Apache CouchDB 1.6.1 has been released and is available for download.
CouchDB is a database that completely embraces the web. Store your data with JSON documents. Access your documents with your web browser, via HTTP. Query, combine, and transform your documents with JavaScript. CouchDB works well with modern web and mobile apps. You can even serve web apps directly out of CouchDB. And you can distribute your data, or your apps, efficiently using CouchDB’s incremental replication. CouchDB supports master-master setups with automatic conflict detection.
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Pre-built packages for Windows and Ubuntu are available, OS X is on the way.
CouchDB 1.6.1 is a patch release, and was originally published on 2014-09-03.
These release notes are based on the changelog.
Upgrade Notes
Version 1.6.1 contains important patches to hash of passwords on restart. The previous Version 1.6.0 release is not recommended for usage as certain edge cases with admin passwords may prevent CouchDB from starting.
A bugfix release to handle various edge cases related to admin password hashing.
What’s New
- COUCHDB-2298: Hash plaintext admin passwords stored in local.ini on startup #ed825d3.
- COUCHDB-2299: Filter out local admin users before updating password hash in _users db #5e46f3b.
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