From c89ca7ed8c34f9f64f3af8cc2810e6ca66cdfbbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian Warner Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:04:39 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] update NEWS with all significant user-visible changes since last release --- NEWS | 43 +++++++++++++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index df9c2bcc..6d4e64a0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,32 +1,27 @@ -User visible changes in Tahoe-LAFS. -*- outline; coding: utf-8 -*- +User visible changes in Tahoe-LAFS. -*- outline; coding: utf-8 -*- -* Trunk, post-1.8.1 +* Release 1.8.2 (?) -** Bugfixes and Improvements - - - 'top' on some Unix platforms, e.g. Linux, now shows node processes as - 'tahoe' instead of 'python'. (#174) - - Improve HTML formatting of the WUI. (#1219) - - The 'tahoe create-alias' and 'tahoe add-alias' commands now accept a - trailing colon on the alias. (#1305) - - The default reserved_space setting for newly-created storage nodes - is 1 GiB. (#1208) +** Compatibility and Dependencies -** Removals + - Tahoe is now compatible with Twisted-10.2 (released last month). The + previous Tahoe-1.8.1 release failed to run against Twisted-10.2, + raising an AttributeError on StreamServerEndpointService (#1286) + - Tahoe now depends upon the "mock" testing library, and the foolscap + dependency was raised to 0.6.1 . It no longer requires pywin32 (which + was used only on windows). Future developers should note that + reactor.spawnProcess and derivatives may no longer be used inside + Tahoe code. - - The unmaintained GUI applications for Mac OS X and Windows have been - removed. (#1282) - -** Documentation - - - Some documentation updates missed in 1.8.1 have been completed. (#1225) - -** Dependency Updates +** Other Changes - - foolscap 0.6.1 - - Debian package dependencies now specify python-twisted-conch - - setuptools_darcs is bundled rather than being an external dependency - - pywin32 is no longer required on Windows + - the default reserved_space value for new storage nodes is 1 GB (#1208) + - documentation is now in reStructuredText (.rst) format + - "tahoe cp" should now handle non-ASCII filenames + - the unmaintained Mac/Windows GUI applications have been removed (#1282) + - tahoe processes should appear in top and ps as "tahoe", not "python", + on some unix platforms. (#174) + - "tahoe debug trial" can be used to run the test suite (#1296) * Release 1.8.1 (2010-10-28) -- 2.45.2