Congratulations and thank you everybody for getting this out. This is a ver good release!
Best Jan — > On 6. Dec 2018, at 17:46, Joan Touzet <woh...@apache.org> wrote: > > Dear community, > > Apache CouchDB %VERSION% has been released and is available for download. > > Apache CouchDB™ lets you access your data where you need it. The Couch > Replication Protocol is implemented in a variety of projects and products > that span every imaginable computing environment from globally distributed > server-clusters, over mobile phones to web browsers. > > Store your data safely, on your own servers, or with any leading cloud > provider. Your web- and native applications love CouchDB, because it speaks > JSON natively and supports binary data for all your data storage needs. > > The Couch Replication Protocol lets your data flow seamlessly between server > clusters to mobile phones and web browsers, enabling a compelling > offline-first user-experience while maintaining high performance and strong > reliability. CouchDB comes with a developer-friendly query language, and > optionally MapReduce for simple, efficient, and comprehensive data retrieval. > > https://couchdb.apache.org/#download > > Pre-built packages for Windows, macOS, Debian/Ubuntu and RHEL/CentOS are > available. > > CouchDB 2.3.0 is a feature release, and was originally published on > 2018-12-06. > > The community would like to thank all contributors for their part in making > this release, from the smallest bug report or patch to major contributions in > code, design, or marketing, we couldn’t have done it without you! > > See the official release notes document for an exhaustive list of all changes: > > http://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/whatsnew/2.3.html > > Release Notes highlights: > > - (Multiple) Clustered purge is now available. This feature restores the > CouchDB 1.x ability to completely remove any record of a document from a > database. Conditions apply; to use the feature safely, and for full details, > read the complete Clustered Purge documentation. > > - A new config setting is available, allowing an administrator to configure > an initial list of nodes that should be contacted when a node boots up. Nodes > in the seedlist that are successfully reached will be added to that node’s > _nodes database automatically, triggering a distributed Erlang connection and > replication of the internal system databases to the new node. This can be > used instead of manual config or the cluster setup wizard to bootstrap a > cluster. The progress of the initial seeding of new nodes is exposed at the > GET /_up endpoint. > > - Replication supports ipv6-only peers. > > - The UUID of the server/cluster is once again exposed in the GET / > response. This was a regression from CouchDB 1.x. > > - Stats counts between job runs of the replicator are no longer reset on job > restart. > > - CouchDB’s _bulk_get implementation now supports the multipart/mixed and > multipart/related content types if requested, extending compatibility with > third-party replication clients. > > - CouchDB no longer forces the TCP receive buffer to a fixed size of 256KB, > allowing the operating system to dynamically adjust the buffer size. This can > lead to significantly improved network performance when transferring large > attachments. > > - To improve security, there have been major changes in the configuration of > query servers, SSL support, and HTTP global handlers. See the release notes > for important upgrade information. > > - All python scripts shipped with CouchDB, including couchup and the dev/run > development cluster script, now specify and require Python 3.x. > > - CouchDB is now compatible with Erlang 21.x. > > - The embedded version of rebar used to build CouchDB has been updated to > the last version of rebar2 available. This assists in building on non-x86 > platforms. > > - Plus many other performance improvements, bugfixes, and UI improvements! > > On behalf of the CouchDB PMC, > Joan Touzet -- Professional Support for Apache CouchDB: https://neighbourhood.ie/couchdb-support/
