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title:  "v1.18.0 is released"
date:   2022-10-03 16:17:57 +0000
excerpt: "ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File Store, v1.18.0"
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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][download]

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][about]

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.

[Read the full announcement][more]

[download]: https://tahoe-lafs.org/downloads
[about]: https://tahoe-lafs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/about.html
[more]: https://lists.tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2022-October/010043.html
