Removed Promise Polyfill

#6945 - Including our own Promise polyfill means larger bundles when most apps already include their own polyfill if they need it. So if you support browsers which do not support Promises natively you will need to include a polyfill yourself. We use promise-polyfill and have found it to work great.

Switch to fetch

#6944 - This is another API that may need polyfilled if you use PouchDB and support IE, we use whatwg-fetch. Switching to fetch has allowed us to expose the ability to intercept the requests PouchDB makes for more flexibility, such as:

var db = new PouchDB('http://example.com/dbname', {
  fetch: function (url, opts) {
    opts.headers.set('X-Some-Special-Header', 'foo');
    return PouchDB.fetch(url, opts);
  }
});

That will add a X-Some-Special-Header to every HTTP request PouchDB makes.

Deterministic Revisions

#4642 - We now match CouchDB default behaviour and use the documents contents to determine its revision, this means automated conflict resolution handlers are less likely to generate extra conflicts.

More Deprecations

• #6946 - Remove debug dep
• #7134 - Remove IndexedDB storage option
• #6944 - Remove deprecated skipSetup

Fixes

• #7040 - Use fixed-length array in idb/indexeddb allDocs
• #6655 - Use consistent types for replication progress values
• #7085 - Accept old Safari version as valid
• #7095 - Reduce replication to server requests
• #7115 - Remove catastrophic backtracking vulnerability
• #7127 - Fix docs for db.query()'s options.reduce default
• #7141 - Fix ios idb blobSupport silent fail
• #6502 - Set return_docs default false when opts.live = true
• #7216 - Check level.destroy exists before calling
• #5814 - Ensure prefix has trailing slash

Get in touch

As always, we welcome feedback from the community and would love to hear what you think of this release as well as PouchDB's future direction. Please don't hesitate to file issues or get in touch. And of course, a big thanks to all of our new and existing contributors!