News and Status

Latest News

2010-07-19 -- ​v1.7.1 Released!

This stable minor release adds several bugfixes and improvements in security, forward-compatibility, packaging, usability, and portability.

2010-06-18 -- v1.7.0 of Tahoe-LAFS is Released!

This release adds a fully functional SFTP interface, support for non-ASCII character encodings, and a new upload algorithm which guarantees that each file is spread over multiple servers for fault-tolerance.

2010-05-25 -- Zooko presented Tahoe-LAFS at ​CONfidence 2010 in Kraków, Poland

2010-04-26 -- ​Google Summer of Code chooses to sponsor Tahoe-LAFS!

2010-03-05 -- Brian and Zooko presented Tahoe-LAFS at RSA in San Francisco. Slides here​.

2010-02-27 -- v1.6.1 of Tahoe-LAFS is Released!

This is a bugfix release which ​fixes a few small regressions in v1.6.0.

2010-02-01 -- v1.6.0 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!

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.

• ​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.