Recap time! Last week we attended @localfirstconf.com, hosted a packed workshop (thanks to all who joined!) and shared @couchdb.bsky.social stories on stage. 📖 Read the rundown: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/06... 📽️ Catch the workshop: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Q7... Can’t wait for next year! ✨

Fresh CouchDB, get your fresh CouchDB! Truly parallel shard reads/writes (+40% throughput), a conflict finder, faster integrity checking and more secure password hashing on by default, more built-in reducers, lots more. The detailed change log is quite the fun read: docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/wh...

Want to try CouchDB’s 🆕 Minihosting + see the state of Offline-First in 2025 at the same time? We’ve put together a demo app tutorial to do just that! See how @svelte.dev 5, @vite.dev , Pico.css, @couchdb.bsky.social and PouchDB come together to make Pouchnotes: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/03...

“What even is CouchDB?” 😌 It’s the database that *expects* things to fail — and keeps working anyway. Take a look to discover why @couchdb.bsky.social’s offline-first design, seamless sync and JSON/HTTP API help ensure it never panics: dev.to/neighbourhoo... 💬 What’s your favourite feature?

CouchDB 3.5.0 is now available for download. It includes a number of impressive performance improvements, chief among them: truly parallel read and write access to database shards leading to up to 40% more throughput on high-volume request loads. blog.couchdb.org/2025/05/06/3...

Using @couchdb.bsky.social for science! Archeology gets a lot more collaborative when using offline-first laptop software for data sharing while the dig is happening, not months later. Don’t take my word for it, Dr. Lisa Steinmann from the German Archeological Institute shares her insights:

Archaeologists! Field researchers! 📣 How do you handle data collection when working remotely with no internet? The @dai-weltweit.bsky.social’s iDAI.field app is #Offline-First and ensures zero data loss + seamless sync: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/03... Need a similar solution? We’d love to help!

Want to boost @couchdb.bsky.social query performance? Cut out inefficiencies with partitions 🔪 Instead of querying them all, partition your data so you just need to query *one* shard. Learn how it works and when to use it on our blog: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/03...

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. blog.couchdb.org/2025/03/18/3...

The Apache CouchDB Team would like to express their heartfelt gratitude to www.digitalocean.com for sponsoring infrastructure for the CouchDB CI setup. It allows us to make sure that CouchDB works well and continues to work well as we add new features. #DOforOpenSource

Das Apache CouchDB Team dankt www.netcup.com/de für die großzügige Unterstützung bei unserem CI Setup. Diese Hilfe erlaubt es uns sicherzustellen, dass CouchDB auch dann weiterhin einwandfrei funktioniert, während wir es weiterentwickeln.

The Apache CouchDB Team would like to express their heartfelt gratitude to www.netcup.com for sponsoring infrastructure for the CouchDB CI setup. It allows us to make sure that CouchDB works well and continues to work well as we develop it.

📢 Attention CouchDB users! The new Apache CouchDB User Survey is live, and we’re curious to have your input! This is your chance to share your experience and influence the future of @couchdb.bsky.social. Long-time or new user, your voice matters. Take a look: forms.gle/UBHprSpvuFks...

Tired of basic @couchdb.bsky.social queries? 🔍 Our new article explores full-text search and faceted querying with #MapReduce, #MangoQueries + #Nouveau. New or experienced, this guide will help simplify queries: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2024/11/27/full-text-search-and-faceted-querying-with-couchdb

Coding @couchdb.bsky.social is one thing, but do you have a CouchDB mindset? 🧩 We’ve shared the first 2 parts of a new in-depth tutorial: a real-time multi-user Kanban board with CouchDB and @svelte.dev. Spoiler: no server-side code to start. Relaxing, right? 🧵 neighbourhood.ie/blog/2024/12...

Apache @couchdb.bsky.social 3.4.2 has been released. This is a *maintenance* release that addresses a few issues reported in the recent 3.4.1 release: blog.couchdb.org/2024/10/22/3...