-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 ========================================================= Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, issue number 15, October 16, 2011 =========================================================
Welcome to the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News (TWN). Tahoe-LAFS_ is a secure, distributed storage system. `View TWN on the web`_ *or* `subscribe to TWN`_. If you would like to view the "new and improved" TWN, complete with pictures; please take a `look`_. .. _Tahoe-LAFS: http://tahoe-lafs.org .. _View TWN on the web: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/TahoeLAFSWeeklyNews .. _subscribe to TWN: http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-lafs-weekly-news .. _look: http://tahoe-lafs.org/~marlowe/TWN15.html Announcements and News ====================== Tahoe-LAFS v1.9.0 Beta 1 Released - --------------------------------- Tahoe-LAFS proudly released `1.9.0 beta 1`_. Below are the changes between beta 1 and alpha2: * CLI: use "tahoe put --format=MDMF" to create an MDMF file, instead of "tahoe put --mutable --mutable-type=MDMF" * web: WUI now has a three-item radiobox (CHK, SDMF, MDMF) instead of the tricky one-togglebutton+two-item-radiobox combination * web-API t=JSON output now emits upper-case "format: MDMF" instead of lower-case "mutable-type: mdmf" * MDMF filecaps no longer include the extra two "extension fields" (containing 'k' and segsize), and tolerate (ignore) arbitrary extension fields from the future The beta is available `here`_ in tar.gz, tar.bz2, zip and -SUMO variants. You can also fetch it via any of our fine version control systems: darcs get --lazy --tag=allmydata-tahoe-1.9.0b1 \ http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk tahoe-lafs-1.9.0b1 or git clone -b allmydata-tahoe-1.9.0b1 git://github.com/warner/tahoe-lafs.git or, if you already have a git checkout: git pull git checkout allmydata-tahoe-1.9.0b1 The following items remaining for a final release: * docs * packaging tests * test against the new Foolscap release, 0.6.2, also current Twisted trunk Please download the beta and test it out. Our hope is to release 1.9.0 at the end of this month. .. _1.9.0 beta 1: .. http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-October/006708.html .. _`here`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/tarballs/ Foolscap 0.6.2 Release - ---------------------- Brian |brian| released Foolscap `0.6.2`_. This release fixes an incompatibility with the current Twisted trunk, which will cause problems when the next Twisted release comes out. The previous Foolscap would only work with Twisted 11.0. This would cause issues for Tahoe-LAFS 1.9.0, which has dependencies on both pieces of software. The new release supports both Twisted 11.0 and the current Twisted trunk. .. _`0.6.2`: .. http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-October/006721.html Commercial Supporter of the Week ================================ The Commercial Support of the Week is Least Authority Enterprises (LAE). LAE is working on bringing *freedom-compatible* storage to the end user. *Freedom compatible* storage means you can take advantage of online service providers while still retaining control over your data. LAE's first product is Tahoe-LAFS on S3. You can watch their progress in ticket `999`_ as they to enable Tahoe-LAFS support for multiple backends, not just S3. LAE also employs three Tahoe-LAFS developers: Zooko |zooko|, David-Sarah |davidsarah| and Josh Wilcox |wilcox|. .. _`999`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/999 - From the tahoe-dev Mailing List =============================== Accounting - ------------------------ Brian announced `Accounting 11.10`_. This tracks who uses what space. It will allow grids to stop offering space once a user exceeds their quota. Eventually, this could be expanded to incorporate Bitcoin. A user once they exceeded their quota could buy additional space through Bitcoin. Accounting offers full backwards compatibility with introducers which don't support accounting. Below are instructions how to test it: 1. install http://github.com/warner/python-ed25519 2. git clone -b accounting https://github.com/warner/tahoe-lafs.git 3. cd tahoe-lafs 4. start a grid with this version (you want a new Introducer, client, and servers) .. _`Accounting 11.10`: .. http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-October/006706.html Tahoe-LAFS Logo - --------------- Zooko provided a post to the list regarding the `logo`_ for Tahoe-LAFS. We would like to have a few shirts with the logo for the next `Summit`_. Ticket `1185`_ covers the current candidates for the logo. Please post your thoughts regarding the designs to this ticket. Also if you are interested in updating the web site to the new logo and printing the tshirts, please let Zooko know. .. _`logo`: .. http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-October/006712.html .. _`Summit`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/Summit .. _`1185`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1185# Patch Needing Review of the Week ================================ There are three (3) tickets still needing review for 1.9: * 393_: MDMF * 1265_: New Visualizer is insufficiently labelled/documented (plus layout problem) * 1398_: make docs/performance.rst more precise and accurate Let's see if we can't get these reviewed and 1.9 out the door. .. _393: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/393 .. _1265: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1265 .. _1398: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1398 - ---- *The Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News is published once a week by The Tahoe-LAFS* *Software Foundation, President and Treasurer: Peter Secor* |peter| *. Scribes: Patrick "marlowe" McDonald* |marlowe| *, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn* *, Editor: Zooko.* `View TWN on the web`_ *or* `subscribe to TWN`_ *. Send your news stories to* `[email protected]`_ *— submission deadline: Friday night.* .. [email protected]: mailto:[email protected] .. |zooko| image:: zooko.png :height: 35 :alt: zooko :target: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AboutUs .. |brian| image:: warner.png :height: 35 :alt: brian :target: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AboutUs .. |peter| image:: psecor.jpg :height: 35 :alt: peter :target: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AboutUs .. |marlowe| image:: marlowe-x75-bw.jpg :height: 35 :alt: marlowe :target: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AboutUs .. |davidsarah| image:: davidsarah_bw.png :height: 35 :alt: davidsarah :target: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AboutUs .. |wilcox| image:: wilcox.png :height: 35 :alt: wilcox :target: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AboutUs - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------- | Patrick R. McDonald GPG Key: A2D1E972 | | https://www.antagonism.org/ <[email protected]> | | <[email protected]> | | <[email protected]> | - ---------------------------------------------------------------- | Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium | - ---------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJOm22GAAoJEAT4nRyi0elyS7QP/0AP0X5kdoP8jfHTBHA+rrex 8SJAMehqkZJhXSCL5lhvz/hT2YwWXTvVYsD6CHBPpxJfRj9MI2AUL498Gut0JUlH GGE8oQgmOh8rvAniFJGCBOPdGYkehPyqJHDWCv+kLtRx5Whr83aXfpui9oSUa0I0 fwqlYgsMKfeqElbcauKwGOD6mHdHnyvqUCmsIfwILClave3edfwUp1mq2hAgpuRa 0WY6FD01BBmQ96h3A6+/PtjLaB1JjAAo4liny9ZfllNG1ijvzumWFOrto+cu7Qcz QPODGDPRLeQMMmNtK3VsnxjL+H1Ofy8BILPVIVffiTedCYw9pIcQ7kYfOB5MPcaB LgmhZDZFFq9RKC2CeegSHeOU+fLZzvdBWkps89VwyNGqwxTVuIQDY9EDaTFRct0/ u9iXTlg6dHdEgmtAQMu5Z13zz17ReNtW1XzcLx2g+aMAbhfIHrxRm3Ahlv9S67iT o2aZrwf26mQIF7Pt6AHKB76NzPx3Je/GbN5hfG8l/nCalvzJvRVPry4z3aFI2bk+ JyKqxEqNPZ1TlB79qlmsR0BP36B0qdUAJxb/kYvtYnrGqLlbWkmo2eA9SikVG7nr 70QuMMof6ONARwO5TKGfUYlVsvNirvxaNPPnIzhDpQUKsyFey5dDrbW9MAY0IY6y gdKspr9UYGzKKXVY1RYv =cS0R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
