-ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.10.1
+ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File Store, v1.10.2
-The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce the immediate
-availability of version 1.10.1 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely
-reliable distributed storage system. Get it here:
+The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce version 1.10.2 of
+Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely reliable decentralized storage system.
+Get it here:
https://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk/docs/quickstart.rst
https://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk/docs/about.rst
-The previous stable release of Tahoe-LAFS was v1.10.0,
-released on May 1, 2013.
+The previous stable release of Tahoe-LAFS was v1.10.1, released
+on June 15, 2015.
-v1.10.1 is mostly a bugfix release, but also improves the
-web-based user interface, adds public-key authentication to
-the SFTP frontend, improves the behavior of "tahoe cp -r", and
-offers more control over IP address autodetection. Preliminary
-(CLI-based) OS-X packages have been added. Over 75 bugs have
-been fixed. See the NEWS file [1] for details.
+v1.10.2 is a small bugfix release, which fixes a critical
+packaging error that prevented v1.10.1 from building against the
+latest version of the upstream "mock" library. A few small bugs
+were fixed too. See the NEWS file [1] for details.
WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
-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.
+With Tahoe-LAFS, you distribute your data across multiple
+servers. Even if some of the servers fail or are taken over
+by an attacker, the entire file store continues to function
+correctly, preserving 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
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
+then we will award you with a customized t-shirt with your
exploit printed on it and add you to the "Hack Tahoe-LAFS Hall
Of Fame" [13].
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
-This is the thirteenth release of Tahoe-LAFS to be created
+This is the fourteenth 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
-June 15, 2015
+July 30, 2015
San Francisco, California, USA