X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=relnotes.txt;h=d7f671b36d08de07f1a0cf0742349962f41b43fd;hb=refs%2Fheads%2F1431.windows-fixes.0;hp=0f46b1441f274055e130bf21393d06e61c31f96c;hpb=08abfcac2d43f3c563551f785b1dbc87b6680ba4;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git diff --git a/relnotes.txt b/relnotes.txt index 0f46b144..d7f671b3 100644 --- a/relnotes.txt +++ b/relnotes.txt @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.9.2 +ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File Store, v1.10.2 -The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce the immediate -availability of version 1.9.2 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 @@ -14,21 +14,22 @@ 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 v1.10.1, released +on June 15, 2015. -v1.9.2 is a bugfix release that primarily fixes regressions -in mutable file support. 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 @@ -66,7 +67,12 @@ 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 +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 nineteenth 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 @@ -123,23 +129,23 @@ 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 +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 eleventh 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. +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. -David-Sarah Hopwood +Brian Warner on behalf of the Tahoe-LAFS team -July 3, 2012 -Rainhill, Merseyside, UK +July 30, 2015 +San Francisco, California, USA [1] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/NEWS.rst @@ -155,3 +161,4 @@ 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