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authorDirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan@ochtman.nl>2014-04-15 09:13:19 +0200
committerDirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan@ochtman.nl>2014-04-15 09:13:19 +0200
commitcd5220ff68856f8e17835595c1f91b0c58214310 (patch)
tree9862aa15396e8a41d381e2c53f60dc83d6d5ff7e
parent81d753a03ee5a2b744273726d02fea5e1d2289b5 (diff)
downloadcouchdb-cd5220ff68856f8e17835595c1f91b0c58214310.tar.gz
Update 1.6.0 notes with proper CVE-2014-2668 note
-rw-r--r--share/doc/src/whatsnew/1.6.rst6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/share/doc/src/whatsnew/1.6.rst b/share/doc/src/whatsnew/1.6.rst
index 8ddbea1a7..d99bb0b41 100644
--- a/share/doc/src/whatsnew/1.6.rst
+++ b/share/doc/src/whatsnew/1.6.rst
@@ -33,9 +33,6 @@ as deprecated and will be removed in future releases. It's strongly recommended
to update :config:option:`httpd/authentication_handlers` option with new value
in case if you had used such handler.
-Note that this release also contains the security fix for CVE-2014-2668 that
-was first fixed in :ref:`release/1.5.1`.
-
.. _release/1.6.0:
Version 1.6.0
@@ -44,6 +41,9 @@ Version 1.6.0
* Fauxton: many improvements in our experimental new user interface, including
switching the code editor from CodeMirror to Ace as well as better support
for various browsers.
+* Add the ``max_count`` option (:ref:`config/uuids`) to allow rate-limiting
+ the amount of UUIDs that can be requested from the :ref:`api/server/uuids`
+ handler in a single request (:ref:`CVE 2014-2668 <cve/2014-2668>`).
* :issue:`1986`: increase socket buffer size to improve replication speed
for large documents and attachments, and fix tests on BSD-like systems.
:commit:`9a0e561b`