Go-IPFS 0.6

This is a relatively small release in terms of code changes, but it contains some significant changes to the IPFS protocol.

Features

There are plenty of features packed into this release:

• QUIC by default.
• Libp2p Noise as a new security transport.
• Custom 404 pages and base36 support.
• Gossipsub upgrade.
• New peering command for persistent connections between libp2p nodes.

Breaking changes

There are no breaking changes in this release. However, there is a migration that will run, and the QUIC transport has changed protocol versions. The migration will:

• Normalize multiaddrs in the bootstrap list to use the /p2p/Qm... syntax for multiaddrs instead of the /ipfs/Qm... syntax.
• Add QUIC addresses for the default bootstrapers, as necessary. If you've removed the default bootstrappers from your bootstrap config, the migration won't add them back.
• Add a QUIC listener address to mirror any TCP addresses present in your config. For example, if you're listening on /ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/1234, this migration will add a listen address for /ip4/0.0.0.0/udp/1234/quic.

Changelog

You can find the changelog on the Go-IPFS 0.6 GitHub release page (opens new window).