v2.8.6.855 (Beta)

Changes

• Recovery from HTTP and Network failures (Resilience & Offline)
  • feat: recover dead sub-domain gateways (#802) (thanks @colinfruit!)
  • fix: recovery quirks in Firefox and Chromium (#807)
• feat: web ui 2.5.8 (#801)
• feat: display feedback form on extension uninstall (#799)
• chore: dependency bump
• chore(i18n): sync locales

Installation

• Firefox: Beta Channel at Github
• Chrome, Brave and other Chromium-based: Beta Channel at Chrome Web Store
  • Note: publishing to Chrome Web Store may be delayed due to #808
• Alternative: use generic .zip attached to this release or build and install it manually

v2.8.6.847 (Beta)

Changes

• First stab at improving resilience by healing broken links to IPFS resources and DNSLink websites.
  • feat: recover from failed HTTP requests to third party gateways (#783) (thanks @colinfruit!)
  • feat: recover from DNS failures (#797)
  • feat: precached webui works in offline mode (#782)
• fix: streaming HTTP APIs of js-ipfs in Brave (#794)
• fix: set minimum_chrome_version to 72 (#798)

Installation

• Firefox: Beta Channel at Github
• Chrome, Brave and other Chromium-based: Beta Channel at Chrome Web Store
• Alternative: use generic .zip attached to this release or build and install it manually

v2.8.6.840 (Beta)

Changes

• feat: web ui 2.5.7 (#785)
• feat: add 'Open Web UI' button to the welcome page (#769)
• fix: restore Android support (#770)
• fix: avoid internal requests for action icons (#788)
• fix: improve extraHeaders feature detection (#787) (thanks @sammacbeth!)
• chore: dependency updates (#789)

Installation

• Firefox: Beta Channel at Github
• Chrome, Brave and other Chromium-based: Beta Channel at Chrome Web Store
• Alternative: use generic .zip attached to this release or build and install it manually

v2.8.6 (Stable)

This is a bugfix release for Firefox Desktop and Android.
End user may notice the new Web UI with even more useful Peers screen ✨

Features

• feat: web ui 2.5.4 (#764)

Fixes

• fix: restore Android support (#770)
• fix: remove XHR CORS workaround for Firefox (#771)
• fix: brave bundle should inherit chrome manifest (ccbc3d9)

Other

• chore: dependency bump (#775)
• i18n: synchronized translations
  • How can I add/improve translation for my language?

Installation

Firefox / Firefox for Android	Chrome / Brave / Opera / Edge

Alternative: use prebuilt artifacts attached to this release or build and install it manually.

v2.8.5.830 (Beta)

Changes

• feat: web ui 2.5.4 (#764)
• fix: restore Android support (#770)
• fix: remove XHR CORS workaround for Firefox (#771)
• chore: dependency bump (#775)

Installation

• Firefox: Beta Channel at Github
• Chrome, Brave and other Chromium-based: Beta Channel at Chrome Web Store
• Alternative: use generic .zip attached to this release or build and install it manually

v2.8.5 (Stable)

Highlight: TCP transport (Brave only)

This release enables P2P connectivity over TCP when embedded JS IPFS in Brave is used.

• Enabled TCP transport thanks to chrome.sockets.tcp* #754

  

• LAN Discovery of go-ipfs with chrome.sockets.udp #754

  

• enabled WAN peer discovery via community ws-star servers to provide best-effort backup for non-LAN peer discovery
• enabled preload via *.preload.ipfs.io (makes it easier to share files on the go)
• enabled delegated routing (delegated DHT for peers & content) via go-ipfs at *.delegate.ipfs.io

Known Issues

• init of embedded node may take a few seconds more than expected
• js-libp2p-mdns is unable to start active service if port 5353 is already taken, making DNS discovery passive
  • ws-star signaling services are used as additional discovery method. If both nodes are in the same network, they should connect directly over TCP (ws-star used only for signaling)
• js-ipfs does not ship with DHT yet, delegated routing via *.delegate.ipfs.io is used for now
• Some features of ipfs-webui may not work (latency column on Peers screen etc)
• Sometimes browser action does not work: until we fix this, disabling and enabling IPFS Companion via Brave Settings is a quick way to make it work again immediately

Progress on Brave can be tracked in: #716

How to opt-in in Brave

Stable release of IPFS Companion can be enabled via Brave Settings (chrome://settings/extensions):

By default, it works like regular ipfs-companion and External node is used.
Brave users can opt-in and try Embedded + chrome.sockets (see /docs/node-types for more details):

Other

• feat: new Web UI v2.5.3
• chore: simplify build (#762)
• fix: add bundle:fennec (#762, fix for #761)
• switch to release version of Hapi.js with hapijs/hapi#3946
• chore: dependency updates
• i18n: synchronized translations
  • How can I add/improve translation for my language?

Installation

Firefox / Firefox for Android	Chrome / Brave / Opera / Edge

Alternative: use prebuilt artifacts attached to this release or build and install it manually.

v2.8.4.824 (Beta)

Changes

• chore: simplify build (#762)
• fix: add bundle:fennec (#762, fix for #761)
• switch to release version of Hapi.js with hapijs/hapi#3946

Installation

• Firefox: Beta Channel at Github
• Chrome, Brave and other Chromium-based: Beta Channel at Chrome Web Store
• Alternative: use generic .zip attached to this release or build and install it manually

v2.8.4.820 (Beta)

Changes

New

• feat: Web UI v2.5.3
• Embedded JS IPFS in Brave
  • TCP transport with chrome.sockets.tcp* #754

    

  • LAN Discovery of go-ipfs with chrome.sockets.udp #754

    

  • enabled WAN peer discovery via community ws-star servers to provide best-effort backup for non-LAN peer discovery
  • enabled preload via *.preload.ipfs.io
  • enabled delegated routing (delegated DHT for peers & content) via go-ipfs at *.delegate.ipfs.io

Other

• chore: dependency updates
• i18n: synchronized translations (want to improve translations?)

Installation

• Firefox: Beta Channel at Github
• Chrome, Brave and other Chromium-based: Beta Channel at Chrome Web Store
• Alternative: use generic .zip attached to this release or build and install it manually

v2.8.4 (Stable)

Features

• Web UI v2.5.0
• preload Web UI root CID (#735)
• Embedded JS IPFS in Brave (work in progress: #716)
  • fix: no port collisions (#734)
  • fix: persist External node config (#734)
  • feat(brave): delegated peers and content routing (#739)

    This enables delegated routers in embedded js-ipfs running in Brave.
    Coupled with preload, this gives us basic file sharing functionality back, until we have real p2p transport, native DHT etc.

  • fix: callback-based delgates + DNS caching

    This switches to 0.2.x versions of delegate modules which work correctly with js-libp2p + wip fix for js-ipfs that caches DNS records for 1 minute, greatly reducing the HTTP request overhead to remote APIs.

Other

• fix: disallow running in incognito mode (#705) (thanks @Mikaela!)
  • we now require Firefox >=67
• chore: dependency updates (#731)
  • js-ipfs with HAMT & DNSLink support
  • code linting is now handled by standard 13
• fix: CI on osx
• i18n: synchronized translations
  • How can I add/improve translation for my language?

Installation

Firefox, Firefox for Android	Chromium: Chrome, Brave, Opera

Alternative: use *generic.zip below or build and install it manually.

v2.8.3.810 (Beta)

Changes

New

• feat: Web UI v2.5.0
• Embedded JS IPFS in Brave (wip: #716)
  • feat(brave): delegated peers and content routing (#739)

    This enables delegated routers in embedded js-ipfs running in Brave.
    Coupled with preload, this gives us basic file sharing functionality back, until we have real p2p transport, native DHT etc.

  • fix: callback-based delgates + DNS caching

    This switches to 0.2.x versions of delegate modules which work correctly with js-libp2p + wip fix for js-ipfs that caches DNS records for 1 minute, greatly reducing the HTTP request overhead to remote APIs.

Other

• chore: dependency updates (#747)
• i18n: synchronized translations (want to improve translations?)

Installation

• Firefox: Beta Channel at Github
• Chrome, Brave and other Chromium-based: Beta Channel at Chrome Web Store
• Alternative: use generic .zip attached to this release or build and install it manually