The biggies I've been personally waiting to see land in this release are: * Added OS Process module to manage daemons outside of CouchDB. * Added HTTP Proxy h

The biggies I've been personally waiting to see land in this release are: * Added OS Process module to manage daemons outside of CouchDB. * Added HTTP Proxy handler for more scalable externals. What these effectively mean is that you can write CouchDB handlers in the language of your choice as long as they speak http. You can get the full details from the author of the above patches here: http://davispj.com/2010/09/26/new-couchdb-externals-api.html http://davispj.com/2010/09/26/new-couchdb-externals-api.html This makes possible things like LivelyCouch, integrating node.js with Couch: http://www.livelycouch.org/ http://www.livelycouch.org/