Release 0.23

[BigLep]

Meta

• Release owner: @Jorropo
• Release engineer: @Jorropo
• Release reviewer: @galargh
• Expected RC date: 2023-08-31 2023-09-04 2023-09-06 2023-09-11 2023-09-18 2023-09-21 2023-09-26
• 🚢 Expected final release date: 2023-09-07 2023-09-11 2023-09-14 2023-09-21 2023-09-25 2023-10-05
• Accompanying PR for improving the release process: (example: docs: release process updates from v0.17.0 #9391)
• Accompanying Issue for updating the infra: (example: https://github.com/protocol/bifrost-infra/issues/2221)

Items in scope

https://github.com/orgs/ipfs/projects/16/views/3?filterQuery=iteration%3A%22kubo+0.23%22

In progress changelog: https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/blob/master/docs/changelogs/v0.23.md

Required

Remaining items as of 2023-09-05:

• feat: migration from 14 to 15 fs-repo-migrations#174
• 14: skip unknown types fs-repo-migrations#181
• migration: update 14-to-15 to v1.0.1 #10131
• feat: add gateway to http over libp2p #10108
• core/bootstrap: fix panic without backup bootstrap peer functions #10029
• chore: update go-libp2p-kad-dht #10116
  • Make v0.24.4 libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#901
• Boxo release (0.13.0, 0.13.1)
• Remove default /quic (draft 29) support #9496
  • docs: add changelog info for QUIC Draft 29 #10132
• fix(migrations): use dweb.link instead of ipfs.io #10133
• feat: add Gateway.DisableHTMLErrors option #10137

Optional

• Enable WebRTC Transport #9724 as an experimental feature (which depends on a go-libp2p release after 0.31.0)
• deps: webui v4.1.1 [skip changelog] #10120

[marten-seemann]

The libp2p team would like to get go-libp2p v0.30.0 included in this release.

From our current planning, the two main features of that release will be:

• WebRTC browser-to-server support (assuming we get it done by then)
• a forwards-compatible quic-go (made possible by using the Go standard library's new crypto/tls API to be released in Go 1.21)

Please refer to our tracking issue for updates on this plan.

Regarding Go versions, this means dropping support for Go 1.19 (go-libp2p v0.30.0 won't support that Go version any more), in favor of Go 1.20 and Go 1.21. This is in line with our Go version policy of always supporting the two most recent Go versions, as Go 1.21 will be released in the 2nd week of August.

[marten-seemann]

Update: go-libp2p v0.30 will ship this week, and only focus on Go 1.21 support. v0.31 will be the release containing the new features (any subset of: AutoNAT v2, libp2p+HTTP, WebRTC), and is planned for shortly before the Kubo RC cutoff.

[BigLep]

2023-08-30 update: go-libp2p 0.31.0 shipped with experimental HTTP transport work. It doesn't include experimental WebRTC transport.

The Kubo RC will take advantage of the experimental HTTP transport.

We're still targeting an RC for 2023-08-31.

[Jorropo]

I was late for the release work so we can't finish this today.
We wont release tomorrow due to an informal "friday release policy".
So we will release the RC1 Monday 2023-09-04.

[BigLep]

The issue description above has been updated with what's remaining.
We are expecting to complete these and do the RC today (2023-09-05). RC may slip to 2023-09-06.

[Jorropo]

I'm sadly gonna delay the RC once more due to some last minute regression: ipfs/fs-repo-migrations#177 hope to get this fixed for 2023-09-06 ~ -07.

There is still theses that I want to merge but need some massaging, green CI and or review:

• chore: update go-libp2p-kad-dht #10116
• feat: add gateway to http over libp2p #10108
• core/bootstrap: fix panic without backup bootstrap peer functions #10029

[BigLep]

@Jorropo : can you please update with the latest status here since it's now 2023-09-08? Please update as things change to set proper expectations for interested parties.