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The Apache Jackrabbit community is pleased to announce the release of
Apache Jackrabbit version 1.5.2. 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 1.5.2
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 1.5.2 is a security and bug fix release that fixes issues reported against previous releases. This release is fully compatible with the earlier 1.5.0 release.
Most notably, this release fixes the following security vulnerability. Thanks to the Red Hat Security Response Team for reporting this issue.
The search.jsp and swr.jsp pages in the Jackrabbit webapp are vulnerable to script injection. This release fixes the issue by properly escaping all user input.
This issue affects both the Jackrabbit 1.4 and 1.5.0 releases. If you are unable to upgrade to 1.5.2 at this point, you can work around this issue by disabling the search.jsp and swr.jsp pages in the Jackrabbit webapp.
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 1.5.2; other components are still at version 1.5.0. Jackrabbit version 1.5.1 was cancelled due to incorrect license headers in the source code.
jackrabbit
Bug fixes
[JCR-1936] Incorrect license headers in multiple components
jackrabbit-core
Bug fixes [JCR-1823] Repository.login throws IllegalStateException [JCR-1838] Garbage collection deletes temporary files in FileDataStore [JCR-1846] Jackrabbit thread contention issue due to fat lock [JCR-1920] Custom LoginModule configurations broken in 1.5.0 [JCR-1931] SharedFieldCache$StringIndex memory leak causing OOM's
jackrabbit-jcr-commons
Bug fixes
[JCR-1926] Text.unescape("%") throws a StringIndexOutOfBoundsException
jackrabbit-jcr-server
Bug fixes
[JCR-1902] Warning while building DAV:parent-set for root-node resource
jackrabbit-jcr-servlet
Bug fixes
[JCR-1910] RMIRemoteBindingServlet fails to initialize if the RMI ...
jackrabbit-standalone
Bug fixes
[JCR-1912] RMI reference not automatically bound by the standalone server
jackrabbit-webapp
Security fixes
[JCR-1925] CVE-2009-0026: Cross site scripting issues in webapp
Bug fixes
[JCR-1920] The 1.5.0 webapp points to 1.4 javadocs
[JCR-1930] Extra </div> in populate.jsp
jackrabbit-webdav
Bug fixes
[JCR-1926] Text.unescape("%") throws a StringIndexOutOfBoundsException
You can look up individual issues for more details in the Jackrabbit issue tracker at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR.
Release Contents
This release consists of a single source archive (jackrabbit-1.5.2-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-1.5.2-src.jar
cd jackrabbit-1.5.2-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.