Welcome to the Neighbourhoodie Newsletter

It’s been a short while since we greeted you from your inbox, which means there are lots of updates ahead.

We’re most excited about what the CouchDB User Survey results revealed, especially when combined with sentiments of CouchDB we’ve been hearing at events. If you use it, you already know about its unparalleled functionality. Now these features have piqued the interest of the Local-First community too, which has made our team enthusiastic about seeing CouchDB in the hands of a whole new generation of developers.

With all that’s going on, it’s an excellent time to start using — or contributing to — CouchDB. Read on for news and inspo.

Minihosting is here!

Plus, some of our most popular articles ever, more reasons why we love CouchDB and some exciting events. Keep reading to make sure you don’t miss the latest news — or the Architecture Review special we’re running at the moment.

Apache CouchDB™ News

We asked, you answered! It’s been a while since we shared a user survey for the CouchDB project (the last time was in 2017) so we wanted to learn how people are using CouchDB since the 3.4.2 release. We couldn’t resist sharing some of the insights!

We’re turning 10!

Members of our team have been working with — and building — CouchDB for more than 15 years. When it came time to pool this expertise to help other teams succeed with CouchDB, Neighbourhoodie was born in 2014. Since then the support for our resources, services, and community meetups has always been tremendous. Thank you!

Welcome to this special edition of the Neighbourhoodie Newsletter!

We have a lot to share, from the latest release and our upcoming CouchDB Meetup plus team updates on the work we do with and for CouchDB, PouchDB, JavaScript, and Offline First software. We’ve also included new things from our blog, like our weekly CouchDB tips.

Welcome to the Neighbourhoodie Newsletter

We are starting a new series of CouchDB training sessions and we are happy to invite you to join.

Save the date: May 15, 5 pm CEST

Welcome to the Neighbourhoodie Newsletter

Welcome to the third edition of Neighbourhoodie’s Newsletter. We are happy to send you news and updates on the technologies we work with and for: Apache CouchDB™, JavaScript, Offline First software development.

News from Neighbourhoodie:

Structured Query Server

Dear Neighbourhoodie Customer (current or former) or Newsletter subscriber,

You are receiving this email because the just released CouchDB 3.3.3 includes a fix for CVE-2023-45725. The exact details of this vulnerability are going to be released in seven days.

As Neighbourhoodie customers, you benefit from our assessment prior to the release. In general, we recommend everyone upgrade to the latest version, but this detailed assessment helps you to decide how urgent this upgrade is for you.

Without going into any details, the two prerequisites for this vulnerability to work are:

Neighbourhoodie’s Newsletter June 2023

Welcome to the second edition of Neighbourhoodie’s quarterly Newsletter. Every three months we are happy to send you news and updates on the technologies we work with: Apache CouchDB™, JavaScript, Offline First software development.

Neighbourhoodie and CouchDB

Neighbourhoodie CouchDB News Special Edition: Apache CouchDB CVE: 2023-26268 Guidance

You are receiving this message because you signed up for the Neighbourhoodie CouchDB News. This special edition outlines Neighbourhoodie’s recommendations for customers operating CouchDB with regards to CVE 2023-26268.

Introduction

Occasionally, the CouchDB team releases a new version release and announces that a certain security vulnerability has been addressed. In these cases, Neighbourhoodie issues a guidance document like this that helps customers to understand the impact the security vulnerability has on their operation of CouchDB.

Neighbourhoodie’s Newsletter

Welcome to the first edition of Neighbourhoodie’s quarterly Newsletter. Every three months we are happy to send you news and updates on the technologies we work with: Apache CouchDB™, JavaScript, Offline First software development.

News from Apache CouchDB™

Releases

We are participating in the Open Source project and helping to get new releases ready to download. Please find information on the latest releases on the Apache CouchDB Website.

Current version of Apache CouchDB is 3.3.1.

If you want to download the latest version of CouchDB for Windows or Mac, please visit our website.

Development — What comes next

If you would like to have an update on the CouchDB project, you can listen to Jan Lehnardt’s talk in our last CouchDB Meetup in November 2022.

You can find the recording here.

Neighbourhoodie’s work with CouchDB

Coming Soon — CouchDB and… SQL?

CouchDB was one of the very first NoSQL databases and it helped to establish an entire field of computing 15 years ago. In our next meetup on March 15, 2023, we are demonstrating a way for getting the best of the old SQL and the new NoSQL world with CouchDB: querying CouchDB with SQL.

Neighbourhoodie’s work

Interesting Case Studies

During the last year we have worked with interesting customers. It was not only a pleasure to work with the people involved, but also to help develop the project. We have written down the specifications of three of our projects in our case studies.

Event Announcements

Neighbourhoodie Events

Next CouchDB Meetup organised by Neighbourhoodie is coming up soon. Please join us on at vi.to.

Schedule:

17:30 - Welcome & Intro (Ninette Adhikari)

17:35 - Talk #1: Type safe access to CouchDB with PouchDB (Alex Feyerke)

18:00 - Talk #2: Zero Boilerplate Data Binding (Jan Johannes)

18:30 - Talk #3: CouchDB and… SQL? (Jan Lehnardt)

9:00 - Closing Remarks (Ninette Adhikari)