Releases

• PouchDB 6.0.0: Labour Day! Note: 6.0.0 is largely intended as a deprecation release; to see what’s been deprecated, check out this list.
• There’s a new template for creating PouchDB issues. Thanks to Pablo Maurer!

Major Discussions

Getting libraries to test RCs (see thread)

Jan makes a suggestion to open issues on all the CouchDB-compatible client software to test Release Candidates.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• changes-stream 2.1.0 – Simple module that handles getting changes from CouchDB
• couchdb-promises 0.6.2 – ES6 promises-based CouchDB client
• iobroker.sql 1.2.0 – Log state sql in a two-stages process (first to Redis, then to CouchDB)
• jsonobject-couchdbkit 0.7.4.1 (Python) – A fork of couchdbkit that replaces couchdbkit.schema with a thin wrapper around jsonobject
• lazyboyjs 0.0.1 – Wrapper to access and manipulate CouchDB server and entries easily
• rockofauxton 1.1.8 – Fauxton is a modular CouchDB dashboard and Futon replacement.
• seneca-couch2-store 0.1.2 – Seneca data store plugin for CouchDB version 2
• smartdb 4.0.1 – CouchDB library with advanced entity and cache support
• spicy-action 6.7.0 – HTTP(S) proxy & Socket.IO relay for CouchDB and others

PouchDB

• ember-pouch 4.0.1 – Ember Pouch is a PouchDB/CouchDB adapter for Ember Data 2.0+.
• pouchdb-adapter-fs 2.0.1 – PouchDB adapter that uses fsdown
• pouchdb-adapter-leveldb-core-rn 6.0.0 – React Native Copy of Core PouchDB adapter code for LevelDOWN-based adapters
• pouchdb-memory 6.0.0 – A purely in-memory PouchDB, as a custom build
• pouchdb-react-native 6.0.0 – PouchDB Bundle for ReactNative
• pouchdb-repository 0.2.0 – Simple repository for PouchDB

Opinions and other News in the PouchDB Universe

• [POST] Why we dropped Lerna from PouchDB, Nolan Lawson
• [TUTORIAL] Getting Started with PouchDB Client-Side JavaScript Database, Jatin Shridhar
• [POST] Build More Reliable Web Apps with Offline-First Principles, Pedro Teixeira
• [POST] Your data offline with PouchDB, Nicolas Molina
• [VIDEO] p2p two-way sync using PouchDB and express-pouchdb, Nolan Lawson

CouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Stack Overflow:

• Delete REST call from chrome to CouchDB
• Filter data in CouchDB as IN in MySQL
• CouchDB changes feed seq shift
• CouchDB with Auth0
• CouchDB for Android Uses

no public answer yet:

• Can’t access CouchDB Futon interface on Amazon EC2 server

PouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Use Case:

• Express-PouchDB + Tessel, Nick Hehr

Stack Overflow:

• PouchDB replication of design documents
• How should I be structuring my data flow in my React + React Router + PouchDB app?
• Does pouch views duplicate the values they emit?
• Use PouchDB promise polifil

no public answer yet:

• PouchDB timeout error

For more new questions and answers about CouchDB, see these search results and about PouchDB, see these.

Get involved!

If you want to get into working on CouchDB:

• We have an infinite number of open contributor positions on CouchDB. Submit a pull request and join the project!
• Do you want to help us with the work on the new CouchDB website? Get in touch on our new website mailing list and join the website team! – www@couchdb.apache.org
• The CouchDB advocate marketing programme is just getting started. Join us in CouchDB’s Advocate Hub!
• CouchDB has a new wiki. Help us move content from the old to the new one!
• Can you help with Web Design, Development or UX for our Admin Console? No Erlang skills required! – Get in touch with us.
• Do you want to help moving the CouchDB docs translation forward? We’d love to have you in our L10n team! See our current status and languages we’d like to provide CouchDB docs in on this page. If you’d like to help, don’t hesitate to contact the L10n mailing list on l10n@couchdb.apache.org or ping Andy Wenk (awenkhh on IRC).

We’d be happy to welcome you on board!

Events

• October 10-12, Berlin, Germany: JavaScript Days 2016 – The Ultimate JavaScript Event
• November 28-29, 2016, Munich, Germany: JS Kongress Munich

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• Principal Software Engineer, Singapore
• Senior Software Engineer – Applications, Chicago (IL), US
• Full Stack Java Architect, Addison (TX), US
• Senior Architect, Addison (TX), US
• Front End Developer, Triangle (NC), US
• DevOps Engineer, Novi (MI) US
• Author Data Science Videos at Lynda, Carpinteria (CA), US/Remote
• Software Design Engineer III, Washington, D.C. (US)
• Experienced Senior PHP Developer Pepper.com, Berlin, Germany
• Principal Software Engineer – IP Video, Denver (CO), US

Time to relax!

• “Here’s the problem: You treat humor like a nice thing that happens, oh, whenever. But scientific research is showing giggles, guffaws, and jokes are far too important to be left to chance. We’re gonna learn the best ways to use humor to make you happier, healthier, more successful at work and even to improve your relationships.” – The scientific proof that laughing is really good for you
• “If you’ve seen the internet going kind of crazy for a game called The Trail for the past 24 hours, it’s because Kongregate dropped it into soft-launch like a sack of hot coals. The Trail looks to be more of a ‘chill-out’ kind of game with easy, exploratory gameplay, in which you travel across different locations collecting/crafting items before eventually building up a community.” – The Trail: A Frontier Journey is a relaxing game about travelling and making your fortune
• “[The] so-called “stress response” is a normal reaction to threatening situations, honed in our prehistory to help us survive threats like an animal attack or a flood. Today, we rarely face these physical dangers, but challenging situations in daily life can set off the stress response. We can’t avoid all sources of stress in our lives, nor would we want to. But we can develop healthier ways of responding to them.” – Six relaxation techniques to reduce stress
• “They claim the Yeelight is capable of producing 16 million different colors. Obviously, there’s no way I can verify that, but you do have an impressive variety of colors to choose from. If you’re using the lamp as a reading light, you’re most likely going to stick with white, but you do have an entire rainbow to play with, if that’s your thing.” – The Yeelight Brings a Soothing Rainbow to Your Bedside
• “Meetings (also known by their full name, ‘Meetings Ughhh’) are literally putting us to sleep. One in three people reported falling asleep or feeling drowsy during a work meeting, according to the results of a survey the hotel company Hilton released today (Sept. 7).” – It’s not just you: A new survey confirms meetings are putting people to sleep

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• One Month of Inclusive JavaScript
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• #TalkingAboutIt