The Apache Software Foundation

The Apache Jackrabbit community is pleased to announce the release of
Apache Jackrabbit version 1.5.3. 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 1.5.3

Introduction
------------

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. See the Jackrabbit web site at http://jackrabbit.apache.org/ for
more information.

Apache Jackrabbit 1.5.3 is a bug fix release that fixes issues reported
against previous releases. This release is fully compatible with the
earlier 1.5.x releases.

See below for a full listing of fixes included in this release.

Changes in this release
-----------------------

All the fixes in this release are listed below per affected component.
The modified components have had their version numbers upgraded to 1.5.3;
other components are still at their previous 1.5.x versions.

jackrabbit-jcr-commons

 Bug fixes
 [JCR-1952] DOMException: NAMESPACE_ERR thrown when exporting document view

jackrabbit-core

 Bug fixes
 [JCR-1334] Deadlock due different Thread access while prepare and commit ...
 [JCR-1554] StaleItemStateException with distributed transactions
 [JCR-1923] Startup fails if clustered jackrabbit is upgrade from 1.4.4 to 1.5
 [JCR-1941] AccessManager asks for property (jcr:created) permissions ...
 [JCR-1956] Database Data Store: close result sets
 [JCR-1979] Deadlock on concurrent read & transactional write operations

jackrabbit-webapp

 Bug fixes
 [JCR-1970] populate.jsp uses Java 1.5 method

jackrabbit-ocm

 Bug fixes
 [JCR-1889] Incorrect support for java interfaces in typed collection fields

You can look up individual issues for more details in the Jackrabbit
issue tracker at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR.

Contributors
------------

The following people have contributed to this release by submitting bug
reports or by participating in the issue resolution process.

   Alexander T            Grégory Joseph        Przemo Pakulski
   Angela Schreiber       Jacco van Weert       Robert Sauer
   Christian Schröder     Jukka Zitting         Stefan Guggisberg
   Christophe Lombart     Julian Reschke        Stephane Landelle
   Claus Köll             Lóránt Pintér         Sven Rieckhoff
   Dominique Pfister      Marcel Reutegger      Thomas Mueller
   Fabrizio Giustina      Martin Schreiber      Yoav Landman
   Francois Masurel       Philipp Salzgeber

Thank you to everyone involved!

Release Contents
----------------

This release consists of a single source archive (jackrabbit-1.5.3-src.jar)
that contains all the Apache Jackrabbit components. Use the following
commands (or the equivalent in your system) to build the release with
Maven 2 and Java 1.4 or higher:

   jar xf jackrabbit-1.5.3-src.jar
   cd jackrabbit-1.5.3-src
   mvn install

Note that the OCM components require Java 5 or higher, and are not included
in the build when using Java 1.4.

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.

The build will result in the following components (with artifactIds in
parenthesis) being built and installed in your local Maven repository.
Pre-built binary artifacts of these components are also available on
the on the central Maven repository.

 * Jackrabbit Parent POM (jackrabbit-parent)
   The Maven parent POM for all Jackrabbit components.

 * Jackrabbit API (jackrabbit-api)
   Interface extensions that Apache Jackrabbit supports in
   addition to the standard JCR API.

 * Jackrabbit JCR Commons (jackrabbit-jcr-commons)
   General-purpose classes for use with the JCR API.

 * Jackrabbit JCR Tests (jackrabbit-jcr-tests)
   Set of JCR API test cases designed for testing the compliance
   of an implementation. Note that this is not the official JCR TCK!

 * Jackrabbit JCR Benchmarks (jackrabbit-jcr-benchmark)
   Framework for JCR performance tests.

 * Jackrabbit Core (jackrabbit-core)
   Core of the Apache Jackrabbit content repository implementation.

 * Jackrabbit Text Extractors (jackrabbit-text-extractors)
   Text extractor classes that allow Jackrabbit to extract text content
   from binary properties for full text indexing.

 * Jackrabbit JCR-RMI (jackrabbit-jcr-rmi)
   RMI remoting layer for the JCR API.

 * Jackrabbit WebDAV Library (jackrabbit-webdav)
   Interfaces and common utility classes used for building a
   WebDAV server or client.

 * Jackrabbit JCR Server (jackrabbit-jcr-server)
   WebDAV servlet implementations based on JCR.

 * Jackrabbit JCR Servlets (jackrabbit-jcr-servlet)
   Set of servlets and other classes designed to make it easier to use
   Jackrabbit and other JCR content repositories in web applications.

 * Jackrabbit Repository Classloader (jackrabbit-classloader)
   Java classloader for loading classes from JCR content repositories.

 * Jackrabbit Web Application (jackrabbit-webapp)
   Deployable Jackrabbit installation with WebDAV support for JCR.

 * Jackrabbit JCA Resource Adapter (jackrabbit-jca)
   J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA) resource adapter for Jackrabbit.

 * Jackrabbit SPI (jackrabbit-spi)
   The SPI defines a layer within a JSR-170 implementation that separates
   the transient space from the persistent layer.

 * Jackrabbit SPI Commons (jackrabbit-spi-commons)
   This component contains generic utility classes that might be used
   to build an SPI implementation.

 * Jackrabbit SPI2JCR (jackrabbit-spi2jcr)
   This component contains a SPI implementation wrapping around an
   implementation of JSR-170.

 * Jackrabbit JCR2SPI (jackrabbit-jcr2spi)
   This component contains an implementation of the JSR-170 API and
   covers the functionality that is not delegated to the SPI
   implementation.

 * Jackrabbit Standalone (jackrabbit-standalone)
   Jackrabbit server in a self-contained runnable jar.

 * Jackrabbit OCM (jackrabbit-ocm)
   Object-Content mapping tool for persisting and accessing Java objects
   in a JCR content repository.

 * Jackrabbit OCM Node Management (jackrabbit-ocm-nodemanagement)
   This component simplifies registration of node types and namespaces
   referenced in OCM mapping descriptors.