Go IPFS v0.4.17 Release Notes
Release Date: 2018-07-27 // almost 6 years ago-
🚀 Ipfs 0.4.17 is a quick release to fix a major performance regression in bitswap (mostly affecting go-ipfs -> js-ipfs transfers). However, while motivated by 🚀 this fix, this release contains a few other goodies that will excite some users.
🚀 The headline feature in this release is [urlstore][] support. Urlstore is a generalization of the filestore backend that can fetch file blocks from remote URLs on-demand instead of storing them in the local datastore.
➕ Additionally, we've added support for extracting inline blocks from CIDs (blocks inlined into CIDs using the identity hash function). However, go-ipfs won't yet create such CIDs so you're unlikely to see any in the wild.
📄 [urlstore]: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/master/docs/experimental-features.md#ipfs-urlstore
🔋 Features:
- URLStore (ipfs/go-ipfs#4896)
- ➕ Add trickle-dag support to the urlstore (ipfs/go-ipfs#5245).
- 👍 Allow specifying how the data field in the
object getis encoded (ipfs/go-ipfs#5139) - ➕ Add a
-Uflag tofiles lsto disable sorting (ipfs/go-ipfs#5219) - ➕ Add an efficient
--size-onlyflag to therepo stat(ipfs/go-ipfs#5010) - Inline blocks in CIDs (ipfs/go-ipfs#5117)
🔄 Changes/Fixes:
- 👉 Make
ipfs files ls -lcorrectly report the hash and size of files (ipfs/go-ipfs#5045) - 🛠 Fix sorting of
files ls(ipfs/go-ipfs#5219) - 👌 Improve prefetching in
ipfs catand related commands (ipfs/go-ipfs#5162) - 👍 Better error message when
ipfs cpfails (ipfs/go-ipfs#5218) - Don't wait for the peer to close it's end of a bitswap stream before considering the block "sent" (ipfs/go-ipfs#5258)
- 🛠 Fix resolving links in sharded directories via the gateway (ipfs/go-ipfs#5271)
- 🛠 Fix building when there's a space in the current directory (ipfs/go-ipfs#5261)
📚 Documentation:
- 👌 Improve documentation about the bloomfilter config options (ipfs/go-ipfs#4924)
🔨 General refactorings and internal bug fixes:
- ✂ Remove the
Offset()method from the DAGReader (ipfs/go-ipfs#5190) - 🛠 Fix TestLargeWriteChunks seek behavior (ipfs/go-ipfs#5276)
- ➕ Add a build tag to disable dynamic plugins (ipfs/go-ipfs#5274)
- 👉 Use FSNode instead of the Protobuf structure in PBDagReader (ipfs/go-ipfs#5189)
- ✂ Remove support for non-directory MFS roots (ipfs/go-ipfs#5170)
- ✂ Remove
UnixfsNodefrom the balanced builder (ipfs/go-ipfs#5118) - 🛠 Fix truncating files (internal) when already at the correct size (ipfs/go-ipfs#5253)
- 🛠 Fix
dagTruncate(internal) to preserve the node type (ipfs/go-ipfs#5216) - ➕ Add an internal interface for unixfs directories (ipfs/go-ipfs#5160)
- 🔨 Refactor the CoreAPI path types and interfaces (ipfs/go-ipfs#4672)
- 🔨 Refactor
precalcNextBufin the dag reader (ipfs/go-ipfs#5237) - ⚡️ Update a bunch of dependencies that haven't been updated for a while (ipfs/go-ipfs#5268)