Release 0.8 🏯 'ipfs' on PATH and bug fixing

[hacdias]

After the huge release that 0.7.0 was (see #788), we need to start thinking about 0.8.0 😄 Here's the todo:

What's left to be done

• Add ipfs command line tools to the PATH (Provide ipfs command line tools on install #727, feat: add ipfs on path option ipfs-webui#1016).
• Figure out why we needed 'System Events' on macOS (Desktop ask to control System Events on macOS on first run #753).
• Don't shutdown if there was an issue fscking the repository (fix: log fsck error instead of immediately failing #899, Maybe suggest a command to kill the daemon? #835, Fatal error while trying to fsck the repo #837).
• Support macOS dark theme on native dialogs (feat: support macOS dark mode #918)
• Make dialogs more consistent and cohesive (feat: improve dialogs UX #919)
• Avoid auto-update unnecessary errors (2019-04-01T09:46:39.098Z error: Error: 36:68: execution error: “System Events”遇到一个错误：不能获得“login item "IPFS Desktop"”。 (-1728) #892)
• Update to Electron 5 (Update to Electron 5 #917)
• Allow settings when the daemon is offline (feat: allow settings even when the daemon is offline ipfs-webui#1023)
• Work with bandwidth metrics disabled (fix: work even when bandwidth metrics are disabled ipfs-webui#1024)
• Add folder via file-input fails in electron (Using "add folder" does not add a folder correctly [0.7.2] #884)
• Update Web UI hash
• Update to go-ipfs v0.4.21.

Postponed

• Hijack native macOS screenshot shortcut Hijack Native Screenshots #879
• Use a random port when the defaults are being used (IPFS has errored, because 8080 is already in use #912)
• Investigate on how to make boot faster through Electron Link
• Can't preview PDFs #785 preview PDFs

After the release

• Update Homebrew
• Update Chocolatey

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Please remember that this list list may change 🐉

[olizilla]

go-ipfs 0.40.20 release is in rc already. Let's trim this relase down to just adding ipfs to the path, and fixing bugs.

[olizilla]

rather than a roadmap, lets update this issue to give it a pet name, and define just what is going in, like we did in #788

[hacdias]

@olizilla could you check this issues, please:

• feat: add ipfs on path option ipfs-webui#1016
• feat: allow settings even when the daemon is offline ipfs-webui#1023
• fix: work even when bandwidth metrics are disabled ipfs-webui#1024

Also, how's the upload/1MB issue?

[olizilla]

Nice work! Very clear. The bad news is, there is a regression in go-ipfs 0.4.20 that means you can't add multiple individual files ipfs/kubo#6254 so either we wait, or roll back to 0.4.19... I'll see if there is an eta on another release for go-ipfs in the pipe.

Excting about electron 5 release, good work following up on the dep updates we need there.

[hacdias]

@olizilla in our code (webui), do we use the add command for more than one file at once? I thought we didn't. If we don't, that wouldn't be an issue, right?

Also, about waiting, I think: if it takes more than a week, we should rollback. Otherwise, we should wait.

In the meanwhile, please take a look at Web UI's PRs. The second one is failing on the CI, but the tests pass here, so I'm not really sure what's wrong.

[olizilla]

We use ipfs.add with an array of files dropped, or files selected in the file picker. Those use-cases fail if you drop or select more than 1 thing when using 0.4.20 now.

[olizilla]

see: ipfs/kubo#6254
also waiting on a release of ipfs-http-client with ipfs-inactive/js-ipfs-http-client#980 in for the 1MB upload issue

[hacdias]

v0.8.0 is out! 🎉