IPFS Weekly Issue 91: Quick Reading of Important Events This Week

Welcome to IPFS Weekly

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) ( https://ipfs.io/ ) is a new hypermedia distribution protocol, addressable by content and identity. IPFS enables the creation of fully distributed applications. Its goal is to make the web faster, more secure, and more open. Due to the large scope, this weekly newsletter aims to track developments across the ecosystem.

This is what happens in the Interplanetary File System ecosystem! ?

At the end of April, we released our biggest update to date: go-ipfs 0.5.0. This upgrade brings major performance and reliability improvements to IPFS, especially in content discovery and routing. We wanted to walk you through the process of rewriting the DHT. Read the full story on the blog.

Last week, we released the latest version of js-ipfs 0.44.0! Meaning, you can now cancel requests in js-ipfs using AbortControllers! No more waiting to see if your request is done. Read the changelog for full details about the release.

The Gossipsub Task Force has been hard at work exploring and analyzing various attack vectors on public and permissionless messaging networks. With this knowledge, we carefully designed and iterated mitigation strategies to make our beloved libp2p PubSub Router work properly in adversarial environments. The result is Gossipsub v1.1.

This Friday through Sunday, members of the IPFS, Dat, I2P, WebTorrent communities, and more will come together to talk all things distributed for a special hands-on event: Distributed Camp 2020. Get hands-on with some of the latest web technologies over two days of immersive, hands-on workshops, and learn about other projects in the field and present your own work at the unconference on Sunday! Sign up for free.

Then we want to hear from you! Your input will really help shape the plans for changes that we hope will improve the experience for you and your users. Check out the discussion about reducing js-ipfs overhead by sharing nodes across browser tabs right now!

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From events, insights and improvements on content routing changes to the intricacies of Bitswap and subdomain gateways, check out the full playlist of presentations! And don’t forget to watch the Lightning talk. Enjoy!