The Apache News Round-up: week ending 23 January 2015

2015-01-23 Thread Sally Khudairi
 this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/z5Z


This week's highlights from The Apache Software Foundation's 350+ projects and 
initiatives include: 

ASF Legal Affairs Committee –responsible for establishing and managing legal 
policies based on the advice of legal counsel and the interests of the 
Foundation. 
- The Apache Software Foundation subpoenaed regarding Patent Claim 
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_subpoenaed1
 

FINAL CALL for ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache 
Software Foundation 
- CFP closes on 1 February 
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/cfp 
- Travel Assistance applications close on 6 February 
http://www.apache.org/travel/ 

Apache Bookkeeper™ – distributed logging service called BookKeeper and a 
distributed publish/subscribe system build on top of BookKeeper called Hedwig. 
- Apache BookKeeper 4.2.4 released http://bookkeeper.apache.org/releases.html 

Apache Directory™ LDAP client API –an ongoing effort to provide an enhanced 
LDAP API, as a replacement for JNDI and the existing LDAP API (jLdap and 
Mozilla LDAP API) – provides the building blocks for both client side 
validation and server side data validation 
- Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M28 released 
http://directory.apache.org/api/downloads.html 

Apache Falcon™ –data processing and management solution for Apache Hadoop™, 
designed for data motion, coordination of data pipelines, lifecycle management, 
and data discovery 
- The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Falcon as a Top-Level Project 
http://s.apache.org/GT2 

Apache Flink™ –a system for distributed batch and real-time streaming data 
analysis that offers familiar collection-based programming APIs in Java and 
Scala 
- Apache Flink 0.8.0 released http://flink.apache.org/downloads.html 

Apache HttpComponents™ Client for Android –can be deployed on Google Android in 
parallel to the outdated version shipped with platform while remaining 
partially API compatible with Apache HttpClient 4.3 
- HttpComponents Client for Android 4.3.5.1 released 
http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi 

Apache Tomcat™ –Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, 
JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language and Java WebSocket 
technologies 
- Apache Tomcat 8.0.17 available http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi 

Apache Traffic Server™ –fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 compliant 
caching proxy server; can be used as a reverse, forward or even transparent 
HTTP proxy 
- Apache Traffic Server 5.2.0 released 
http://trafficserver.apache.org/downloads 

Apache Incbuator™ –the entry path into The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) for 
projects and codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. All 
code donations from external organisations and existing external projects 
wishing to join Apache enter through the Incubator 
- OpenAz and TinkerPop accepted as new podlings this month 
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/index.html 

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[ANNOUNCE] Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.1.4 released

2015-01-23 Thread Davide Giannella
The Apache Jackrabbit community is pleased to announce the release of
Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.1.5. 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 1.1.5

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.

Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.1.5 is an unstable release cut directly from
Jackrabbit Oak trunk, with a focus on new features and other improvements.
For production use we recommend the latest stable 1.0.7 release.

The Oak effort is a part of the Apache Jackrabbit project.
Apache Jackrabbit is a project of the Apache Software Foundation.

Changes in Oak 1.1.5
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Sub-task

[OAK-2273] - Export Lucene packages
[OAK-2376] - cleanup JSON related code

Bug

[OAK-2195] - Repository upgrade does not correctly update jcr:all
aggregate privileges and bits
[OAK-2366] - Cleanup org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.kernel package
[OAK-2370] - o.a.j.o.plugins.segment.HeavyWriteIT fails on travis
(exit code 137)
[OAK-2383] - ConcurrentAddNodesClusterIT does not close sessions
[OAK-2386] - AnnotatingConflictHandler: jcr:primaryType must be of
type Name
[OAK-2388] - Possibility of overflow in file length calculation
[OAK-2394] - Clarify handling of hidden items in ImmutableTree
[OAK-2396] - TarMk Cold Standby reduce verbosity of server errors
on client timeouts
[OAK-2402] - oak-lucene fails to start in OSGi
[OAK-2409] - Invalid cast being performed in BlobStoreFixture
[OAK-2411] - Upgrade may fail with constraint exception

Improvement

[OAK-1791] - Clean up dangling references to previous documents
[OAK-2009] - Add a utility method to create Solr synonym file for
node type expansions
[OAK-2105] - Review padding for blobs collection
[OAK-2169] - Pluggability of UserAuthenticationFactory
[OAK-2292] - Use ConcurrentUpdateSolrServer for remote updates
[OAK-2307] - Provide API to create Tree from NodeState
[OAK-2378] - add a oak-run command to delete the index data in
case of inconsistencies
[OAK-2385] - Abstract over repository creating in tests
[OAK-2387] - Simplify injection of conflict handlers
[OAK-2390] - Replace usages of Immutable* with factory calls
[OAK-2391] - Provide API to create Tree from NodeBuilder
[OAK-2393] - Change default blob size to around 1 MB in
OakDirectory
[OAK-2398] - TarMk Cold Standby add metatype info for
'standby.readtimeout' property
[OAK-2406] - Add RootFactory.createSystemRoot

In addition to the above-mentioned changes, this release contains
all changes included in previous Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.x releases.

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
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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.

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

About The Apache Software Foundation


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legal, and financial support for more than 140 freely-available,
collaboratively-developed Open Source projects. The pragmatic Apache License
enables individual and commercial users to easily deploy Apache software;
the Foundation's intellectual property framework limits the legal exposure
of its 3,800+ contributors.

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