docs: beginning of update to relnotes.txt for v0.8

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@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
     <p>You may use this package under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or, at your option, any later version.  See the file <a href="../COPYING.GPL">COPYING.GPL</a> for the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2.</p>
     <p>You may use this package under the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence, version 1.0, or, at your option, any later version.  The Transitive Grace Period Public Licence says that you may distribute proprietary derived works of Tahoe without releasing the source code of that derived work for up to twelve months, after which time you are obligated to release the source code of the derived work under the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence.  See the file <a href="../COPYING.TGPPL.html">COPYING.TGPPL.html</a> for the terms of the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence, version 1.0.</p>
     <p>(You may choose to use this package under the terms of either licence, at your option.)</p>
+    <p>If you would like to inquire about a commercial relationship with Allmydata, Inc., please contact <a href="mailto:partnerships@allmydata.com">partnerships@allmydata.com</a> and visit <a href="http://allmydata.com">http://allmydata.com</a>.
     
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diff --git a/relnotes.txt b/relnotes.txt
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--- a/relnotes.txt
+++ b/relnotes.txt
@@ -1,28 +1,57 @@
-ANNOUNCING: Allmydata-Tahoe version 0.7
+ANNOUNCING: Allmydata-Tahoe version 0.8
 
-We are pleased to announce the release of version 0.7 of allmydata.org
+We are pleased to announce the release of version 0.8 of allmydata.org
 "Tahoe".
 
-Tahoe is a secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant filesystem.  All of
-the source code is available under a Free Software, Open Source
-licence (or two).
+Allmydata.org "Tahoe" is a secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant
+filesystem.  All of the source code is available under a Free
+Software, Open Source licence (or two).
 
 This filesystem is encrypted and distributed over multiple peers in
 such a way that it continues to work correctlly even when some of the
 peers are unavailable, malfunctioning, or malicious.
 
-This is the successor to Allmydata-Tahoe v0.6.1, which was released
-October 15, 2007 [1].
+This is the successor to Allmydata-Tahoe v0.7, which was released
+January 8, 2008 [1].
 
-This release adds decentralized, encrypted directories and mutable
-files, making it the first release of Tahoe in which no part of the
-filesystem is centralized.  It also adds a FUSE interface, allowing
-you to access a distributed Tahoe grid as if it were a normal local
-filesystem.
+This release improves performance, diagnostics, and packaging.  This
+release of allmydata.org "Tahoe" will form the basis of the next
+consumer backup product from Allmydata, Inc. -- http://allmydata.com .
 
-This is also the first release to be offered under a novel open source
-licence which allows people to redistributed proprietary derivatives
-of Tahoe for a limited time.
+
+Since v0.7 we've made the following changes:
+
+ * Add an upload/download helper, with resumption and short-circuiting
+   of upload if the file is already uploaded (tickets #116, #258,
+   #218).
+
+ * Add a preliminary Microsoft Windows package (ticket #195).
+
+ * Add a preliminary Macintosh package (ticket #182).
+
+ * Display information about peers (ticket #32).
+
+ * Display information about uploads and downloads (ticket #39).
+
+ * Add unit tests and docs for contrib/fuse.
+
+ * Update docs, starting with docs/about.html --
+   http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/about.html .
+
+ * Improve logging, diagnostic tools, statistics, timing of upload
+   performance, etc..
+
+ * Make upload continue even if some servers disappear during the
+   upload process.
+
+ * Make introduction more efficient by allowing nodes to act as
+   clients-only and not publish themselves as servers (ticket #271).
+
+ * Extend the web API to allow programmatic control of mutable files.
+
+ * Fix potential problem that could cause corruption of downloaded
+   mutable files if a long series of unlikely coincidences and hacked
+   clients occurred (ticket #312).
 
 
 WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
@@ -102,7 +131,7 @@ January 7, 2008
 San Francisco, California
 
 
-[1] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/relnotes.txt?rev=1346
+[1] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/relnotes.txt?rev=1805
 [2] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/Security
 [3] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/UseCases
 [4] http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/install.html