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 # News and Status
 
 ## Latest News
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 ### 2010-09-24 -- [v1.8.0](http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-September/005248.html) Released!
 
-This release introduces a completely new downloader to raise the performance and robustness of downloads. It also improves consistency of command-line options, internationalization on Windows, code organization, tests, logging, and packaging.
+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 -- [v1.7.1](http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-July/004705.html)" Released!