diff --git a/contrib/package/arch/PKGBUILD b/contrib/package/arch/PKGBUILD
index 2fe085ff..92423af8 100644
--- a/contrib/package/arch/PKGBUILD
+++ b/contrib/package/arch/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Maintainer: icxes <dev.null@need.moe>
 pkgname=copyparty
-pkgver="1.18.7"
+pkgver="1.18.8"
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="File server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++"
 arch=("any")
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ optdepends=("ffmpeg: thumbnails for videos, images (slower) and audio, music tag
 )
 source=("https://github.com/9001/${pkgname}/releases/download/v${pkgver}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz")
 backup=("etc/${pkgname}.d/init" )
-sha256sums=("6738f623905276e8664bd8791f1497d0c61f8816c6608e76c4d9097a12849170")
+sha256sums=("d8af012f552a6f1dfc501d0ce94990b932d422df74f6afb66ca2a31985f5809b")
 
 build() {
     cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
diff --git a/contrib/package/nix/copyparty/pin.json b/contrib/package/nix/copyparty/pin.json
index a4d5a3a6..6d2ee7e2 100644
--- a/contrib/package/nix/copyparty/pin.json
+++ b/contrib/package/nix/copyparty/pin.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-    "url": "https://github.com/9001/copyparty/releases/download/v1.18.7/copyparty-1.18.7.tar.gz",
-    "version": "1.18.7",
-    "hash": "sha256-Zzj2I5BSduhmS9h5HxSX0MYfiBbGYI52xNkJehKEkXA="
+    "url": "https://github.com/9001/copyparty/releases/download/v1.18.8/copyparty-1.18.8.tar.gz",
+    "version": "1.18.8",
+    "hash": "sha256-2K8BL1Uqbx38UB0M6UmQuTLUIt909q+2bKKjGYX1gJs="
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/copyparty/__version__.py b/copyparty/__version__.py
index 2006cc7a..cd73581d 100644
--- a/copyparty/__version__.py
+++ b/copyparty/__version__.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # coding: utf-8
 
-VERSION = (1, 18, 7)
+VERSION = (1, 18, 8)
 CODENAME = "logtail"
-BUILD_DT = (2025, 7, 30)
+BUILD_DT = (2025, 7, 31)
 
 S_VERSION = ".".join(map(str, VERSION))
 S_BUILD_DT = "{0:04d}-{1:02d}-{2:02d}".format(*BUILD_DT)
diff --git a/copyparty/util.py b/copyparty/util.py
index d081378a..73284bbb 100644
--- a/copyparty/util.py
+++ b/copyparty/util.py
@@ -4200,8 +4200,6 @@ def load_resource(E: EnvParams, name: str, mode="rb") -> IO[bytes]:
     ap = os.path.join(E.mod, name)
 
     if PY2:
-        import codecs
-
         return codecs.open(ap, "r", encoding=enc)  # type: ignore
 
     return open(ap, mode, encoding=enc)