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).
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)