a.j.core to o.a.j.core....
  [JCR-3114] expose PM for versioning manager so that the consistency ...
  [JCR-3119] Improve aggregate node indexing code
  [JCR-3120] Change log level in UserManagerImpl#getAuthorizable(NodeImpl) ...
  [JCR-3122] QueryObjectModelImpl should execute queries as SessionOperation(s)
  [JCR-3127] Upgrade to Tika 0.10
  [JCR-3129] It should be possible to create a non-transient Repository ...
  [JCR-3132] Test tooling updates
  [JCR-3133] Query Stats should use the TimeSeries mechanism
  [JCR-3135] Upgrade to Logback 1.0
  [JCR-3136] Add m2e lifecycle mappings for Eclipse Indigo
  [JCR-3138] Skip sync delay when changes are found
  [JCR-3141] Upgrade to Tika 1.0
  [JCR-3142] Create OSGi Bundles from jackrabbit-webdav and ...
  [JCR-3143] SessionImpl#isSupportedOption: Skip descriptor evaluation ...
  [JCR-3146] Text extraction may congest thread pool in the repository
  [JCR-3161] Add JcrUtils.getPropertyTypeNames
  [JCR-3162] Index update overhead on cluster slave due to JCR-905
  [JCR-3165] Consolidate compare behaviour for Value(s) and Comparable(s)
  [JCR-3167] Make Jackrabbit compile on Java 7
  [JCR-3170] Precompile JavaCC parsers in jackrabbit-spi-commons
  [JCR-3172] implement PERSIST events for the EventJournal
  [JCR-3177] Remove jdk 1.4 restriction for jcr-tests
  [JCR-3178] Improve error messages for index aggregates
  [JCR-3184] extend ConsistencyChecker API to allow adoption of orphaned ...
  [JCR-3185] refactor consistency checks in BundleDBPersistenceManager ...
  [JCR-3199] workspace-wide default for lock timeout
  [JCR-3200] consistency check should get node ids in chunks, not rely on ...
  [JCR-3202] AuthorizableImpl#memberOf and #declaredMemberOf should ...
  [JCR-3203] GroupImp#getMembers and #getDeclaredMembers should return ...
  [JCR-3222] Allow servlet filters to specify custom session providers

Bug fixes

  [JCR-2539] spi2dav: Observation's user data not property handled
  [JCR-2540] spi2dav : move/reorder not properly handled by observation
  [JCR-2541] spi2dav : EventJournal not  implemented
  [JCR-2542] spi2dav: EventFilters not respected
  [JCR-2543] spi2dav : Query offset not respected
  [JCR-2774] Access control for repository level API operations
  [JCR-2892] Large fetch sizes have potentially deleterious effects on ...
  [JCR-2930] same named child nodes disappear on restore
  [JCR-3082] occasional index out of bounds exception while running ...
  [JCR-3086] potential infinite loop around InternalVersionImpl.getSuccessors
  [JCR-3089] javax.jcr.RepositoryException when a JOIN SQL2 query is ...
  [JCR-3090] setFetchSize() fails in getAllNodeIds()
  [JCR-3093] Inconsistency between Session.getProperty and Node....
  [JCR-3095] Move operation may turn AC caches stale
  [JCR-3101] recovery tool does not recover when version history can ...
  [JCR-3105] NPE when versioning operations are concurrent
  [JCR-3108] SQL2 ISDESCENDANTNODE can throw BooleanQuery#...
  [JCR-3110] QNodeTypeDefinitionImpl.getSerializablePropertyDefs() ...
  [JCR-3111] InternalVersionManagerBase; missing null check after getNode()
  [JCR-3112] NodeTypeDefDiff.PropDefDiff.init() constraints change check ...
  [JCR-3115] Versioning fixup leaves persistence in a state where the ...
  [JCR-3116] Cluster Node ID should be trimmed
  [JCR-3126] The CredentialsWrapper should use a empty String as userId ...
  [JCR-3128] Problem with formerly escaped JCR node names when upgrading ...
  [JCR-3131] NPE in ItemManager when calling Session.save() with nothing ...
  [JCR-3139] missing sync in InternalVersionManagerImpl.externalUpdate ...
  [JCR-3148] Using transactions still leads to memory leak
  [JCR-3149] AccessControlProvider#getEffectivePolicies for a set of ...
  [JCR-3151] SharedFieldCache can cause a memory leak
  [JCR-3152] AccessControlImporter does not import repo level ac content
  [JCR-3156] Group#getMembers may list inherited members multiple times
  [JCR-3159] LOWER operand with nested LOCALNAME operand not work with SQL2
  [JCR-3160] Session#move doesn't trigger rebuild of parent node aggregation
  [JCR-3163] NPE in RepositoryServiceImpl.getPropertyInfo()
  [JCR-3174] Destination URI should be normalized
  [JCR-3175] InputContextImpl: cannot upload file larger than 2GB
  [JCR-3176] JCARepositoryManager does not close InputStream
  [JCR-3189] JCARepositoryManager.createNonTransientRepository throws NPE ...
  [JCR-3194] ConcurrentModificationException in CacheManager.
  [JCR-3195] wrong assumptions in test cases about lock tokens
  [JCR-3198] Broken handling of outer join results over davex
  [JCR-3205] Missing support for lock timeout and ownerHint in jcr-server
  [JCR-3210] NPE in spi2dav when server does not send all headers
  [JCR-3214] [Lock] weird number for "infinite"
  [JCR-3216] When fetching node ids in checks for the checker all ...
  [JCR-3218] UserImporter should trigger execution AuthorizableActions ...
  [JCR-3220] simple webdav server does not support lock timeouts
  [JCR-3223] Disallow unregistering of node types still (possibly) in use
  [JCR-3224] SystemSession#createSession should return SessionImpl again
  [JCR-3225] ConcurrentModificationException in QueryStatImpl

In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all the changes included up to the Apache Jackrabbit 2.2.0 release.

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
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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/

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