Meta

• Release owner: @lidel
• Release reviewer/backup: @gammazero
• Expected RC1 date: April 13th (TBD)
• 🚢 Expected final release date: TBD
• Release PR: TBD
• Accompanying PR for improving the release process: TBD
• Internal Staging tests by Shipyard: TBD
• Changelog: https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/blob/master/docs/changelogs/v0.41.md

Items In Scope

Required

• TBD
• webui with geoip with feat: add IPv6, reduce size, update to GeoLite2-City-CSV_20260220 ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-geoip#120 and feat(peers): updated ipfs-geoip and Peers screen optimizations ipfs-webui#2480 and feat: update webui to v4.12.0 #11221
• fix(provider): purge keystore datastore after reset #11198
• fix(cmd): use restrictive file permissions for exported keys #11246
• fix(rpc): CARv2 import over HTTP API #11253

Nice To Have (Optional)

• feat(cmd): add 'ipfs cid inspect' command #11241
• fix(bitswap): ignore identity CIDs instead of killing connection boxo#1117
• HTTP Routing V1 provider records contain raw 0.0.0.0 listen addresses instead of resolved interface addresses #11213
• TBD
• Unified Provide Interface for Content Routers #10097 ?
• denylist: ?format=car does not skip directly blocked CIDs #10361
• MFS bug: ipfs files rm hanging #10842
• fix(cli): deduplicate dag stat blocks by multihash #11098
• Support consuming https://badbits.dwebops.pub/badbits.deny rainbow#126 (same applies to Kubo)
  • fix(gateway): prevent blocked CIDs in CAR responses #10948
    • ipfs blockservice is incompatible with sessions ipfs-shipyard/nopfs#34 (re-triage once kubo#10948 is done)
  • HTTPSubscriber: check with If-None-Match or If-Modified-Since ipfs-shipyard/nopfs#38
  • HTTPSubscriber: detect when list is not append-only ipfs-shipyard/nopfs#39
• Improved Reprovider.Strategy for entity DAGs (HAMT/UnixFS dirs, big files) #8676
  • provider: duplicated CIDs sent to provide queue boxo#901
• Move ipfs routing provide and reprovide into ipfs provide namespace #10865
• feat(client/rpc): add provide stat and dag import support #11069 / feat(client/rpc): auto-generate RPC GO client #11210
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