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Ps zooko wrote: > Folks: > > The next release announcement will look something like this. > > --Zooko > > DRAFT announcement for: > ANNOUNCING allmydata.org "Tahoe", the Least-Authority Filesystem, v1.4 > > The allmydata.org team is pleased to announce the release of version > 1.4.0 of "Tahoe", the Lightweight-Authorization Filesystem. This is the > first release of Tahoe which was created solely as a labor of love by > volunteers -- it is no longer funded by allmydata.com (see [1] for > details). > > Tahoe-LAFS is a secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant filesystem. All > of the source code is available under Free Software, Open Source > licences. > > This filesystem is distributed over multiple peers in such a way the > filesystem continues to operate correctly even when some of the peers > are unavailable, malfunctioning, or malicious. Users can easily share > files with each other, using a simple and flexible access control > scheme. > > Here is the one-page explanation of Tahoe's unique security and > fault-tolerance properties: > > http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/about.html > > This is the successor to Tahoe-LAFS v1.3, which was released February > 13, 2009 [2]. This is a major new release, adding garbage collection > XXX a repairer, an efficient backup command, support for large files, > an (S)FTP server, and much more. > > See the NEWS file [3] and the known_issues.txt file [4] for more > information. > > Besides the Tahoe core, a crop of related projects have sprung up, > including Tahoe frontends for Windows and Macintosh, two front-ends > written in JavaScript, a Tahoe plugin for duplicity, a Tahoe plugin for > TiddlyWiki, a project to create a new backup tool, CIFS/SMB > integration, an iPhone app, and three incomplete Tahoe frontends for > FUSE. See the Related Projects page on the wiki: [5]. > > > COMPATIBILITY > > Tahoe v1.4 is fully compatible with the version 1 series of Tahoe. > > Files written by v1.4 clients can be read by clients of all versions > back to v1.0. (Unless the file is too large. Files greater than about > 12 GiB -- depending on the configuration -- can't be read by clients of > v1.2 or older). > > v1.4 clients can read files produced by clients of all versions since > v1.0. v1.4 servers can serve clients of all versions back to v1.0 and > v1.4 clients can use servers of all versions back to v1.0 (but can't > upload large files to them). > > This is the fifth release in the version 1 series. We believe that > this version of Tahoe is stable enough to use as a permanent store of > valuable data. The version 1 series of Tahoe will be actively > supported and maintained for the forseeable future, and future versions > of Tahoe will retain the ability to read files and directories produced > by Tahoe v1 for the forseeable future. > > The version 1 branch of Tahoe is the basis of the consumer backup > product from Allmydata, Inc. -- http://allmydata.com . > > > WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? > > With Tahoe, you can distribute your filesystem across a set of > computers, such that if some of the computers fail or turn out to be > malicious, the entire filesystem continues to be available, thanks to > the remaining computers. You can also share your files with other > users, using a simple and flexible access control scheme. > > Because this software is new, we do not categorically recommend it as > the sole repository of data which is extremely confidential or > precious. However, we believe that erasure coding, strong encryption, > Free/Open Source Software and careful engineering make Tahoe safer than > common alternatives, such as RAID, removable drive, tape, "on-line > storage" or "Cloud storage" systems. > > This software comes with extensive unit tests [6], and there are no > known security flaws which would compromise confidentiality or data > integrity. (For all currently known issues please see the > known_issues.txt file [3].) > > This release of Tahoe is suitable for the "friendnet" use case [7] -- > it is easy to create a filesystem spread over the computers of you and > your friends so that you can share disk space and files. > > > LICENCE > > You may use this package under the GNU General Public License, version > 2 or, at your option, any later version. See the file "COPYING.GPL" > [8] for the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2. > > You may use this package under the Transitive Grace Period Public > Licence, version 1 or, at your option, any later version. (The > Transitive Grace Period Public Licence has requirements similar to the > GPL except that it allows you to wait for up to twelve months after you > redistribute a derived work before releasing the source code of your > derived work.) See the file "COPYING.TGPPL.html" [9] for the terms of > the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence, version 1. > > (You may choose to use this package under the terms of either licence, > at your option.) > > > INSTALLATION > > Tahoe works on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Cygwin, and Solaris, and > probably most other systems. Start with "docs/install.html" [10]. > > > HACKING AND COMMUNITY > > Please join us on the mailing list [11]. Patches that extend and > improve Tahoe are gratefully accepted -- the RoadMap page [12] shows > the next improvements that we plan to make and CREDITS [13] lists the > names of people who've contributed to the project. The wiki Dev page > [14] contains resources for hackers. > > > SPONSORSHIP > > Tahoe was originally developed thanks to the sponsorship of Allmydata, > Inc. [15], a provider of commercial backup services. Allmydata, > Inc. created the Tahoe project, and contributed hardware, software, > ideas, bug reports, suggestions, demands, and money (employing several > Tahoe hackers and instructing them to spend part of their work time on > this Free Software project). Also they awarded customized t-shirts to > hackers who find security flaws in Tahoe (see http://hacktahoe.org ). > Thank you to Allmydata, Inc. for their generous and public-spirited > support. > > > Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn > on behalf of the allmydata.org team > > Special acknowledgment goes to Brian Warner, whose superb engineering > skills and dedication are primarily responsible for the Tahoe > implementation, and largely responsible for the Tahoe design as well, > not to mention most of the docs and many other things besides. > > April 7, 2009 > Boulder, Colorado, USA > > [1] http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-March/001461.html > [2] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/relnotes.txt?rev=XXX > [3] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/NEWS ? rev = XXX > [4] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/docs/known_issues.txt > [5] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/RelatedProjects > [6] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/Dev > [7] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/UseCases > [8] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/COPYING.GPL > [9] http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/COPYING.TGPPL.html > [10] http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/install.html > [11] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev > [12] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/roadmap > [13] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/CREDITS?rev=XXX 2677 > [14] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/Dev > [15] http://allmydata.com > > _______________________________________________ > tahoe-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
