-ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.9.2a1
+ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.9.2
The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce the immediate
-availability of version 1.9.2a1 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely
+availability of version 1.9.2 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely
reliable distributed storage system. Get it here:
https://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk/docs/quickstart.rst
The previous stable release of Tahoe-LAFS was v1.9.1, released
on January 12, 2012.
-v1.9.2 will be a bugfix release that primarily fixes regressions
+v1.9.2 is a bugfix release that primarily fixes regressions
in mutable file support. See the NEWS file [1] for details.
COMPATIBILITY
-This release is compatible with the version 1 series of
+This release should be compatible with the version 1 series of
Tahoe-LAFS. Clients from this release can write files and
directories in the format used by clients of all versions back
to v1.0 (which was released March 25, 2008). Clients from this
clients of all versions back to v1.0 and clients from this
release can use servers of all versions back to v1.0.
+Except for the new optional MDMF format, we have not made any
+intentional compatibility changes. However we do not yet have
+the test infrastructure to continuously verify that all new
+versions are interoperable with previous versions. We intend
+to build such an infrastructure in the future.
+
This is the seventeenth release in the version 1 series. This
series of Tahoe-LAFS will be actively supported and maintained
for the foreseeable future, and future versions of Tahoe-LAFS
David-Sarah Hopwood
on behalf of the Tahoe-LAFS team
-June 23, 2012
+July 3, 2012
Rainhill, Merseyside, UK