From 59c317f2bee73319996f4e8d2b18f48e9b432d7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian Warner Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:12:35 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] update NEWS and relnotes for upcoming release --- NEWS.rst | 12 ++++++++++++ relnotes.txt | 33 ++++++++++++++++----------------- 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 1a2f591c..c5e9f1f8 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -3,6 +3,18 @@ User-Visible Changes in Tahoe-LAFS ================================== +Release 1.9.1 (2012-01-12) +-------------------------- + +Security-related Bugfix +''''''''''''''''''''''' + +- Fix flaw that would allow servers to cause undetected corruption when + retrieving the contents of mutable files (both SDMF and MDMF). (`#1654`_) + +.. _`#1654`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1654 + + Release 1.9.0 (2011-10-30) -------------------------- diff --git a/relnotes.txt b/relnotes.txt index 80edc973..49fc4b0c 100644 --- a/relnotes.txt +++ b/relnotes.txt @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.9.0 +ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.9.1 -The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce the immediate -availability of version 1.9.0 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely -reliable distributed storage system. Get it here: +The Tahoe-LAFS team has announced the immediate availability of +version 1.9.1 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely reliable distributed +storage system. Get it here: https://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk/docs/quickstart.rst @@ -14,13 +14,12 @@ 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 v1.8.3, which was -released September 13, 2011. +The previous stable release of Tahoe-LAFS was v1.9.0, released +on October 31, 2011. -v1.9.0 offers a new mutable-file format (more efficient for -large files), a file-blacklisting feature, and a new -"drop-upload" feature. See the NEWS file [3] and -known_issues.rst [4] file for details. +v1.9.1 is a critical bugfix release which fixes a significant +security issue. See the NEWS file [1] and known_issues.rst [2] +file for details. WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? @@ -37,7 +36,7 @@ have built other projects on top of Tahoe-LAFS and have integrated Tahoe-LAFS with existing systems, including Windows, JavaScript, iPhone, Android, Hadoop, Flume, Django, Puppet, bzr, mercurial, perforce, duplicity, TiddlyWiki, and -more. See the Related Projects page on the wiki [5]. +more. See the Related Projects page on the wiki [3]. We believe that strong cryptography, Free and Open Source Software, erasure coding, and principled engineering practices @@ -62,7 +61,7 @@ all versions since v1.0. Servers from this release can serve clients of all versions back to v1.0 and clients from this release can use servers of all versions back to v1.0. -This is the fifteenth release in the version 1 series. This +This is the sixteenth 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 @@ -126,7 +125,7 @@ Of Fame" [13]. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -This is the ninth release of Tahoe-LAFS to be created solely +This is the tenth 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. @@ -134,19 +133,19 @@ possible. Brian Warner on behalf of the Tahoe-LAFS team -October 31, 2011 +January 12, 2011 San Francisco, California, USA -[1] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/NEWS.rst?rev=5356 +[1] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/NEWS.rst [2] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/docs/known_issues.rst [3] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/RelatedProjects [4] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/COPYING.GPL [5] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/COPYING.TGPPL.rst -[6] https://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/quickstart.rst +[6] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/docs/quickstart.rst [7] https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev [8] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/roadmap -[9] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/CREDITS?rev=5356 +[9] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/CREDITS [10] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/Dev [11] http://atlasnetworks.us/ [12] http://leastauthority.com/ -- 2.37.2