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Go IPFS v0.3.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2015-04-20 // about 9 years ago

  • 🚀 We've just released version 0.3.0, which contains many 🛠 performance improvements, bugfixes, and new features. Perhaps the most noticeable change is moving block storage from leveldb to flat files in the filesystem.

    What to expect:

    • much faster performance

    • Repo format 2

      • moved default location from ~/.go-ipfs -> ~/.ipfs
      • renamed lock filename daemon.lock -> repo.lock
      • now using a flat-file datastore for local blocks

    • 🛠 Fixed lots of bugs

      • proper ipfs-path in various commands
      • fixed two pinning bugs (recursive pins)
      • increased yamux streams window (for speed)
      • increased bitswap workers (+ env var)
      • fixed memory leaks
      • ipfs add error returns
      • daemon exit bugfix
      • set proper UID and GID on fuse mounts

    • Gateway

      • Added support for HEAD requests

    • 🔧 configuration

      • env var to turn off SO_REUSEPORT: IPFS_REUSEPORT=false
      • env var to increase bitswap workers: IPFS_BITSWAP_TASK_WORKERS=n

    • other

      • bash completion is now available
      • ipfs stats bw -- bandwidth meetering

    And many more things.