Most of the activity happens at Couchbase now, the company that the inventor D. Katz founded based on CouchDB technology. You can still use Couchbase for free, but it's possible to pay for support. The coolest thing they have is Couchbase Lite, the mobile version of CouchDB, lets you replicate with your server. I find it a very interesting alternative to Core Data, parse and co. and we use it in production.

Good to know, will shift attention to Couchbase and re-assess. Thanks!