Tahoe-LAFS v1.9.0 Beta 1 Released

Tahoe-LAFS proudly released 1.9.0 beta 1. Below are the changes between beta 1 and alpha2:

• CLI: use "tahoe put --format=MDMF" to create an MDMF file, instead of "tahoe put --mutable --mutable-type=MDMF"
• web: WUI now has a three-item radiobox (CHK, SDMF, MDMF) instead of the tricky one-togglebutton+two-item-radiobox combination
• web-API t=JSON output now emits upper-case "format: MDMF" instead of lower-case "mutable-type: mdmf"
• MDMF filecaps no longer include the extra two "extension fields" (containing 'k' and segsize), and tolerate (ignore) arbitrary extension fields from the future

The beta is available here in tar.gz, tar.bz2, zip and -SUMO variants. You can also fetch it via any of our fine version control systems:

darcs get --lazy --tag=allmydata-tahoe-1.9.0b1 http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk tahoe-lafs-1.9.0b1

or

git clone -b allmydata-tahoe-1.9.0b1 git://github.com/warner/tahoe-lafs.git

or, if you already have a git checkout:

git pull git checkout allmydata-tahoe-1.9.0b1

The following items remaining for a final release:

• docs
• packaging tests
• test against the new Foolscap release, 0.6.2, also current Twisted trunk

Please download the beta and test it out. Our hope is to release 1.9.0 at the end of this month.

Foolscap 0.6.2 Release

Brian released Foolscap 0.6.2. This release fixes an incompatibility with the current Twisted trunk, which will cause problems when the next Twisted release comes out. The previous Foolscap would only work with Twisted 11.0. This would cause issues for Tahoe-LAFS 1.9.0, which has dependencies on both pieces of software. The new release supports both Twisted 11.0 and the current Twisted trunk.

Accounting

Brian announced Accounting 11.10. This tracks who uses what space. It will allow grids to stop offering space once a user exceeds their quota. Eventually, this could be expanded to incorporate Bitcoin. A user once they exceeded their quota could buy additional space through Bitcoin. Accounting offers full backwards compatibility with introducers which don't support accounting. Below are instructions how to test it:

1. install http://github.com/warner/python-ed25519
2. git clone -b accounting https://github.com/warner/tahoe-lafs.git
3. cd tahoe-lafs
4. start a grid with this version (you want a new Introducer, client, and servers)

Tahoe-LAFS Logo

Zooko provided a post to the list regarding the logo for Tahoe-LAFS. We would like to have a few shirts with the logo for the next Summit. Ticket 1185 covers the current candidates for the logo. Please post your thoughts regarding the designs to this ticket. Also if you are interested in updating the web site to the new logo and printing the tshirts, please let Zooko know.