This is awesome! On Mon, Aug 7, 2017, 11:53 Robert Samuel Newson <rnew...@apache.org> wrote:
> > Thanks to everyone for the amazing efforts exerted to get here but a big > and special thanks to Joan Touzet who made it her mission to get this done > and succeeded. > > Best, > B. > > > On 7 Aug 2017, at 19:09, Joan Touzet <woh...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > Dear community, > > > > Apache CouchDB 2.1.0 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 distribute > > your data, efficiently using CouchDB’s incremental replication. CouchDB > > supports master-master setups with automatic conflict detection. > > > > CouchDB comes with a suite of features, such as on-the-fly document > > transformation and real-time change notifications, that make web > > development a breeze. It even comes with an easy to use web > > administration console, served directly out of CouchDB! We care a lot > > about distributed scaling. CouchDB is highly available and partition > > tolerant, but is also eventually consistent. And we care a lot about > > your data. CouchDB has a fault-tolerant storage engine that puts the > > safety of your data first. > > > > Download your copy here: > > > > https://couchdb.apache.org/#download > > > > Pre-built convenience binaries for Windows, macOS, Debian/Ubuntu and > > RHEL/CentOS are available. > > > > CouchDB 2.1.0 is a feature release, and was originally published on > > 2017-08-07. > > > > 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! > > > > The release notes follow. A formatted version of them can be viewed > > at http://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.1.0/whatsnew/2.1.html > > > > On behalf of the CouchDB PMC, > > Joan Touzet > > > > --- > > > > Version 2.1.0 > > > > The Mango _find endpoint supports a new combination operator, > $allMatch, which matches and returns all documents that contain an array > field with all its elements matching all the specified query criteria. > > > > New scheduling replicator. The core of the new replicator is a > scheduler which allows running a large number of replication jobs by > switching between them, stopping some and starting others periodically. > Jobs which fail are backed off exponentially. There is also an improved > inspection and querying API: _scheduler/jobs and _scheduler/docs: > > _scheduler/jobs : This endpoint shows active replication jobs. > These are jobs managed by the scheduler. Some of them might be running, > some might be waiting to run, or backed off (penalized) because they > crashed too many times. Semantically this is somewhat equivalent to > _active_tasks but focuses only on replications. Jobs which have completed > or which were never created because of malformed replication documents will > not be shown here as they are not managed by the scheduler. _replicate > replications, started form _replicate endpoint not from a document in a > _replicator db, will also show up here. > > _scheduler/docs : This endpoint is an improvement on having to go > back and read replication documents to query their state. It represents the > state of all the replications started from documents in _replicator db. > Unlike _scheduler/jobs it will also show jobs which have failed or have > completed. > > > > By default, scheduling replicator will not update documents with > transient states like triggered or error anymore, instead _scheduler/docs > API should be used to query replication document states. > > > > Other scheduling replicator improvements > > > > Network resource usage and performance was improved by > implementing a shared connection pool. This should help in cases of a large > number of connections to the same sources or target. Previously connection > pools were shared only withing a single replication job. > > Improved request rate limit handling. Replicator requests will > auto-discover rate limit capacity on targets and sources based on a proven > Additive Increase / Multiplicative Decrease feedback control algorithm. > > Improved performance by having exponential backoff for all > replication jobs failures. Previously there were some scenarios were > failure led to continuous repeated retries, consuming CPU and disk > resources in the process. > > Improved recovery from long but temporary network failure. > Currently if replications jobs fail to start 10 times in a row, they will > not be retried anymore. This is sometimes desirable, but in some cases, for > example, after a sustained DNS failure which eventually recovers, > replications reach their retry limit, stop retrying and never recover. > Previously it required user intervention to continue. Scheduling replicator > will never give up retrying a valid scheduled replication job and so it > should recover automatically. > > Better handling of filtered replications. Failing user filter > code fetches from the source will not block replicator manager and stall > other replications. Failing filter fetches will also be backed off > exponentially. Another improvement is when filter code changes on the > source, a running replication will detect that and restart itself with a > new replication ID automatically. > > > > The 2.1.0 release also includes the following minor improvements: > > > > COUCHDB-1946: Hibernate couch_stream after each write (up to 70% > reduction in memory usage during replication of DBs with large attachments) > > COUCHDB-2964: Investigate switching replicator manager change feeds > to using “normal” instead of “longpoll” > > COUCHDB-2988: (mango) Allow query selector as changes and replication > filter > > COUCHDB-2992: Add additional support for document size > > COUCHDB-3046: Improve reduce function overflow protection > > COUCHDB-3061: Use vectored reads to search for buried headers in > .couch files. “On a modern linux system with SSD, we see improvements up to > 15x.” > > COUCHDB-3063: “stale=ok” option replaced with new “stable” and > “update” options. > > COUCHDB-3180: Add features list in the welcome message > > COUCHDB-3203: Make auth handlers configurable (in ini files) > > COUCHDB-3234: Track open shard timeouts with a counter instead of > logging > > COUCHDB-3242: Make get view group info timeout in couch_indexer > configurable > > COUCHDB-3249: Add config to disable index all fields (text indexes) > > COUCHDB-3251: Remove hot loop usage of filename:rootname/1 > > COUCHDB-3284: 8Kb read-ahead in couch_file causes extra IO and binary > memory usage > > COUCHDB-3298: Optimize writing btree nodes > > COUCHDB-3302: (Improve) Attachment replication over low bandwidth > network connections > > COUCHDB-3307: Limit calls to maybe_add_sys_db_callbacks to once per > db open > > COUCHDB-3318: bypass couch_httpd_vhost if there are none > > COUCHDB-3323: Idle dbs cause excessive overhead > > COUCHDB-3324: Introduce couch_replicator_scheduler > > COUCHDB-3337: End-point _local_docs doesn’t conform to query params > of _all_docs > > COUCHDB-3358: (mango) Use efficient set storage for field names > > COUCHDB-3425: Make _doc_ids _changes filter fast-path limit > configurable > > #457: TeX/LaTeX/texinfo removed from default docs build chain > > #469: (mango) Choose index based on fields match > > #483: couchup database migration tool > > #582: Add X-Frame-Options support to help protect against clickjacking > > #593: Allow bind address of 127.0.0.1 in _cluster_setup for single > nodes > > #624: Enable compaction daemon by default > > #626: Allow enable node decom using string “true” > > (mango) Configurable default limit, defaults to 25. > > (mango) _design documents ignored when querying _all_docs > > (mango) add $allMatch selector > > Add local.d/default.d directories by default and document > > Improved INSTALL.* text files > > > > Fixed Issues > > > > The 2.1.0 release includes fixes for the following issues: > > > > COUCHDB-1447: X-Couch-Update-NewRev header is missed if custom > headers are specified in response of _update handler (missed in 2.0 merge) > > COUCHDB-2731: Authentication DB was not considered a system DB > > COUCHDB-3010: (Superceded fix for replication exponential backoff) > > COUCHDB-3090: Error when handling empty > “Access-Control-Request-Headers” header > > COUCHDB-3100: Fix documentation on require_valid_user > > COUCHDB-3109: 500 when include_docs=true for linked documents > > COUCHDB-3113: fabric:open_revs can return {ok, []} > > COUCHDB-3149: Exception written to the log if db deleted while there > is a change feed running > > COUCHDB-3150: Update all shards with stale=update_after > > COUCHDB-3158: Fix a crash when connection closes for _update > > COUCHDB-3162: Default ssl settings cause a crash > > COUCHDB-3164: Request fails when using > _changes?feed=eventsource&heartbeat=30000 > > COUCHDB-3168: Replicator doesn’t handle well writing documents to a > target db which has a small max_document_size > > COUCHDB-3173: Views return corrupt data for text fields containing > non-BMP characters > > COUCHDB-3174: max_document_size setting can by bypassed by issuing > multipart/related requests > > COUCHDB-3178: Fabric does not send message when filtering lots of > documents > > COUCHDB-3181: function_clause error when adding attachment to doc in > _users db > > COUCHDB-3184: couch_mrview_compactor:recompact/1 does not handle > errors in spawned process > > COUCHDB-3193: fabric:open_revs returns multiple results when one of > the shards has stem_interactive_updates=false > > COUCHDB-3199: Replicator VDU function doesn’t acount for an already > malformed document in replicator db > > COUCHDB-3202: (mango) do not allow empty field names > > COUCHDB-3220: Handle timeout in _revs_diff > > COUCHDB-3222: (Fix) HTTP code 500 instead of 400 for invalid key > during document creation > > COUCHDB-3231: Allow fixing users’ documents (type and roles) > > COUCHDB-3232: user context not passed down in fabric_view_all_docs > > COUCHDB-3238: os_process_limit documentation wrong > > COUCHDB-3241: race condition in couch_server if delete msg for a db > is received before open_result msg > > COUCHDB-3245: Make couchjs -S option take effect again > > COUCHDB-3252: Include main-coffee.js in release artifact (broken > CoffeeScript view server) > > COUCHDB-3255: Conflicts introduced by recreating docs with attachments > > COUCHDB-3259: Don’t trap exits in couch_file > > COUCHDB-3264: POST to _all_docs does not respect conflicts=true > > COUCHDB-3269: view response can ‘hang’ with filter and limit specified > > COUCHDB-3271: Replications crash with ‘kaboom’ exit > > COUCHDB-3274: eof in couch_file can be incorrect after error > > COUCHDB-3277: Replication manager crashes when it finds _replicator > db shards which are not part of a mem3 db > > COUCHDB-3286: Validation function throwing unexpected json crashes > with function_clause > > COUCHDB-3289: handle error clause when calling fabric:open_revs > > COUCHDB-3291: Excessively long document IDs prevent replicator from > making progress > > COUCHDB-3293: Allow limiting length of document ID (for CouchDB > proper) > > COUCHDB-3305: (mango) don’t crash with invalid input to built in > reducer function > > COUCHDB-3362: DELETE attachment on non-existing document creates the > document, rather than returning 404 > > COUCHDB-3364: Don’t crash compactor when compacting process fails. > > COUCHDB-3367: Require server admin user for db/_compact and > db_view_cleanup endpoints > > COUCHDB-3376: Fix mem3_shards under load > > COUCHDB-3378: Fix mango full text detection > > COUCHDB-3379: Fix couch_auth_cache reinitialization logic > > COUCHDB-3400: Notify couch_index_processes on all shards when ddoc > updated > > COUCHDB-3402: race condition in mem3 startup > > #511: (mango) Return false for empty list > > #595: Return 409 to PUT attachment with non-existent rev > > #623: Ensure replicator _active_tasks entry reports recent pending > changes value > > #627: Pass UserCtx to fabric’s all_docs from mango query > > #631: fix couchdb_os_proc_pool eunit timeouts > > #644: Make couch_event_sup:stop/1 synchronous > > #645: Pass db open options to fabric_view_map for _view and _list > queries on _users DB > > #648: Fix couch_replicator_changes_reader:process_change > > #649: Avoid a race when restarting an index updater > > #667: Prevent a terrible race condition > > #677: Make replication filter fetch error for _replicate return a 404 > > Fix CORS max_age configuration parameter via Access-Control-Max-Age > > Chunk missing revisions before attempting to save on target (improves > replication for very conflicted, very deep revision tree documents) > > Allow w parameter for attachments > > Return “Bad Request” when count in /_uuids exceeds max > > Fix crashes when replicator db is deleted > > Skip internal replication if changes already replicated > > Fix encoding issues on _update/../doc_id and PUT attachments > > > > Upgrade Notes > > > > The deprecated (and broken) OAuth 1.0 implementation has been removed. > > If user code reads or manipulates replicator document states, > consider using the [replicator] update_docs = true compatibility parameter. > In that case replicator will continue updating documents with transient > replication states. However, that will incure a performance cost. Consider > instead switching using _scheduler/docs HTTP endpoint. > > The stale parameter for views and _find has been deprecated in favour > of two new parameters: stable and update. The old stale=ok behaviour is > equivalent to stable=true&update=false, and the old stale=update_after > behaviour is equivalent to stable=true&update=lazy. The deprecated stale > parameter will be removed in CouchDB 3.0. > > The [couchdb] max_document_size configuration parameter was renamed > to [httpd] max_http_request_size to reflect its actual implementation. It > has been enhanced by a new [couchdb] single_max_doc_size setting. Both are > documented in the shipped default.ini file. > >
