User visible changes in Tahoe-LAFS. -*- outline; coding: utf-8 -*-
-* Release 1.8.2 (?)
+* Release 1.8.2 (2011-01-30)
** Compatibility and Dependencies
- - Tahoe is now compatible with Twisted-10.2 (released last month). The
- previous Tahoe-1.8.1 release failed to run against Twisted-10.2,
- raising an AttributeError on StreamServerEndpointService (#1286)
+ - Tahoe is now compatible with Twisted-10.2 (released last month), as well
+ as with earlier versions. The previous Tahoe-1.8.1 release failed to run
+ against Twisted-10.2, raising an AttributeError on
+ StreamServerEndpointService (#1286)
- Tahoe now depends upon the "mock" testing library, and the foolscap
dependency was raised to 0.6.1 . It no longer requires pywin32 (which
was used only on windows). Future developers should note that
- tahoe processes should appear in top and ps as "tahoe", not "python",
on some unix platforms. (#174)
- "tahoe debug trial" can be used to run the test suite (#1296)
+ - the SFTP frontend now reports unknown sizes as "0" instead of "?",
+ to improve compatibility with clients like FileZilla (#1337)
+ - "tahoe --version" should now report correct values in situations where
+ 1.8.1 might have been wrong (#1287)
* Release 1.8.1 (2010-10-28)
============
* `Overview`_
-* `Issues in Tahoe-LAFS v1.8.1, released 2010-11-28`
+* `Issues in Tahoe-LAFS v1.8.2, released 2011-01-30`
* `Potential unauthorized access by JavaScript in unrelated files`_
* `Potential disclosure of file through embedded hyperlinks or JavaScript in that file`_
<historical/historical_known_issues.txt>`_.
-Issues in Tahoe-LAFS v1.8.1, released 2010-11-28
+Issues in Tahoe-LAFS v1.8.2, released 2011-01-30
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Potential unauthorized access by JavaScript in unrelated files
-ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.8.1
+ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.8.2
The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce the immediate
-availability of version 1.8.1 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely
+availability of version 1.8.2 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely
reliable distributed storage system. Get it here:
http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/quickstart.html
http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/about.html
-The previous stable release of Tahoe-LAFS was v1.8.0, which was
-released September 23, 2010 [1].
+The previous stable release of Tahoe-LAFS was v1.8.1, which was
+released October 28, 2010 [1].
-v1.8.1 is a stable bugfix release correcting a number of minor
-issues. It also includes a modest performance improvement in
-downloading, and a fix for a security issue involving HTTP
-proxies. See the NEWS file [2] for details.
+v1.8.2 is a stable bugfix release, adding compatibility with
+the recently-released Twisted-10.2, and correcting a number of
+minor issues. See the NEWS file [2] for details.
WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
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 twelfth release in the version 1 series. This
+This is the thirteenth 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
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
-This is the sixth release of Tahoe-LAFS to be created solely
+This is the seventh release of Tahoe-LAFS to be created solely
as a labor of love by volunteers. Thank you very much to the
team of "hackers in the public interest" who make Tahoe-LAFS
possible.
-David-Sarah Hopwood and Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
+Brian Warner
on behalf of the Tahoe-LAFS team
-November 28, 2010
-Rainhill, Merseyside, UK and Boulder, Colorado, USA
+January 30, 2011
+San Francisco, California, USA
-[1] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/relnotes.txt?rev=4747
-[2] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/NEWS?rev=4854
+[1] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/relnotes.txt?rev=4865
+[2] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/NEWS?rev=5000
[3] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/RelatedProjects
[4] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/docs/known_issues.rst
[5] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/COPYING.GPL
[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=4797
+[10] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/CREDITS?rev=5000
[11] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/Dev
[12] http://tahoe-lafs.org/hacktahoelafs/