From e68d392a3625171d36536646b9e08992f47b2789 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian Warner Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:41:15 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] edit NEWS --- NEWS | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7ea8f280..a969ab0e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,39 +2,61 @@ User visible changes in Tahoe. -*- outline -*- * Release 1.XXX (200X-YY-ZZ) -** New WUI Style +** minor improvements -WUI Style! It sounds like an ancient Chinese martial art! Or possibly an -American Hip Hop group! +Uploads of immutable files now use pipelined writes, improving upload speed +slightly (10%) over high-latency connections. (#392) -Slightly faster uploads -http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/392 -??? (This one is not actually here yet.) +The human-facing web interface (aka the "WUI") received a significant CSS +makeover by Kevin Reid, making it much prettier and easier to read. -Port to ARM CPUs and embedded boxes such as NASes. +The 3.5MB limit on mutable files was removed, so it should be possible to +upload arbitrarily-sized mutable files. Note, however, that the data format +and algorithm remains the same, so larger files will suffer from poor speed, +data transfer overhead, memory consumption, and alacrity until "MDMF" mutable +files (#393) are implemented. (#694) -Packaging improvements to make Tahoe's packaging acceptable for inclusion in -Linux distributions like Fedora and Debian. +The WUI "check" and "deep-check" forms now include a "Renew Lease" checkbox, +mirroring the CLI --add-lease option, so leases can be added or renewed from +the web interface. -Remove limit on size of mutable files (but note that there is no efficient -update -- writing a new mutable file requires encoding and uploading the entire -contents of the new version of the file). +** minor bugfixes +A bug in 1.4.1 which caused a server to be listed multiple times (and +frequently broke all connections to that server) was fixed. (#653) -fix quicktest -raise test timeouts -pipeline uploads #392 -test for py2.4.0/py2.4.1 base64.b32decode bug -switch to foolscap-0.4.1 -fix #653 rref-EQ -make wui prettier -minor docs updates -remove plaintext-hashing code from helper interface, #722 -require sqlite3 or pysqlite2, remove --no-backupdb from 'tahoe backup' -remove limit on SDMF size (no performance improvements though) -work on netbsd -add --renew-lease checkbox to WUI +The plaintext-hashing code was removed from the Helper interface, removing +the Helper's ability to mount a partial-information-guessing attack. (#722) +** platform/packaging changes + +Tahoe now runs on NetBSD. + +Unit test timeouts have been raised to allow the tests to complete on +extremely slow platforms like embedded ARM-based NAS boxes. An ARM-specific +data-corrupting bug in an older version of Crypto++ (5.5.2) was identified, +ARM-users are encouraged to use recent Crypto++/pycryptopp which avoids this +problem. + +Tahoe now requires a SQLite library, either the sqlite3 that comes built-in +with python2.5/2.6, or the add-on pysqlite2 if you're using python2.4. In the +previous release, this was only needed for the "tahoe backup" command, now it +is mandatory. + +Several minor documentation updates were made. + +To help get Tahoe into Linux distributions like Fedora and Debian, packaging +improvements are being made in both Tahoe and related libraries like +pycryptopp and zfec. + +** dependency updates + + foolscap-0.4.1 + no python-2.4.0 or 2.4.1 (2.4.2 is good) + (they contained a bug in base64.b32decode) + avoid python-2.6 on windows with mingw, compiler issues + python2.4 requires pysqlite2 (2.5,2.6 does not) + no python-3.x * Release 1.4.1 (2009-04-13) -- 2.45.2