I have updated the couchdb views which were computing tables that aren't consistent with the current database structure. Some of views had essentially become deadcode and consumed indexing resources needlessly. See https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk/pull/2760 for the new views, which are versioned as ".v2" and added installed in couchdb as part of a normal fresh deployment. If you have a persisted couch, you'll need to install the views. You'll want to do this ahead of time to make sure a seamless transition to using the new views.
The new views will be computed along with the previous views. They are not enabled by default. There is now an ansible level configuration which dictates which view version to use. I propose to switch to the new version https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk/pull/2762 by silent consensus - if there are no objections in 72 hours, we'll merge the PR 2762. At some point we can remove the old view, I've prepared a PR for that as well https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk/pull/2763 which can merge next week - again by silent consensus until there are objections. -r
