Add 1.7 "What's new" page (#943)

share/doc/build/Makefile.am

@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ html_files = \
  html/_sources/whatsnew/1.4.txt \
  html/_sources/whatsnew/1.5.txt \
  html/_sources/whatsnew/1.6.txt \
+ html/_sources/whatsnew/1.7.txt \
  html/_sources/whatsnew/index.txt \
  html/_sources/about.txt \
  html/_sources/contents.txt \
@@ -276,6 +277,7 @@ html_files = \
  html/whatsnew/1.4.html \
  html/whatsnew/1.5.html \
  html/whatsnew/1.6.html \
+ html/whatsnew/1.7.html \
  html/whatsnew/index.html \
  html/about.html \
  html/config-ref.html \
@@ -421,6 +423,7 @@ src_files = \
  ../src/whatsnew/1.4.rst \
  ../src/whatsnew/1.5.rst \
  ../src/whatsnew/1.6.rst \
+ ../src/whatsnew/1.7.rst \
  ../src/whatsnew/index.rst \
  ../src/about.rst \
  ../src/contents.rst \

share/doc/src/whatsnew/1.7.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+.. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not
+.. use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+.. the License at
+..
+.. https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+..
+.. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+.. distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+.. WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+.. License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under
+.. the License.
+
+.. _release/1.7.x:
+
+============
+1.7.x Branch
+============
+
+.. contents::
+ :depth: 1
+ :local:
+
+.. _release/1.7.0:
+
+Version 1.7.0
+=============
+
+API Changes
+-----------
+
+- :issue:`1876`: Fix duplicated Content-Type for show/update functions.
+
+Build
+-----
+
+- :issue:`1964`: Replace etap test suite with EUnit.
+- :issue:`2225`: Enforce that shared libraries can be built by the system.
+- :issue:`2761`: Support glibc >= 2.20.
+- :issue:`2747`: Support Erlang 18.
+- :commit:`5b9742c`: Support Erlang 19.
+- :commit:`1545bf4`: Remove broken benchmarks.
+
+Database Core
+-------------
+
+- :issue:`2735`: Duplicate document _ids created under high edit load.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+- :commit:`c3c9588`: Improve documentation of `cacert_file` ssl option.
+- :commit:`3266f23`: Clarify the purpose of tombstones.
+- :commit:`75887d9`: Improve CouchDB Replication Protocol definition.
+- :commit:`3b1dc0f`: Remove mention of `group_level=exact`.
+- :commit:`2a11daa`: Remove mention of "Test Suite" in Futon.
+- :commit:`01c60f1`: Clarify type of key, startkey and endkey params.
+
+Futon
+-----
+
+- :issue:`241`: Support document copying.
+- :issue:`1011`: Run replication filtered by document ids from Futon.
+- :issue:`1275`: Unescape database names in Futon recently used list.
+- :commit:`f18f82a`: Update jquery.ui to 1.10.4 with fixes of potential
+ XSS issues.
+
+HTTP Server
+-----------
+
+- :issue:`2430`: Disable Nagle's algorithm by default.
+- :issue:`2583`: Don't drop connection by the endpoints which doesn't require
+ any payload.
+- :issue:`2673`: Properly escape Location: HTTP header.
+- :issue:`2677`: Wrong Expires header weekday.
+- :issue:`2783`: Bind both to IPv4 and IPv6.
+- :commit:`f30f3dd`: Support for user configurable SSL ciphers.
+
+Query Server
+------------
+
+- :commit:`7779c11`: Upgrade Coffeescript to version 1.10.
+
+jquery.couch.js
+---------------
+
+- :commit:`f9095e7`: Fix document copying.

share/doc/src/whatsnew/index.rst

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Release History
 .. toctree::
  :glob:
 
+ 1.7
  1.6
  1.5
  1.4