ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File Store, v1.18.0

The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce version 1.18.0 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely reliable decentralized storage system. Get it with “pip install tahoe-lafs”, or download a tarball here:

https://tahoe-lafs.org/downloads

Tahoe-LAFS is the first distributed storage system to offer “provider-independent security” — meaning that not even the operators of your storage servers can read or alter your data without your consent. Here is the one-page explanation of its unique security and fault-tolerance properties:

https://tahoe-lafs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/about.html

The previous stable release of Tahoe-LAFS was v1.17.1, released on January 7, 2022.

This release drops support for Python 2 and for Python 3.6 and earlier. twistd.pid is no longer used (in favour of one with pid + process creation time). A collection of minor bugs and issues were also fixed.

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