From 8c256de1f01abf66149134e7e35d2f79e8215b53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: david-sarah Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 00:17:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Release notes, NEWS, and quickstart updates for 1.9.2a1. refs #1776 --- NEWS.rst | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ docs/known_issues.rst | 2 +- relnotes.txt | 24 ++++++++++---------- 3 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index c5e9f1f8..20b94e62 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -3,6 +3,57 @@ User-Visible Changes in Tahoe-LAFS ================================== +Release 1.9.2a1 (2012-06-23) +---------------------------- + +Notable Bugfixes +'''''''''''''''' + +- Several regressions in support for reading (`#1636`, `#1670`), writing + (`#1749`), verifying (`#1628`) and repairing (`#1655`, `#1669`, `#1676`, + `#1689`) mutable files have been fixed. +- FTP can now list directories containing mutable files, although it + still does not support reading or writing mutable files. (`#680`) +- The FTP frontend would previously show Jan 1 1970 for all timestamps; + now it shows the correct modification time of the directory entry. + (`#1688`) +- If a node is configured to report incidents to a log gatherer, but the + gatherer is offline when some incidents occur, it would previously not + "catch up" with those incidents as intended. (`#1725`) +- OpenBSD 5 is now supported. (`#1584`) + +Configuration/Behaviour Changes +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +- The capability of the upload directory for the drop-upload frontend + is now specified in the file ``private/drop_upload_dircap`` under + the gateway's node directory, rather than in its ``tahoe.cfg``. + (`#1593`) + +Packaging Changes +''''''''''''''''' + +- Tahoe-LAFS can be built correctly from a git repository as well as + from darcs. +- Versions 2.0.1 and 2.4 of PyCrypto are excluded. (`#1631`, `#1574`) + +.. _`#680`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/680 +.. _`#1574`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1574 +.. _`#1584`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1584 +.. _`#1593`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1593 +.. _`#1628`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1628 +.. _`#1631`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1631 +.. _`#1636`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1636 +.. _`#1655`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1655 +.. _`#1669`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1669 +.. _`#1670`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1670 +.. _`#1676`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1676 +.. _`#1688`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1688 +.. _`#1689`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1689 +.. _`#1725`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1725 +.. _`#1749`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1749 + + Release 1.9.1 (2012-01-12) -------------------------- diff --git a/docs/known_issues.rst b/docs/known_issues.rst index ee82d094..db36315e 100644 --- a/docs/known_issues.rst +++ b/docs/known_issues.rst @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ want to read `the "historical known issues" document`_. .. _the "historical known issues" document: historical/historical_known_issues.txt -Known Issues in Tahoe-LAFS v1.9.1, released 12-Jan-2012 +Known Issues in Tahoe-LAFS v1.9.2, released 23-Jun-2012 ======================================================= * `Unauthorized access by JavaScript in unrelated files`_ diff --git a/relnotes.txt b/relnotes.txt index 446ff5fa..4e03a513 100644 --- a/relnotes.txt +++ b/relnotes.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.9.1 +ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.9.2a1 The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce the immediate -availability of version 1.9.1 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely +availability of version 1.9.2a1 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely reliable distributed storage system. Get it here: https://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk/docs/quickstart.rst @@ -14,12 +14,11 @@ 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 v1.9.0, released -on October 31, 2011. +The previous stable release of Tahoe-LAFS was v1.9.1, released +on January 12, 2012. -v1.9.1 is a critical bugfix release which fixes a significant -security issue [#1654]. See the NEWS file [1] and known_issues.rst -[2] file for details. +v1.9.2 will be a bugfix release that primarily fixes regressions +in mutable file support. See the NEWS file [1] for details. WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? @@ -61,7 +60,7 @@ 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 sixteenth release in the version 1 series. This +This is the seventeenth 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 @@ -125,19 +124,18 @@ Of Fame" [13]. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -This is the tenth release of Tahoe-LAFS to be created solely +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. -Brian Warner +David-Sarah Hopwood on behalf of the Tahoe-LAFS team -January 12, 2011 -San Francisco, California, USA +June 23, 2012 +Rainhill, Merseyside, UK -[#1654] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1654 [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 -- 2.37.2