[tahoe-dev] plans for Tahoe v1.1.0

[zooko]

Folks:

We're planning to release a new version of Tahoe -- the first release  
after our 1.0 release.

There has been one major bug discovered and fixed since the 1.0  
release -- #379.  (Actually it is a worse bug than is obvious from  
reading that ticket, because the Tahoe node fails silently and  
returns a bogus success exit code to the wapi client.)

Attentive readers of tahoe-dev will have noticed that there is a  
current issue apparent when Ben Laurie uses Tahoe: #406.

Brian Warner has nicely refactored mutable file publish and retrieval  
and implemented better performance and better error handling of  
mutable files and better test coverage of that code. #303 and other  
tickets

There are also quite a few improvements we want to make in packaging,  
documentation, and CLI (see report 23: http://allmydata.org/trac/ 
tahoe/report/23 ) for the coming release.

There are also a couple of "forward compatibility" changes we want to  
make -- making foolscap and the Tahoe introducer protocol able have  
optional fields that will be ignored by versions of Tahoe which don't  
know how to handle them, but can be used by hypothetical future  
versions of Tahoe to "talk over the heads" of their older and less  
capable brethren.

This note is incomplete: there are probably important changes that  
we've either already made or plan to make before the release.  See  
The Roadmap -- http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/roadmap -- which is  
currently out of data but we will be updating it in the coming days  
to keep track of what we're doing and not doing for the next release.

Regards,

Zooko

tickets mentioned in this e-mail:

http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/379 # very large memory usage  
when adding to large directories
http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/406 # data corruption  
(integrity failure) bug on Ben Laurie's machine