-ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.6
+ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.8.2
The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce the immediate
-availability of version 1.6 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely
-reliable distributed key-value store and cloud filesystem.
+availability of version 1.8.2 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely
+reliable distributed storage system. Get it here:
-Tahoe-LAFS is the first cloud storage system which offers
-"provider-independent security" -- meaning that not even your
-cloud service provider can read or alter your data without your
-consent. Here is the one-page explanation of its unique
-security and fault-tolerance properties:
+http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/quickstart.rst
-http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/about.html
+Tahoe-LAFS is the first distributed storage system to offer
+"provider-independent security" — meaning that not even the
+operators of your storage servers can read or alter your data
+without your consent. Here is the one-page explanation of its
+unique security and fault-tolerance properties:
-Tahoe-LAFS v1.6.0 is the successor to v1.5.0, which was
-released August 1, 2009 [1]. This release offers major
-performance improvements, usability improvements, and one major
-new feature: deep-immutable directories (cryptographically
-unalterable permanent snapshots), See the NEWS file [2] for
-details.
+http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/about.rst
+
+The previous stable release of Tahoe-LAFS was v1.8.1, which was
+released October 28, 2010 [1].
+
+v1.8.2 is a stable bugfix release, adding compatibility with
+the recently-released Twisted-10.2, and correcting a number of
+minor issues. See the NEWS.rst file [2] for details.
WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
-With Tahoe-LAFS, you spread your filesystem across multiple
-servers, and even if some of the servers fail or are taken over
-by an attacker, the entire filesystem continues to work
-correctly, and continues to preserve your privacy and
-security. You can easily and securely share chosen files and
-directories with others.
-
-In addition to the core storage system itself, volunteers have
-developed related projects to integrate it with other
-tools. These include frontends for Windows, Macintosh,
-JavaScript, and iPhone, and plugins for Hadoop, bzr, duplicity,
-TiddlyWiki, and more. As of this release, contributors have
-added an Android frontend and a working read-only FUSE
-frontend. See the Related Projects page on the wiki [3].
-
-We believe that the combination of erasure coding, strong
-encryption, Free/Open Source Software and careful engineering
-make Tahoe-LAFS safer than RAID, removable drive, tape, on-line
-backup or other Cloud storage systems.
-
-This software is developed under thorough unit tests, and there
-are no known bugs or security flaws which would compromise
-confidentiality or data integrity under normal use. (For all
-currently known issues please see the known_issues.txt file
-[4].)
+With Tahoe-LAFS, you distribute your filesystem across
+multiple servers, and even if some of the servers fail or are
+taken over by an attacker, the entire filesystem continues to
+work correctly, and continues to preserve your privacy and
+security. You can easily share specific files and directories
+with other people.
+
+In addition to the core storage system itself, volunteers
+have built other projects on top of Tahoe-LAFS and have
+integrated Tahoe-LAFS with existing systems, including
+Windows, JavaScript, iPhone, Android, Hadoop, Flume, Django,
+Puppet, bzr, mercurial, perforce, duplicity, TiddlyWiki, and
+more. See the Related Projects page on the wiki [3].
+
+We believe that strong cryptography, Free and Open Source
+Software, erasure coding, and principled engineering practices
+make Tahoe-LAFS safer than RAID, removable drive, tape,
+on-line backup or cloud storage.
+
+This software is developed under test-driven development, and
+there are no known bugs or security flaws which would
+compromise confidentiality or data integrity under recommended
+use. (For all important issues that we are currently aware of
+please see the known_issues.rst file [4].)
COMPATIBILITY
-This release is fully compatible with the version 1 series of
+This release is 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.
-This is the seventh release in the version 1 series. The
-version 1 series of Tahoe-LAFS will be actively supported and
-maintained for the forseeable future, and future versions of
-Tahoe-LAFS will retain the ability to read and write files
-compatible with Tahoe-LAFS v1.
-
-In addition, version 1.6 improves forward-compatibility with
-planned future cap formats, allowing updates to a directory
-containing both current and future caps, without loss of
-information.
+This is the thirteenth 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
+will retain the ability to read and write files compatible
+with this series.
LICENCE
Public Licence, version 1 or, at your option, any later
version. (The Transitive Grace Period Public Licence has
requirements similar to the GPL except that it allows you to
-wait for up to twelve months after you redistribute a derived
+delay for up to twelve months after you redistribute a derived
work before releasing the source code of your derived work.)
-See the file "COPYING.TGPPL.html" [6] for the terms of the
+See the file "COPYING.TGPPL.rst" [6] for the terms of the
Transitive Grace Period Public Licence, version 1.
(You may choose to use this package under the terms of either
INSTALLATION
-Tahoe-LAFS works on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Cygwin, Solaris,
-*BSD, and probably most other systems. Start with
-"docs/install.html" [7].
+Tahoe-LAFS works on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris, *BSD,
+and probably most other systems. Start with
+"docs/quickstart.rst" [7].
HACKING AND COMMUNITY
SPONSORSHIP
-Tahoe-LAFS was originally developed thanks to the sponsorship
-of Allmydata, Inc. [12], a provider of commercial backup
-services. Allmydata founded the Tahoe-LAFS project and
-contributed hardware, software, ideas, bug reports,
-suggestions, demands, and they employedg several Tahoe-LAFS
-hackers and instructed them to spend part of their work time on
-this Free Software project. Also they awarded customized
-t-shirts to hackers who found security flaws in Tahoe-LAFS (see
-the Hack Tahoe-LAFS Hall Of Fame [13]). After discontinuing funding of
-Tahoe-LAFS R&D in early 2009, Allmydata, Inc. has continued to
-provide servers, co-lo space, bandwidth, and small personal
-gifts as tokens of appreciation. (Also they continue to provide
-bug reports.) Thank you to Allmydata, Inc. for their generous
-and public-spirited support.
-
-This is the third release of Tahoe-LAFS to be created solely as
-a labor of love by volunteers. Thank you very much to the
-dedicated team of "hackers in the public interest" who make
-Tahoe-LAFS possible.
-
-Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
+Tahoe-LAFS was originally developed by Allmydata, Inc., a
+provider of commercial backup services. After discontinuing
+funding of Tahoe-LAFS R&D in early 2009, they continued
+to provide servers, bandwidth, small personal gifts as tokens
+of appreciation, and bug reports.
+
+Google, Inc. sponsored Tahoe-LAFS development as part of the
+Google Summer of Code 2010. They awarded four sponsorships to
+students from around the world to hack on Tahoe-LAFS that
+summer.
+
+Thank you to Allmydata and Google for their generous and
+public-spirited support.
+
+
+HACK TAHOE-LAFS!
+
+If you can find a security flaw in Tahoe-LAFS which is serious
+enough that we feel compelled to warn our users and issue a fix,
+then we will award you with a customized t-shirts with your
+exploit printed on it and add you to the "Hack Tahoe-LAFS Hall
+Of Fame" [12].
+
+
+ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+
+This is the seventh release of Tahoe-LAFS to be created solely
+as a labor of love by volunteers. Thank you very much to the
+team of "hackers in the public interest" who make Tahoe-LAFS
+possible.
+
+Brian Warner
on behalf of the Tahoe-LAFS team
-February 1, 2010
-Boulder, Colorado, USA
-
-[1] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/relnotes.txt?rev=4042
-[2] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/NEWS?rev=4189
-[3] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/RelatedProjects
-[4] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/docs/known_issues.txt
-[5] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/COPYING.GPL
-[6] http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/COPYING.TGPPL.html
-[7] http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/install.html
-[8] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
-[9] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/roadmap
-[10] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/CREDITS?rev=4186
-[11] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/Dev
-[12] http://allmydata.com
-[13] http://hacktahoe.org
+January 30, 2011
+San Francisco, California, USA
+
+
+[1] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/relnotes.txt?rev=4865
+[2] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/NEWS?rev=5000
+[3] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/RelatedProjects
+[4] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/docs/known_issues.rst
+[5] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/COPYING.GPL
+[6] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/COPYING.TGPPL.rst
+[7] http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/quickstart.rst
+[8] http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
+[9] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/roadmap
+[10] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/CREDITS?rev=5000
+[11] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/Dev
+[12] http://tahoe-lafs.org/hacktahoelafs/
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