1.14. 1.1.x Branch

    Warning

    contains important security fixes. Previous 1.1.x releases are not recommended for regular usage.

    • Don’t ln the couchjs install target on Windows

    • Remove ICU version dependency on Windows.

    • Improve SpiderMonkey version detection.

    1.14.2.2. HTTP Interface

    • ETag of attachment changes only when the attachment changes, not the document.

    • Fix retrieval of headers larger than 4k.

    • Allow OPTIONS HTTP method for list requests.

    • Don’t attempt to encode invalid json.

    1.14.2.3. Log System

    1.14.2.4. Replicator

    1.14.2.6. View Server

    • Avoid invalidating view indexes when running out of file descriptors.

    • Support SpiderMonkey 1.8.5

    • Add configurable maximum to the number of bytes returned by _log.

    • Allow CommonJS modules to be an empty string.

    • Bump minimum Erlang version to R13B02.

    • ETags for views include current sequence if include_docs=true.

    • Fix bug where duplicates can appear in _changes feed.

    • Fix bug where update handlers break after conflict resolution.

    • Fix bug with _replicator where include “filter” could crash couch.

    • Fix crashes when compacting large views.

    • Fix file descriptor leak in _log

    • Fix missing revisions in _changes?style=all_docs.

    • Improve handling of compaction at max_dbs_open limit.

    • JSONP responses now send “text/javascript” for Content-Type.

    • Link to ICU 4.2 on Windows.

    • Permit forward slashes in path to update functions.

    • Reap couchjs processes that hit reduce_overflow error.

    • Status code can be specified in update handlers.

    • Support provides() in show functions.

    • _view_cleanup when ddoc has no views now removes all index files.

    • max_replication_retry_count now supports “infinity”.

    • Fix replication crash when source database has a document with empty ID.

    • Fixes to the document multipart PUT API.

    • Fixes regarding file descriptor leaks for databases with views.

    Note

    1.14.4.1. Externals

    • Added OS Process module to manage daemons outside of CouchDB.

    • Added HTTP Proxy handler for more scalable externals.

    1.14.4.2. Futon

    • Added a “change password”-feature to Futon.

    • Native SSL support.

    • Added support for HTTP range requests for attachments.

    • Added built-in filters for _changes: _doc_ids and _design.

    • Added configuration option for TCP_NODELAY aka “Nagle”.

    • Allow POSTing arguments to _changes.

    • Allow keys parameter for GET requests to views.

    • Allow wildcards in vhosts definitions.

    • More granular ETag support for views.

    • More flexible URL rewriter.

    • Added support for recognizing “Q values” and media parameters in HTTP Accept headers.

    • Validate doc ids that come from a PUT to a URL.

    1.14.4.4. Replicator

    • Added _replicator database to manage replications.

    • Fixed issues when an endpoint is a remote database accessible via SSL.

    • Added support for continuous by-doc-IDs replication.

    • Fix issue where revision info was omitted when replicating attachments.

    • Integrity of attachment replication is now verified by MD5.

    1.14.4.5. Storage System

    • Multiple micro-optimizations when reading data.

    1.14.4.6. URL Rewriter & Vhosts

    • Fix for variable substitution

    • Added CommonJS support to map functions.

    • Added stale=update_after query option that triggers a view update after returning a stale=ok response.

    • Warn about empty result caused by startkey and endkey limiting.

    • Added view query aliases start_key, end_key, start_key_doc_id and end_key_doc_id.