From: Zooko O'Whielacronx Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:14:46 +0000 (-0700) Subject: docs: update NEWS a bit about New-Downloader X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/listings/vdrive?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e2010f9890b8e254e2b80a9e3646b5127c72c604;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git docs: update NEWS a bit about New-Downloader --- diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS index f9c6158b..c4e27576 100644 --- a/CREDITS +++ b/CREDITS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@  This is at least a partial credits-file of people that have contributed to -the Tahoe project. It is formatted to allow easy grepping and +the Tahoe-LAFS project. It is formatted to allow easy grepping and beautification by scripts. The fields are: name (N), email (E), web-address (W), PGP key ID and fingerprint (P), description (D), and snail-mail address (S). diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e92d0abd..03a72002 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -9,9 +9,12 @@ to alternate servers if servers fail in mid-download. It allows seeking to arbitrary locations in the file, unlike the old downloader which 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) + from the beginning. It minimizes unnecessary round trips and + unnecessary bytes transferred to improve performance. It sends + requests to fewer servers (the old one would send a request to + every server for every download) (#287, #288, #448, #798, #800, + #990) + - 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)