From: Brian Warner Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:56:29 +0000 (-0700) Subject: NEWS: improve highlighting X-Git-Tag: allmydata-tahoe-1.10.0c1~3 X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/vdrive/%22news.html/module-simplejson-index.html?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6581bf40ae3c2d507cde4d67ff807064e74ec7c6;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git NEWS: improve highlighting It looks like github's ReST renderer shows ''' with more emphasis than ---, so use ''' for release names, and --- for groups of changes within a given release. --- diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index 49fc7679..1553165a 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -3,9 +3,10 @@ User-Visible Changes in Tahoe-LAFS ================================== Release 1.10 (2013-??-??) +''''''''''''''''''''''''' New Features -'''''''''''' +------------ - The Welcome page has been redesigned. This is a preview of the design style that is likely to be used in other parts of the WUI in future Tahoe-LAFS @@ -19,7 +20,7 @@ New Features files between directories. (`#1579`_) Security Improvements -''''''''''''''''''''' +--------------------- - The ``introducer.furl`` for new Introducers is now unguessable. In previous releases, this FURL used a predictable swissnum, allowing a network @@ -39,14 +40,14 @@ Security Improvements guessable FURL is in use. (`#860`_) Command-line Syntax Changes -''''''''''''''''''''''''''' +--------------------------- - Global options to ``tahoe``, such as ``-d``/``--node-directory``, must now come before rather than after the command name (for example, ``tahoe -d BASEDIR cp -r foo: bar:`` ). (`#166`_) Notable Bugfixes -'''''''''''''''' +---------------- - If an immutable file failed to download, e.g. due to a connection problem, subsequent attempts to download the same file could also fail. (`#1679`_) @@ -69,19 +70,19 @@ Notable Bugfixes - Other minor changes: `#1781`_, `#1812`_ Performance Improvements -'''''''''''''''''''''''' +------------------------ - Allow web clients to cache immutable directory pages. (`#443`_) Documentation -''''''''''''' +------------- - docs/helper.rst has been brought up to date. (`#1915`_) - docs/convergence_secret.rst was added to document the adminstration of convergence secrets. (`#1761`_) Packaging Changes -''''''''''''''''' +----------------- - The flogtool utility, used to read logs, can now be accessed as ``tahoe debug flogtool`` even when foolscap is not installed system-wide. @@ -92,7 +93,7 @@ Packaging Changes them. Compatibility and Dependencies -'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' +------------------------------ - Python >= 2.6, except Python 3 (`#1658`_) - Twisted >= 11.0.0 (`#1771`_) @@ -100,7 +101,7 @@ Compatibility and Dependencies - pycryptopp >= 0.6.0 (for ed25519) Precautions when Upgrading -'''''''''''''''''''''''''' +-------------------------- - When upgrading a grid from a recent version of trunk, follow the precautions from this `message to the tahoe-dev mailing list`_, to ensure @@ -139,10 +140,10 @@ Precautions when Upgrading https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2013-March/008096.html Release 1.9.2 (2012-07-03) --------------------------- +'''''''''''''''''''''''''' Notable Bugfixes -'''''''''''''''' +---------------- - Several regressions in support for reading (`#1636`_), writing/modifying (`#1670`_, `#1749`_), verifying (`#1628`_) and repairing (`#1655`_, `#1669`_, @@ -160,7 +161,7 @@ Notable Bugfixes computed correctly. (`#1115`_) Configuration/Behavior Changes -'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' +------------------------------ - The capability of the upload directory for the drop-upload frontend is now specified in the file ``private/drop_upload_dircap`` under @@ -168,13 +169,13 @@ Configuration/Behavior Changes (`#1593`_) Packaging Changes -''''''''''''''''' +----------------- - Tahoe-LAFS can be built correctly from a git repository as well as from darcs. Compatibility and Dependencies -'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' +------------------------------ - foolscap >= 0.6.3 is required, in order to make Tahoe-LAFS compatible with Twisted >= 11.1.0. (`#1788`_) @@ -200,10 +201,10 @@ Compatibility and Dependencies Release 1.9.1 (2012-01-12) --------------------------- +'''''''''''''''''''''''''' Security-related Bugfix -''''''''''''''''''''''' +----------------------- - Fix flaw that would allow servers to cause undetected corruption when retrieving the contents of mutable files (both SDMF and MDMF). (`#1654`_) @@ -212,10 +213,10 @@ Security-related Bugfix Release 1.9.0 (2011-10-30) --------------------------- +'''''''''''''''''''''''''' New Features -'''''''''''' +------------ - The most significant new feature in this release is MDMF: "Medium-size Distributed Mutable Files". Unlike standard SDMF files, these provide @@ -241,7 +242,7 @@ New Features can be reached from the Recent Uploads and Downloads page. 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``. @@ -257,7 +258,7 @@ Configuration/Behavior Changes listing is now labelled "unlink" rather than "del". (`#1104`_) 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 @@ -271,7 +272,7 @@ Notable Bugfixes 5% on a fast network). (`#1268`_) Packaging Changes -''''''''''''''''' +----------------- - The files related to Debian packaging have been removed from the Tahoe source tree, since they are now maintained as part of the official @@ -295,7 +296,7 @@ Packaging Changes * Open Software License Compatibility and Dependencies -'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' +------------------------------ - 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 @@ -309,7 +310,7 @@ Compatibility and Dependencies dependency via the "secure_connections" option of foolscap. (`#1383`_) Minor Changes -''''''''''''' +------------- - A ``man`` page has been added (`#1420`_). All other docs are in ReST format. @@ -341,10 +342,10 @@ Minor Changes Release 1.8.3 (2011-09-13) --------------------------- +'''''''''''''''''''''''''' Security-related Bugfix -''''''''''''''''''''''' +----------------------- - Fix flaw that would allow a person who knows a storage index of a file to delete shares of that file. (`#1528`_) @@ -358,10 +359,10 @@ Security-related Bugfix Release 1.8.2 (2011-01-30) --------------------------- +'''''''''''''''''''''''''' Compatibility and Dependencies -'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' +------------------------------ - Tahoe is now compatible with Twisted-10.2 (released last month), as well as with earlier versions. The previous Tahoe-1.8.1 release @@ -374,7 +375,7 @@ Compatibility and Dependencies Tahoe code. Other Changes -''''''''''''' +------------- - the default reserved_space value for new storage nodes is 1 GB (`#1208`_) @@ -399,10 +400,10 @@ Other Changes Release 1.8.1 (2010-10-28) --------------------------- +'''''''''''''''''''''''''' Bugfixes and Improvements -''''''''''''''''''''''''' +------------------------- - Allow the repairer to improve the health of a file by uploading some shares, even if it cannot achieve the configured happiness @@ -433,14 +434,14 @@ Bugfixes and Improvements script, rather than an obscure tool named 'twistd'). (`#174`_) Removed Features -'''''''''''''''' +---------------- - The tahoe start/stop/restart and node creation commands no longer accept the -m or --multiple option, for consistency between platforms. (`#1262`_) Packaging -''''''''' +--------- - We now host binary packages so that users on certain operating systems can install without having a compiler. @@ -454,7 +455,7 @@ Packaging version number. (`#1233`_) Documentation -''''''''''''' +------------- - All current documentation in .txt format has been converted to .rst format. (`#1225`_) @@ -480,10 +481,10 @@ Documentation Release 1.8.0 (2010-09-23) --------------------------- +'''''''''''''''''''''''''' New Features -'''''''''''' +------------ - A completely new downloader which improves performance and robustness of immutable-file downloads. It uses the fastest K @@ -502,7 +503,7 @@ New Features Windows. (`#1074`_) Bugfixes and Improvements -''''''''''''''''''''''''' +------------------------- - Document and clean up the command-line options for specifying the node's base directory. (`#188`_, `#706`_, `#715`_, `#772`_, @@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ Bugfixes and Improvements `#1127`_, `#1129`_, `#1131`_, `#1166`_, `#1175`_) Dependency Updates -'''''''''''''''''' +------------------ - on x86 and x86-64 platforms, pycryptopp >= 0.5.20 - pycrypto 2.2 is excluded due to a bug @@ -549,10 +550,10 @@ Dependency Updates .. _`#1175`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1175 Release 1.7.1 (2010-07-18) --------------------------- +'''''''''''''''''''''''''' Bugfixes and Improvements -''''''''''''''''''''''''' +------------------------- - Fix bug in which uploader could fail with AssertionFailure or report that it had achieved servers-of-happiness when it hadn't. (`#1118`_) @@ -574,7 +575,7 @@ Bugfixes and Improvements - Forward-compatibility improvements for non-ASCII caps (`#1051`_) Code improvements -''''''''''''''''' +----------------- - Simplify and tidy-up directories, unicode support, test code (`#923`_, `#967`_, `#1072`_) @@ -595,10 +596,10 @@ Code improvements Release 1.7.0 (2010-06-18) --------------------------- +'''''''''''''''''''''''''' New Features -'''''''''''' +------------ - SFTP support (`#1037`_) Your Tahoe-LAFS gateway now acts like a full-fledged SFTP server. It @@ -637,7 +638,7 @@ New Features uploaded). See the `architecture.rst`_ document [3] for details. Bugfixes and Improvements -''''''''''''''''''''''''' +------------------------- - Premature abort of upload if some shares were already present and some servers fail. (`#608`_) @@ -668,14 +669,14 @@ Bugfixes and Improvements `#1024`_, `#1082`_) Removals -'''''''' +-------- - The 'tahoe debug consolidate' subcommand (for converting old allmydata Windows client backups to a newer format) has been removed. Dependency Updates -'''''''''''''''''' +------------------ - the Python version dependency is raised to 2.4.4 in some cases (2.4.3 for Redhat-based Linux distributions, 2.4.2 for UCS-2 builds) @@ -711,10 +712,10 @@ Dependency Updates .. _FTP-and-SFTP.rst: docs/frontends/FTP-and-SFTP.rst Release 1.6.1 (2010-02-27) --------------------------- +'''''''''''''''''''''''''' Bugfixes -'''''''' +-------- - Correct handling of Small Immutable Directories @@ -725,7 +726,7 @@ Bugfixes (`#948`_) Usability Improvements -'''''''''''''''''''''' +---------------------- - Improved user interface messages and error reporting. (`#681`_, `#837`_, `#939`_) @@ -735,10 +736,10 @@ Usability Improvements are retained for a further day. (`#577`_) Release 1.6.0 (2010-02-01) --------------------------- +'''''''''''''''''''''''''' New Features -'''''''''''' +------------ - Immutable Directories @@ -875,7 +876,7 @@ New Features heterogeneous servers or geographical dispersion. Minor Changes -''''''''''''' +------------- - The webapi acquired a new "t=mkdir-with-children" command, to create and populate a directory in a single call. This is significantly @@ -964,10 +965,10 @@ To include the tickets mentioned above, go to .. _webapi.rst: docs/frontends/webapi.rst Release 1.5.0 (2009-08-01) --------------------------- +'''''''''''''''''''''''''' Improvements -'''''''''''' +------------ - Uploads of immutable files now use pipelined writes, improving upload speed slightly (10%) over high-latency connections. (`#392`_) @@ -1005,7 +1006,7 @@ Improvements read or written. Also they cannot generally be copied. (`#683`_) Bugfixes -'''''''' +-------- - deep-check-and-repair now tolerates read-only directories, such as the ones produced by the "tahoe backup" CLI command. Read-only @@ -1024,7 +1025,7 @@ Bugfixes partial-information-guessing attack. (`#722`_) Platform/packaging changes -'''''''''''''''''''''''''' +-------------------------- - Tahoe-LAFS now runs on NetBSD, OpenBSD, ArchLinux, and NixOS, and on an embedded system based on an ARM CPU running at 266 MHz. @@ -1053,7 +1054,7 @@ Platform/packaging changes architectures. dependency updates -'''''''''''''''''' +------------------ - foolscap-0.4.1 - no python-2.4.0 or 2.4.1 (2.4.2 is good) (they contained a bug in base64.b32decode) @@ -1073,10 +1074,10 @@ dependency updates .. _#752: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/752 Release 1.4.1 (2009-04-13) --------------------------- +'''''''''''''''''''''''''' Garbage Collection -'''''''''''''''''' +------------------ - The big feature for this release is the implementation of garbage collection, allowing Tahoe storage servers to delete shares for old @@ -1100,7 +1101,7 @@ Garbage Collection crawl. 1.1.0 servers did not have the add-lease operation at all. Security/Usability Problems Fixed -''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' +--------------------------------- - A super-linear algorithm in the Merkle Tree code was fixed, which previously caused e.g. download of a 10GB file to take several hours @@ -1117,7 +1118,7 @@ Security/Usability Problems Fixed hashing the two strings to be compared with a random secret. webapi changes -'''''''''''''' +-------------- - In most cases, HTML tracebacks will only be sent if an "Accept: text/html" header was provided with the HTTP request. This will @@ -1153,7 +1154,7 @@ webapi changes docs/proposed/lossmodel.lyx . CLI changes -''''''''''' +----------- - "tahoe check" and "tahoe deep-check" now accept an "--add-lease" argument, to update a lease on all shares. This is the "mark" side @@ -1195,7 +1196,7 @@ CLI changes the results of a "consolidation" operation. other fixes -''''''''''' +----------- - The codebase no longer rauses RuntimeError as a kind of assert(). Specific exception classes were created for each previous @@ -1218,10 +1219,10 @@ other fixes .. _garbage-collection.rst: docs/garbage-collection.rst Release 1.3.0 (2009-02-13) --------------------------- +'''''''''''''''''''''''''' Checker/Verifier/Repairer -''''''''''''''''''''''''' +------------------------- - The primary focus of this release has been writing a checker / verifier / repairer for files and directories. "Checking" is the @@ -1300,7 +1301,7 @@ Checker/Verifier/Repairer details. Efficient Backup -'''''''''''''''' +---------------- - The "tahoe backup" command is new in this release, which creates efficient versioned backups of a local directory. Given a local @@ -1323,7 +1324,7 @@ Efficient Backup $target/Latest) from working. Large Files -''''''''''' +----------- - The 12GiB (approximate) immutable-file-size limitation is lifted. This release knows how to handle so-called "v2 immutable @@ -1339,7 +1340,7 @@ Large Files upload shares of a large file to a server which doesn't support it. FTP/SFTP Server -''''''''''''''' +--------------- - Tahoe now includes experimental FTP and SFTP servers. When configured with a suitable method to translate username+password @@ -1353,7 +1354,7 @@ FTP/SFTP Server configuration details. (`#512`_, `#531`_) CLI Changes -''''''''''' +----------- - This release adds the 'tahoe create-alias' command, which is a combination of 'tahoe mkdir' and 'tahoe add-alias'. This also allows @@ -1401,7 +1402,7 @@ characters on the command-line in utf-8 encoding). See https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/565 for details. Web changes -''''''''''' +----------- - The "default webapi port", used when creating a new client node (and in the getting-started documentation), was changed from 8123 to @@ -1489,7 +1490,7 @@ Web changes target) of a t=rename command. Packaging -''''''''' +--------- - Tahoe's dependencies have been extended to require the "[secure_connections]" feature from Foolscap, which will cause @@ -1553,7 +1554,7 @@ Packaging is no longer the case in 2.0.x . Grid Management Tools -''''''''''''''''''''' +--------------------- - Several tools have been added or updated in the misc/ directory, mostly munin plugins that can be used to monitor a storage grid. @@ -1591,7 +1592,7 @@ Grid Management Tools Tahoe implements some form of garbage collection. Configuration Changes: single INI-format tahoe.cfg file -''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' +------------------------------------------------------- - The Tahoe node is now configured with a single INI-format file, named "tahoe.cfg", in the node's base directory. Most of the @@ -1622,7 +1623,7 @@ Configuration Changes: single INI-format tahoe.cfg file prevent the growth of existing mutable shares). Other Changes -''''''''''''' +------------- - Clients now declare which versions of the protocols they support. This is part of a new backwards-compatibility system: @@ -1667,10 +1668,10 @@ Other Changes .. _#531: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/531 Release 1.2.0 (2008-07-21) --------------------------- +'''''''''''''''''''''''''' Security -'''''''' +-------- - This release makes the immutable-file "ciphertext hash tree" mandatory. Previous releases allowed the uploader to decide whether @@ -1690,7 +1691,7 @@ Security their shares. Dependencies -'''''''''''' +------------ - Tahoe now requires Foolscap-0.2.9 . It also requires pycryptopp 0.5 or newer, since earlier versions had a bug that interacted with @@ -1700,7 +1701,7 @@ Dependencies when necessary. Web API -''''''' +------- - Web API directory pages should now contain properly-slash-terminated links to other directories. They have also stopped using absolute @@ -1730,7 +1731,7 @@ Web API work correctly. Checker/Verifier/Repairer -''''''''''''''''''''''''' +------------------------- - Tahoe is slowly acquiring convenient tools to check up on file health, examine existing shares for errors, and repair files that @@ -1745,7 +1746,7 @@ Checker/Verifier/Repairer Future releases will improve access to this functionality. Operations/Packaging -'''''''''''''''''''' +-------------------- - A "check-grid" script has been added, along with a Makefile target. This is intended (with the help of a pre-configured node @@ -1771,7 +1772,7 @@ Operations/Packaging added to match. Other -''''' +----- - Tahoe nodes now use Foolscap "incident logging" to record unusual events to their NODEDIR/logs/incidents/ directory. These incident @@ -1798,10 +1799,10 @@ Other .. _debian.rst: docs/debian.rst Release 1.1.0 (2008-06-11) --------------------------- +'''''''''''''''''''''''''' CLI: new "alias" model -'''''''''''''''''''''' +---------------------- - The new CLI code uses an scp/rsync -like interface, in which directories in the Tahoe storage grid are referenced by a @@ -1816,7 +1817,7 @@ CLI: new "alias" model 'ls' command. Please read `CLI.rst`_ for complete details. wapi: new pages, new commands -''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' +----------------------------- - Several new pages were added to the web API: @@ -1856,14 +1857,14 @@ wapi: new pages, new commands - tahoe_spacetime New Dependencies -'''''''''''''''' +---------------- - zfec 1.1.0 - foolscap 0.2.8 - pycryptopp 0.5 - setuptools (now required at runtime) New Mutable-File Code -''''''''''''''''''''' +--------------------- - The mutable-file handling code (mostly used for directories) has been completely rewritten. The new scheme has a better API (with a @@ -1880,7 +1881,7 @@ New Mutable-File Code published when in fact it failed. other features -'''''''''''''' +-------------- - The node now monitors its own CPU usage, as a percentage, measured every 60 seconds. 1/5/15 minute moving averages are available on the