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.

What’s New in CouchDB™ 3.4.1

This is a comprehensive release, with bugfixes and new features including Nouveau, QuickJS, xxHash, and more.

• Do you use Clouseau to build fulltext search? Nouveau is the more modern alternative you can start trying out now. Read more about Nouveau on our blog.
• If your team has been frustrated by SpiderMonkey updates (or the lack thereof), we have good news! The significantly faster QuickJS ships with CouchDB 3.4.1. Visit Neighbourhoodie for more on QuickJS plus its scanner plugin that makes upgrading less risky.

For all Neighbourhoodie customers - and those who want to become one - wondering what the new version means for you, we’ve compiled an overview of CouchDB 3.4.1 release with our recommendations for how and when to upgrade.

Check out the 3.4.1 official release notes and follow the Apache CouchDB blog for more.

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

Join our Meetup

We are hosting an online CouchDB Meetup on Wednesday Oct. 9 at 17:00 CEST!

Whether you are experienced with or new to CouchDB, Erlang, Elixir, NoSQL, Big Data, Serverless, Offline First or Progressive Web Apps, we are confident you will find something interesting going on.    

• Talk #1: CouchDB 3.4.0 / 3.4.1 Release Retrospective (Jan Lehnardt)
• Talk #2: Introducing QuickJS: CouchDB’s New JavaScript Engine (Ninette Adhikari)
• Talk #3: First Steps With Nouveau, CouchDB’s New Fulltext Search Feature (Alex Feyerke)

Sign up to our CouchDB Meetup hub on vi.to so you are ready to join when we start. We will send a reminder email before the event.

Not able to make it? We publish recordings to the same vi.to hub for you to watch later.

We hope to host you on the day!

Wonder what these meetups are like? Recordings of previous talks, and the discussion forum, are always available on our vi.to hub

Neighbourhoodie’s Work with CouchDB

Sovereign Tech Fund

In June we announced that we are happy to partner with the Sovereign Tech Fund to contribute to different Open Source initiatives. By now we can already share stories with you about what projects we have been working on and what contributions we made. Take a look:

• NH:STF S01E01 Sequoia-PGP
• NH:STF S01E02 OpenPGP.js

CouchDB Tips From the Blog

For a couple of months now we have been sharing a CouchDB tip or elaborating on a CouchDB concept every week on our blog. If you haven’t visited our blog in a while, a lot is new! Here are some of our favourites:

• All Views in One Design Doc
• Data Format Compatibility
• Why Does CouchDB Require an Admin Account to Start?

Visit our blog for more.

Want to Get Involved?

Apache CouchDB is an open source project run by volunteers. Among a sizable team around the world, Neighbourhoodie contributes to the ongoing development of CouchDB. But CouchDB can always use more help! Maybe you are interested and knowledgeable in any one of these fields: Erlang, Elixir, writing documentation, client-side JavaScript, Docker, or continuous integration with Jenkins on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD or Windows. CouchDB can always use your help.   

That’s All for Now

Thank you for keeping up with CouchDB and Neighbourhoodie. We’ll keep you posted about new events and releases. Until we’re back in your inbox, we hope you enjoy the change of seasons.

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