IPFS: A Review of 2019

Let’s review 2019 together!

From progress made across over 825 repositories to events taking place in at least 23 countries around the world, we’re taking a look back at 2019 and all the amazing things that happened with IPFS.

We have seen some major versions in our implementation

The js-ipfs team has successfully pushed out five major versions of your favorite JavaScript implementation of the InterPlanetary File System. V0.34.0 kicked off 2019 with increased speed and flexibility, followed by v0.35.0 which cut the bundle size in half. The 0.36.0 and 0.37.0 versions added URL-safe CIDs, DOM file support, new constructors, better DNSLink support, and delegated routing. As of last month and the v0.40.0 release, js-ipfs now ships with a repo migration tool that will automatically migrate repos in the browser, so go ahead and migrate, and switch to v1 CIDs in 2020.

The go-ipfs guys released two major versions: version 0.4.20, which used go modules instead of GX for the first time, greatly improved content routing, and made some major changes to commands, including ipfs swarm connect, ipfs add URL, etc. . V0.4.21 added some important fixes, as well as some new features such as experimental TLS1.3 support (to eventually replace secio) and OpenSSL support for SECIO handshakes. Now the go-ipfs team is looking forward to releasing v0.5 this year.

IPFS Cluster Reaches Critical Point

In 2019, support for IPFS Cluster started to pick up. The project got better documentation, released not one, but two major versions, and the Cluster team started hosting workshops at events. In March, version 0.10.0 brought support for CRDT consensus, and the largest release in the project's history, 0.11.0, led to the creation of new CRDT components. We've already started to see people using IPFS Cluster in the wild, as it's now on version 0.12.0.

To follow news about IPFS Cluster in the new year, subscribe to the RSS feed at cluster.ipfs.io/news.

IPFS Camp brings us together

In June, the first-ever IPFS Camp brought 160 campers from 22+ countries to Barcelona, ​​Spain for three days of workshops, lectures, deep dives, a sci-fi expo, an epic poster session, lightning talks, and more. If you can’t make it, the presentations will be recorded.

Here is a video of Juan Benet’s IPFS Camp “Why IPFS?”.

Watch the rest of these top five videos on IPFS revenue this summer:

For more sources, check out the many YouTube playlists containing IPFS Camp videos.

The project had a great year

Filecoin launches their alphanet and testnet

After years of hard work, the Filecoin project kicked off 2019 by opening its GitHub repository and launching alphanet. Not only that, Filecoin also released its first implementation, Lotus, an experimental codebase written in Go, which is the first implementation. Last month, the team launched the testnet (on schedule!) and shared a roadmap for the mainnet launch, which is scheduled for early this spring.

ProtoSchool spread to more than 20 countries within a year

Launched this time last year, ProtoSchool has successfully created communities around the world dedicated to teaching decentralized web protocols through online tutorials and local events. With chapters on four continents and counting, and interactive tutorials on decentralized data structures, mutable file systems, peer-to-peer storage, and more, 2020 is shaping up to be another significant period of growth for this educational community effort.

Things that keep us going

Coming in 2020

Welcome to a new year of IPFS documentation with a fresh new look - now completely redesigned with search, reorganized content, helpful tips, and more on the new Beta site. Getting started with IPFS has never been easier. Help us drive new documentation efforts by making a contribution.

In the upcoming year, we hope to make a lot of progress towards goals such as making IPFS the default way to distribute files or collections of files over 1GB, or providing strong support and edge capabilities for powerful decentralized web applications based on p2p connections.

Join us as we tackle problems in encryption and personal networks, and plot our way to Mars and beyond. ?(https://github.com/ipfs/roadmap#-interplanetary-web---mars-2024-d3-e3-i4)