3.4.3

Dear community,

Apache CouchDB® 3.4.3 has been released and is available for download.

CouchDB 3.4.3 is a maintenance release, and was originally published on 2025-03-18.

https://couchdb.apache.org/#download

Pre-built packages for Windows, macOS, Debian/Ubuntu and RHEL/CentOS, as well as Docker images are available.

Release Notes highlights:

  • Fix attachment size calculation. This could lead to shards not being scheduled for compaction correctly.
  • Fix atts_since functionality for document GET requests. Avoids re-replicating attachment bodies on doc updates.
  • Document various JavaScript engine incompatibilities, including SpiderMonkey 1.8.5 vs. newer SpiderMonkey and SpiderMonkey vs. QuickJS.

See the official release notes document for an exhaustive list of all changes:

https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/whatsnew/3.4.html

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.

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!

On behalf of the CouchDB PMC,
Jan Lehnardt
—

Announcing the 2024 Annual CouchDB User Survey

Dear community, 

I’m happy to share that the Annual CouchDB User Survey is now live: https://forms.gle/UBHprSpvuFksy2257

If you’ve been working with CouchDB for a while, you may have participated before. If you’re fairly new I first want to say: welcome! We’re happy to have you here. And secondly: we haven’t run this survey in several years, so “annual” may seem tongue-in-cheek if it’s your first time learning about it. 

The wish for this survey to be annual has now met the resources needed to be just that, and I’m happy to launch this initiative for 2024 with some help from the team at Neighbourhoodie. We’ll be collecting results until mid December. 

We’re curious to gather participation from many corners of the CouchDB world and hope you’ll take part. 

This survey helps the community:

  • understand different CouchDB projects and the features they rely on
  • learn about teams using CouchDB, which version they are on and why
  • discover what technologies are popular to use with CouchDB
  • see if our documentation or resources can be improved

Results will be processed and written about in blog form so we can all satisfy our curiosity as to how others are setting up their CouchDB. Please share this survey with friends and colleagues who also work with CouchDB.