Part of ongoing maintenance of key libraries and services ipshipyard/roadmaps#1

Meta

• Release owner: @lidel
• Release reviewer: @gammazero
• Expected RC1 date: Tue 17th or Fri 20th
• Expected RC2 date: Wed 22nd
• Expected RC3 date: Thu 23rc
• 🚢 Expected final release date: Wed 22nd or 29th
• Release PR: Release 0.33.0 #10636
• Accompanying PR for improving the release process: docs: RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md update for 0.33 #10674
• Internal Staging tests by Shipyard: Kubo 0.32.1 vs 0.33.x @ Notion
• Changelog: https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/blob/master/docs/changelogs/v0.33.md

Items In Scope

Required

• feat(libp2p): shared TCP listeners and AutoTLS.AutoWSS #10565
  • for RC1, have this in go-libp2p@main: fix(sampledconn): Correctly handle slow bytes and closed conns libp2p/go-libp2p#3080
• fix: increase provider sample size #10589
• chore: update to boxo without goprocess #10567
• Update to boxo with refactored providerQueryManager. #10595
• fix: go-libp2p v0.37.2 #10603
• docs(changelog/v0.33): bitswap reprovide changes #10604
• chore: p2p-forge/client v0.1.0 #10605
• refactor(rcmgr): use default libp2p rcmgr metrics #9947
• fix: ipfs-webui v4.4.1 #10608
• refactor(cmds): do not return errors embedded in result type #10527
• chore: boxo v0.25.0 #10619
• Upgrade to Boxo v0.26.0 #10631
• new go-libp2p release with fixes
• go-libp2p-kad-dht with accelerated client fix
• datastore perf fixes / saner defaults
  • feat: expose BlockKeyCacheSize and enable WriteThrough datastore options #10614
  • cmd/files: flush parent folders #10630
  • feat(flatfs): default to sync=false #10632
  • mfs: clean cache on sync boxo#751
• fix: ipfs-webui v4.4.2 #10635 with fix from fix: ipld-explorer-components@8.1.3 ipfs-webui#2310
• [skip changelog] pinmfs: mitigate slow mfs writes when it triggers #10623

Found during RC1:

• TCP connection multiplexing (tcpreuse package) doesn't work with pnet libp2p/go-libp2p#3119
  • added explicit check to daemon.go, no need to bump go-libp2p
• goroutine leak on kubo staging 02 and potential side effects
  • "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
• gc not engaging on kubo staging 02 (tbd if same or separate issue)
• fix(dns): update default DNSLink resolvers #10655
• https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht/releases/tag/v0.28.2
• quicreuse: make it possible to use an application-constructed quic.Transport libp2p/go-libp2p#3122 (fine to just bump quic-go, and not go-libp2p)
• chore: p2p-forge v0.2.2 + go-libp2p-kad-dht v0.28.2 #10663
• do not send cancel message to peer that sent block boxo#784
• fix(client): race in cert renewal ipshipyard/p2p-forge#42
• fix(bitswap): negative wantlist metrics #10670

Nice To Have (Optional)

• Agree if we use /ipX or /dnsX
  • For now we keep using /ipX
  • Will revisit once this is done: feat: opt-in WithShortForgeAddrs(true|false) to produce /dnsX addrs ipshipyard/p2p-forge#40
• fix(cli): support HTTPS in ipfs --api #10659
• accelerated-dht: cleanup peer from message sender on disconnection libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#1009
• mfs: clean cache on sync boxo#751
• fix(cmds/add): disallow --wrap with --to-files #10612
• Broken CID info for identity multihashes ipld-explorer-components#464
• feat(bootstrap): add JS-based va1.bootstrap.libp2p.io #10575
• Boxo
  • feat(routing/http/server): add routing timeout boxo#720
  • feat(gateway): allow localhost http:// DoH resolvers boxo#645
• AutoTLS
  • acme_client "got renewal info" (logger does not respect go-log config) ipshipyard/p2p-forge#8 (comment)
  • AutoTLS: attempts to get cert when not publicly diallable #10570
  • add flag for adding catch-all listener without touching swarm listeners in config
• Denylist support fixes and improvements
  • Support legacy double-hash entries for IPNS CIDs and DNSLink ipfs-shipyard/nopfs#40
  • 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
• Add basic UnixFS sanity check to 'ipfs files cp' #10331
• feat(filestore): add mmap reader option boxo#665 disabled by default, with opt-in variable similar to this or this
• Prevent multiple instances of "ipfs bitswap reprovide" running at the same time #10513
• gateway/blocks-backend: GetBlock should not perform IPLD decoding boxo#673