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ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.10.1
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The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce the immediate
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availability of version 1.10.1 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely
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reliable distributed storage system. Get it here:
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https://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk/docs/quickstart.rst
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Tahoe-LAFS is the first distributed storage system to offer
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"provider-independent security" — meaning that not even the
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operators of your storage servers can read or alter your data
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without your consent. Here is the one-page explanation of its
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unique security and fault-tolerance properties:
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https://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk/docs/about.rst
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The previous stable release of Tahoe-LAFS was v1.10.0,
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released on May 1, 2013.
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v1.10.1 is mostly a bugfix release, but also improves the
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web-based user interface, adds public-key authentication to
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the SFTP frontend, improves the behavior of "tahoe cp -r", and
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offers more control over IP address autodetection. Preliminary
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(CLI-based) OS-X packages have been added. Over 75 bugs have
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been fixed. See the NEWS file [1] for details.
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2007-06-11 16:21:42 +00:00
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WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
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With Tahoe-LAFS, you distribute your filesystem across
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multiple servers, and even if some of the servers fail or are
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taken over by an attacker, the entire filesystem continues to
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work correctly, and continues to preserve your privacy and
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security. You can easily share specific files and directories
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with other people.
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2010-09-02 21:21:11 +00:00
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In addition to the core storage system itself, volunteers
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have built other projects on top of Tahoe-LAFS and have
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integrated Tahoe-LAFS with existing systems, including
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Windows, JavaScript, iPhone, Android, Hadoop, Flume, Django,
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Puppet, bzr, mercurial, perforce, duplicity, TiddlyWiki, and
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more. See the Related Projects page on the wiki [3].
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We believe that strong cryptography, Free and Open Source
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Software, erasure coding, and principled engineering practices
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make Tahoe-LAFS safer than RAID, removable drive, tape,
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on-line backup or cloud storage.
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This software is developed under test-driven development, and
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there are no known bugs or security flaws which would
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compromise confidentiality or data integrity under recommended
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use. (For all important issues that we are currently aware of
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please see the known_issues.rst file [2].)
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COMPATIBILITY
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This release should be compatible with the version 1 series of
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Tahoe-LAFS. Clients from this release can write files and
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directories in the format used by clients of all versions back
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to v1.0 (which was released March 25, 2008). Clients from this
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release can read files and directories produced by clients of
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all versions since v1.0. Servers from this release can serve
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clients of all versions back to v1.0 and clients from this
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release can use servers of all versions back to v1.0.
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Except for the new optional MDMF format, we have not made any
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intentional compatibility changes. However we do not yet have
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the test infrastructure to continuously verify that all new
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versions are interoperable with previous versions. We intend
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to build such an infrastructure in the future.
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2013-05-01 17:25:40 +00:00
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The new Introducer protocol added in v1.10 is backwards
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compatible with older clients and introducer servers, however
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some features will be unavailable when an older node is
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involved. Please see docs/nodekeys.rst [14] for details.
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This is the nineteenth release in the version 1 series. This
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series of Tahoe-LAFS will be actively supported and maintained
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for the foreseeable future, and future versions of Tahoe-LAFS
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will retain the ability to read and write files compatible
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with this series.
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LICENCE
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You may use this package under the GNU General Public License,
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version 2 or, at your option, any later version. See the file
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"COPYING.GPL" [4] for the terms of the GNU General Public
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License, version 2.
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You may use this package under the Transitive Grace Period
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Public Licence, version 1 or, at your option, any later
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version. (The Transitive Grace Period Public Licence has
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requirements similar to the GPL except that it allows you to
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delay for up to twelve months after you redistribute a derived
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work before releasing the source code of your derived work.)
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See the file "COPYING.TGPPL.rst" [5] for the terms of the
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Transitive Grace Period Public Licence, version 1.
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(You may choose to use this package under the terms of either
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licence, at your option.)
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INSTALLATION
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Tahoe-LAFS works on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris, *BSD,
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and probably most other systems. Start with
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"docs/quickstart.rst" [6].
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HACKING AND COMMUNITY
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Please join us on the mailing list [7]. Patches are gratefully
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accepted -- the RoadMap page [8] shows the next improvements
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that we plan to make and CREDITS [9] lists the names of people
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who've contributed to the project. The Dev page [10] contains
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resources for hackers.
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SPONSORSHIP
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Atlas Networks has contributed several hosted servers for
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performance testing. Thank you to Atlas Networks [11] for
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their generous and public-spirited support.
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And a special thanks to Least Authority Enterprises [12],
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which employs several Tahoe-LAFS developers, for their
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continued support.
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HACK TAHOE-LAFS!
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If you can find a security flaw in Tahoe-LAFS which is serious
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enough that we feel compelled to warn our users and issue a fix,
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then we will award you with a customized t-shirts with your
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exploit printed on it and add you to the "Hack Tahoe-LAFS Hall
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Of Fame" [13].
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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This is the thirteenth release of Tahoe-LAFS to be created
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solely as a labor of love by volunteers. Thank you very much
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to the team of "hackers in the public interest" who make
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Tahoe-LAFS possible.
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2013-05-01 17:25:40 +00:00
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Brian Warner
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on behalf of the Tahoe-LAFS team
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June 15, 2015
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San Francisco, California, USA
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2012-01-12 23:24:20 +00:00
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[1] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/NEWS.rst
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[2] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/docs/known_issues.rst
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[3] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/RelatedProjects
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[4] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/COPYING.GPL
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[5] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/COPYING.TGPPL.rst
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[6] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/docs/quickstart.rst
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[7] https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
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[8] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/roadmap
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[9] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/CREDITS
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[10] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/Dev
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[11] http://atlasnetworks.us/
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[12] https://leastauthority.com/
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[13] https://tahoe-lafs.org/hacktahoelafs/
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[14] https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/docs/nodekeys.rst
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