Note
This release was brought to you by the Shipyard team and IPFS community.
Highlights
🧊 Updated Kubo to v0.43 and Electron to v43
Bundled Kubo is now v0.43.0. See Release Notes for Kubo v0.43.0 for the full list of changes, key highlights below. Electron is now v43 (Chromium 150).
🗂️ Files No Longer Freezes During Garbage Collection
Adding, renaming or deleting in the Files screen while garbage collection was running could leave Files stuck for good: every later action hung, and restarting IPFS Desktop did not clear it. The two now take turns. A file whose data cannot be found anywhere also gives up with an error instead of waiting forever and blocking everything behind it. (details)
🔒 Security Fixes
Worth updating for. A remote peer could make your node's memory grow until you restarted it, using a transport every install listens on by default. (details)
📡 Your Node Announces What You Keep, Not What You Browsed
Until now your node advertised every block it held, including everything picked up while browsing. It now announces your pins and the files in the Files screen. Expect less background traffic and CPU, and no more advertising content you only looked at once.
Change it any time under tray icon's Settings → Provide Strategy, where All Files, Pins, and Browsing Cache (default) restores the old behavior.
Important
This is applied to existing installs on first launch, unless you had already set Provide.Strategy yourself. If you were deliberately re-announcing content you fetched for others, switch back from the tray.
Files you add or pin are now announced immediately, rather than at the next reprovide cycle, so a link you copy right after adding a folder works sooner for the person you send it to.
🆕 New Installs Add Files as CIDv1
A fresh install now imports with the modern IPIP-499 profile: content you add gets a bafy... or bafk... address instead of Qm..., and files are split into 1 MiB chunks. Existing repositories keep the format they already use, since changing it would change the addresses of everything you add from then on.
Either way, pick what you want under tray icon's Settings → CID Profile.
🎨 Updated WebUI
The Web UI has been updated to v4.13.0.
