v0.41.0-rc.0

Bug Fixes

• bad merge (714e540)
• correct redirect when it loads webui (#2697) (#2698) (3516bb8)
• ipfs-repo version (f08758e)
• limit SW registration to content root (#2682) (feba661), closes /github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/4025#issuecomment-342250616
• repo gc error key name (#2618) (5a1d266), closes /docs.ipfs.io/reference/api/http/#api-v0
• support legacy links in cbor data (#2631) (f98023b)

Code Refactoring

• return peer IDs as strings not CIDs (#2729) (16d540c)

Features

• add --hidden flag to cli add command (#2649) (ed886f4)
• add alias for ipfs repo stat --human. (#2609) (f81086c)
• add bitswap stat human option in CLI (#2619) (6a2ea52)
• add human flag to repo stat cli command (#2630) (39bc5b4)
• pass libp2pOptions to the bundle function (#2591) (e8e9b91)
• return CID of flushed path from ipfs.files.flush (#2715) (5db7c29)
• support -X special permissions arg to files.chmod (#2719) (d6ece05)
• support UnixFSv1.5 metadata (#2621) (acbda68), closes ipfs/js-datastore-pubsub#20
• web ui 2.7.1 (#2599) (06340ec)
• web ui 2.7.2 (#2651) (7a87d8f)

Performance Improvements

• expose importer concurrency controls when adding files (#2637) (1d19c4f)

BREAKING CHANGES

• Where PeerIDs were previously CIDs, now they are Strings

• ipfs.bitswap.stat().peers[n] is now a String (was a CID)
• ipfs.dht.findPeer().id is now a String (was a CID)
• ipfs.dht.findProvs()[n].id is now a String (was a CID)
• ipfs.dht.provide()[n].id is now a String (was a CID)
• ipfs.dht.put()[n].id is now a String (was a CID)
• ipfs.dht.query()[n].id is now a String (was a CID)
• ipfs.id().id is now a String (was a CID)
• ipfs.id().addresses[n] are now Multiaddrs (were Strings)

• Removes all codec/format options, everything is dag-pb now.