Release 0.34

[lidel]

Meta

• Release owner: @lidel
• Release reviewer/backup: @gammazero
• Expected RC1 date: Feb 19 or 26
• 🚢 Expected final release date: TBD
• Release PR: TODO
• Accompanying PR for improving the release process: TODO
• Internal Staging tests by Shipyard: TODO
• Changelog: https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/blob/master/docs/changelogs/v0.34.md

Items In Scope

Required

• boxo with goroutine leak fix
  • fix: bitswap lock contention under high load boxo#817 should also make below ones disappear - if so, close them
  • "autonat" and "autonatv2/autonat.go-L132" is a slow consumer of event.EvtPeer* libp2p/go-libp2p#3120
  • go-libp2p-kad-dht/subscriber_notifee.go-L37" is a slow consumer of event.EvtPeer*  libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#1007
  • fix(bitswap): blockpresencemanager leak boxo#833
  • feat: Prevent multiple instances of "ipfs routing reprovide" running together. boxo#834
• fix(ipns): reading records with raw []byte Value boxo#830
• fix(rpc): restore and deprecate bitswap reprovide #10699
• chore: go-libp2p v0.39.0 #10703
• go-libp2p wss bug that made bootstrappers die after ~1 day (internal)
  • fix: go-libp2p v0.39.1 #10711
• fix(client): DNS-01 TXT record check ipshipyard/p2p-forge#57
• chore: remove 386 build target distributions#1129
• new webui feat: ipfs-webui v4.5.0 #10735 with:
  • fix(peers): chrome regression and update ipfs-geoip to v9.2 ipfs-webui#2333
  • feat: add QR Code to ShareModal ipfs-webui#2320
• Upgrade to go-libp2p v0.40.0 #10727
• chore: update kad-dht #10732
• Upgrade to Boxo v0.28.0 #10725
• chore: update go-libp2p to v0.41.0 #10733
• accelerated client includes outdated(?) addrs #10737
  • potential fix: fix: crawler polluting peerstore libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#1053
• goroutine runaway on kubo staging 02 (internal notes)

Nice To Have (Optional)

• investigate Reprovide.Interval 0 seems ignored on staging? #10714
• TBD if we need gateway: add accept-ranges response header boxo#856
• chore: Basic UnixFS sanity checks #10701
• chore(identify): move log to debug level libp2p/go-libp2p#3206
• ipns publish: lower the default TTL #10718
  • chore(ipns): lower DefaultRecordTTL to 5m boxo#859
• feat(cmds): files: add new-root command to change the MFS root #8648 as fix for Ipfs daemon hangs when MFS root is not available locally #7183 (comment)
• AutoTLS
  • AutoTLS: attempts to get cert when not publicly diallable #10570
• Denylist support fixes and improvements
  • ipfs blockservice is incompatible with sessions ipfs-shipyard/nopfs#34 (NOfs content filtering is not applied to bitswap)
  • Support consuming https://badbits.dwebops.pub/badbits.deny rainbow#126 (same applies to Kubo)
    • denylist: ?format=car does not skip directly blocked CIDs #10361
    • HTTPSubscriber: detect when list is not append-only ipfs-shipyard/nopfs#39
    • HTTPSubscriber: check with If-None-Match or If-Modified-Since ipfs-shipyard/nopfs#38
• Update pubsub and add default validator #9684 + update to v0.12.0 with GossipSub v1.2 + 0.13.0
• Add basic UnixFS sanity check to 'ipfs files cp' #10331
• Prevent multiple instances of "ipfs bitswap reprovide" running at the same time #10513
• gateway/blocks-backend: GetBlock should not perform IPLD decoding boxo#673

[lidel]

We are investigating some regressions on staging environment, RC1 may be delayed until we understand what caused them (go-libp2p update? boxo? go 1.24?). We also noticed accelerated client is gathering too many addrs, looking into that as well.

If anyone wants to start testing features like AutoTLS enabled by default sooner, the docker image is ipfs/kubo:master-2025-02-25-baa94fc