Milestone 1.9.0

Schedule:

• currently in beta1
• expected release: end of October-2011

Remaining Tasks:

• test against Twisted-trunk and Foolscap-trunk
• provide adequate documentation on MDMF
• test packaging

Original Release goals (many dropped):

• integrate the fruits of the Google Summer of Code 2010
  • Medium-Sized Distributed Mutable Files (Kevan, Brian) #393
  • Multiple Introducers (Faruq, Zooko) #68
• fix major outstanding issues which harbor bad failure modes or impact reliability
  • immutable peer selection refactoring and enhancements: #1382
    • including inability to achieve happiness in upload/repair #614, #1124, #1130
  • bugs in mutable file handling #232, #270, #474, #480, #540, #546, #547, #548, #549, #667, #846, #893, #1004, #1042