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Go IPFS v0.4.15 Release Notes

Release Date: 2018-05-09 // almost 6 years ago

  • 🚀 This release is significantly smaller than the last as much of the work on 🔀 improving our datastores, and other libraries libp2p has yet to be merged. However, it still includes many welcome improvements.

    🚀 As with 0.4.12 and 0.4.14 (0.4.13 was a patch), this release has a negative diff-stat. Unfortunately, much of this code isn't actually going away but at 🚚 least it's being moved out into separate repositories.

    🚀 Much of the work that made it into this release is under the hood. We've cleaned 📦 up some code, extracted several packages into their own repositories, and made some long neglected optimizations (e.g., handling of sharded directories). ➕ Additionally, this release includes a bunch of tests for our CLI commands that 🚀 should help us avoid some of the issues we've seen in the past few releases.

    🚀 More visibly, thanks to @djdv's efforts, this release includes some significant 🚀 Windows improvements (with more on the way). Specifically, this release includes 👍 better handling of repo lockfiles (no more ipfs repo fsck), stdin command-line 👌 support, and, last but not least, IPFS no longer writes random files with scary 🏁 garbage in the drive root. To read more about future windows improvements, take 🏁 a look at this blog post.

    👍 To better support low-power devices, we've added a low-power config profile. This can be enabled when initializing a repo by running ipfs init with the --profile=lowpower flag or later by running ipfs config profile apply lowpower.

    🚀 Finally, with this release we have begun distributing self-contained source archives of go-ipfs and its dependencies. This should be a welcome improvement 📦 for both packagers and those living in countries with harmonized internet access.