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 ## Latest News
 
+### 2010-06-18 -- v1.7.0 of Tahoe-LAFS is Released!
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+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. 
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 ### 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](http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/NEWS?rev=f8e2bab41ea6c38d).
 
 
-### 2010-02-01 -- v1.6 of Tahoe-LAFS is Released!
+### 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.