[ANNOUNCE] Apache CouchDB 3.1.1 released

[Joan Touzet <wo...@apache.org>]

Dear community,

Apache CouchDB® 3.1.1 has been released and is available for download.

Apache CouchDB® lets you access your data where you need it. The Couch 
Replication Protocol is implemented in a variety of projects and 
products that span every imaginable computing environment from globally 
distributed server-clusters, over mobile phones to web browsers.

Store your data safely, on your own servers, or with any leading cloud 
provider. Your web- and native applications love CouchDB, because it 
speaks JSON natively and supports binary data for all your data storage 
needs.

The Couch Replication Protocol lets your data flow seamlessly between 
server clusters to mobile phones and web browsers, enabling a compelling 
offline-first user-experience while maintaining high performance and 
strong reliability. CouchDB comes with a developer-friendly query 
language, and optionally MapReduce for simple, efficient, and 
comprehensive data retrieval.

     https://couchdb.apache.org/#download

Pre-built packages for Windows, macOS, Debian/Ubuntu and RHEL/CentOS are 
available, along with the apache/couchdb and couchdb Docker containers.

CouchDB 3.1.1 is a maintenance release, and was originally published on 
2020-09-18.

The community would like to thank all contributors for their part in 
making this release, from the smallest bug report or patch to major 
contributions in code, design, or marketing, we couldn’t have done it 
without you!

See the official release notes document for an exhaustive list of all 
changes:

     https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/whatsnew/3.1.html

Release Notes highlights:

   - No more {"unknown" : "normal"} errors.

   - Buffered responses may be enabled, optionally, to delay starting
     a response until the end has been calculated.

   - Many minor bugfixes.

On behalf of the CouchDB PMC,
Joan "Friday, Friday, something something Friday" Touzet