On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Apache CouchDB 0.11.0 has been released and is available for download: > > http://couchdb.apache.org/downloads.html > > This is the first release of CouchDB without the alpha or beta status > attached to it. > > Changes in this release: > > * Added support for building a Windows installer as part of ‘make > dist’. > * Added optional ‘raw’ binary collation for faster view builds where > Unicode collation is not important. > * Improved view index build time by reducing ICU collation callouts. > * Added option to implicitly create replication target databases. > * Improved view information objects. > * Bug fix for partial updates during view builds. > * Bug fix for building couch.app’s module list. > * Fixed a problem with statistics timers and system sleep. > * Improved the statistics calculations to use an online moving window > algorithm. > * Adds batching of multiple updating requests, to improve throughput > with many writers. Removed the now redundant couchbatchsave module. > * Bug fix for premature termination of chunked responses. > * Improved speed and concurrency of config lookups. > * Fixed an edge case for HTTP redirects during replication. > * Fixed HTTP timeout handling for replication. > * Fixed query parameter handling in OAuth’d replication. > * Fixed a bug preventing mixing languages with lists and views. > * Avoid OS process leaks in lists. > * Avoid leaking file descriptors on automatic replication restarts. > * Various improvements to the Futon UI. > * Provide Content-MD5 header support for attachments. > * Adds configurable compression of attachments. > * Added default cookie-authentication and users db. > * Added per-db reader access control lists. > * Added per-db security object for configuration data in validation > functions. > * Added URL Rewriter handler. > * Added proxy authentication handler. > * Added ability to replicate documents by id. > * Added virtual host handling. > * Uses json2.js for JSON serialization compatiblity with native JSON. > > Apache CouchDB is a document-oriented database that can be queried and > indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript. CouchDB also offers > incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and > resolution. > > CouchDB provides a RESTful JSON API than can be accessed from any > environment that allows HTTP requests. There are myriad third-party > client libraries that make this even easier from your programming > language of choice. CouchDB’s built in Web administration console > speaks directly to the database using HTTP requests issued from your > browser. > > CouchDB is written in Erlang, a robust functional programming language > ideal for building concurrent distributed systems. Erlang allows for a > flexible design that is easily scalable and readily extensible. > > Relax and prosper, > > Noah >
Good timing for a beer in my timezone. Thanks :) - benoît
