wow!! congrats everyone!
> On 26 Feb 2020, at 18:50, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Dear community,
>
> Apache CouchDB® 3.0.0 has been released and is available for download.
>
> Apache CouchDB® lets you access your data where you need it. The Couch
> Replication Protocol is implemented in a variety of projects and products
> that span every imaginable computing environment from globally distributed
> server-clusters, over mobile phones to web browsers.
>
> Store your data safely, on your own servers, or with any leading cloud
> provider. Your web- and native applications love CouchDB, because it speaks
> JSON natively and supports binary data for all your data storage needs.
>
> The Couch Replication Protocol lets your data flow seamlessly between server
> clusters to mobile phones and web browsers, enabling a compelling
> offline-first user-experience while maintaining high performance and strong
> reliability. CouchDB comes with a developer-friendly query language, and
> optionally MapReduce for simple, efficient, and comprehensive data retrieval.
>
> https://couchdb.apache.org/#download
>
> Pre-built packages for Windows, macOS, Debian/Ubuntu and RHEL/CentOS are
> available. Docker images have been submitted to Docker Hub for review and
> will be available as soon as that process is done.
>
> CouchDB 3.0.0 is a major release, and was originally published on 2020-02-26.
>
> 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!
>
> See the official release notes document for an exhaustive list of all changes:
>
> http://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/whatsnew/3.0.html
>
> Release Notes highlights:
>
> - Default installations are now secure and locked down.
>
> - User-defined partitioned databases for faster querying
>
> - Live Shard Splitting for incremental scale-out
>
> - Updated to modern JavaScript engine SpiderMonkey 60
>
> - Official support for ARM and PPC 32bit and 64bit systems
>
> - Many large and small performance improvements
>
> - Automatic view index warmer
>
> - Smarter Compaction Daemon
>
> - Smarter I/O Queue
>
> - Much improved installers for Windows
>
> - macOS binaries are now Notarized for full future Catalina support
>
> - Extremely simplified setup of Lucene search
>
> See the “Road to CouchDB 3.0” blog post series for many more details:
> http://blog.couchdb.org/2020/02/25/the-road-to-couchdb-3-0/
>
> On behalf of the CouchDB PMC,
> Jan Lehnardt
> —
>
