From: Brian Warner Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 01:59:45 +0000 (-0800) Subject: update docs for the 1.8.2 release X-Git-Tag: trac-5000 X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/quickstart.html?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7a4f76fd90018447eaefc56f5e914ed795db7be2;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git update docs for the 1.8.2 release --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 144a5fe9..03962442 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,12 +1,13 @@ 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 @@ -22,6 +23,10 @@ User visible changes in Tahoe-LAFS. -*- outline; coding: utf-8 -*- - 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) diff --git a/docs/known_issues.rst b/docs/known_issues.rst index 881f857c..27b466ee 100644 --- a/docs/known_issues.rst +++ b/docs/known_issues.rst @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Known Issues ============ * `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`_ @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ want to read `the "historical known issues" document `_. -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 diff --git a/docs/quickstart.html b/docs/quickstart.html index 50702918..781eed5f 100644 --- a/docs/quickstart.html +++ b/docs/quickstart.html @@ -49,9 +49,9 @@

Get Tahoe-LAFS

-

Download the latest stable release, v1.8.1:

+

Download the latest stable release, v1.8.2:

http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/releases/allmydata-tahoe-1.8.1.zip
+ href="http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/releases/allmydata-tahoe-1.8.2.zip">http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/releases/allmydata-tahoe-1.8.2.zip

Set Up Tahoe-LAFS

diff --git a/relnotes.txt b/relnotes.txt index b3d73cb3..f4994471 100644 --- a/relnotes.txt +++ b/relnotes.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -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 @@ -14,13 +14,12 @@ unique security and fault-tolerance properties: 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? @@ -62,7 +61,7 @@ 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 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 @@ -133,20 +132,20 @@ Of Fame" [12]. 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 @@ -154,6 +153,6 @@ 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=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/