Documentation for Tahoe-LAFS Users

There are two collections of documents for users. One collection is made up of pages on this wiki, and the other is made up of files in the 'docs' directory of the Tahoe-LAFS source tree.

Note: these links are to the 'trunk' (latest) versions of the documentation. See the 'docs' directory of a Tahoe-LAFS release for docs relating to that version.

First Steps

• about: the Tahoe-LAFS filesystem and the unique properties that it offers
• quickstart: how to get the software and set it up
• running​: how to run it once it is set up

User Docs, on the wiki

• Public Test Grid: an existing grid to use for testing your installation

• How To Report A Bug: We love bug reports! Here's how.

• ​The story of a file, interactive illustration by Drew Perttula.

• Frequently Asked Questions: with answers!

• UseCases: the ways in which Tahoe-LAFS should be useful
• SFTP Frontend: compatibility issues for accessing Tahoe-LAFS via SFTP
• Tips & Tricks

• Capabilities what are capabilities; the different kinds that we currently use

User Docs, in source code

• the 'docs' directory

• configuration​: a description of the contents of your ".tahoe" directory
• architecture​: a succinct overview of the whole system
• Command Line Interface​: the basic "how to" for the CLI
• Web API​: the basic "how to" for the WAPI

• Known Issues​: things you need to be aware of if you want to rely on Tahoe-LAFS to store your valuable data.

Developer Docs

• Developer Docs

See Also

• The RelatedProjects page extensions to Tahoe-LAFS, integrations of Tahoe-LAFS into your favorite other tools, and links to a few other decentralized storage projects that you might be interested in.
• The News page has sources of news and information.

The Parade of Release Notes

NEWS	date	what's new
1.10.2​	30-Jul-2015	a few bugfixes, build/packaging fixes, fewer warnings from build
1.10.1​	16-Jun-2015	many bugfixes, cp -r
1.10.0​	01-May-2013	signed Introducer, unguessable introducer.furl, new Welcome page
1.9.2​	03-Jul-2012	fix regressions in mutable file handling
1.9.1​	12-Jan-2012	critical security fix
1.9.0​	31-Oct-2011	new mutable-file format (more efficient for large files), file-blacklisting, drop-upload
1.8.3	13-Sep-2011	security fix
1.8.2​	30-Jan-2011	Twisted-10.2 compatibility, minor bugfixes
1.8.1​	28-Nov-2010	minor bugfixes, including a security fix and a performance improvement to downloads; also binary packages of dependencies for more platforms
1.8.0​	24-Sep-2010	performance and fault-tolerance of downloads, internationalization on Windows, logging, packaging
1.7.1​	19-Jul-2010	upload bugfixes, Debian init scripts, etc.
1.7.0​	18-Jun-2010	SFTP, unicode, servers-of-happiness
1.6.1​	27-Feb-2010	fixes a few small regressions in 1.6.0
1.6​	01-Feb-2010	performance improvements, usability improvements, deep-immutable directories
1.5​	01-Aug-2009	WUI style, forward-compatibility, no size-limit on directories, more efficient directories, safer mv
1.4.1​	13-Apr-2009	garbage collection, improved diagnostics, performance improvement when downloading many GB files
1.3​	13-Feb-2009	repairer, backup command, large files, (S)FTP server, more
1.2​	21-Jul-2008	fix a minor security flaw, add operational improvements
1.1​	11-Jun-2008	fix rare but serious issues, improve UI
1.0​	25-Mar-2008	It's version 1.0!
0.9​	13-Mar-2008	Tahoe is now ready to be relied on for secure storage
0.8​	15-Feb-2008	"visibility" into the system and more user interfaces
0.7​	08-Jan-2008	decentralized directories and mutable files, a FUSE interface, and new open source licensing options
0.6.1​	15-Oct-2007	packaging, usability, and performance improvements
0.6​	24-Sep-2007	improved performance and packaging
0.5.1​	23-Aug-2007	fix a security problem in the Web API
0.5​	17-Aug-2007	the Web API and the command-line interface
0.4​	29-Jun-2007	new mutable, shareable, private directories
0.3​	06-Jun-2007	improved basic functionality
0.2	02-May-2007	the first public release, on May 2, 2007 and giving a general overview of why the Tahoe project exists