From: Zooko O'Whielacronx Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 04:46:18 +0000 (-0700) Subject: docs: more updates to NEWS for 1.8.0β X-Git-Tag: allmydata-tahoe-1.8.0b2~40 X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/components/com_hotproperty/index.php?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0ae556c00ac79d4f833ec4f440ef32e1cb44ddf2;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git docs: more updates to NEWS for 1.8.0β --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 93953657..f29cdabc 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -6,19 +6,23 @@ - A completely new downloader which improves performance and robustness of downloads. It automatically fails over to alternate - servers if the servers that it is using fail or become too slow. It - also minimizes unnecessary round trips and unnecessary bytes - transferred to improve performance. (#798, #800, #990) -XXX any other tickets? #809, #287, #447? - - The command-line now works on 64-bit Windows and now handles - non-ASCII command-line arguments and non-ASCII outputs on all - versions of Windows. (#1074) + servers if the servers that it is using fail or become too slow in + mid-download. It also minimizes unnecessary round trips and + unnecessary bytes transferred to improve performance. (#798, #800, + #990) XXX any other tickets? #809, #287, #447? + - Non-ASCII command-line arguments and non-ASCII outputs now work on + Windows. In addition, the command-line tool now works on 64-bit + Windows. (#1074) ** Bugfixes and Improvements + - Document and clean up the command-line options for specifying the + node's base directory. (#188, #706, #715, #772, #890) - Fix bug in WUI in Python 2.5 when the system clock is set back to - 1969. (#1055) - - Many internal improvements in code organization, tests, logging, etc. (#1074, #1121 XXX YYY + 1969. Now you can use Tahoe-LAFS with Python 2.5 and set your + system clock to 1969 and still use the WUI. (#1055) + - Many improvements in code organization, tests, logging, and + packaging. (#1074, #1108, #1127, #1129, #1131) * Release 1.7.1 (2010-07-18)