docs: start updating the NEWS and relnotes.txt files, add Kevan to CREDITS

diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index fed051c5eeacb98f5c359b0a99e91346c5f617a6..8be9aede4109a803f09fec7237da41e2ee2f4d33 100644 (file)
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -83,3 +83,7 @@ D: improvements to the CLI: exclude patterns, usage text
 
 N: DarKnesS_WOlF
 D: patch Makefile to build .debs for Ubuntu Intrepid
+
+N: Kevan Carstensen
+E: kevan@isnotajoke.com
+D: remove the limit on size of mutable files

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index acc7a70a66edd544d836bc4ba5bab8c70f9d52e9..ce5543376636eae96faf51542756f9c7ed8e4948 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,7 +4,21 @@ User visible changes in Tahoe.  -*- outline -*-
 
 ** New WUI Style
 
-WUI Style!  It sounds like an ancient Chinese martial art!  Or possibly an American Hip Hop group!
+WUI Style!  It sounds like an ancient Chinese martial art!  Or possibly an
+American Hip Hop group!
+
+Slightly faster uploads
+http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/392
+??? (This one is not actually here yet.)
+
+Port to ARM CPUs and embedded boxes such as NASes.
+
+Packaging improvements to make Tahoe's packaging acceptable for inclusion in
+Linux distributions like Fedora and Debian.
+
+Remove limit on size of mutable files (but note that there is no efficient
+update -- writing a new mutable file requires encoding and uploading the entire
+contents of the new version of the file).
 
 
 * Release 1.4.1 (2009-04-13)

diff --git a/relnotes.txt b/relnotes.txt
index b444a3c73fd07381cf8723713192505918dc95db..fe5c6afdcb431f750418e9a3bddebe86f690ee9b 100644 (file)
--- a/relnotes.txt
+++ b/relnotes.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ explanation of Tahoe's unique security and fault-tolerance properties:
 http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/about.html
 
 This is the successor to Tahoe-LAFS v1.3, which was released February
-13, 2009 [2].  This is a major new release, adding  XXX new WUI style
+13, 2009 [2].  This is a major new release, adding  XXX new WUI style, port to ARM CPU and embedded systems such as NAS boxes.
 
 See the NEWS file [3] and the known_issues.txt file [4] for more
 information.