= News and Status =

== Latest News ==

=== 2009-08-01 -- v1.5 released! ===

This is a major release adding UI, performance, portability and forward-compatibility improvements and fixing a couple of small bugs.  Please see the [source:relnotes.txt@20090802031003-92b7f-289b017e81538b436d2aff2586888a91a0e67598 Release Notes].

=== 2009-05-27 -- Open Knowledge Foundation grid ===

The [http://okfn.org Open Knowledge Foundation] is [http://blog.okfn.org/2009/05/13/launch-of-open-data-grid now running a Tahoe-LAFS grid!]

=== 2009-05-07 -- ''"Hack Tahoe!"'' Hall of Fame update ===

The ''"Hack Tahoe!"'' Contest [http://hacktahoe.org Hall of Fame] has been updated to show a picture of Christian Grothoff's smiling face as he receives his personalized ''"I Hacked Tahoe"'' t-shirt.

=== 2009-04-18 -- LAPTOP VERSUS AXE ===

NEWSFLASH!  Tahoe-LAFS Developer Goes Crazy -- [http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI:DIR2-RO:j74uhg25nwdpjpacl6rkat2yhm:kav7ijeft5h7r7rxdp5bgtlt3viv32yabqajkrdykozia5544jqa/wiki.html#%5B%5BLaptop%20Versus%20Axe%5D%5D Laptop Versus Axe!] -- Chaos On Stage At !CodeCon -- Film at 11

=== 2009-14-13 -- v1.4 released! ===

This is a major release adding garbage collection, improved diagnostics, and fixing a major performance problem with downloading multi-GB files. Please see the [source:relnotes.txt@!20090414025430-92b7f-6e06ebbd16f80e68a6141d44fc25cc1d49726b22 Release Notes].

=== 2009-02-13 -- v1.3 released! ===

This is a major release adding several new features. Please see the [source:relnotes.txt@20090214000500-92b7f-26d07f519c69a3e086ee4599620f6d2c0c9b2fcd Release Notes].

=== 2008-09-23 -- FAST'09 paper ===

[http://www.cs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/papers/FAST-2009.html A Performance Evaluation and Examination of Open-Source Erasure Coding Libraries For Storage] will be presented at [http://www.usenix.org/events/fast09 FAST-2009: 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies]

=== 2008-08-24 -- interactive illustration ===

Here is an [http://bigasterisk.com/tahoe-playground interactive illustration] showing how Tahoe works, thanks to Drew Perttula.

=== 2008-08-18 -- publication of a paper describing Tahoe ===

[http://allmydata.org/~zooko/lafs.pdf The paper describing Tahoe] has been accepted into the ACM [http://storagess.org/2008 Storage, Security, and Survivability Workshop]

=== 2008-07-21 -- v1.2 released! ===

This release fixes a security flaw in Tahoe v1.1 and offers several other improvements. Please see the [source:relnotes.txt@2789 Release Notes]

=== 2008-07-18 -- The ''Hack Tahoe! '' contest is now in progress! ===

http://hacktahoe.org

=== 2008-07-10 -- Justin Boreta helped me make this web page look much better.  Thanks, Justin!  --Zooko ===

=== 2008-06-11 -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem v1.1 released! ===

This release fixes several serious issues in Tahoe v1.0, and improves the user interfaces. Please see [source:relnotes.txt@2693 the Release Notes].

=== 2008-04-30 -- in the news ===

Tahoe is reviewed by the weekly programmer magazine [http://lwn.net/Articles/280483/ LWN.net].

=== 2008-03-14 -- Tahoe presented at !PyCon ===

[http://us.pycon.org/2008/about/ PyCon2008]: [http://allmydata.org/~warner/pycon-tahoe.html paper] and [http://allmydata.org/~warner/pycon-tahoe-slides.zip slides]

== Old News ==

[wiki:OldNews The OldNews page] is an archive of these news items.

== Others Source of News ==

 * [/../../cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev The tahoe-dev mailing list] is the community forum for discussion of Tahoe design, implementation, and usage.

 * [/../../cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-announce The tahoe-announce mailing list] is for announcements.

 * [http://allmydata.com/blog The Allmydata, Inc. blog] has news about Allmydata Inc.'s commercial offerings.

 * [http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI:DIR2-RO:j74uhg25nwdpjpacl6rkat2yhm:kav7ijeft5h7r7rxdp5bgtlt3viv32yabqajkrdykozia5544jqa/wiki.html Zooko's klog]

 * [http://fabricegrinda.com/ Fabrice Grinda] is the entrepeneur behind Allmydata Inc.

 * [/../../cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/zfec-dev The zfec-dev mailing list] is specific to the [/source/zfec zfec] erasure-coding library.

 * [wiki:TestGrid The TestGrid page] contains usage statistics about the public test grid.

== Insight into the Development Process ==

See [wiki:Dev the Dev page] for detailed information about Tahoe development as it happens.