v0.34.3

Bug Fixes

• add cors support for preload-mock-server and update aegir (#1839) (2d45c9d)

v0.34.2

Bug Fixes

• race condition causing Database is not open error (#1834) (6066c97)

Features

• use ws-star-multi instead of ws-star (#1793) (21fd4d1)

v0.34.1

Features

• pipe to add (#1833) (ea53071)

v0.34.0

Speed and flexibility, new IPFS for a new year!

🔦 Highlights

🏎 Reading Protobuf DAG nodes is super fast

Reading Protobuf DAG nodes just got a serious speed boost as well as a memory reduction. Previously Protobuf DAG nodes (dag-pb nodes for short) carried a multihash property (a CIDv0) with them. This used up loads of CPU time calculating the hash for a given node as it was retrieved from storage and with the advent of CIDv1 there was no guarantee the hashing algorithm and length were correct.

So, we removed it! 🦖 ...but that had the unfortunate consequence of making the object API a whole lot less useful when writing data - the DAG nodes you got back were basically the data you put in. Hence the object API was refactored to return CIDs instead of DAG nodes for write operations...and we all lived happily ever after.

🚤 Adding content is blazingly fast

We found a bottleneck that meant the bigger the file you added to IPFS, the longer it would take - oh no 😭! Good news folks, we've seen the speed of adding large files increase by 50% or more in some cases! 💥

Read all about it in the pull request notes.

🎄 HAMT support added to MFS

We're putting the whole of npm on IPFS! These days npm is like 5.3 terabytes of data and it's all going in MFS. This is super rad, but we needed a good sharding strategy because 5TB is a lorra lorra files.

If you're curious about npm on IPFS, check out the project here.

📣 IPNS over pubsub and DHT

Get informed of IPNS record updates and read and publish your IPNS records to the DHT. It's all there and it's all awesome. For those of you new to IPNS, let me give you the lowdown - IPNS puts the mutable in immutable 🤣 It's an age old problem, content addressing is rad and all that, but if I change something the hash changes - 👎 boo...but wait, IPNS solves this, you get a permenant address for changeable content - hooray \o/.

IPNS over pubsub gets the word out quicker to peers that are interested when an IPNS record changes. IPNS over DHT allows peers to find and resolve your IPNS address to some content in the first place! In the next JS IPFS release (0.35) the DHT will be enabled by default and it's going to be epic.

⚾️ CID handling improvements

Smoosh your CIDs into whatever version you like - you can now add data under a version 0 CID and get it back using a version 1 CID and vice versa. Now that you have this freedom you can encode them with whatever multibase encoding you like. Version 0 CIDs are all base58btc but if you convert to a version 1 CID you can encode it with base2, base32, base64url or whatever:

# base2
010111000000010010001000000100011011010100010010000001010010111001110001011010111100010100000111000011101010101010101101111100000001011101110001011110100001000100111010101101010111111001000111110001001010000101100010110000001000011110101110100100010101110110100010110100110000001110
# base32
bafybeicg2rebjoofv4kbyovkw7af3rpiitvnl6i7ckcywaq6xjcxnc2mby
# base58btc
QmT78zSuBmuS4z925WZfrqQ1qHaJ56DQaTfyMUF7F8ff5o
# base64url
uAXASIEbUSBS5xa8UHDqqt8BdxehE6tX5HxKFiwIeukV2i0wO

This is all work to smooth out the eventual transition to base32 CIDv1 by default - a move to allow CIDs to be used as valid URL origins. Have a read of this for more.

To help you craft your artisanal CIDs we've introduced a --cid-base option to a bunch of CLI commands (and ?cid-base option to a bunch of HTTP API endpoints). Check it out:

jsipfs add file.txt --cid-base=base32
added bafybeibns4lrebrxaymvyshgmki5biwh6cd53idxfpen6ysomzrywtsm44 file.txt

💪 Deps got upgrades!

We got you covered with WebUI 2.3 (quic support, responsive navbar, and a language selector), libp2p 0.24 and many other upgrades giving you a faster and smaller JS IPFS.

🏗 API Changes

• Object API methods that write DAG nodes now return a CID instead of a DAG node. Affected methods:
  • ipfs.object.new
  • ipfs.object.patch.addLink
  • ipfs.object.patch.appendData
  • ipfs.object.patch.rmLink
  • ipfs.object.patch.setData
  • ipfs.object.put
  • More info
• DAGNode instances, which are part of the IPLD dag-pb format have been refactored. These instances no longer have multihash, cid or serialized properties. This effects the following API methods that return these types of objects:
  • ipfs.object.get
  • ipfs.dag.get
  • More info
• Files API methods add*, cat*, get* have moved from files to the root namespace. Specifically, the following changes have been made:
  • ipfs.files.add => ipfs.add
  • ipfs.files.addPullStream => ipfs.addPullStream
  • ipfs.files.addReadableStream => ipfs.addReadableStream
  • ipfs.files.cat => ipfs.cat
  • ipfs.files.catPullStream => ipfs.catPullStream
  • ipfs.files.catReadableStream => ipfs.catReadableStream
  • ipfs.files.get => ipfs.get
  • ipfs.files.getPullStream => ipfs.getPullStream
  • ipfs.files.getReadableStream => ipfs.getReadableStream
• New core files API methods added:
  • ipfs.addFromStream
  • ipfs.addFromUrl
  • ipfs.addFromFs
• DHT API methods renamed and return types changed
  • ipfs.dht.findprovs renamed to ipfs.dht.findProvs and returns an array of PeerInfo
  • ipfs.dht.findpeer renamed to ipfs.dht.findPeer and returns a PeerInfo
  • ipfs.dht.query now returns an array of PeerInfo
  • More info
• A new option is available in the CLI, HTTP API and core that will allow the multibase encoding to be specified for any CIDs that are returned as strings.
  • A --cid-base option has been added to the following CLI commands:
    • jsipfs bitswap stat
    • jsipfs bitswap unwant
    • jsipfs bitswap wantlist
    • jsipfs block put
    • jsipfs block stat
    • jsipfs add
    • jsipfs ls
    • jsipfs object get
    • jsipfs object links
    • jsipfs object new
    • jsipfs object patch add-link
    • jsipfs object patch append-data
    • jsipfs object patch rm-link
    • jsipfs object patch set-data
    • jsipfs object put
    • jsipfs object stat
    • jsipfs pin add
    • jsipfs pin ls
    • jsipfs pin rm
    • jsipfs resolve
    • Note: these two MFS commands already implement the --cid-base option:
    • jsipfs files ls
    • jsipfs files stat
  • A ?cid-base= query option has been added to the following HTTP endpoints:
    • /api/v0/bitswap/wantlist
    • /api/v0/bitswap/stat
    • /api/v0/bitswap/unwant
    • /api/v0/block/put
    • /api/v0/block/stat
    • /api/v0/add
    • /api/v0/ls
    • /api/v0/object/new
    • /api/v0/object/get
    • /api/v0/object/put
    • /api/v0/object/stat
    • /api/v0/object/links
    • /api/v0/object/patch/append-data
    • /api/v0/object/patch/set-data
    • /api/v0/object/patch/add-link
    • /api/v0/object/patch/rm-link
    • /api/v0/pin/ls
    • /api/v0/pin/add
    • /api/v0/pin/rm
    • /api/v0/resolve
  • A cidBase option has been added to the following core functions:
    • resolve
  • NOTE Using the CID base option in bitswap, dag and object APIs WILL NOT auto upgrade your CID to v1 if it is a v0 CID and WILL NOT apply the encoding you specified. This is because these APIs return IPLD objects with links and changing the version of the links would result in a different hash for the node if you were to re-add it. Also, the CID you used to retrieve the node wouldn't actually refer to the node you got back any longer. Read this for further context.
• All API methods that returned big.js instances now return bignumber.js instances.

❤️ Huge thank you to everyone that made this release possible

By alphabetical order, here are all the humans that contributed to the release:

• Aakil Fernandes (1 comment)
• Alan Shaw (54 PRs, 12 issues, 115 reviews, 203 comments)
• Aleksey Bykhun (1 issue, 1 comment)
• Alex Knol (1 issue)
• Alex North (1 comment)
• Alex Potsides (43 PRs, 7 issues, 41 reviews, 96 comments)
• André Cruz (1 PR, 2 issues, 5 comments)
• ANUDAVIS (1 comment)
• Arkadiy Kukarkin (1 issue, 6 comments)
• [Artem Smi...

v0.34.0-rc.1

Bug Fixes

• sharness tests (#1787) (48d3e2b)

Code Refactoring

• switch to bignumber.js (#1803) (6de6adf)

Features

• update to Web UI v2.3.2 (#1807) (8ca6471)
• update Web UI to v2.3.0 (#1786) (7bcc496)

BREAKING CHANGES

• All API methods that returned big.js instances now return bignumber.js instances.

License: MIT
Signed-off-by: Alan Shaw [email protected]

v0.34.0-rc.0

Bug Fixes

• link to Github profile for David Dias (3659d7e)
• streaming cat over http api (#1760) (3ded576)

Features

• add addFromFs method (#1777) (7315aa1)
• add from url/stream (#1773) (b6a7ab6)
• add slient option (#1712) (593334b)
• cid base option (#1552) (6d46e2e), closes /github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/5349#issuecomment-445104823

v0.34.0-pre.0

Bug Fixes

• add dash case to pin cli (#1719) (eacd580)
• add missing dependencies (#1663) (4bcf4a7)
• allow disabling mfs preload from config (#1733) (5f66538)
• better error message when pubsub is not enabled (#1729) (5237dd9)
• examples after files API refactor (#1740) (34ec036)
• ipns datastore key (#1741) (a39770e)
• make circuit relay test (#1710) (345ce91)
• remove electron-webrtc and wrtc for now (#1718) (b6b50d5)

Code Refactoring

• files API (#1720) (a82a5dc)
• object APIs write methods now return CIDs (#1730) (ac5fa8e), closes /github.com/ipfs/interface-ipfs-core/pull/388#pullrequestreview-173866270

Features

• ipns over dht (#1725) (1a943f8)
• ipns over pubsub (#1559) (8712542)
• Web UI updated to v2.2.0 (#1711) (b2158bc)

Performance Improvements

• lazy load IPLD formats (#1704) (aefb261)

BREAKING CHANGES

• Object API refactor.

Object API methods that write DAG nodes now return a CID instead of a DAG node. Affected methods:

• ipfs.object.new
• ipfs.object.patch.addLink
• ipfs.object.patch.appendData
• ipfs.object.patch.rmLink
• ipfs.object.patch.setData
• ipfs.object.put

Example:

// Before
const dagNode = await ipfs.object.new()

// After
const cid = await ipfs.object.new() // now returns a CID
const dagNode = await ipfs.object.get(cid) // fetch the DAG node that was created

IMPORTANT: DAGNode instances, which are part of the IPLD dag-pb format have been refactored.

These instances no longer have multihash, cid or serialized properties.

This effects the following API methods that return these types of objects:

• ipfs.object.get
• ipfs.dag.get

See ipld/js-ipld-dag-pb#99 for more information.

License: MIT
Signed-off-by: Alan Shaw [email protected]

• Files API methods add*, cat*, get* have moved from files to the root namespace.

Specifically, the following changes have been made:

• ipfs.files.add => ipfs.add
• ipfs.files.addPullStream => ipfs.addPullStream
• ipfs.files.addReadableStream => ipfs.addReadableStream
• ipfs.files.cat => ipfs.cat
• ipfs.files.catPullStream => ipfs.catPullStream
• ipfs.files.catReadableStream => ipfs.catReadableStream
• ipfs.files.get => ipfs.get
• ipfs.files.getPullStream => ipfs.getPullStream
• ipfs.files.getReadableStream => ipfs.getReadableStream

License: MIT
Signed-off-by: Alan Shaw [email protected]

v0.33.1

Bug Fixes

• over eager preload (#1693) (f14c20d)

v0.33.0

🔦 Highlights

🕹 Web UI 2.0

The IPFS Web UI has been given a HUGE revamp and is now 10x, no, 100x better than before! 😄

• Check the status of your node, it's Peer ID and connection info, the network traffic and the number of connected peers
• Easily manage files in your IPFS repo. You can drag and drop to add files, move and rename them, delete, share or download them
• You can explore IPLD data that underpins how IPFS works
• See all of your connected peers, geolocated by their IP address
• Review the settings for your IPFS node, and update them to better suit your needs

Files	Explore	Peers	Settings

🛠 CID tool

A command line tool for converting, formatting and discovering properties of CIDs.

In the near future IPFS will be switching it's default CID version for added content to version 1 and will use base 32 encoding for serialized CIDs. This tool gives you the power to inspect and learn about CIDs as well as convert any CIDs you've been using from whatever base they're encoded in to a different base!

• Documentation
• Demo video

🏗 API Changes

• Added CLI command ipfs cid [sub-command]
  • View the help with ipfs cid --help or view the documentation online
• ipfs.types.dagCBOR and ipfs.types.dagPB have been removed
  • See #1626 and #374 for more information
• dag-cbor nodes retrieved from ipfs.dag.get now represent links as CID instances not {"/": "base-encoded-cid"} objects
  • See #1668 for more information

v0.32.3

Bug Fixes

• allow null/undefined options (#1581) (c73bd2f), closes #1574
• block.put with non default options (#1600) (4ba0a24)
• ipns datastore get not found (#1558) (4e99cf5)
• report correct size for raw dag nodes (#1591) (549f2f6), closes #1585
• revert libp2p records being signed for ipns (#1570) (855b3bd)