-User visible changes in Tahoe-LAFS. -*- outline; coding: utf-8 -*-
+User visible changes in Tahoe-LAFS. -*- outline; coding: utf-8 -*-
-* Release 1.8.0β2 (2010-08-06)
-
-** Bugfixes
-
- - Fix an incompatibility of release 1.8.0β with node directories
- created by other Tahoe-LAFS versions. (#1159)
- - Partial GET requests using the Range header were not handled
- correctly by the new downloader. (#1154)
- - Restore compatibility of test suite with Python 2.4.x.
-
-* Release 1.8.0β (2010-08-02)
-
-Note: the 1.8.0β release should not be used, because node directories
-that it creates (using 'tahoe create-*' commands) will not work with
-other releases, and vice-versa.
+* Release 1.8.0 (?)
** 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 in
- mid-download. It also minimizes unnecessary round trips and
- unnecessary bytes transferred to improve performance. (#798, #800,
- #990)
+ 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)
- 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)
-<!DOCtype HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+<!DOCtype HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Getting Tahoe-LAFS</title>
<pre><a
href="http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/releases/allmydata-tahoe-1.7.1.zip">http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/releases/allmydata-tahoe-1.7.1.zip</a></pre>
- <p>or the latest beta release, v1.8.0β2:</p>
+ <p>or the latest release candidate, v1.8.0rc1:</p>
<pre><a
- href="http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/releases/allmydata-tahoe-1.8.0b2.zip">http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/releases/allmydata-tahoe-1.8.0b2.zip</a></pre>
+ href="http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/releases/allmydata-tahoe-1.8.0rc1.zip">http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/releases/allmydata-tahoe-1.8.0rc1.zip</a></pre>
<h2>Set Up Tahoe-LAFS</h2>
-ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.8.0β2
+ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.8.0rc1
The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce the immediate
-availability of version 1.8.0β2 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely
+availability of version 1.8.0rc1 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely
reliable distributed storage system.
Tahoe-LAFS is the first distributed storage system which
The current stable release of Tahoe-LAFS is v1.7.1, which was
released July 18, 2010 [1].
-v1.8.0β2 is the second beta release of major new improvements,
-including fast and fault-tolerant downloads and better Windows
-support. See the NEWS file [2] for details. It corrects regressions
-in compatibility with other versions, and in downloads using the
-Range header, that were introduced in v1.8.0β. If no further
-regressions or critical bugs are discovered, we will release a
-functionally identical v1.8.0 final version on approximately
-August 15, 2010.
+v1.8.0rc1 is leading up to the v1.8.0 release of major new
+improvements, including fast and fault-tolerant downloads and
+better Windows support. See the NEWS file [2] for details. It
+corrects regressions in compatibility with other versions, and
+in downloads using the Range header, that were introduced in
+v1.8.0β. If no further regressions or critical bugs are
+discovered, we will release a functionally identical v1.8.0
+final version on approximately August 15, 2010.
WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?