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Release 1.10 (2013-??-??)
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New Features
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- 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
files between directories. (`#1579`_)
Security Improvements
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+---------------------
- The ``introducer.furl`` for new Introducers is now unguessable. In previous
releases, this FURL used a predictable swissnum, allowing a network
guessable FURL is in use. (`#860`_)
Command-line Syntax Changes
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- 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
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+----------------
- 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`_)
- Other minor changes: `#1781`_, `#1812`_
Performance Improvements
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+------------------------
- Allow web clients to cache immutable directory pages. (`#443`_)
Documentation
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+-------------
- 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
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+-----------------
- The flogtool utility, used to read logs, can now be accessed as
``tahoe debug flogtool`` even when foolscap is not installed system-wide.
them.
Compatibility and Dependencies
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+------------------------------
- Python >= 2.6, except Python 3 (`#1658`_)
- Twisted >= 11.0.0 (`#1771`_)
- pycryptopp >= 0.6.0 (for ed25519)
Precautions when Upgrading
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+--------------------------
- When upgrading a grid from a recent version of trunk, follow the
precautions from this `message to the tahoe-dev mailing list`_, to ensure
https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2013-March/008096.html
Release 1.9.2 (2012-07-03)
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Notable Bugfixes
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+----------------
- Several regressions in support for reading (`#1636`_), writing/modifying
(`#1670`_, `#1749`_), verifying (`#1628`_) and repairing (`#1655`_, `#1669`_,
computed correctly. (`#1115`_)
Configuration/Behavior Changes
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+------------------------------
- The capability of the upload directory for the drop-upload frontend
is now specified in the file ``private/drop_upload_dircap`` under
(`#1593`_)
Packaging Changes
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+-----------------
- Tahoe-LAFS can be built correctly from a git repository as well as
from darcs.
Compatibility and Dependencies
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+------------------------------
- foolscap >= 0.6.3 is required, in order to make Tahoe-LAFS compatible
with Twisted >= 11.1.0. (`#1788`_)
Release 1.9.1 (2012-01-12)
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Security-related Bugfix
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+-----------------------
- Fix flaw that would allow servers to cause undetected corruption when
retrieving the contents of mutable files (both SDMF and MDMF). (`#1654`_)
Release 1.9.0 (2011-10-30)
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New Features
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+------------
- The most significant new feature in this release is MDMF: "Medium-size
Distributed Mutable Files". Unlike standard SDMF files, these provide
can be reached from the Recent Uploads and Downloads page.
Configuration/Behavior Changes
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+------------------------------
- Prior to Tahoe-LAFS v1.3, the configuration of some node options could
be specified using individual config files rather than via ``tahoe.cfg``.
listing is now labelled "unlink" rather than "del". (`#1104`_)
Notable Bugfixes
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+----------------
- The security bugfix for the vulnerability allowing deletion of shares,
detailed in the news for v1.8.3 below, is also included in this
5% on a fast network). (`#1268`_)
Packaging Changes
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+-----------------
- The files related to Debian packaging have been removed from the Tahoe
source tree, since they are now maintained as part of the official
* Open Software License
Compatibility and Dependencies
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+------------------------------
- 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
dependency via the "secure_connections" option of foolscap. (`#1383`_)
Minor Changes
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+-------------
- A ``man`` page has been added (`#1420`_). All other docs are in ReST
format.
Release 1.8.3 (2011-09-13)
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Security-related Bugfix
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+-----------------------
- Fix flaw that would allow a person who knows a storage index of a file to
delete shares of that file. (`#1528`_)
Release 1.8.2 (2011-01-30)
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Compatibility and Dependencies
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+------------------------------
- Tahoe is now compatible with Twisted-10.2 (released last month), as
well as with earlier versions. The previous Tahoe-1.8.1 release
Tahoe code.
Other Changes
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+-------------
- the default reserved_space value for new storage nodes is 1 GB
(`#1208`_)
Release 1.8.1 (2010-10-28)
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Bugfixes and Improvements
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- Allow the repairer to improve the health of a file by uploading some
shares, even if it cannot achieve the configured happiness
script, rather than an obscure tool named 'twistd'). (`#174`_)
Removed Features
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+----------------
- The tahoe start/stop/restart and node creation commands no longer
accept the -m or --multiple option, for consistency between
platforms. (`#1262`_)
Packaging
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+---------
- We now host binary packages so that users on certain operating
systems can install without having a compiler.
version number. (`#1233`_)
Documentation
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+-------------
- All current documentation in .txt format has been converted to .rst
format. (`#1225`_)
Release 1.8.0 (2010-09-23)
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New Features
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+------------
- A completely new downloader which improves performance and
robustness of immutable-file downloads. It uses the fastest K
Windows. (`#1074`_)
Bugfixes and Improvements
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+-------------------------
- Document and clean up the command-line options for specifying the
node's base directory. (`#188`_, `#706`_, `#715`_, `#772`_,
`#1127`_, `#1129`_, `#1131`_, `#1166`_, `#1175`_)
Dependency Updates
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+------------------
- on x86 and x86-64 platforms, pycryptopp >= 0.5.20
- pycrypto 2.2 is excluded due to a bug
.. _`#1175`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1175
Release 1.7.1 (2010-07-18)
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Bugfixes and Improvements
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- Fix bug in which uploader could fail with AssertionFailure or report
that it had achieved servers-of-happiness when it hadn't. (`#1118`_)
- Forward-compatibility improvements for non-ASCII caps (`#1051`_)
Code improvements
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+-----------------
- Simplify and tidy-up directories, unicode support, test code
(`#923`_, `#967`_, `#1072`_)
Release 1.7.0 (2010-06-18)
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New Features
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+------------
- SFTP support (`#1037`_)
Your Tahoe-LAFS gateway now acts like a full-fledged SFTP server. It
uploaded). See the `architecture.rst`_ document [3] for details.
Bugfixes and Improvements
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- Premature abort of upload if some shares were already present and
some servers fail. (`#608`_)
`#1024`_, `#1082`_)
Removals
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+--------
- The 'tahoe debug consolidate' subcommand (for converting old
allmydata Windows client backups to a newer format) has been
removed.
Dependency Updates
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+------------------
- 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)
.. _FTP-and-SFTP.rst: docs/frontends/FTP-and-SFTP.rst
Release 1.6.1 (2010-02-27)
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Bugfixes
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- Correct handling of Small Immutable Directories
(`#948`_)
Usability Improvements
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+----------------------
- Improved user interface messages and error reporting. (`#681`_,
`#837`_, `#939`_)
are retained for a further day. (`#577`_)
Release 1.6.0 (2010-02-01)
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New Features
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- Immutable Directories
heterogeneous servers or geographical dispersion.
Minor Changes
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+-------------
- The webapi acquired a new "t=mkdir-with-children" command, to create
and populate a directory in a single call. This is significantly
.. _webapi.rst: docs/frontends/webapi.rst
Release 1.5.0 (2009-08-01)
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Improvements
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- Uploads of immutable files now use pipelined writes, improving
upload speed slightly (10%) over high-latency connections. (`#392`_)
read or written. Also they cannot generally be copied. (`#683`_)
Bugfixes
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+--------
- deep-check-and-repair now tolerates read-only directories, such as
the ones produced by the "tahoe backup" CLI command. Read-only
partial-information-guessing attack. (`#722`_)
Platform/packaging changes
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- Tahoe-LAFS now runs on NetBSD, OpenBSD, ArchLinux, and NixOS, and on
an embedded system based on an ARM CPU running at 266 MHz.
architectures.
dependency updates
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+------------------
- 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)
.. _#752: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/752
Release 1.4.1 (2009-04-13)
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Garbage Collection
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- The big feature for this release is the implementation of garbage
collection, allowing Tahoe storage servers to delete shares for old
crawl. 1.1.0 servers did not have the add-lease operation at all.
Security/Usability Problems Fixed
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+---------------------------------
- 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
hashing the two strings to be compared with a random secret.
webapi changes
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- In most cases, HTML tracebacks will only be sent if an "Accept:
text/html" header was provided with the HTTP request. This will
docs/proposed/lossmodel.lyx .
CLI changes
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+-----------
- "tahoe check" and "tahoe deep-check" now accept an "--add-lease"
argument, to update a lease on all shares. This is the "mark" side
the results of a "consolidation" operation.
other fixes
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+-----------
- The codebase no longer rauses RuntimeError as a kind of
assert(). Specific exception classes were created for each previous
.. _garbage-collection.rst: docs/garbage-collection.rst
Release 1.3.0 (2009-02-13)
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Checker/Verifier/Repairer
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- The primary focus of this release has been writing a checker /
verifier / repairer for files and directories. "Checking" is the
details.
Efficient Backup
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+----------------
- The "tahoe backup" command is new in this release, which creates
efficient versioned backups of a local directory. Given a local
$target/Latest) from working.
Large Files
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- The 12GiB (approximate) immutable-file-size limitation is
lifted. This release knows how to handle so-called "v2 immutable
upload shares of a large file to a server which doesn't support it.
FTP/SFTP Server
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+---------------
- Tahoe now includes experimental FTP and SFTP servers. When
configured with a suitable method to translate username+password
configuration details. (`#512`_, `#531`_)
CLI Changes
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+-----------
- This release adds the 'tahoe create-alias' command, which is a
combination of 'tahoe mkdir' and 'tahoe add-alias'. This also allows
https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/565 for details.
Web changes
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+-----------
- The "default webapi port", used when creating a new client node (and
in the getting-started documentation), was changed from 8123 to
target) of a t=rename command.
Packaging
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- Tahoe's dependencies have been extended to require the
"[secure_connections]" feature from Foolscap, which will cause
is no longer the case in 2.0.x .
Grid Management Tools
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- Several tools have been added or updated in the misc/ directory,
mostly munin plugins that can be used to monitor a storage grid.
Tahoe implements some form of garbage collection.
Configuration Changes: single INI-format tahoe.cfg file
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+-------------------------------------------------------
- The Tahoe node is now configured with a single INI-format file,
named "tahoe.cfg", in the node's base directory. Most of the
prevent the growth of existing mutable shares).
Other Changes
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+-------------
- Clients now declare which versions of the protocols they
support. This is part of a new backwards-compatibility system:
.. _#531: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/531
Release 1.2.0 (2008-07-21)
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Security
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+--------
- This release makes the immutable-file "ciphertext hash tree"
mandatory. Previous releases allowed the uploader to decide whether
their shares.
Dependencies
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+------------
- Tahoe now requires Foolscap-0.2.9 . It also requires pycryptopp 0.5
or newer, since earlier versions had a bug that interacted with
when necessary.
Web API
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+-------
- Web API directory pages should now contain properly-slash-terminated
links to other directories. They have also stopped using absolute
work correctly.
Checker/Verifier/Repairer
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+-------------------------
- Tahoe is slowly acquiring convenient tools to check up on file
health, examine existing shares for errors, and repair files that
Future releases will improve access to this functionality.
Operations/Packaging
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+--------------------
- A "check-grid" script has been added, along with a Makefile
target. This is intended (with the help of a pre-configured node
added to match.
Other
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+-----
- Tahoe nodes now use Foolscap "incident logging" to record unusual
events to their NODEDIR/logs/incidents/ directory. These incident
.. _debian.rst: docs/debian.rst
Release 1.1.0 (2008-06-11)
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CLI: new "alias" model
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+----------------------
- The new CLI code uses an scp/rsync -like interface, in which
directories in the Tahoe storage grid are referenced by a
'ls' command. Please read `CLI.rst`_ for complete details.
wapi: new pages, new commands
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+-----------------------------
- Several new pages were added to the web API:
- tahoe_spacetime
New Dependencies
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+----------------
- zfec 1.1.0
- foolscap 0.2.8
- pycryptopp 0.5
- setuptools (now required at runtime)
New Mutable-File Code
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+---------------------
- The mutable-file handling code (mostly used for directories) has
been completely rewritten. The new scheme has a better API (with a
published when in fact it failed.
other features
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+--------------
- 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
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