Version 0.9 (2013-04-25)

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* Don't validate database names on the client side. This means some methods

dealing with database names can return different exceptions than before.

* Use HTTP socket more efficiently to avoid the Nagle algorithm, greatly

improving performace. Note: add the `{nodelay, true}` option to the CouchDB

server's httpd/socket_options config.

* Add support for show and list functions.

* Add support for calling update handlers.

* Add support for purging documents.

* Add `iterview()` for more efficient iteration over large view results.

* Add view cleanup API.

* Enhance `Server.stats()` to optionally retrieve a single set of statistics.

* Implement `Session` timeouts.

* Add `error` property to `Row` objects.

* Add `default=None` arg to `mapping.Document.get()` to make it a little more

dict-like.

* Enhance `Database.info()` so it can also be used to get info for a design

doc.

* Add view definition options, e.g. collation.

* Fix support for authentication in dump/load tools.

* Support non-ASCII document IDs in serialization format.

* Protect `ResponseBody` from being iterated/closed multiple times.

* Rename iteration method for ResponseBody chunks to `iterchunks()` to

prevent usage for non-chunked responses.

* JSON encoding exceptions are no longer masked, resulting in better error

messages.

* `cjson` support is now deprecated.

* Fix `Row.value` and `Row.__repr__` to never raise exceptions.

* Fix Python view server's reduce to handle empty map results list.

* Use locale-independent timestamp identifiers for HTTP cache.

* Don't require setuptools/distribute to install the core package. (Still

needed to install the console scripts.)

PYTHONPATH=. python -m couchdb.tests