= Old News = See also [wiki:News new News]. == Archived News Items == === 2011-12-13 -- [http://tahoe-lafs.org/~marlowe/TWN19.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #19] is released === 2011-11-29 -- [http://tahoe-lafs.org/~marlowe/TWN18.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #18] is released === 2011-11-22 -- [http://tahoe-lafs.org/~marlowe/TWN17.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #17] is released === 2011-10-31 -- v1.9.0 released, adding MDMF and blacklist support === 2011-10-29 -- new server! If you can read this, we succeeded at moving this trac to a new server. If you can see this faster than you used to, then it was worth it. === 2011-10-10 -- [http://tahoe-lafs.org/~marlowe/TWN14.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #14] === 2011-09-13 -- [http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-September/006675.html v1.8.3 released], fixing a security vulnerability === 2011-09-06 -- [http://tahoe-lafs.org/~marlowe/TWN13.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #13] is released === 2011-08-30 -- [http://tahoe-lafs.org/~marlowe/TWN12.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #12] is released === 2011-08-25 -- [http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-August/006658.html 1.9.0alpha1] available for testing === 2011-08-14 -- [http://tahoe-lafs.org/~marlowe/TWN11.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #11] is released === 2011-07-24 -- [http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-July/006572.html The pubgrid is no longer available] === 2011-06-27 -- The Tahoe-LAFS Summit, June 27 - 30, San Francisco Come socialize, share ideas, and hack on code! See [wiki:Summit the Summit Page]. === 2011-01-30 -- [http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-January/006012.html v1.8.2] Released! Twisted-10.2 compatibility, small bugfixes. === 2010-12-14 -- [http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/constructive-direct-action-against-censorship EFF post] Interesting mention in summary of useful tools when dealing with censorship. === 2010-11-28 -- [http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-November/005674.html v1.8.1] Released! Several bugfixes, including a security fix and a performance improvement. === 2010-09-24 -- [http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-September/005248.html v1.8.0] Released! This release offers greatly improved performance and fault-tolerance of downloads. It also improves consistency of command-line options, internationalization on Windows, code organization, tests, logging, and packaging. === 2010-07-19 -- [http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-July/004705.html" 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 [http://2010.confidence.org.pl/lang-pref/en/ CONfidence 2010] in Kraków, Poland === 2010-04-26 -- [http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-April/004305.html Google Summer of Code chooses to sponsor Tahoe-LAFS!] === 2010-03-05 -- Brian and Zooko presented Tahoe-LAFS at RSA in San Francisco. [attachment:tahoe-RSA-slides.pdf Slides here]. === 2010-02-27 -- v1.6.1 of Tahoe-LAFS is Released! === This is a bugfix release which [http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/NEWS?rev=f8e2bab41ea6c38d 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''' === {{{ #!html

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 [https://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/wiki/Tahoe-LAFS_Workshop Tahoe-LAFS Workshop] at the [https://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/wiki/Welcome 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: [http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI:DIR2-RO:j74uhg25nwdpjpacl6rkat2yhm:kav7ijeft5h7r7rxdp5bgtlt3viv32yabqajkrdykozia5544jqa/wiki.html#2009-10-30 Your cloud storage provider does not need access to your data.] === 2009-10-02 -- !HadoopWorld 2009 === Tahoe-LAFS was [http://www.cloudera.com/sites/all/themes/cloudera/static/hw09/3%20%20-%202-30%20Aaron%20Cordova,%20BAH,%20HadoopWorldComplete.pdf presented at HadoopWorld in New York City] === 2009-10-01 -- included in Ubuntu === Tahoe-LAFS is [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue158#Karmic%20gets%20another%20cloud%20tool:%20Tahoe-LAFS included in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)]! === 2009-08-15 -- Windows client === Allmydata.com has open-sourced its [http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-w32-client/wiki Windows client]. Thank you, allmydata.com! === 2009-08-04 -- featured in Ars Technica === Tahoe-LAFS is [http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/08/p2p-like-tahoe-filesystem-offers-secure-storage-in-the-cloud.ars 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 [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://tahoe-lafs.org/hacktahoelafs/ 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]. === 2008-03-25 -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem v1.0 released! === This is version 1.0. We plan to actively support this branch for the forseeable future and to maintain backwards compatibility with it in future releases of Tahoe. Please see [source:relnotes.txt@2348 the Release Notes]. === 2008-03-13 -- Allmydata.org Tahoe v0.9 released! === This is a major release of allmydata.org "Tahoe" -- Tahoe is now considered stable enough to store valuable data. Please see [source:relnotes.txt@2313 the Release Notes]. === 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] === 2008-02-15 -- Allmydata.org Tahoe v0.8.0 released! === This release extends the user interfaces to provide visibility into the operation of the network, and adds preliminary Windows, Macintosh, and FUSE extensions. Please see [source:relnotes.txt@2189 the Release Notes]. === 2008-01-08 -- Allmydata.org Tahoe v0.7.0 released! === This release adds decentralized mutable files and directories, a FUSE interface, and a novel open source licence. Please see [source:relnotes.txt@1805 the Release Notes]. === 2007-10-15 -- Allmydata.org Tahoe v0.6.1 released! === This release focusses on packaging, documentation, and usability. Please see [source:relnotes.txt@1430 the Release Notes]. === 2007-09-24 -- Allmydata Tahoe v0.6 released! === This release features improved packaging (including binary packages for easier installation), performance, reliability, and potential future-compatibility. Please see [source:relnotes.txt@1346 the Release Notes]. === 2007-08-23 -- Allmydata Tahoe v0.5.1 released! === This fixes a security flaw in Tahoe v0.5.0. Please see [source:relnotes.txt@1154 the Release Notes]. === 2007-08-21 -- security flaw === Nathan Wilcox has discovered that the new web API in allmydata-tahoe version 0.5 is vulnerable to XSRF attack. An XSRF -- or "Cross-Site Reference Forgery" attack -- is one in which an attacker creates an innocuous-looking hyperlink, and if a user clicks on that hyperlink then it causes deletion or theft of the user's data. We are working on a fix for this problem, and in the meantime if you have stored any private or precious data on a tahoe grid, then you can make sure that you are not exposed to this threat by shutting down your tahoe node before browsing the web. You can read more about the attack and our fix in the mailing list archves: http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/ and in this bug tracker ticket: http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/98 === 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 === [//trac/chrome/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] === 2007-08-17 -- Allmydata Tahoe v0.5 is released. === [http://lists.zooko.com/pipermail/p2p-hackers/2007-August/001209.html release announcement and discussion] === 2007-06-29 -- Allmydata Tahoe v0.4 is released. === [http://lists.zooko.com/pipermail/p2p-hackers/2007-June/001124.html release announcment and discussion] === 2007-06-11 -- Allmydata Tahoe v0.3 is released. === [http://lists.zooko.com/pipermail/p2p-hackers/2007-June/001074.html release announcement and discussion] === 2007-02-02 -- Allmydata Tahoe v0.2 is released. === [http://lists.zooko.com/pipermail/p2p-hackers/2007-May/001041.html release announcement and discussion] = Old Buzz = {{{ #!html

2008-08-24 -- Here is an interactive illustration showing how Tahoe works, thanks to Drew Perttula.

2008-09-10 -- Thanks for the memory

2008-09-04 -- Box.net powers online storage for Dell ‘netbook’

2008-08-31 -- Carbonite CEO: Online Backups Sell

2008-05-02 -- Mozy Delivers Solid Online Backup comparison to Mozy

(more news ...)

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