Tahoe-LAFS 1.9.2 alpha Released for Testing

Zooko announced the release of Tahoe-LAFS 1.9.2 alpha for testing. Please download the tarball for testing. At last check, this release closed over 44 tickets. This makes it the biggest "micro" release of Tahoe-LAFS ever.

Foolscap-0.6.4 Released

Brian released Foolscap-0.6.4. The release includes the following changes:

• The unreliable 'extras_require' property in setup.py, which allowed other python programs to declare a dependency on foolscap's "secure_connections" feature, was removed. See README.packagers for alternate instructions. (#174)
• 'flogtool' log-dumping commands (dump, tail, web-viewer) now accept a consistent --timestamps= argument to control how event times are displayed (UTC, local, seconds-since-epoch, etc). (#192, #193)
• Certain invalid "location" strings (accepted by Tub.setLocation and put into FURLs) are rejected earlier, and with better error messages. The error message produced when 'flogtool dump' is given a FURL-file (instead of an event log file) has been improved.
• The Incident Gatherer will tolerate incident-file errors better, fetching remaining incidents instead of halting. (#190)
• The git-over-foolscap tools were cleaned up, and the documentation was brought into line with the implementation. (#197)
• Other minor bugs were fixed: #179, #191, #194, #195, #196

Announcing RentaNode.nl

Guido Witmond announced RentaNode.nl. Rentanode.nl allows users to rent private Tahoe-LAFS storage grids on geographically spread servers.

"Each customer gets their 'own' grid so they will have full control over access control, n-of-k encoding, data retention (garbage collection) and even introducer-rekeying. An introducer node is included for free to help those behind NAT-routers. Or bring your own."

Customers of Least Authority Enterprise (LAE) can use Rentanode.nl services in conjunction by setting LAE's introducer as described here.

Article on Tahoe-LAFS

Saint Germain included Tahoe-LAFS in their article on free backup software with deduplication. The article is in French. If someone could provided a translated copy, it would be greatly appreciated.