NEW VERSION RELEASED
-We are pleased to announce the release of version 0.3.0 of Allmydata-Tahoe, a
+We are pleased to announce the release of version 0.4 of Allmydata-Tahoe, a
secure, decentralized storage grid under a free-software licence. This is
-the follow-up to v0.2 which was released May 2, 2007 (see [1]).
+the follow-up to v0.3 which was released June 6, 2007 (see [1]).
Since then we've made several improvements, including:
- * fix IP address configuration so that you can run a node behind a firewall
- or NAT box (ticket #22)
+ * Add encrypted, mutable directories, so that you can organize your files
+ into directories, change the contents of directories, and share your
+ directories with your friends, without thereby sharing your directories
+ with anyone else -- not even with the owners of the servers that host
+ your directories.
- * better packaging, build process, command-line, documentation (tickets #8,
- #21, #23, #35, #46, #51)
+ * make it so that web browsers can connect to the Tahoe node securely with
+ https (ticket #55)
- * handle the loss of peers during the upload process by uploading to the
- remaining peers (ticket #17)
- * display size of files (ticket #37) (thanks to Faried Nawaz)
+For complete details, see this web page which shows all ticket changes,
+repository checkins, and wiki changes from June 11 to today, June 29: [2].
- * private storage -- upload a file without publishing its decryption key
- (ticket #33) (thanks to Faried Nawaz)
-
- * add Merkle-Tree authentication on ciphertext and on plaintext (ticket #64)
-
- * enable SSL encryption on the connection between web browser and node
- (ticket #55)
-
- * improved unit tests including memory-usage tests
-
- * faster unit tests (ticket #20)
-
- * upgrade to a newer version of Foolscap, the remote object protocol
-
-
-For complete details (there are other improvements that are not in the above
-list), see this web page which shows all ticket changes, repository checkins,
-and wiki changes from May 3 to today: [2].
-
-Allmydata-Tahoe v0.3 is incompatible with v0.2 due to the new Merkle-Tree
-authentication among other things.
+Allmydata-Tahoe v0.4 is incompatible with v0.3 due to the new encrypted
+directory structure, among other things. (Note that this applies only to
+directories -- individual files uploaded with v0.3 are probably downloadable
+with v0.4.)
WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
next-generation, free-software project). We are eternally grateful!
-Zooko O'Whielacronx
+Zooko O'Whielacronx and Brian Warner
on behalf of the Allmydata-Tahoe team
-June 11, 2007
-San Francisco
+June 29, 2007
+Boulder, Colorado and San Francisco, California
-[1] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/relnotes.txt?rev=686
-[2] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/timeline?from=06%2F11%2F2007&daysback=39&changeset=on&milestone=on&ticket=on&wiki=on&update=Update
+[1] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/relnotes.txt?rev=790
+[2] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/timeline?from=2007-06-29&daysback=17&changeset=on&ticket=on&wiki=on&update=Update
[3] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/UseCases
-[4] http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/tahoe-0.3.tar.gz
-[5] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/README?rev=748
+[4] http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/tahoe-0.4.tar.gz
+[5] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/README?rev=844
[6] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/roadmap.txt
[7] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
[8] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe