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

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 v1.19.0, 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

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