update docs for 1.10 release

[tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs.git] / relnotes.txt

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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.9.2
+ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.10
 
 The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce the immediate
-availability of version 1.9.2 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely
+availability of version 1.10.0 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely
 reliable distributed storage system. Get it here:
 
 https://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk/docs/quickstart.rst
@@ -14,11 +14,14 @@ unique security and fault-tolerance properties:
 
 https://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk/docs/about.rst
 
-The previous stable release of Tahoe-LAFS was v1.9.1, released
-on January 12, 2012.
+The previous stable release of Tahoe-LAFS was v1.9.2, released
+on July 3, 2012.
 
-v1.9.2 is a bugfix release that primarily fixes regressions
-in mutable file support. See the NEWS file [1] for details.
+v1.10.0 is a feature release which adds a new Introducer
+protocol, improves the appearance of the web-based user
+interface, improves grid security by making introducer FURLs
+unguessable, and fixes many bugs. See the NEWS file [1] for
+details.
 
 
 WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
@@ -51,7 +54,7 @@ please see the known_issues.rst file [2].)
 
 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
@@ -60,7 +63,18 @@ all versions since v1.0. Servers from this release can serve
 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 seventeenth release in the version 1 series. This
+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.
+
+The new Introducer protocol added in v1.10 is backwards
+compatible with older clients and introducer servers, however
+some features will be unavailable when an older node is
+involved. Please see docs/nodekeys.rst [14] for details.
+
+This is the eighteenth 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
@@ -124,16 +138,16 @@ Of Fame" [13].
 
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
 
-This is the eleventh release of Tahoe-LAFS to be created solely
+This is the twelfth 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.
 
-David-Sarah Hopwood
+Brian Warner
 on behalf of the Tahoe-LAFS team
 
-July 3, 2012
-Rainhill, Merseyside, UK
+May 1, 2013
+San Francisco, California, USA
 
 
 [1] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/NEWS.rst
@@ -149,3 +163,4 @@ Rainhill, Merseyside, UK
 [11] http://atlasnetworks.us/
 [12] https://leastauthority.com/
 [13] https://tahoe-lafs.org/hacktahoelafs/
+[14] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/docs/nodekeys.rst