From: Zooko O'Whielacronx Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:13:03 +0000 (-0700) Subject: docs: NEWS: more detail about new-downloader X-Git-Tag: trac-4700~3 X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/copyable.html?a=commitdiff_plain;h=481b0d75c4c44413f9068bbf42e2df8c2ba25ea6;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git docs: NEWS: more detail about new-downloader --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a67c1eca..da6f5ea7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -6,9 +6,12 @@ - A completely new downloader which improves performance and robustness of immutable-file downloads. It automatically fails over - to alternate servers if the ones it is using fail in mid-download. - It also minimizes unnecessary round trips and unnecessary bytes - transferred to improve performance. (#798, #800, #990) + to alternate servers if the ones it is using fail in + mid-download. It allows seeking to arbitrary locations in the file, + where the old downloader only allowed reading the entire file + sequentially from the beginning. It also minimizes unnecessary + round trips and unnecessary bytes transferred to improve + performance. (#287, #288, #798, #800, #990, #1160, #1162) - 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)