Release 0.35

[lidel]

Meta

• Release owner: @lidel
• Release reviewer/backup: @gammazero
• Expected RC1 date: TBD
• 🚢 Expected final release date: TBD
• Release PR: TBD
• Accompanying PR for improving the release process: N/A
• Internal Staging tests by Shipyard: TBD
• Changelog: https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/blob/master/docs/changelogs/v0.35.md

Items In Scope

Required

This release will focus on provider system improvements and HTTP retrieval (opt-in)

• provider: provide MFS DAG using offline fetcher. #10754
• boxo with Improve performance of data onboarding boxo#888
• boxo with fix(gateway): preserve query parameters on _redirects boxo#886
• boxo with provider: simplify reprovide boxo#890
• boxo with fix(gateway): preserve query parameters on _redirects boxo#886
• config: Flag to disable Bitswap client and server #10717
• config: Exchange section
  • TBD: opt-in HTTPSwap (introduced in HTTP retrieval proposal boxo#747)
  • TBD: turn Experimental.GatewayOverLibp2p=true into opt-in feature
    • this is "http over libp2p stream" instead of "http-only gateways + tls" – think about it as bitswap replacement, that can reuse HTTP client logic from HTTPSwap, but make requests over libp2p. the use case for this is to provide bitswap replacement for users who can't run http-only endpoint for some reason
    • we start rolling out server before client exists to ensure we can enable client in the future, and have working servers for testing
    • this is an opportunity to flesh out how Exchange.* will look like (with bitswap client|server, HTTPGatewayOverLibp2p server for now, and HTTPSwap client)

Nice To Have (Optional)

• document docs: known issues with file/urlstores #10768
• webui with feat: Add thumbnails support for files in grid view ipfs-webui#2337
• ipfs add: parameter to control the width of created UnixFS DAG #10751
• Reprovide.Interval 0 seems ignored on staging? #10714
• Add MFS Support to Reprovider Strategy #10704
  • feat: NewDAGProvider to walk partial DAGs in offline mode boxo#847
• TBD if we need gateway: add accept-ranges response header boxo#856
• 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)
• Deployment plan for AutoNAT v2 #10091
  • AutoTLS: attempts to get cert when not publicly diallable #10570 (depends on autonatv2 client)
• 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