Apache CouchDB is a distributed JSON document database with HTTP API. About to release maintenance version 1.0.2 as well as a new feature release 1.1.0. New features include: - native SSL support, - many fixes to edge-cases in replication, - database for persistent replication setups, - HTTP range request support, - new, scalable OS process handling, - native HTTP proxy support for externals,
Major improvements on new replicator by Filipe Manana (development branch). Discussions and steps towards integrating Cloudant's BigCouch, a dynamo-style sharding solution with Apache CouchDB. Discussions of integrating with more Erlang-native build systems. Classified JIRA issues into "easy for new contributors", "medium" and "hard" to allow new contributors find easy tickets to work on.
