From: Zooko O'Whielacronx Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:58:05 +0000 (-0700) Subject: relnotes.txt update for v0.4 release X-Git-Tag: allmydata-tahoe-0.4.0~3 X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/components/%22news.html//%22?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0971d67bdffbc194a69865ef9927d5f07714df78;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git relnotes.txt update for v0.4 release --- diff --git a/relnotes.txt b/relnotes.txt index 27cb4294..87f00ac4 100644 --- a/relnotes.txt +++ b/relnotes.txt @@ -1,43 +1,28 @@ NEW VERSION RELEASED -We are pleased to announce the release of version 0.3.0 of Allmydata-Tahoe, a +We are pleased to announce the release of version 0.4 of Allmydata-Tahoe, a secure, decentralized storage grid under a free-software licence. This is -the follow-up to v0.2 which was released May 2, 2007 (see [1]). +the follow-up to v0.3 which was released June 6, 2007 (see [1]). Since then we've made several improvements, including: - * fix IP address configuration so that you can run a node behind a firewall - or NAT box (ticket #22) + * Add encrypted, mutable directories, so that you can organize your files + into directories, change the contents of directories, and share your + directories with your friends, without thereby sharing your directories + with anyone else -- not even with the owners of the servers that host + your directories. - * better packaging, build process, command-line, documentation (tickets #8, - #21, #23, #35, #46, #51) + * make it so that web browsers can connect to the Tahoe node securely with + https (ticket #55) - * handle the loss of peers during the upload process by uploading to the - remaining peers (ticket #17) - * display size of files (ticket #37) (thanks to Faried Nawaz) +For complete details, see this web page which shows all ticket changes, +repository checkins, and wiki changes from June 11 to today, June 29: [2]. - * private storage -- upload a file without publishing its decryption key - (ticket #33) (thanks to Faried Nawaz) - - * add Merkle-Tree authentication on ciphertext and on plaintext (ticket #64) - - * enable SSL encryption on the connection between web browser and node - (ticket #55) - - * improved unit tests including memory-usage tests - - * faster unit tests (ticket #20) - - * upgrade to a newer version of Foolscap, the remote object protocol - - -For complete details (there are other improvements that are not in the above -list), see this web page which shows all ticket changes, repository checkins, -and wiki changes from May 3 to today: [2]. - -Allmydata-Tahoe v0.3 is incompatible with v0.2 due to the new Merkle-Tree -authentication among other things. +Allmydata-Tahoe v0.4 is incompatible with v0.3 due to the new encrypted +directory structure, among other things. (Note that this applies only to +directories -- individual files uploaded with v0.3 are probably downloadable +with v0.4.) WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? @@ -160,17 +145,17 @@ hackers and allowing them to spend part of their work time on the next-generation, free-software project). We are eternally grateful! -Zooko O'Whielacronx +Zooko O'Whielacronx and Brian Warner on behalf of the Allmydata-Tahoe team -June 11, 2007 -San Francisco +June 29, 2007 +Boulder, Colorado and San Francisco, California -[1] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/relnotes.txt?rev=686 -[2] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/timeline?from=06%2F11%2F2007&daysback=39&changeset=on&milestone=on&ticket=on&wiki=on&update=Update +[1] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/relnotes.txt?rev=790 +[2] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/timeline?from=2007-06-29&daysback=17&changeset=on&ticket=on&wiki=on&update=Update [3] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/UseCases -[4] http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/tahoe-0.3.tar.gz -[5] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/README?rev=748 +[4] http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/tahoe-0.4.tar.gz +[5] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/README?rev=844 [6] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/roadmap.txt [7] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev [8] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe