v1.19.0 is released
The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce version 1.19.0 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 v1.18.0, released on October 2, 2022. Major new features and changes in this release:
A new “Grid Manager” feature allows clients to specify any number of parties whom they will use to limit which storage-server that client talks to. See docs/managed-grid.rst for more.
The new HTTP-based “Great Black Swamp” protocol is now enabled (replacing Foolscap). This allows integrators to start with their favourite HTTP library (instead of implementing Foolscap first). Both storage-servers and clients support this new protocol.
tahoe run will now exit if its stdin is closed (but accepts --allow-stdin-close now).
Mutables may be created with a pre-determined signature key; care must be taken!
This release drops Python 3.7 support and adds Python 3.11 and 3.12 support. Several performance improvements have been made. Introducer correctly listens on Tor or I2P. Debian 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 are no longer tested.
Besides all this there have been dozens of other bug-fixes and improvements.
Enjoy!