= Documentation for Tahoe-LAFS Users = There are two collections of documents for users. One collection is made up of pages on this wiki, and the other is made up of files in the 'docs' directory of the Tahoe-LAFS source tree. Note: these links are to the 'trunk' (latest) versions of the documentation. See the 'docs' directory of a Tahoe-LAFS release for docs relating to that version. == User Docs, on the wiki == * [http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/about.html about]: the Tahoe-LAFS filesystem and the unique properties that it offers * [http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk/docs/quickstart.html quickstart]: how to get the software and set it up * [http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/running.html running]: how to run it once it is set up * [wiki:TestGrid Public Test Grid]: an existing grid to use for testing your installation * [source:docs/known_issues.rst Known Issues]: things you need to be aware of if you want to rely on Tahoe-LAFS to store your valuable data. * [wiki:HowToReportABug How To Report A Bug]: We love bug reports! Here's how. * [http://bigasterisk.com/tahoe-playground The story of a file], interactive illustration by Drew Perttula. * [wiki:FAQ Frequently Asked Questions]: with answers! * [wiki:UseCases UseCases]: the ways in which Tahoe-LAFS should be useful * [wiki:AdvancedInstall AdvancedInstall]: more information about building and installing Tahoe-LAFS * [wiki:SftpFrontend SFTP Frontend]: compatibility issues for accessing Tahoe-LAFS via SFTP * [wiki:TipsTricks Tips & Tricks] == User Docs, in source code == * [source:docs/ the 'docs' directory] == A Glance Under The Hood or "Gee What Does This Button Do?" == * [source:trunk/docs/configuration.rst configuration]: a description of the contents of your ".tahoe" directory * [source:trunk/docs/architecture.rst architecture]: a succinct overview of the whole system * [source:trunk/docs/frontends/CLI.rst Command Line Interface]: the basic "how to" for the CLI * [source:trunk/docs/frontends/webapi.rst Web API]: the basic "how to" for the WAPI * [wiki:Capabilities] what are capabilities; the different kinds that we currently use == Presentations / Papers == * [http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/attachment/wiki/News/tahoe-RSA-slides.pdf] presented at RSA 2010 * [http://tahoe-lafs.org/~zooko/lafs.pdf Tahoe – The Least-Authority Filesystem] presented at [http://storagess.org/2008 Storage Security and Survivability '08] * [http://tahoe-lafs.org/~warner/pycon-tahoe.html Tahoe: A Secure Distributed Filesystem] presented at [http://us.pycon.org/2008/about/ PyCon2008], providing an overview of the Tahoe-LAFS design, and the [http://tahoe-lafs.org/~warner/pycon-tahoe-slides.zip slides] (.zip) that were used for the presentation * [http://www.cs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/papers/FAST-2009.html A Performance Evaluation and Examination of Open-Source Erasure Coding Libraries For Storage] to be presented at [http://www.usenix.org/events/fast09 FAST-2009: 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies] == See Also == * [wiki:News The News page] for sources of news and information. * [wiki:Bibliography The Bibliography page] contains links to scientific papers of interest. * [wiki:RelatedProjects The RelatedProjects page] extensions to Tahoe-LAFS, integrations of Tahoe-LAFS into your favorite other tools, and links to a few other decentralized storage projects that you might be interested in. * [wiki:Dev The Dev page] for Tahoe-LAFS hackers. == The Parade of Release Notes == {{{ #!html
release notesdatewhat's new
v1.8.2January 30, 2011Twisted-10.2 compatibility, minor bugfixes
v1.8.1November 28, 2010minor bugfixes, including a security fix and a performance improvement to downloads; also binary packages of dependencies for more platforms
v1.8.0September 24, 2010performance and fault-tolerance of downloads, internationalization on Windows, logging, packaging
v1.7.1July 19, 2010upload bugfixes, Debian init scripts, etc.
v1.7.0June 18, 2010SFTP, unicode, servers-of-happiness
v1.6.1February 27, 2010fixes a few small regressions in v1.6.0
v1.6February 1, 2010performance improvements, usability improvements, deep-immutable directories
v1.5August 1, 2009WUI style, forward-compatibility, no size-limit on directories, more efficient directories, safer mv
v1.4.1April 13, 2009garbage collection, improved diagnostics, performance improvement when downloading many GB files
v1.3February 13, 2009repairer, backup command, large files, (S)FTP server, more
v1.2July 21, 2008fix a minor security flaw, add operational improvements
v1.1June 11, 2008fix rare but serious issues, improve UI
v1.0March 25, 2008It's version 1.0!
v0.9March 13, 2008Tahoe is now ready to be relied on for secure storage
v0.8February 15, 2008"visibility" into the system and more user interfaces
v0.7January 8, 2008decentralized directories and mutable files, a FUSE interface, and new open source licensing options
v0.6.1October 15, 2007packaging, usability, and performance improvements
v0.6September 24, 2007improved performance and packaging
v0.5.1August 23, 2007fix a security problem in the Web API
v0.5August 17, 2007the Web API and the command-line interface
v0.4June 29, 2007new mutable, shareable, private directories
v0.3June 6, 2007improved basic functionality
v0.2May 2, 2007the first public release, on May 2, 2007 and giving a general overview of why the Tahoe project exists
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