In der jüngsten Version der JSON-Datenbank CouchDB wurden etliche Wünsche aus der Community erfüllt. Unter anderem lädt CouchDB seine Plug-ins automatisch. Überdies werden Änderungen serverweit überwacht und in Berichte aufgenommen. En détail heißt es in den Release Notes:
- We now support Erlang/OTP R16B and R16B01; the minimum required version is R14B.
- User document role values must now be strings. Other types of values will be refused when saving the user document.
- COUCHDB-1684: Support for server-wide changes feed reporting on creation, updates and deletion of databases.#917d8988
- COUCHDB-1139: it’s possible to apply list functions to _all_docs view. #54fd258e
- Automatic loading of CouchDB plugins. #3fab6bb5
- Allow storing pre-hashed admin passwords via _config API. #c98ba561
- COUCHDB-1772: Prevent invalid JSON output when using all_or_nothing _bulk_docs API. #dfd39d57
- Add a configurable whitelist of user document properties. #8d7ab8b1
- COUCHDB-1852: Support Last-Event-ID header in EventSource changes feeds. #dfd2199a
- Much improved documentation, including an expanded description of validate_doc_update functions (commit:ef9ac469) and a description of how CouchDB handles JSON number values (#bbd93f77).
- COUCHDB-1632: Ignore epilogues in multipart/related MIME attachments. #2b4ab67a
- Split up replicator_db tests into multiple independent tests.
CouchDB 1.4.0 steht unter Apache Lizenz v2 auf Apache.org zum Download bereit.