From: Brian Warner Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:35:29 +0000 (-0700) Subject: NEWS: tidy up a little bit, reprioritize some items, hide some non-user-visible items X-Git-Tag: allmydata-tahoe-1.9.0a2~1 X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/pf/content/en/service/using.html?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ef7b3c496b67c5c7c05d2566b45db220535b656d;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git NEWS: tidy up a little bit, reprioritize some items, hide some non-user-visible items --- diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 30aead7a..6367d57b 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -12,21 +12,22 @@ Alpha 2 preview New Features '''''''''''' -- The most significant new feature in this release is MDMF, which stands - for "Medium Density Mutable Files". These are capable of providing more - efficient access and update of parts of a file. To ensure compatibility - with previous versions, MDMF is not yet the default format for mutable - files. Memory usage of a gateway when uploading and downloading MDMF - files may be higher than expected in this release. (`#393`_, `#1507`_) +- The most significant new feature in this release is MDMF: "Medium-size + Distributed Mutable Files". Unlike standard SDMF files, these provide + efficient partial-access (reading and modifying small portions of the file + instead of the whole thing). MDMF is opt-in (it is not yet the default + format for mutable files), both to ensure compatibility with previous + versions, and because the algorithm does not yet meet memory-usage goals. + (`#393`_, `#1507`_) +- A "blacklist" feature allows blocking access to specific files through + a particular gateway. See the "Access Blacklist" section of + ``_ for more details. (`#1425`_) - A "drop-upload" feature has been added, which allows you to upload files to a Tahoe-LAFS directory just by writing them to a local directory. This feature is experimental and should not be relied on to store the only copy of valuable data. It is currently available only on Linux. See ``_ for documentation. (`#1429`_) -- A "blacklist" feature allows blocking access to specific files through - a particular gateway. See the "Access Blacklist" section of - ``_ for more details. (`#1425`_) - The timeline of immutable downloads can be viewed using a zoomable and pannable JavaScript-based visualization. This is accessed using the 'timeline' link on the File Download Status page for the download, which @@ -38,12 +39,12 @@ Configuration/Behavior Changes - Prior to Tahoe-LAFS v1.3, the configuration of some node options could be specified using individual config files rather than via ``tahoe.cfg``. These files now cause an error if present. (`#1385`_) -- Storage servers now calculate their remaining space based on the - filesystem containing the storage/shares/ directory. Previously they - looked at the filesystem containing the storage/ directory. This allows - storage/shares/, rather than storage/, to be a mount point or a symlink - pointing to another filesystem. (`#1384`_) -- 'tahoe cp xyz MUTABLE' will modify the existing mutable file instead of +- Storage servers now calculate their remaining space based on the filesystem + containing the ``storage/shares/`` directory. Previously they looked at the + filesystem containing the ``storage/`` directory. This allows + ``storage/shares/``, rather than ``storage/``, to be a mount point or a + symlink pointing to another filesystem. (`#1384`_) +- ``tahoe cp xyz MUTABLE`` will modify the existing mutable file instead of creating a new one. (`#1304`_) - The button for unlinking a file from its directory on a WUI directory listing is now labelled "unlink" rather than "del". (`#1104`_) @@ -54,12 +55,12 @@ Notable Bugfixes - The security bugfix for the vulnerability allowing deletion of shares, detailed in the news for v1.8.3 below, is also included in this release. (`#1528`_) -- Some cases of immutable upload, for example using the 'tahoe put' and - 'tahoe cp' commands or SFTP, did not appear in the history of Recent +- Some cases of immutable upload, for example using the ``tahoe put`` and + ``tahoe cp`` commands or SFTP, did not appear in the history of Recent Uploads and Downloads. (`#1079`_) - The memory footprint of the verifier has been reduced by serializing block fetches. (`#1395`_) -- Large immutable downloads are now a little faster than in v1.8.2 (about +- Large immutable downloads are now a little faster than in v1.8.3 (about 5% on a fast network). (`#1268`_) Packaging Changes @@ -69,11 +70,12 @@ Packaging Changes source tree, since they are now maintained as part of the official Debian packages. (`#1454`_) - The unmaintained FUSE plugins were removed from the source tree. See - docs/frontends/FTP-and-SFTP.rst for how to mount a Tahoe filesystem on + ``docs/frontends/FTP-and-SFTP.rst`` for how to mount a Tahoe filesystem on Unix via sshfs. (`#1409`_) - The Tahoe licenses now give explicit permission to combine Tahoe-LAFS with code distributed under the following additional open-source licenses (any version of each): + * Academic Free License * Apple Public Source License * BitTorrent Open Source License @@ -88,33 +90,27 @@ Packaging Changes Compatibility and Dependencies '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' -- An incompatibility of zope.interface versions 3.6.4 and 3.6.5 with Nevow - has been resolved. Tahoe-LAFS now requires an earlier or later version - of zope.interface. (`#1435`_) -- The Twisted dependency has been raised to version 10.1. This ensures - that we no longer require pywin32 on Windows, that the new drop-upload - feature has the required support from Twisted on Linux, and that it is - never necessary to patch Twisted in order to use the FTP frontend. - (`#1274`_, `#1429`_, `#1438`_) +- To resolve an incompatibility between Nevow and zope.interface (versions + 3.6.3 and 3.6.4), Tahoe-LAFS now requires an earlier or later + version of zope.interface. (`#1435`_) +- The Twisted dependency has been raised to version 10.1 to ensure we no + longer require pywin32 on Windows, the new drop-upload feature has the + required support from Twisted on Linux, and that it is never necessary to + patch Twisted in order to use the FTP frontend. (`#1274`_, `#1429`_, + `#1438`_) - An explicit dependency on pyOpenSSL has been added, replacing the indirect dependency via the "secure_connections" option of foolscap. (`#1383`_) Minor Changes ''''''''''''' -- When the '--version' or '--version-and-path' options to 'tahoe' were - used and the version of a dependency could not be parsed, an unhelpful - error message would be given. (`#1355`_, `#1388`_) -- The tahoe_files munin plugin reported an incorrect count of the number of - share files. (`#1391`_) -- A ``man`` page has been added. (`#1420`_) -- Nodes now emit "None" for percentiles with higher implied precision - than the number of observations can support. Older stats gatherers - will throw an exception if they gather stats from a new storage server - and it sends a "None" for a percentile. (`#1392`_) +- A ``man`` page has been added (`#1420`_). All other docs are in ReST + format. +- The ``tahoe_files`` munin plugin reported an incorrect count of the number + of share files. (`#1391`_) - Minor documentation updates: #627, #1104, #1225, #1297, #1342, #1404 -- Other minor changes: #636, #1366, #1412, #1344, #1347, #1359, #1389, #1441, - #1474, #1503, #1507 +- Other minor changes: #636, #1355, #1363, #1366, #1388, #1392, #1412, #1344, + #1347, #1359, #1389, #1441, #1442, #1446, #1474, #1503 .. _`#393`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/393 .. _`#1079`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1079