= News and Status =

== Latest News ==

=== 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 [http://2010.confidence.org.pl/lang-pref/en/ CONfidence 2010] in Krakow, Poland ===

=== 2010-04-26 -- [http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-April/004305.html Google Summer of Code chooses to sponsor Tahoe-LAFS!] ===

=== 2010-02-27 -- v1.6.1 of Tahoe-LAFS is Released! ===

This is a bugfix release which [http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/NEWS?rev=f8e2bab41ea6c38d fixes a few small regressions in v1.6.0].

=== 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''' ===

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		<p>The <i>Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative</i>, a U.S.A. national cyber-defense initiative, has published a report brainstorming new ways to defend national security. The report <a href="http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI:DIR2-RO:j74uhg25nwdpjpacl6rkat2yhm:kav7ijeft5h7r7rxdp5bgtlt3viv32yabqajkrdykozia5544jqa/wiki.html#[[national cyber defense report recommends Tahoe-LAFS]]">praises Tahoe-LAFS</a>!</p>
}}}


== Old News ==

[wiki:OldNews The OldNews page] is an archive of these news items.

== Others Source of News ==

 * [/../../cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev The tahoe-dev mailing list] is the community forum for discussion of Tahoe design, implementation, and usage.

 * [/../../cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-announce The tahoe-announce mailing list] is for announcements.

 * [http://pubgrid.tahoe-lafs.org/uri/URI:DIR2-RO:ixqhc4kdbjxc7o65xjnveoewym:5x6lwoxghrd5rxhwunzavft2qygfkt27oj3fbxlq4c6p45z5uneq/blog.html Zooko's klog]

 * [http://fabricegrinda.com/ Fabrice Grinda] is the entrepeneur behind Allmydata Inc.

 * [/../../cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/zfec-dev The zfec-dev mailing list] is specific to the [/source/zfec zfec] erasure-coding library.

 * [wiki:TestGrid The TestGrid page] contains usage statistics about the public test grid.

== Insight into the Development Process ==

See [wiki:Dev the Dev page] for detailed information about Tahoe-LAFS development as it happens.