Hello and welcome to this edition of the CouchDB Digest — a short collection of articles, videos and more shared during the month of March. In this issue you’ll find a legacy version exploit walkthrough, tips for CouchDB observation and a kanban board that uses IBM’s Cloudant and CouchDB.

And an update from CouchDB’s sibling technology, PouchDB:

• Join our fortnightly PouchDB triage sessions in the #pouchdb channel and help us tidy the backlog and make some wins:
  • April 13, 2026 from 3–4pm UTC
  • April 27, 2026 from 8–9am UTC
  • May 11, 2026 from 3–4pm UTC

Blog Articles

• Matthew Tyson acknowledges the way PouchDB paved for browser-side databases and examines more recent developments in the local-first space [Matthew Tyson for InfoWorld] 

• Apache CouchDB 1.6.0 was vulnerable to remote code execution (RCE); security researcher Hasnain Abid provides a walkthrough of exploiting CVE‑2017‑12636 [Hasnain Abid on Medium]

• We posted about OpenTelemetry’s CouchDB receiver previously, now Ankit Anand shows us how to use the receiver with SigNoz [Ankit Anand on DEV]

Videos

• J. Chris Anderson talks about how and why CouchDB became part of their journey to Vibes DIY [J. Chris Anderson on YouTube]

Misc

• Michael Larabel conducts file-system benchmarks for CouchDB 3.5.1 performance including both EXT4 and XFS on Linux 6.13+ [Michael Larabel on Phoronix]

• Shellyln shares a Kanban board based on a managed CouchDB server using IBM Cloudant [Shellyln on Github Sandbox]

To all community members in the southern hemisphere, we hope autumn’s colours are treating you well. To those in the north: happy spring! See you here next month.