This maintenance release with no new features. Majot bug fixes are:
Bug 2464 Fixed all the issues caused by GFID mismatch during
distribute rename.
Bug 2988 Fixed the issue of high CPU usage when Directory Quota
is enabled.
Bug 3122 Enhanced the volume set interface to support io-threads
on the client.
Bug 3210 Fixed the issue of modified mtime/atime of the files after
rebalance operation.
Bug 3191 Fixed the issue with symlinks during rebalance operation.
** 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).
- Remove corner cases in mutable file bounds management which could expose
extra lease info or old share data (from prior versions of the mutable
file) if someone with write authority to that mutable file exercised these
corner cases in a way that no actual Tahoe-LAFS client does. (Probably not
exploitable.) (#1528).
Major new features according to http://www.gluster.org/
- Elastic Volume Management
- New Gluster Console Manager
- Dynamic Storage for the data center and cloud
Packaging changes:
Use gmake and test TEST_TARGET, so make test runs make check.
Add dependency on py-sqlite2 for "tahoe backup".
Add py-mock dependency because tests are now runnable by the user.
Withdraw fixing of distfiles modes; this one is fine.
* 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 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
reactor.spawnProcess and derivatives may no longer be used inside
Tahoe code.
** Other Changes
- the default reserved_space value for new storage nodes is 1 GB (#1208)
- documentation is now in reStructuredText (.rst) format
- "tahoe cp" should now handle non-ASCII filenames
- the unmaintained Mac/Windows GUI applications have been removed (#1282)
- 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)
