[ANNOUNCE] S3QL 6.0.0 has been released

[Nikolaus Rath]

Dear all,

I am pleased to announce a new release of S3QL, version 6.0.0.

From the changelog:

S3QL 6.0.0 (2026-03-18)
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* There have been significant changes in the internal architecture, but
user-facing behaviour should remain mostly unchanged.

* There are now separate limits for the maximum number of concurrent backend
connections, and concurrent compression/encryption threads. mount.s3ql's
`--threads` flag has been replaced with `--max-connections` and
`--max-threads`.

* Creating metadata backups while the filesystem is mounted no longer blocks
filesystem operations.

* The documentation is now provided in HTML and manpage format only
(no more PDF).

* This release is signed with the key that was originally intended for S3QL 5.5
(i.e, `signify/s3ql-5.5.pub` in the last S3QL tarball). In the future,
the key for the next version will be labelled as `s3ql-next` to prevent such
confusion.


The following people have contributed code to this release:

Daniel Jagszent <dan...@jagszent.de>
dependabot[bot] <49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Marios Titas <redne...@gmail.com>
Nikolaus Rath <Niko...@rath.org>

(The full list of contributors is available in the AUTHORS file).

The release is available for download from
https://github.com/s3ql/s3ql/releases

Please report any bugs on the mailing list (s3...@googlegroups.com) or
the issue tracker (https://github.com/s3ql/s3ql/issues).

Best,
-Nikolaus