From: david-sarah <david-sarah@jacaranda.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 03:51:12 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: NEWS and docs/quickstart.html for 1.8.0beta2.
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NEWS and docs/quickstart.html for 1.8.0beta2.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 50f926db..f1be66dc 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,20 @@
 User visible changes in Tahoe-LAFS.  -*- outline; coding: utf-8 -*-
 
+* Release 1.8.0β2 (2010-08-06)
+
+** Bugfixes
+
+ - Fix an incompatibility of release 1.8.0β with node directories
+   created by other Tahoe-LAFS versions. (#1159)
+ - Partial GET requests using the Range header were not handled
+   correctly by the new downloader. (#1154)
+
 * Release 1.8.0β (2010-08-02)
 
+Note: the 1.8.0β release should not be used, because node directories
+that it creates (using 'tahoe create-*' commands) will not work with
+other releases, and vice-versa.
+
 ** New Features
 
  - A completely new downloader which improves performance and
diff --git a/docs/quickstart.html b/docs/quickstart.html
index 909bd2a2..b82faf9e 100644
--- a/docs/quickstart.html
+++ b/docs/quickstart.html
@@ -23,9 +23,13 @@
 
     <h2>Get Tahoe-LAFS</h2>
 
-      <p>Download the 1.7.1 zip file:</p>
-      <pre><a
-      href="http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/releases/allmydata-tahoe-1.7.1.zip">http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/releases/allmydata-tahoe-1.7.1.zip</a></pre>
+    <p>Download the zip file for the latest stable release, v1.7.1:</p>
+    <pre><a
+    href="http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/releases/allmydata-tahoe-1.7.1.zip">http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/releases/allmydata-tahoe-1.7.1.zip</a></pre>
+
+    <p>or the latest beta release, v1.8.0β2:</p>
+    <pre><a
+    href="http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/releases/allmydata-tahoe-1.8.0b2.zip">http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/releases/allmydata-tahoe-1.8.0b2.zip</a></pre>
 
     <h2>Set Up Tahoe-LAFS</h2>