Apache CouchDB 1.6.0 发布，Apache CouchDB 是一个面向文档的数据库管理系统。它提供以 JSON 作为数据格式的 REST 接口来对其进行操作，并可以通过视图来操纵文档的组织和呈现。 CouchDB 是 Apache 基金会的顶级开源项目。
该版本包含诸多改进，主要有：
* COUCHDB-2200: 支持 Erlang/OTP 17.0 #35e16032
* Fauxton: UI 上的很多改进，包括切将代码编辑器从 CodeMirror 换成 Ace 以更好支持不同浏览器
* Add the max_count option (UUIDs Configuration) to allow rate-limiting the amount of UUIDs that can be requested from the /_uuids handler in a single request (CVE 2014-2668).
* COUCHDB-1986: increase socket buffer size to improve replication speed for large documents and attachments, and fix tests on BSD-like systems. #9a0e561b
* COUCHDB-1953: improve performance of multipart/related requests. #ce3e89dc
* COUCHDB-2221: verify that authentication-related configuration settings are well-formed. #dbe769c6
* COUCHDB-1922: fix CORS exposed headers. #4f619833
* Rename proxy_authentification_handler to proxy_authentication_handler. #c66ac4a8
* COUCHDB-1795: ensure the startup script clears the pid file on termination. #818ef4f9
* COUCHDB-1962: replication can now be performed without having write access to the source database (#1d5fe2aa), the replication checkpoint interval is now configurable (#0693f98e).
* COUCHDB-2025: add support for SOCKS5 proxies for replication. #fcd76c9
* COUCHDB-1930: redirect to the correct page after submitting a new document with a different ID than the one suggested by Futon.
#4906b591
* COUCHDB-1923: add support for attachments and att_encoding_info options (formerly only available on the documents API) to the view API. #ca41964b
* COUCHDB-1647: for failed replications originating from a document in the _replicator database, store the failure reason in the document. #08cac68b
* A number of improvements for the documentation.
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