From d1a7bbdcd7e75095771b97f594c471e084aa9b97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: zooko <> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 16:37:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] [Imported from Trac: page OldNews, version 31] --- OldNews.md | 158 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------- 1 file changed, 79 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-) diff --git a/OldNews.md b/OldNews.md index f83d36a..e0e4493 100644 --- a/OldNews.md +++ b/OldNews.md @@ -4,201 +4,201 @@ See also [new News](News). ## Archived News Items -### 2012-08-20 -- Tahoe-LAFS mentioned in Jonathan Zittrain's [CRYPTO keynote](http://www.iacr.org/cryptodb/data/paper.php?pubkey +* 2012-08-20 — Tahoe-LAFS mentioned in Jonathan Zittrain's [CRYPTO keynote](http://www.iacr.org/cryptodb/data/paper.php?pubkey=24329) (the whole talk is excellent; the Tahoe-LAFS mention is at 58:04). -### 2012-07-03 -- v1.9.2 [//pipermail/tahoe-dev/2012-July/007527.html released] +* 2012-07-03 — v1.9.2 [//pipermail/tahoe-dev/2012-July/007527.html released] -### 2012-03-30 -- Tahoe-LAFS Hack Fest in Boulder, Colorado [and online](https://plus.google.com/u/0/108983078988421480963/posts/JAbwujNdbJ5) +* 2012-03-30 — Tahoe-LAFS Hack Fest in Boulder, Colorado [and online](https://plus.google.com/u/0/108983078988421480963/posts/JAbwujNdbJ5) -### 2012-02-04 -- [//~marlowe/TWN24.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #24] is released +* 2012-02-04 — [//~marlowe/TWN24.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #24] is released -### 2012-01-09 -- **advisory**: Kevan Carstensen discovered [//pipermail/tahoe-announce/2012-January/000032.html an important security vulnerability] in Tahoe-LAFS v1.9.0 +* 2012-01-09 — **advisory**: Kevan Carstensen discovered [//pipermail/tahoe-announce/2012-January/000032.html an important security vulnerability] in Tahoe-LAFS v1.9.0 -### 2012-01-28 -- [//~marlowe/TWN23.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #23] is released +* 2012-01-28 — [//~marlowe/TWN23.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #23] is released -### 2012-01-21 -- [//~marlowe/TWN22.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #22] is released +* 2012-01-21 — [//~marlowe/TWN22.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #22] is released -### 2012-01-14 -- [//~marlowe/TWN21.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #21] is released +* 2012-01-14 — [//~marlowe/TWN21.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #21] is released -### 2012-01-12 -- v1.9.1 released, fixing security vulnerability +* 2012-01-12 — v1.9.1 released, fixing security vulnerability -### 2012-01-09 -- advisory: Kevan Carstensen discovered an important security vulnerability in Tahoe-LAFS v1.9.0 +* 2012-01-09 — advisory: Kevan Carstensen discovered an important security vulnerability in Tahoe-LAFS v1.9.0 -### 2012-01-07 -- [//~marlowe/TWN20.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #20] is released +* 2012-01-07 — [//~marlowe/TWN20.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #20] is released -### 2011-12-13 -- [//~marlowe/TWN19.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #19] is released +* 2011-12-13 — [//~marlowe/TWN19.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #19] is released -### 2011-11-29 -- [//~marlowe/TWN18.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #18] is released +* 2011-11-29 — [//~marlowe/TWN18.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #18] is released -### 2011-11-22 -- [//~marlowe/TWN17.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #17] is released +* 2011-11-22 — [//~marlowe/TWN17.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #17] is released -### 2011-10-31 -- v1.9.0 released, adding MDMF and blacklist support +* 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. +* 2011-10-29 — 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 -- [//~marlowe/TWN14.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #14] +* 2011-10-10 — [//~marlowe/TWN14.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #14] -### 2011-09-23 -- [../Summit The Second International Tahoe-LAFS Summit] will be held November 7 through November 11 in San Francisco +* 2011-09-23 — [../Summit The Second International Tahoe-LAFS Summit] will be held November 7 through November 11 in San Francisco -### 2011-09-13 -- [//pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-September/006675.html v1.8.3 released], fixing a security vulnerability +* 2011-09-13 — [//pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-September/006675.html v1.8.3 released], fixing a security vulnerability -### 2011-09-06 -- [//~marlowe/TWN13.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #13] is released +* 2011-09-06 — [//~marlowe/TWN13.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #13] is released -### 2011-08-30 -- [//~marlowe/TWN12.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #12] is released +* 2011-08-30 — [//~marlowe/TWN12.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #12] is released -### 2011-08-25 -- [//pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-August/006658.html 1.9.0alpha1] available for testing +* 2011-08-25 — [//pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-August/006658.html 1.9.0alpha1] available for testing -### 2011-08-14 -- [//~marlowe/TWN11.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #11] is released +* 2011-08-14 — [//~marlowe/TWN11.html Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #11] is released -### 2011-07-24 -- [//pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-July/006572.html The pubgrid is no longer available] +* 2011-07-24 — [//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 +* 2011-06-27 — The Tahoe-LAFS Summit, June 27 - 30, San Francisco Come socialize, share ideas, and hack on code! See [the Summit Page](Summit). -### 2011-01-30 -- [//pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-January/006012.html v1.8.2] Released! +* 2011-01-30 — [//pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-January/006012.html v1.8.2] Released! Twisted-10.2 compatibility, small bugfixes. -### 2010-12-14 -- [EFF post](http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/constructive-direct-action-against-censorship) +* 2010-12-14 — [EFF post](http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/constructive-direct-action-against-censorship) Interesting mention in summary of useful tools when dealing with censorship. -### 2010-11-28 -- [//pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-November/005674.html v1.8.1] Released! +* 2010-11-28 — [//pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-November/005674.html v1.8.1] Released! Several bugfixes, including a security fix and a performance improvement. -### 2010-09-24 -- [//pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-September/005248.html v1.8.0] Released! +* 2010-09-24 — [//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 -- [//pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-July/004705.html" v1.7.1] Released! +* 2010-07-19 — [//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! +* 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 [CONfidence 2010](http://2010.confidence.org.pl/lang-pref/en/) in Kraków, Poland +* 2010-05-25 — Zooko presented Tahoe-LAFS at [CONfidence 2010](http://2010.confidence.org.pl/lang-pref/en/) in Kraków, Poland -### 2010-04-26 -- [//pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-April/004305.html Google Summer of Code chooses to sponsor Tahoe-LAFS!] +* 2010-04-26 — [//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. [Slides here](../raw/attachments/OldNews/tahoe-RSA-slides.pdf). +* 2010-03-05 — Brian and Zooko presented Tahoe-LAFS at RSA in San Francisco. [Slides here](../raw/attachments/OldNews/tahoe-RSA-slides.pdf). -### 2010-02-27 -- v1.6.1 of Tahoe-LAFS is Released! +* 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]source:trunk/NEWS?rev=4254. -### 2010-02-01 -- v1.6.0 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. -### 2010-01-20 -- The **Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative** +* 2010-01-20 — The **Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative**

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 +* 2009-12-29 — Chaos Communications Congress 2009 There was a [Tahoe-LAFS Workshop](https://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/wiki/Tahoe-LAFS_Workshop) at the [Chaos Communication Congress 2009](https://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/wiki/Welcome) organized by François Deppierraz. -### 2009-10-30 -- RSA Conference 2010 +* 2009-10-30 — RSA Conference 2010 Tahoe-LAFS will be presented at the RSA Conference 2010 in San Francisco: [//trac/chrome/tahoe-RSA-slides.pdf Your cloud storage provider does not need access to your data.] -### 2009-10-02 -- HadoopWorld 2009 +* 2009-10-02 — HadoopWorld 2009 Tahoe-LAFS was [presented at [HadoopWorld](HadoopWorld) in New York City](http://www.cloudera.com/sites/all/themes/cloudera/static/hw09/3%20%20-%202-30%20Aaron%20Cordova,%20BAH,%20HadoopWorldComplete.pdf) -### 2009-10-01 -- included in Ubuntu +* 2009-10-01 — included in Ubuntu Tahoe-LAFS is [included in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue158#Karmic%20gets%20another%20cloud%20tool:%20Tahoe-LAFS)! -### 2009-08-15 -- Windows client +* 2009-08-15 — Windows client Allmydata.com has open-sourced its [//trac/tahoe-w32-client/wiki Windows client]. Thank you, allmydata.com! -### 2009-08-04 -- featured in Ars Technica +* 2009-08-04 — featured in Ars Technica Tahoe-LAFS is [reviewed by Ars Technica](http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/08/p2p-like-tahoe-filesystem-offers-secure-storage-in-the-cloud.ars) -### 2009-08-01 -- v1.5 released! +* 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 [Release Notes]source:relnotes.txt@20090802031003-92b7f-289b017e81538b436d2aff2586888a91a0e67598. -### 2009-05-27 -- Open Knowledge Foundation grid +* 2009-05-27 — Open Knowledge Foundation grid The [Open Knowledge Foundation](http://okfn.org) is [now running a Tahoe-LAFS grid!](http://blog.okfn.org/2009/05/13/launch-of-open-data-grid) -### 2009-05-07 -- *"Hack Tahoe!"* Hall of Fame update +* 2009-05-07 — *"Hack Tahoe!"* Hall of Fame update The *"Hack Tahoe!"* Contest [//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 +* 2009-04-18 — LAPTOP VERSUS AXE -NEWSFLASH! Tahoe-LAFS Developer Goes Crazy -- [Laptop Versus Axe!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztbIwH7gz7o) -- Chaos On Stage At CodeCon -- Film at 11 +NEWSFLASH! Tahoe-LAFS Developer Goes Crazy — [Laptop Versus Axe!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztbIwH7gz7o) — Chaos On Stage At CodeCon — Film at 11 -### 2009-14-13 -- v1.4 released! +* 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 [Release Notes]source:relnotes.txt@!20090414025430-92b7f-6e06ebbd16f80e68a6141d44fc25cc1d49726b22. -### 2009-02-13 -- v1.3 released! +* 2009-02-13 — v1.3 released! This is a major release adding several new features. Please see the [Release Notes]source:relnotes.txt@20090214000500-92b7f-26d07f519c69a3e086ee4599620f6d2c0c9b2fcd. -### 2008-03-25 -- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem v1.0 released! +* 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 [the Release Notes]source:relnotes.txt@2348. -### 2008-03-13 -- Allmydata.org Tahoe v0.9 released! +* 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. +This is a major release of allmydata.org "Tahoe" — Tahoe is now considered stable enough to store valuable data. Please see [the Release Notes]source:relnotes.txt@2313. -### 2008-03-14 -- Tahoe presented at PyCon +* 2008-03-14 — Tahoe presented at PyCon [PyCon2008](http://us.pycon.org/2008/about/): [*~warner/pycon-tahoe.html paper] and [*~warner/pycon-tahoe-slides.zip slides] -### 2008-02-15 -- Allmydata.org Tahoe v0.8.0 released! +* 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 [the Release Notes]source:relnotes.txt@2189. -### 2008-01-08 -- Allmydata.org Tahoe v0.7.0 released! +* 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 [the Release Notes]source:relnotes.txt@1805. -### 2007-10-15 -- Allmydata.org Tahoe v0.6.1 released! +* 2007-10-15 — Allmydata.org Tahoe v0.6.1 released! This release focusses on packaging, documentation, and usability. Please see [the Release Notes]source:relnotes.txt@1430. -### 2007-09-24 -- Allmydata Tahoe v0.6 released! +* 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 [the Release Notes]source:relnotes.txt@1346. -### 2007-08-23 -- Allmydata Tahoe v0.5.1 released! +* 2007-08-23 — Allmydata Tahoe v0.5.1 released! This fixes a security flaw in Tahoe v0.5.0. Please see [the Release Notes]source:relnotes.txt@1154. -### 2007-08-21 -- security flaw +* 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 +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 @@ -210,61 +210,61 @@ You can read more about the attack and our fix in this bug tracker ticket: [//trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/98 ] -### 2008-09-23 -- FAST'09 paper +* 2008-09-23 — FAST'09 paper [A Performance Evaluation and Examination of Open-Source Erasure Coding Libraries For Storage](http://www.cs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/papers/FAST-2009.html) will be presented at [FAST-2009: 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies](http://www.usenix.org/events/fast09) -### 2008-08-24 -- interactive illustration +* 2008-08-24 — interactive illustration Here is an [interactive illustration](http://bigasterisk.com/tahoe-playground) showing how Tahoe works, thanks to Drew Perttula. -### 2008-08-18 -- publication of a paper describing Tahoe +* 2008-08-18 — publication of a paper describing Tahoe [//trac/chrome/lafs.pdf The paper describing Tahoe] has been accepted into the ACM [Storage, Security, and Survivability Workshop](http://storagess.org/2008) -### 2008-07-21 -- v1.2 released! +* 2008-07-21 — v1.2 released! This release fixes a security flaw in Tahoe v1.1 and offers several other improvements. Please see the [Release Notes]source:relnotes.txt@2789 -### 2008-07-18 -- The *Hack Tahoe! * contest is now in progress! +* 2008-07-18 — The *Hack Tahoe! * contest is now in progress! [//hacktahoelafs/ ] -### 2008-07-10 -- Justin Boreta helped me make this web page look much better. Thanks, Justin! --Zooko +* 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! +* 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 [the Release Notes]source:relnotes.txt@2693. -### 2008-04-30 -- in the news +* 2008-04-30 — in the news Tahoe is reviewed by the weekly programmer magazine [LWN.net](http://lwn.net/Articles/280483/). -### 2007-08-17 -- Allmydata Tahoe v0.5 is released. +* 2007-08-17 — Allmydata Tahoe v0.5 is released. [release announcement and discussion](http://lists.zooko.com/pipermail/p2p-hackers/2007-August/001209.html) -### 2007-06-29 -- Allmydata Tahoe v0.4 is released. +* 2007-06-29 — Allmydata Tahoe v0.4 is released. [release announcment and discussion](http://lists.zooko.com/pipermail/p2p-hackers/2007-June/001124.html) -### 2007-06-11 -- Allmydata Tahoe v0.3 is released. +* 2007-06-11 — Allmydata Tahoe v0.3 is released. [release announcement and discussion](http://lists.zooko.com/pipermail/p2p-hackers/2007-June/001074.html) -### 2007-02-02 -- Allmydata Tahoe v0.2 is released. +* 2007-02-02 — Allmydata Tahoe v0.2 is released. 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2008-08-24 -- Here is an interactive illustration showing how Tahoe works, thanks to Drew Perttula.

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2008-09-10 -- Thanks for the memory

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

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

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2008-09-10 — Thanks for the memory

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

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

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

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

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