Changeset ba9f3dc in trunk

Timestamp:

2009-07-03T01:43:03Z (16 years ago)

Author:

Brian Warner <warner@…>

Branches:

master

Children:

d79b2a0

Parents:

ef1b6ae8

Message:

update NEWS to cover all recent changes, sort by end-user importance

File:

• NEWS (modified) (5 diffs)

NEWS ¶

@@ -3 +3 @@
 * Release 1.XXX (200X-YY-ZZ)
 
-** minor improvements
+** Improvements
 
 Uploads of immutable files now use pipelined writes, improving upload speed
@@ -9 +9 @@
 
 The human-facing web interface (aka the "WUI") received a significant CSS
-makeover by Kevin Reid, making it much prettier and easier to read.
+makeover by Kevin Reid, making it much prettier and easier to read. The WUI
+"check" and "deep-check" forms now include a "Renew Lease" checkbox,
+mirroring the CLI --add-lease option, so leases can be added or renewed from
+the web interface.
+
+The CLI "tahoe webopen" command, when run without arguments, will bring up
+the "Welcome Page" (node status and mkdir/upload forms).
 
 The 3.5MB limit on mutable files was removed, so it should be possible to
@@ -17 +23 @@
 files (#393) are implemented. (#694)
 
-The WUI "check" and "deep-check" forms now include a "Renew Lease" checkbox,
-mirroring the CLI --add-lease option, so leases can be added or renewed from
-the web interface.
-
-** minor bugfixes
+This version of Tahoe will tolerate directory entries that contain filecap
+formats which it does not recognize: files and directories from the future.
+Previous versions would fail badly, preventing the user from seeing or
+editing anything else in those directories. These unrecognized objects can be
+renamed and deleted, but obviously not read or written. This should improve
+the user experience when we add new cap formats in the future. (#683)
+
+** Bugfixes
+
+deep-check-and-repair now tolerates read-only directories, such as the ones
+produced by the "tahoe backup" CLI command. Read-only directories and mutable
+files are checked, but not repaired. Previous versions threw an exception
+when attempting the repair and failed to process the remaining contents. We
+cannot yet repair these read-only objects, but at least this version allows
+the rest of the check+repair to proceed. (#625)
 
 A bug in 1.4.1 which caused a server to be listed multiple times (and
@@ -29 +45 @@
 the Helper's ability to mount a partial-information-guessing attack. (#722)
 
-** platform/packaging changes
+** Platform/packaging changes
 
 Tahoe now runs on NetBSD.
@@ -55 +71 @@
  no python-2.4.0 or 2.4.1 (2.4.2 is good)
   (they contained a bug in base64.b32decode)
- avoid python-2.6 on windows with mingw, compiler issues
+ avoid python-2.6 on windows with mingw: compiler issues
  python2.4 requires pysqlite2 (2.5,2.6 does not)
  no python-3.x