News and Status

Latest News

2010-02-01 -- v1.6 of Tahoe-LAFS is Released!

Tahoe-LAFS v1.6 features greatly improved performance, usability, and forward-compatibility, and deep-immutable directories.

2010-01-20 -- The Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative

The Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, a U.S.A. national cyber-defense initiative, has published a report brainstorming new ways to defend national security. The report praises Tahoe-LAFS!

2009-12-29 -- Chaos Communications Congress 2009

There was a ​Tahoe-LAFS Workshop at the ​Chaos Communication Congress 2009 organized by François Deppierraz.

2009-10-30 -- RSA Conference 2010

Tahoe-LAFS will be presented at the RSA Conference 2010 in San Francisco: ​Your cloud storage provider does not need access to your data.

2009-10-02 -- HadoopWorld 2009

Tahoe-LAFS was ​presented at HadoopWorld in New York City

2009-10-01 -- included in Ubuntu

Tahoe-LAFS is ​included in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)!

2009-08-15 -- Windows client

Allmydata.com has open-sourced its ​Windows client. Thank you, allmydata.com!

2009-08-04 -- featured in Ars Technica

Tahoe-LAFS is ​reviewed by Ars Technica

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.

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-LAFS development as it happens.