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@ -4,27 +4,29 @@ The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce the immediate
availability of version 1.7.1 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely
reliable distributed storage system.
Tahoe-LAFS is the first distributed storage system which offers
"provider-independent security"—meaning that not even the
operator of your storage server can read or alter your data
without your consent. Here is the one-page explanation of its
unique security and fault-tolerance properties:
Tahoe-LAFS is the first distributed storage system which
offers "provider-independent security"—meaning that not even
the operators of your storage servers can read or alter your
data without your consent. Here is the one-page explanation of
its unique security and fault-tolerance properties:
http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/about.html
Tahoe-LAFS v1.7.1 is the successor to v1.7.0, which was released
June 18, 2010 [1].
Tahoe-LAFS v1.7.1 is the successor to v1.7.0, which was
released June 18, 2010 [1].
v1.7.1 is a minor release with some small bugfixes and code
clean-ups. See the NEWS file [2] for details.
v1.7.1 is a stable minor release which adds several bugfixes
and improvements in security, forward-compatibility,
packaging, usability, and portability. See the NEWS file [2]
for details.
WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
With Tahoe-LAFS, you distribute your filesystem across multiple
servers, and even if some of the servers are compromised by
by an attacker, the entire filesystem continues to work
correctly, and continues to preserve your privacy and
With Tahoe-LAFS, you distribute your filesystem across
multiple servers, and even if some of the servers are
compromised by by an attacker, the entire filesystem continues
to work correctly, and continues to preserve your privacy and
security. You can easily share specific files and directories
with other people.
@ -60,11 +62,11 @@ all versions since v1.0. Servers from this release can serve
clients of all versions back to v1.0 and clients from this
release can use servers of all versions back to v1.0.
This is the ninth release in the version 1 series. This series
This is the tenth release in the version 1 series. This series
of Tahoe-LAFS will be actively supported and maintained for
the forseeable future, and future versions of Tahoe-LAFS will
retain the ability to read and write files compatible with
Tahoe-LAFS v1.
this series.
LICENCE
@ -78,7 +80,7 @@ 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
delay 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" [6] for the terms of the
Transitive Grace Period Public Licence, version 1.
@ -137,14 +139,15 @@ as a labor of love by volunteers. Thank you very much to the
team of "hackers in the public interest" who make Tahoe-LAFS
possible.
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
David-Sarah Hopwood and Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
on behalf of the Tahoe-LAFS team
July 18, 2010
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Rainhill, Merseyside, UK and Boulder, Colorado, USA
[1] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/relnotes.txt?rev=4514
[2] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/NEWS?rev=FIXME!!!
[2] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/NEWS?rev=4577
[3] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/RelatedProjects
[4] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/docs/known_issues.txt
[5] http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe/browser/COPYING.GPL