What are the major new features of CouchDB 0.11

Question

What are the features worth learning in the 0.11 release of CouchDB? What resources are there to learn about these new developments?

Answer 1

Features

• Nice URLs via rewrite and virtual host rules (which you can use in tandem or individually)
• Views can reference any document ID so when you query with include_docs=true you can get an arbitrary document instead of the one that generated that view row
• Replication
  • Optionally auto-create a target DB before replicating (quite convenient!)
  • Optionally specify a list of doc IDs to be replicated instead of the whole shebang
  • Replication filters: Javascript functions that return whether a document should be replicated

Resources

Be sure to check the 0.11 section of the Breaking changes wiki page.

However, another great resource is Jan's writeup in the Couchio blog:

1. Nice URLs
2. Views, Joins, Raw Collation
3. Replication