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authorNoah Slater <nslater@apache.org>2008-08-14 19:51:33 +0000
committerNoah Slater <nslater@apache.org>2008-08-14 19:51:33 +0000
commitcf8d27a0bc1e168113dc86d7018de078a26ce752 (patch)
tree2023d255a242caa4c9fb378aa41734556a6a6d55 /CHANGES
parent85008f0ed61860e176210bca381245c4ab7b179d (diff)
cleaned up CHANGES, fixed quotes
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/couchdb/trunk@686014 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Packaging and System Integration:
* The `couchdb` script no longer uses `awk` for configuration checks as this
was causing portability problems.
- * Updated `sudo` example in the README to use the `-i` option, this fixes
+ * Updated `sudo` example in the `README` to use the `-i` option, this fixes
problems when invoking from a directory the `couchdb` user cannot access.
Futon Utility Client:
@@ -64,53 +64,53 @@ Database Core:
and old document revisions.
* Support for incremental map/reduce views has been added.
* To support map/reduce, the structure of design documents has changed. View
- values are now JSON objects containing at least a "map" member, and
- optionally a "reduce" member.
- * View servers are now identified by name (for example "javascript") instead of
- by MIME type.
+ values are now JSON objects containing at least a `map` member, and
+ optionally a `reduce` member.
+ * View servers are now identified by name (for example `javascript`) instead of
+ by media type.
* Automatically generated document IDs are now based on proper UUID generation
using the crypto module.
- * The field "content-type" in the JSON representation of attachments has been
- renamed to "content_type" (underscore).
+ * The field `content-type` in the JSON representation of attachments has been
+ renamed to `content_type` (underscore).
HTTP Interface:
* CouchDB now uses MochiWeb instead of inets for the HTTP server
implementation. Among other things, this means that the extra configuration
- files needed for inets (such as couch_httpd.conf) are no longer used.
- * The HTTP interface now completely supports the HEAD method. (COUCHDB-3)
- * Improved compliance of Etag handling with the HTTP specification.
+ files needed for inets (such as `couch_httpd.conf`) are no longer used.
+ * The HTTP interface now completely supports the `HEAD` method. (COUCHDB-3)
+ * Improved compliance of `Etag` handling with the HTTP specification.
(COUCHDB-13)
- * Etags are no longer included in responses to document GET requests that
+ * Etags are no longer included in responses to document `GET` requests that
include query string parameters causing the JSON response to change without
the revision or the URI having changed.
* The bulk document update API has changed slightly on both the request and the
response side. In addition, bulk updates are now atomic.
- * CouchDB now uses TCP_NODELAY to fix performance problems with persistent
+ * CouchDB now uses `TCP_NODELAY` to fix performance problems with persistent
connections on some platforms due to nagling.
* Including a `?descending=false` query string parameter in requests to views
no longer raises an error.
* Requests to unknown top-level reserved URLs (anything with a leading
- underscore) now return a "unknown_private_path" error instead of the
- confusing "illegal_database_name".
+ underscore) now return a `unknown_private_path` error instead of the
+ confusing `illegal_database_name`.
* The Temporary view handling now expects a JSON request body, where the JSON
- is an object with at least a "map" member, and optional "reduce" and
- "language" members.
+ is an object with at least a `map` member, and optional `reduce` and
+ `language` members.
* Temporary views no longer determine the view server based on the Content-Type
- header of the POST request, but rather by looking for a "language" member in
- the JSON body of the request.
- * The status code of responses to DELETE requests is now 200 to reflect that
+ header of the `POST` request, but rather by looking for a `language` member
+ in the JSON body of the request.
+ * The status code of responses to `DELETE` requests is now 200 to reflect that
that the deletion is performed synchronously.
Javascript View Server:
* SpiderMonkey is no longer included with CouchDB, but rather treated as a
- normal external dependency. A simple C program (_couchjs) is provided that
+ normal external dependency. A simple C program (`_couchjs`) is provided that
links against an existing SpiderMonkey installation and uses the interpreter
embedding API.
* View functions using the default Javascript view server can now do logging
using the global `log(message)` function. Log messages are directed into the
- CouchDB log at INFO level. (COUCHDB-59)
+ CouchDB log at `INFO` level. (COUCHDB-59)
* The global `map(key, value)` function made available to view code has been
renamed to `emit(key, value)`.
* Fixed handling of exceptions raised by view functions.
@@ -137,10 +137,10 @@ Futon Utility Client:
* Futon now uses the XMLHTTPRequest API asynchronously to communicate with the
CouchDB HTTP server, so that most operations no longer block the browser.
* View results sorting can now be switched between ascending and descending by
- clicking on the "Key" column header.
- * Fixed a bug where documents that contained a "@" character could not be
+ clicking on the `Key` column header.
+ * Fixed a bug where documents that contained a `@` character could not be
viewed. (COUCHDB-12)
- * The database page now provides a "Compact" button to trigger database
+ * The database page now provides a `Compact` button to trigger database
compaction. (COUCHDB-38)
* Fixed portential double encoding of document IDs and other URI segments in
many instances. (COUCHDB-39)