Downloads

The following releases of Apache CouchDB are available for download.

Current Releases

CAUTION

The 1.0.0 release has a data-loss bug in its default configuration.

IF YOU ARE RUNNING 1.0.0, PLEASE UPGRADE TO 1.0.1 AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

See the release notice for more information.

1.0.1

Files

Changes

  • Fix data corruption bug COUCHDB-844. Please see the release notice for details.
  • Added support for replication via an HTTP/HTTPS proxy.
  • Fixed various replicator bugs for interop with older CouchDB versions.
  • Show fields saved along with _deleted=true. Allows for auditing of deletes.
  • Enable basic-auth popup when required to access the server, to prevent people from getting locked out.
  • User interface element for querying stale (cached) views.

0.11.2

Files

Changes

  • Replicator buxfixes for replicating design documents from secured databases.
  • Better error messages on invalid URL requests.
  • User documents can now be deleted by admins or the user.
  • Avoid potential DOS attack by guarding all creation of atoms.
  • Some Futon and JavaScript library bugfixes.
  • Fixed CVE-2010-2234: Apache CouchDB Cross Site Request Forgery Attack

0.11.1

Files

Changes

  • Mask passwords in active tasks and logging.
  • Update mochijson2 to allow output of BigNums not in float form.
  • Added support for X-HTTP-METHOD-OVERRIDE.
  • Disable jsonp by default.
  • Accept gzip encoded standalone attachments.
  • Made max_concurrent_connections configurable.
  • Added continuous replication option to Futon.
  • Added option to replicating test results anonymously to a community CouchDB instance.
  • Allow creation and deletion of config entries in Futon.
  • Fixed various UI issues in Futon.
  • Fixed compatibility with the Erlang R14 series.
  • Fixed warnings on Linux builds.
  • Fixed build error when aclocal needs to be called during the build.
  • Require ICU 4.3.1.
  • Fixed compatibility with Solaris.
  • Added authentication redirect URL to log in clients.
  • Added authentication caching, to avoid repeated opening and closing of the users database for each request requiring authentication.
  • Made authentication timeout configurable.
  • Temporary views are now admin-only resources.
  • Don’t require a revpos for attachment stubs.
  • Make file deletions async to avoid pauses during compaction and db deletion.
  • Fixed for wrong offset when writing headers and converting them to blocks, only triggered when header is larger than 4k.
  • Preserve _revs_limit and instance_start_time after compaction.
  • Fixed timeout with large .ini files.
  • Added tests for couch.js and jquery.couch.js
  • Added various API features to jquery.couch.js
  • Faster default view collation.
  • Upgrade CommonJS modules support to 1.1.1.
  • Added option to include update_seq in view responses.
  • Fixed erlang filter funs and normalize filter fun API.
  • Fixed hang in view shutdown.
  • Refactored various internal APIs related to attachment streaming.
  • Fixed hanging replication.
  • Fixed keepalive issue.
  • Allow global rewrites so system defaults are available in vhosts.
  • Allow isolation of databases with vhosts.
  • Made the test suite overall more reliable.

0.11.0

Files

Changes

This version is a feature-freeze release candidate for Apache CouchDB 1.0.

  • Added support for building a Windows installer as part of ‘make dist’.
  • Added optional ‘raw’ binary collation for faster view builds where Unicode collation is not important.
  • Improved view index build time by reducing ICU collation callouts.
  • Added option to implicitly create replication target databases.
  • Improved view information objects.
  • Bug fix for partial updates during view builds.
  • Bug fix for building couch.app’s module list.
  • Fixed a problem with statistics timers and system sleep.
  • Improved the statistics calculations to use an online moving window algorithm.
  • Adds batching of multiple updating requests, to improve throughput with many writers.
  • Removed the now redundant couch_batch_save module.
  • Bug fix for premature termination of chunked responses.
  • Improved speed and concurrency of config lookups.
  • Fixed an edge case for HTTP redirects during replication.
  • Fixed HTTP timeout handling for replication.
  • Fixed query parameter handling in OAuth’d replication.
  • Fixed a bug preventing mixing languages with lists and views.
  • Avoid OS process leaks in lists.
  • Avoid leaking file descriptors on automatic replication restarts.
  • Various improvements to the Futon UI.
  • Provide Content-MD5 header support for attachments.
  • Adds configurable compression of attachments.
  • Added default cookie-authentication and users db.
  • Added per-db reader access control lists.
  • Added per-db security object for configuration data in validation functions.
  • Added URL Rewriter handler.
  • Added proxy authentication handler.
  • Added ability to replicate documents by id.
  • Added virtual host handling.
  • Uses json2.js for JSON serialization compatiblity with native JSON.
  • Fixed CVE-2010-0009: Apache CouchDB Timing Attack Vulnerability.

Archived Releases

Old Apache CouchDB releases can be found here:

Even older Apache Incubator releases of CouchDB can be found here:

These are provided for reference purposes only. It is recommended you use a current release of CouchDB.

Verifying Releases

When downloading from a mirror please check the MD5 and SHA checksums as well as verifying the OpenPGP compatible signature available from the main Apache site. The KEYS file contains the public keys used for signing release. It is recommended that a web of trust is used to confirm the identity of these keys.

You can check the OpenPGP signature with:

gpg --verify apache-couchdb-*.tar.gz.asc

You can check the MD5 checksum with:

md5sum --check apache-couchdb-*.tar.gz.md5

You can check the SHA checksum with:

sha1sum --check apache-couchdb-*.tar.gz.sha