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Table of Contents

• Documentation for Tahoe-LAFS Users
• First Steps
• User Docs, on the wiki
• User Docs, in source code
• Developer Docs
• See Also
• The Parade of Release Notes

Documentation for Tahoe-LAFS Users

There are two collections of documents for users. One collection is made up of pages on this wiki, and the other is made up of files in the 'docs' directory of the Tahoe-LAFS source tree.

Note: these links are to the 'trunk' (latest) versions of the documentation. See the 'docs' directory of a Tahoe-LAFS release for docs relating to that version.

First Steps

• [about]source:docs/about.rst: the Tahoe-LAFS filesystem and the unique properties that it offers
• [INSTALL]source:docs/INSTALL.rst: how to get the software and set it up
• [running]source:docs/running.rst: how to run it once it is set up

User Docs, on the wiki

• Public Test Grid: an existing grid to use for testing your installation

• How To Report A Bug: We love bug reports! Here's how.

• The story of a file, interactive illustration by Drew Perttula.

• Frequently Asked Questions: with answers!

• UseCases: the ways in which Tahoe-LAFS should be useful

• SFTP Frontend: compatibility issues for accessing Tahoe-LAFS via SFTP

• Tips & Tricks

• Capabilities what are capabilities; the different kinds that we currently use

User Docs, in source code

• [the 'docs' directory]source:docs/

• [configuration]source:docs/configuration.rst: a description of the contents of your ".tahoe" directory

• [architecture]source:docs/architecture.rst: a succinct overview of the whole system

• [Command Line Interface]source:docs/frontends/CLI.rst: the basic "how to" for the CLI

• [Web API]source:docs/frontends/webapi.rst: the basic "how to" for the WAPI

• [Known Issues]source:docs/known_issues.rst: things you need to be aware of if you want to rely on Tahoe-LAFS to store your valuable data.

Developer Docs

• Developer Docs

See Also

• [The RelatedProjects page](RelatedProjects) extensions to Tahoe-LAFS, integrations of Tahoe-LAFS into your favorite other tools, and links to a few other decentralized storage projects that you might be interested in.
• The News page has sources of news and information.

The Parade of Release Notes

NEWS	date	what's new
1.12.1	18-Jan-2017	fix multi-introducer, I2P
1.12.0	17-Dec-2016	Tor/I2P, Magic-Folders, multi-introducer, static servers
[1.11.1]source:/trunk/NEWS.rst@04a3e79	30-Mar-2016	switch to pip/virtualenv/tox, add preferred-peers
[1.10.2]source:/trunk/NEWS.rst@befa4ba	30-Jul-2015	a few bugfixes, build/packaging fixes, fewer warnings from build
[1.10.1]source:/trunk/NEWS.rst@588702	16-Jun-2015	many bugfixes, cp -r
[1.10.0]source:/trunk/NEWS.rst@f9af063	01-May-2013	signed Introducer, unguessable introducer.furl, new Welcome page
[1.9.2]source:/trunk/NEWS.rst@0556a98	03-Jul-2012	fix regressions in mutable file handling
[1.9.1]source:/trunk/NEWS.rst@d9c7dfa	12-Jan-2012	critical security fix
[1.9.0]source:/trunk/NEWS.rst@ac49656	31-Oct-2011	new mutable-file format (more efficient for large files), file-blacklisting, drop-upload
[1.8.3]source:/1.8.3/NEWS@13d284b	13-Sep-2011	security fix
[1.8.2]source:/trunk/NEWS@7a4f76f	30-Jan-2011	Twisted-10.2 compatibility, minor bugfixes
[1.8.1]source:/trunk/NEWS@ce41eab	28-Nov-2010	minor bugfixes, including a security fix and a performance improvement to downloads; also binary packages of dependencies for more platforms
[1.8.0]source:/trunk/NEWS@6bf594a	24-Sep-2010	performance and fault-tolerance of downloads, internationalization on Windows, logging, packaging
[1.7.1]source:/trunk/NEWS@9f3995f	19-Jul-2010	upload bugfixes, Debian init scripts, etc.
[1.7.0]source:/trunk/NEWS@7fde9d7	18-Jun-2010	SFTP, unicode, servers-of-happiness
[1.6.1]source:/trunk/NEWS@b7c0248	27-Feb-2010	fixes a few small regressions in 1.6.0
[1.6]source:/trunk/NEWS@80816fd	01-Feb-2010	performance improvements, usability improvements, deep-immutable directories
[1.5]source:/trunk/NEWS@263713e	01-Aug-2009	WUI style, forward-compatibility, no size-limit on directories, more efficient directories, safer mv
[1.4.1]source:/trunk/NEWS@8c687c7	13-Apr-2009	garbage collection, improved diagnostics, performance improvement when downloading many GB files
[1.3]source:/trunk/NEWS@967d1b4	13-Feb-2009	repairer, backup command, large files, (S)FTP server, more
[1.2]source:/trunk/NEWS@1d68f87	21-Jul-2008	fix a minor security flaw, add operational improvements
[1.1]source:/trunk/NEWS@4c71ffb	11-Jun-2008	fix rare but serious issues, improve UI
[1.0]source:/trunk/relnotes.txt@ef15167	25-Mar-2008	It's version 1.0!
[0.9]source:/trunk/relnotes.txt@229142e	13-Mar-2008	Tahoe is now ready to be relied on for secure storage
[0.8]source:/trunk/relnotes.txt@098b593	15-Feb-2008	"visibility" into the system and more user interfaces
[0.7]source:/trunk/relnotes.txt@9033d88	08-Jan-2008	decentralized directories and mutable files, a FUSE interface, and new open source licensing options
[0.6.1]source:/trunk/relnotes.txt@1c1d96b	15-Oct-2007	packaging, usability, and performance improvements
[0.6]source:/trunk/relnotes.txt@db09057	24-Sep-2007	improved performance and packaging
[0.5.1]source:/trunk/relnotes.txt@44db5fd	23-Aug-2007	fix a security problem in the Web API
[0.5]source:/trunk/relnotes.txt@3e1c417	17-Aug-2007	the Web API and the command-line interface
[0.4]source:/trunk/relnotes.txt@e72bff1	29-Jun-2007	new mutable, shareable, private directories
[0.3]source:/trunk/relnotes.txt@c8077de	06-Jun-2007	improved basic functionality
[0.2]source:/trunk/relnotes.txt@d09eadd	02-May-2007	the first public release, on May 2, 2007 and giving a general overview of why the Tahoe project exists