From: Zooko O'Whielacronx Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 15:49:13 +0000 (-0700) Subject: docs: relnotes.txt for 1.8.0β X-Git-Tag: allmydata-tahoe-1.8.0b2~30 X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/pf/content/%22news.html/%22doc.html/provisioning?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3dfc5927fad7e8b4caa133ebe7eaeabdf2b51fb6;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git docs: relnotes.txt for 1.8.0β --- diff --git a/relnotes.txt b/relnotes.txt index 2ffae77d..9c2b6de1 100644 --- a/relnotes.txt +++ b/relnotes.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.7.1 +ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.8.0β The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce the immediate -availability of version 1.7.1 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely +availability of version 1.8.0β of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely reliable distributed storage system. Tahoe-LAFS is the first distributed storage system which @@ -12,13 +12,14 @@ its unique security and fault-tolerance properties: http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/about.html -Tahoe-LAFS v1.7.1 is the successor to v1.7.0, which was -released June 18, 2010 [1]. +The current stable release of Tahoe-LAFS is v1.7.1, which was +released July 18, 2010 [1]. -v1.7.1 is a stable minor release which adds several bugfixes -and improvements in security, forward-compatibility, -packaging, usability, and portability. See the NEWS file [2] -for details. +v1.8.0β is the beta release of major new improvements, including fast +and fault-tolerant downloads and better Windows support. See the NEWS +file [2] for details. If no regressions or critical bugs are +discovered in this 1.8.0β version then we will release a functionally +identical 1.8.0 final version on approximately August 15, 2010. WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? @@ -62,11 +63,11 @@ all versions since v1.0. Servers from this release can serve clients of all versions back to v1.0 and clients from this release can use servers of all versions back to v1.0. -This is the tenth release in the version 1 series. This series -of Tahoe-LAFS will be actively supported and maintained for -the forseeable future, and future versions of Tahoe-LAFS will -retain the ability to read and write files compatible with -this series. +This is the eleventh release in the version 1 series. This +series of Tahoe-LAFS will be actively supported and maintained +for the forseeable future, and future versions of Tahoe-LAFS +will retain the ability to read and write files compatible +with this series. LICENCE @@ -142,12 +143,12 @@ possible. David-Sarah Hopwood and Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn on behalf of the Tahoe-LAFS team -July 18, 2010 +August 3, 2010 Rainhill, Merseyside, UK and Boulder, Colorado, USA -[1] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/relnotes.txt?rev=4514 -[2] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/NEWS?rev=4577 +[1] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/relnotes.txt?rev=4579 +[2] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/NEWS?rev=4636 [3] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/RelatedProjects [4] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/docs/known_issues.txt [5] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/COPYING.GPL @@ -155,6 +156,6 @@ Rainhill, Merseyside, UK and Boulder, Colorado, USA [7] http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/quickstart.html [8] http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev [9] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/roadmap -[10] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/CREDITS?rev=4567 +[10] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/CREDITS?rev=4591 [11] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/Dev [12] http://tahoe-lafs.org/hacktahoelafs/