Apache CouchDB 1.4.0 Released

Apache CouchDB 1.4.0 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.

Grab your copy here:

http://couchdb.apache.org/

Pre-built packages for Windows and OS X are available.

CouchDB 1.4.0 is a feature release, and was originally published on 2013-09-03.

These release notes are based on the changelog.

Upgrade Notes

  • We now support Erlang/OTP R16B and R16B01; the minimum required version is R14B.
  • User document role values must now be strings. Other types of values will be
    refused when saving the user document.

Changes

Board Report (August 2013)

CouchDB submits a board report every quarter. Here’s a copy of our August board report.

Description

Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API.

Releases

Recent Activity

  • Support added for latest Erlang/OTP releases.
  • Preparation for 1.4.0 release cycle has begun.
  • Work is underway to document an official project vision.
  • Work is underway to release in Cloudant’s Fauxton overhaul of the CouchDB admin interface.
  • Work is underway to merge in Cloudant’s BigCouch fork which will add clustering capabilities to CouchDB.
  • Work is underway to merge in parts of Benoît Chesneau’s rcouch fork which improves the build system, refactored internal applications, and additional user-facing functionality such as bonjour/zeroconf awareness, global db changes feeds, replications and changes feeds across views.
  • Work is underway on a plugin system, with early results already shared with the community.
  • Cloudant announced the BigCouch merge, generating lots of press activity.
  • Cloudant hosted a CouchDB booth and CouchDB party at OSCON.
  • Cloudant are organising ‘Apache CouchDB Conf, Vancouver’ on November 13th, 2013 (in line with ASF branding and CouchDB PMC cooperation).

Our GitHub comment notifications have not been set up yet, due to lack of progress with necessary infrastructure tasks.

Community

Including the following additions, CouchDB has 28 committers and 9 PMC members.

New committers:

No new PMC members.

Mailing list stats:

  • announce

    • 94 subscribers (+38)
    • 1 message since May (-1)
  • user

    • 1441 subscribers (-15)
    • 496 messages since May (-561)
  • erlang

    • 121 subscribers (+16)
    • 7 messages since May (-7)
  • dev

    • 599 subscribers (-2)
    • 1010 messages since May (-996)
  • commits

    • 107 subscribers (+6)
    • 697 messages since May (-262)

Issues

No issues for the board at this time.