Now that IPFS has support for TLS and Noise, it's time to complete the process of deprecating and removing support for Secio. This issue is for tracking the rollout.

Please upgrade IPFS ASAP to stay connected! If you are having issues upgrading please let us know here.

Planned releases

Target version of Secio removal: 0.7

History of security support changes

Each update contains the security protocol listed by default priority.

Go IPFS
<0.4.21: Secio
0.4.21: Secio > TLS1.3 (May 31, 2019)
0.5.0: TLS1.3 > Secio (April 28, 2020)
0.6.0: TLS1.3 > Secio > Noise (June 20, 2020)

JS IPFS
<0.47.0: Secio
0.47.0: Secio > Noise (June 24, 2020)

BREAKING CHANGES

Removal of Secio will result in the following:

• Go IPFS nodes older than 0.4.21 will not be able to communicate with Go IPFS nodes >= 0.7.
• Go IPFS nodes older than 0.5.0 with TLS support will require an additional round trip when creating a connection with GO IPFS nodes >= 0.7 (this is due to failing to negotiate Secio and falling back to TLS1.3)
• JS IPFS nodes older than 0.47 will not be able to communicate with GO IPFS nodes >= 0.7.

Testing

• Prior to removing support for Secio we will do thorough testing of the DHT to ensure we are maintaining performance added in 0.5.

References

• https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-08-07-deprecating-secio/