JCR-5234: Release Jackrabbit 2.23.4-beta - Candidate Release Notes (#345)

Author: reschke

RELEASE-NOTES.txt

@@ -1,62 +1,44 @@
-Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit -- Version 2.23.2-beta
+Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit -- Version 2.23.4-beta
 
 Introduction
 ------------
 
-This is Apache Jackrabbit(TM) 2.23.3-beta, a fully compliant implementation of the
+This is Apache Jackrabbit(TM) 2.23.4-beta, 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 2.23.3-beta is an unstable release cut directly from
+Apache Jackrabbit 2.23.4-beta is an unstable release cut directly from
 Jackrabbit trunk, with a focus on new features and other
 improvements. For production use we recommend the latest stable 2.20.x
 release.
 
-Changes in Jackrabbit 2.23.3-beta
+Changes in Jackrabbit 2.23.4-beta
 ----------------------------------
 
-Sub-task
-
-    [JCR-5160] - Create jacoco reports compliant with SonarQube Cloud
-    [JCR-5172] - Exclude test sources from SonarQube analysis
-    [JCR-5173] - Create aggregate jacoco report
-    [JCR-5174] - Exclude jackrabbit-jcr-tests from coverage calculation
-
-
 Bug
 
-    [JCR-5090] - Invalid href generated for 'Edit' buttons
-    [JCR-5141] - Deprecate org.apache.jackrabbit.commons.json
-    [JCR-5196] - Some test classes are not executed by default because they haven't been added to a test suite
-    [JCR-5203] - integration tests in jackrabbit-core occasionally fail to ItemNotFoundExceptions during cleanup
+    [JCR-5226] - Base64 decoder does not handle input without padding correctly
+    [JCR-5229] - LockedWrapperTest.testSequenceWithSessionRefresh() may fail due to race conditions
 
 Improvement
 
-    [JCR-5154] - Replace deprecated call of Class.newInstance()
+    [JCR-4521] - upgrade to commons-dbcp2
+
+Test
+
+    [JCR-4945] - Ensure OSGi-enabled Jackrabbit bundles deploy in environments featuring only Slf4j v2 or even Tika v2.9
 
 Task
 
-    [JCR-5140] - Improve support for generating namespace prefixes
-    [JCR-5156] - webapp: update tomcat dependency to 9.0.112
-    [JCR-5175] - Update Mockito dependency to 5.20.0
-    [JCR-5176] - Update commons-io dependency to 2.21.0
-    [JCR-5177] - jackrabbit-jcr2spi: update to commons-collections4 4.5.0
-    [JCR-5178] - Update easymock dependency to 5.6.0
-    [JCR-5179] - set baseline comparisonVersion to latest stable (2.22.1)
-    [JCR-5182] - Update pax-exam test dependency to 4.14.0
-    [JCR-5183] - Vote Template should be clear about the fact that running the check script in "sh" will not work
-    [JCR-5185] - Update oak-jackrabbit-api.version.implemented in trunk to Oak 1.86.0
-    [JCR-5187] - Update commons-cli dependency to 1.11.0
-    [JCR-5188] - Update h2db dependency to 2.3.232
-    [JCR-5189] - update Jetty to 9.4.58.v20250814
-    [JCR-5190] - webapp: bump htmlunit to 4.19.0
-    [JCR-5191] - remove JEXL dependency
-    [JCR-5192] - update aws java sdk version to 1.12.791
-    [JCR-5193] - update Apache parent pom to version 35
-    [JCR-5195] - Utilities for 'safe' creation of XML document builders
-    [JCR-5197] - cleanup o.a.j.util.Base64 and update Javadoc
-    [JCR-5200] - Update h2db dependency to 2.4.240
-    [JCR-5201] - Update oak-jackrabbit-api.version.implemented in trunk to Oak 1.88.0
+    [JCR-5211] - package-version jcr2spi
+    [JCR-5216] - Update Jackrabbit Trunk to Oak 1.90.0
+    [JCR-5217] - Update Mockito dependency to 5.23.0
+    [JCR-5218] - webapp: bump htmlunit to 4.21.0
+    [JCR-5219] - set baseline comparisonVersion to latest stable (2.22.3)
+    [JCR-5223] - update Apache parent pom to version 37
+    [JCR-5224] - remove jackrabbit 2.0 compatibility and performance tests
+    [JCR-5230] - improve diagnostics in IndexingQueueTest
+    [JCR-5232] - Update Jackrabbit Trunk to Oak 1.92.0
 
 
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