Those who develop on Mac OS X and have installed CouchDB using Homebrew [1], should do the following to test CouchDB 1.1.0 with their applications:
`brew update` # Make sure you have the latest formulae `brew edit couchdb` # Edit the CouchDB formula using $EDITOR and replace the following line: url 'https://github.com/apache/couchdb/tarball/1.0.2' with: url 'http://people.apache.org/~rnewson/dist/1.1.0/apache-couchdb-1.1.0.tar.gz' # can also use 'http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/tags/1.1.0' if you'd rather do an SVN checkout of the 1.1.0 tag Finally, `brew remove couchdb` # Remove the installed stable CouchDB 1.0.2 `brew install couchdb` # Build and install CouchDB 1.1.0 from Bob's 1.1.0 tarball All databases will be intact and immediately available with CouchDB 1.1.0. Subsequently removing CouchDB 1.1.0 and undoing the changes made to the formula will make it easy to go back to 1.0.2. Later, when the official release happens, the canonical formula will be updated by someone and signed off @mxcl or @adamv (core maintainers of Homebrew). The only thing that might affect your development environment is the new database format the CouchDB 1.1.0 migrates to during a database compaction. Those database files will not be understood by 1.0.2 and will have to be recreated or replicated from a backup database (possibly between different versions of CouchDB). Let me know if you have questions or something is not clear, I'm more than happy to help with Homebrew / CouchDB build/install issues. Gabor PS It seems the version number has not been set correctly yet, `couchdb -V` returns 'couchdb - Apache CouchDB 1.2.0a-' for me [1] http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew (if you are not using Homebrew yet, you should seriously consider!) On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Robert Newson wrote: > Hello, > > I would like call a vote for the Apache CouchDB 1.1.0 release, round 1. > > We encourage the whole community to download and test these release artifacts > so > that any critical issues can be resolved before the release is made. Everyone > is > free to vote on this release, so get stuck in! > > We are voting on the following release artifacts: > > http://people.apache.org/~rnewson/dist/1.1.0/ > > These artifacts have been built from the 1.1.0 tag in Subversion: > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/tags/1.1.0 > > Happy voting, > > -- > Robert Newson >
