From: Brian Warner Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 08:02:28 +0000 (-0700) Subject: update NEWS and other docs in preparation for 1.8.0rc1 X-Git-Tag: allmydata-tahoe-1.8.0rc1~1 X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/specifications/%5B/%5D%20/uri?a=commitdiff_plain;h=25bee8ade6519f0835dd11a61627b522ff4548b4;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git update NEWS and other docs in preparation for 1.8.0rc1 in particular, merge the various 1.8.0b1/b2 sections, and remove the datestamp. NEWS gets updated just before a release, doesn't need to precisely describe pre-release candidates, and the datestamp gets updated just before the final release is tagged Also, I removed the BOM from some files. My toolchain made it hard to retain, and BOMs in UTF-8 don't make a whole lot of sense anyway. Sorry if that messes anything up. --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 050e79c0..56ec0c4e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,29 +1,14 @@ -User visible changes in Tahoe-LAFS. -*- outline; coding: utf-8 -*- +User visible changes in Tahoe-LAFS. -*- outline; coding: utf-8 -*- -* Release 1.8.0β2 (2010-08-06) - -** Bugfixes - - - Fix an incompatibility of release 1.8.0β with node directories - created by other Tahoe-LAFS versions. (#1159) - - Partial GET requests using the Range header were not handled - correctly by the new downloader. (#1154) - - Restore compatibility of test suite with Python 2.4.x. - -* Release 1.8.0β (2010-08-02) - -Note: the 1.8.0β release should not be used, because node directories -that it creates (using 'tahoe create-*' commands) will not work with -other releases, and vice-versa. +* Release 1.8.0 (?) ** New Features - A completely new downloader which improves performance and - robustness of downloads. It automatically fails over to alternate - servers if the servers that it is using fail or become too slow in - mid-download. It also minimizes unnecessary round trips and - unnecessary bytes transferred to improve performance. (#798, #800, - #990) + robustness of immutable-file downloads. It automatically fails over + to alternate servers if the ones it is using fail in mid-download. + It also minimizes unnecessary round trips and unnecessary bytes + transferred to improve performance. (#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) diff --git a/docs/quickstart.html b/docs/quickstart.html index b82faf9e..e39df253 100644 --- a/docs/quickstart.html +++ b/docs/quickstart.html @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - + Getting Tahoe-LAFS @@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ 
http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/releases/allmydata-tahoe-1.7.1.zip
-

or the latest beta release, v1.8.0β2:

+

or the latest release candidate, v1.8.0rc1:

http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/releases/allmydata-tahoe-1.8.0b2.zip
+ href="http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/releases/allmydata-tahoe-1.8.0rc1.zip">http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/releases/allmydata-tahoe-1.8.0rc1.zip

Set Up Tahoe-LAFS

diff --git a/relnotes.txt b/relnotes.txt index 97efdf91..0635aa01 100644 --- a/relnotes.txt +++ b/relnotes.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.8.0β2 +ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.8.0rc1 The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce the immediate -availability of version 1.8.0β2 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely +availability of version 1.8.0rc1 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely reliable distributed storage system. Tahoe-LAFS is the first distributed storage system which @@ -15,14 +15,14 @@ http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/about.html The current stable release of Tahoe-LAFS is v1.7.1, which was released July 18, 2010 [1]. -v1.8.0β2 is the second beta release of major new improvements, -including fast and fault-tolerant downloads and better Windows -support. See the NEWS file [2] for details. It corrects regressions -in compatibility with other versions, and in downloads using the -Range header, that were introduced in v1.8.0β. If no further -regressions or critical bugs are discovered, we will release a -functionally identical v1.8.0 final version on approximately -August 15, 2010. +v1.8.0rc1 is leading up to the v1.8.0 release of major new +improvements, including fast and fault-tolerant downloads and +better Windows support. See the NEWS file [2] for details. It +corrects regressions in compatibility with other versions, and +in downloads using the Range header, that were introduced in +v1.8.0β. If no further regressions or critical bugs are +discovered, we will release a functionally identical v1.8.0 +final version on approximately August 15, 2010. WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?