Release 0.31

[lidel]

Meta

• Release owner: @gammazero
• Release reviewer: @lidel
• Expected RC1 date: week of ~2024-11-02 (TBD)
• 🚢 Expected final release date: ~2024-11-09 (TBD)
• Release PR:
• Accompanying PR for improving the release process: (example)
• Changelog: https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/blob/master/docs/changelogs/v0.31.md

Items In Scope

Required

• go-libp2p update
• boxo
• chore: dependency update for 0.31 #10511

Nice To Have (Optional)

• libp2p.direct support (TBD)
• 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 to new webui with fixes and improvements:
  • fix(file-preview): safeSubresourceGwUrl ipfs-webui#2253
  • webui spawning helia and failing to establish libp2p webtransport connections ipfs-webui#2250
  • avoid triggering preflight for every RPC call ipfs-webui#2252
  • fix(files): avoid duplicated fetch during preview ipfs-webui#2254
  • fix(files): prefer subdomain gw in copied share links ipfs-webui#2255
  • Explore page: stop sending requests to remote HTTP servers ipfs-webui#2266
  • fix(ui): replace IPFS API with Kubo RPC ipfs-webui#2267
• chore: switch back to release helia-interop #10516
• fix: QUIC/Webtransport Transports now will prefer their owned listeners for dialing out libp2p/go-libp2p#2936
• fix: enable dctur when interface address is public  libp2p/go-libp2p#2931
• [skip changelog]Fix issue in ResourceManager and nopfsPlugin about repo path #10492
• Update pubsub and add default validator #9684 + update to v0.12.0 with GossipSub v1.2
• Support pebble  #10347
• Add basic UnixFS sanity check to 'ipfs files cp' #10331
• docs(config): improve profile descriptions #10517
• 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
• fix(daemon): webui URL when RPC listener is 0.0.0.0 #10520
• gateway/blocks-backend: GetBlock should not perform IPLD decoding boxo#673