Release Notes -- Apache Jackrabbit JCR Commons -- Version 1.4.2

Introduction
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This is the 1.4.2 patch release of the jackrabbit-jcr-commons component of
Apache Jackrabbit, a fully conforming implementation of the Content
Repository for Java Technology API (JCR).

This release contains fixes to a number of issues. See below for the full
list of changes in this release.

See the Apache Jackrabbit website at http://jackrabbit.apache.org/ for
more information.

Release Contents
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Unlike previous Jackrabbit releases that contained a full set of components,
this patch release only contains the jackrabbit-jcr-commons component. The
component is distributed both as a source archive and a pre-compiled binary.

    * Source archive (jackrabbit-jcr-commons-1.4.2-src.jar)

        The source archive contains the full source code of this release
        in a "jackrabbit-jcr-commons-1.4.2" directory. Use the following
        commands (or the equivalent in your environment) to build the
        component with Maven 2 and Java 1.4 or higher:

          $ jar xf jackrabbit-jcr-commons-1.4.2-src.jar
          $ cd jackrabbit-jcr-commons-1.4.2
          $ mvn install

    * Pre-compiled binary (jackrabbit-jcr-commons-1.4.2.jar)

        JCR Commons Library of the Apache Jackrabbit content repository
        implementation.

See the included README.txt file for more information.

Each release file is accompanied by SHA1 and MD5 checksums and a PGP
signature. The public key used for the signatures can be found
in the KEYS file.

Changes and known issues in this release
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All the changes and known issues in this release are listed below.
The issue identifier and title is listed for each change and known issue.
You can look up individual issues for more details in the Jackrabbit
issue tracker at http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR

  Improvements:
  [JCR-1342] Create OSGi Bundle Manifest Headers
  [JCR-1350] Add a serializing content handler

  Bugs:
  [JCR-1331] Improper deprecation of Locked class
  [JCR-1355] XML import should not access external entities

  Known Issue:
  [JCR-1386] Not full parsing of ISO8601 date/time format that ...