-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
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
clients of all versions back to v1.0 and clients from this
release can use servers of all versions back to v1.0.
-Except for the new MDMF format, we have not made any
-deliberate compatibility changes. However we do not yet have
-the test infrastructure to continuously verify this claim. We
-intend to build such an infrastructure in the future.
+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.
-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
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
[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
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