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 Release Notes.

2009-05-27 -- Open Knowledge Foundation grid

The ​Open Knowledge Foundation is ​now running a Tahoe-LAFS grid!

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

The "Hack Tahoe!" Contest ​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 -- ​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 Release Notes.

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

This is a major release adding several new features. Please see the Release Notes.

2008-09-23 -- FAST'09 paper

​A Performance Evaluation and Examination of Open-Source Erasure Coding Libraries For Storage will be presented at ​FAST-2009: 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies

2008-08-24 -- interactive illustration

Here is an ​interactive illustration showing how Tahoe works, thanks to Drew Perttula.

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

​The paper describing Tahoe has been accepted into the ACM ​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 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 the Release Notes.

2008-04-30 -- in the news

Tahoe is reviewed by the weekly programmer magazine ​LWN.net.

2008-03-14 -- Tahoe presented at PyCon

​PyCon2008: ​paper and ​slides

Old News

The OldNews page is an archive of these news items.

Others Source of News

• The tahoe-dev mailing list is the community forum for discussion of Tahoe design, implementation, and usage.

• The tahoe-announce mailing list is for announcements.

• ​The Allmydata, Inc. blog has news about Allmydata Inc.'s commercial offerings.

• ​Zooko's klog

• ​Fabrice Grinda is the entrepeneur behind Allmydata Inc.

• The zfec-dev mailing list is specific to the zfec erasure-coding library.

• The TestGrid page contains usage statistics about the public test grid.

Insight into the Development Process

See the Dev page for detailed information about Tahoe development as it happens.