# PouchDB 2.1.0

By: Dale Harvey
Published: 01 April 2014

PouchDB 2.1.0 is now released! Please file issues or tell us what you think. We would also like to give a huge thanks to our new and existing contributors.

This release contains a database migration, which means that once you upgrade you will no longer be able to use previous versions of PouchDB on the same databases.

### Major Changes:

- Website redesign and a new blog (#1539, #893)
- Support optional LevelDOWN builds (#44)
- Replication performance improvements (#1732)
- Performance improvements for skip / limit (#1649)
- Cache WebSQL databases, fully passing tests in Safari (#1068)
- Fix support for unicode in doc ids (WebSQL) (#1733)
- Fix for localStorage detection in Chrome Apps (#1727)
- Allow overriding of http functions (#1602)
- Improve error reporting from replicator (#1714)
- Switch to readAsArrayBuffer for IE binary support (#1667)
- Add `npm run shell` for quick shell experimenting (#1610)
- Ensure we dont lose data when browsers upgrade from WebSQL to IDB (#1289)

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