News and Status

Latest News

2011-09-06 -- ​Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #13 is released

2011-08-30 -- ​Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #12 is released

2011-08-25 -- ​1.9.0alpha1 available for testing

2011-08-14 -- ​Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #11 is released

2011-07-24 -- ​The pubgrid is no longer available

2011-06-27 -- The Tahoe-LAFS Summit, June 27 - 30, San Francisco

Come socialize, share ideas, and hack on code! See the Summit Page.

2011-01-30 -- ​v1.8.2 Released!

Twisted-10.2 compatibility, small bugfixes.

2010-12-14 -- ​EFF post

Interesting mention in summary of useful tools when dealing with censorship.

2010-11-28 -- ​v1.8.1 Released!

Several bugfixes, including a security fix and a performance improvement.

2010-09-24 -- ​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 -- ​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!

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 in Kraków, Poland

2010-04-26 -- ​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​.

Old News

The OldNews page is an archive of these news items.

Others Source of News

• The tahoe-dev mailing list is the community forum for discussion of Tahoe design, implementation, and usage.

• The tahoe-announce mailing list is for announcements.

• ​Zooko's klog

• The zfec-dev mailing list is specific to the zfec erasure-coding library.

• The TestGrid page contains usage statistics about the public test grid.

Insight into the Development Process

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