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title:  "v1.20.0 is released"
date:   2024-12-19 05:48:54 +0000
excerpt: "ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File Store, v1.20.0"
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  teaser: /assets/images/posts/release.jpg
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The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce version 1.20.0 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 v1.19.0, released on
January 18, 2024. Major new features and changes in this release:

Declarative build system based on "hatch".
The ability to creat mutable directories with a given private-key.

Pulled in fixes from CBOR, stopped using the C version of CBOR and
fixed incompatibilities with attrs and cryptography libraries.

Besides all this there have been dozens of other bug-fixes and
improvements.

Enjoy!

[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/2024-December/010111.html