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Go IPFS v0.3.8 Release Notes

Release Date: 2015-10-09 // almost 10 years ago

  • ⚡️ This patch update includes changes to make ipns more consistent and reliable, 🐎 symlink support in unixfs, mild performance improvements, new tooling features, 🛠 a plethora of bugfixes, and greatly improved tests.

    🔔 NOTICE: Version 0.3.8 also requires golang version 1.5.1 or higher.

    • 🛠 Bugfixes

      • refactor ipns to be more consistent and reliable (@whyrusleeping)
      • fix 'ipfs refs' json output (@whyrusleeping)
      • fix setting null config maps (@rht)
      • fix output of dht commands (@whyrusleeping)
      • fix NAT spam dialing (@whyrusleeping)
      • fix random panics on 32 bit systems (@whyrusleeping)
      • limit total number of network fd's (@whyrusleeping)
      • fix http api content type (@WeMeetAgain)
      • fix writing of api file for port zero daemons (@whyrusleeping)
      • windows connection refused fixes (@mjanczyk)
      • use go1.5's built in trailers, no more failures (@whyrusleeping)
      • fix random bitswap hangs (@whyrusleeping)
      • rate limit fd usage (@whyrusleeping)
      • fix panic in bitswap ratelimiting (@whyrusleeping)

    • Tool Changes

      • --empty-repo option for init (@prusnak)
      • implement symlinks (@whyrusleeping)
      • improve cmds lib files processing (@rht)
      • properly return errors through commands (@whyrusleeping)
      • bitswap unwant command (@whyrusleeping)
      • tar add/cat commands (@whyrusleeping)
      • fix gzip compression in get (@klauspost)
      • bitswap stat logs wasted bytes (@whyrusleeping)
      • resolve command now uses core.Resolve (@rht)
      • add --local flag to 'name resolve' (@whyrusleeping)
      • add ipfs diag sys command for debugging help (@whyrusleeping)

    • General Codebase

      • improvements to dag editor (@whyrusleeping)
      • swarm IPv6 in default config (Baptiste Jonglez)
      • improve dir listing css (@rht)
      • removed elliptic.P224 usage (@prusnak)
      • improve bitswap providing speed (@jbenet)
      • print panics that occur in cmds lib (@whyrusleeping)
      • ipfs api check test fixes (@rht)
      • update peerstream and datastore (@whyrusleeping)
      • cleaned up tar-reader code (@jbenet)
      • write context into coreunix.Cat (@rht)
      • move assets to separate repo (@rht)
      • fix proc/ctx wiring in bitswap (@jbenet)
      • rabin fingerprinting chunker (@whyrusleeping)
      • better notification on daemon ready (@rht)
      • coreunix cat cleanup (@rht)
      • extract logging into go-log (@whyrusleeping)
      • blockservice.New no longer errors (@whyrusleeping)
      • refactor ipfs get (@rht)
      • readonly api on gateway (@rht)
      • cleanup context usage all over (@rht)
      • add xml decoding to 'object put' (@ForrestWeston)
      • replace nodebuilder with NewNode method (@whyrusleeping)
      • add metrics to http handlers (@lgierth)
      • rm blockservice workers (@whyrusleeping)
      • decompose maybeGzWriter (@rht)
      • makefile sets git commit sha on build (@CaioAlonso)

    • 📚 Documentation

      • add contribute file (@RichardLitt)
      • add go devel guide to contribute.md (@whyrusleeping)

    • ✅ Testing

      • fix mock notifs test (@whyrusleeping)
      • test utf8 with object cmd (@chriscool)
      • make mocknet conn close idempotent (@jbenet)
      • fix fuse tests (@pnelson)
      • improve sharness test quoting (@chriscool)
      • sharness tests for chunker and add-cat (@rht)
      • generalize peerid check in sharness (@chriscool)
      • test_cmp argument cleanup (@chriscool)