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 User visible changes in Tahoe-LAFS.  -*- outline; coding: utf-8 -*-
 
-* Release 1.8.0α (2010-07-31)
+* Release 1.8.0β (2010-08-02)
+
+** New Features
+
+ - 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)
 
 ** Bugfixes and Improvements
 
  - 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
 
 * Release 1.7.1 (2010-07-18)