** 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
threshold. This fixes a regression introduced between v1.7.1 and
v1.8.0. (#1212)
- Fix a memory leak in the ResponseCache which is used during mutable
file/directory operations. (#1045)
- Fix a regression and add a performance improvement in the downloader.
This issue caused repair to fail in some special cases. (#1223)
- Fix a bug that caused 'tahoe cp' to fail for a grid-to-grid copy
involving a non-ASCII filename. (#1224)
- Fix a rarely-encountered bug involving printing large strings to
the console on Windows. (#1232)
- Perform ~ expansion in the --exclude-from filename argument to
'tahoe backup'. (#1241)
- The CLI's 'tahoe mv' and 'tahoe ln' commands previously would try
to use an HTTP proxy if the HTTP_PROXY environment variable was set.
These now always connect directly to the WAPI, thus avoiding giving
caps to the HTTP proxy (and also avoiding failures in the case that
the proxy is failing or requires authentication). (#1253)
- The CLI now correctly reports failure in the case that 'tahoe mv'
fails to unlink the file from its old location. (#1255)
- 'tahoe start' now gives a more positive indication that the node
has started. (#71)
- The arguments seen by 'ps' or other tools for node processes are
now more useful (in particular, they include the path of the
'tahoe' 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.
<http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/deps/tahoe-lafs-dep-eggs/README.html>
- Use a newer version of a dependency if needed, even if an older
version is installed. This would previously cause a VersionConflict
error. (#1190)
- Use a precompiled binary of a dependency if one with a sufficiently
high version number is available, instead of attempting to compile
the dependency from source, even if the source version has a higher
version number. (#1233)
** Documentation
- All current documentation in .txt format has been converted to
.rst format. (#1225)
- Added docs/backdoors.rst declaring that we won't add backdoors to
Tahoe-LAFS, or add anything to facilitate government access to data.
(#1216)
* 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
servers to download the data in K-way parallel. It automatically
fails over to alternate servers if servers fail in mid-download. It
allows seeking to arbitrary locations in the file (the previous
downloader which would only read the entire file sequentially from
beginning to end). It minimizes unnecessary round trips and
unnecessary bytes transferred to improve performance. It sends
requests to fewer servers to reduce the load on servers (the
previous one would send a small request to every server for every
download) (#287, #288, #448, #798, #800, #990, #1170, #1191)
- 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)
** Bugfixes and Improvements
- Document and clean up the command-line options for specifying the
node's base directory. (#188, #706, #715, #772, #1108)
- The default node directory for Windows is ".tahoe" in the user's
home directory, the same as on other platforms. (#890)
- Fix a case in which full cap URIs could be logged. (#685, #1155)
- Fix bug in WUI in Python 2.5 when the system clock is set back to
1969. Now you can use Tahoe-LAFS with Python 2.5 and set your
system clock to 1969 and still use the WUI. (#1055)
- Many improvements in code organization, tests, logging,
documentation, and packaging. (#983, #1074, #1108, #1127, #1129,
#1131, #1166, #1175)
Changes since previous verion, from the NEWS file
2.8.x:
- More scalable directory tree locking
- Atomic open(O_TRUNC) support
- Support big write requests on kernels 2.6.26 and newer
- Out-of-tree fuse module removed
- Better NFS exporting support
- New ioctl and poll requests
- New CUSE (Character Device in Userspace) interface
- Allow umask processing in userspace
- Added cache invalidation notifications
- Bugfixes and small improvements
2.7.x:
- Stacking support for the high level API
- Add filename charset conversion module
- Improved mounting
2.6.x!
- Improved read characteristics (asynchronous reads)
- Support for aborting filesystem connection
- POSIX file locking support
- Request interruption support
- Building module for Linux kernels earlier than 2.6.9 not supported
- Allow block device based filesystems to support swap files
- Several bugs fixed, including a rare system hang on SMP
- a daemon that creates a /dev/fuse socket and that performs PUFFS
relay to FUSE.
- a library and a header file to use in filesystems and libraries that
open /dev/fuse, so that they are directed to the socket.
Tahoe-LAFS is a Free Software/Open Source decentralized data store.
It distributes your filesystem across multiple servers, and even if
some of the servers fail or are taken over by an attacker, the entire
filesystem continues to work correctly and to preserve your privacy
and security.
bindfs is a FUSE filesystem for mounting a directory to another location,
similar to 'mount --bind' in Linux or unionfs in BSD. The permissions in
the mountpoint can be altered through various rules.
