From: Zooko O'Whielacronx Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:52:31 +0000 (-0800) Subject: docs: NEWS and relnotes-short.txt and CREDITS for v1.6.1 X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8ac26a24ae50c2c2285dd6a7e87d084f573ffe28;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git docs: NEWS and relnotes-short.txt and CREDITS for v1.6.1 --- diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS index a867fd27..82b0f20a 100644 --- a/CREDITS +++ b/CREDITS @@ -99,4 +99,4 @@ D: edited docs/running.html N: David-Sarah Hopwood E: david-sarah@jacaranda.org P: 12F8 A95C C90B B68E 369C 003D 5947 3C63 3CB3 A807 -D: ticket gardening, Windows, security/crypto/usability/api, code review, docs +D: Tahoe-LAFS Hacker; ticket gardening, code, code review, docs diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0f1415bb..5d5f54ee 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,19 @@ User visible changes in Tahoe-LAFS. -*- outline -*- +* Release 1.6.1 (2010-02-27) + +** Bugfixes + +*** Correct handling of Immutable Directories + +Immutable directories can now be deep-checked (in v1.6.0 running deep-check on +a system which included immutable directories would result in an exception +which caused the deep-check operation to abort). (#948) + +** Usability Improvements + +Improved user interface messages (#681, #837, #939). + * Release 1.6.0 (2010-02-01) ** New Features diff --git a/relnotes-short.txt b/relnotes-short.txt index 93e1f27b..6356d563 100644 --- a/relnotes-short.txt +++ b/relnotes-short.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -ANNOUNCING v1.6 of Tahoe-LAFS +ANNOUNCING v1.6.1 of Tahoe-LAFS We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of -version 1.6 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely reliable distributed +version 1.6.1 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely reliable distributed data store. Tahoe-LAFS is the first cloud storage system which offers @@ -12,25 +12,26 @@ security and fault-tolerance properties: http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/about.html -Tahoe-LAFS v1.6.0 is the successor to v1.5.0, which was -released August 1, 2009. This release includes major -performance improvements, usability improvements, and one major -new feature: deep-immutable directories (cryptographically -unalterable permanent snapshots). See the release notes for -details. +Tahoe-LAFS v1.6.1 is the successor to v1.6.0, which was +released February 2, 2010. This is a bugfix release which +fixes a few small regressions in v1.6.0. + +The v1.6 release includes major performance improvements, +usability improvements, and one major new feature: +deep-immutable directories (cryptographically unalterable +permanent snapshots). See the release notes for details. http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/relnotes.txt 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 +tools. These include plugins for Hadoop, bzr, duplicity, +TiddlyWiki, and much 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: http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/RelatedProjects -We believe that erasure coding, strong encryption, Free/Open -Source Software and careful engineering make Tahoe-LAFS safer -than other storage technologies. +We believe that strong encryption, Free/Open Source Software, +erasure coding, and careful engineering practices make +Tahoe-LAFS safer than other storage technologies.