Release v0.31.0

[lidel]

Meta

• Release owner: @gammazero
• Release reviewer: @lidel
• Expected RC1 date: week of ~2024-10-25 (TBD)
• 🚢 Expected final release date: ~2024-11-02 (TBD)
• Release PR: <add link once release PR is created>
• Thunderdome PR: <add link once thunderdome PR is created>
• 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

Denylist support fixes and improvements

• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/nopfs/issues/40
• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/nopfs/issues/34 (NOfs content filtering is not applied to bitswap)
• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/rainbow/issues/126 (same applies to Kubo)
  • [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/issues/10361
  • [ ] https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/nopfs/issues/39
  • [ ] https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/nopfs/issues/38

Required: other

• [ ] go-libp2p update
• [ ] boxo

Nice To Have (Optional)

• [ ] switch interop ci to release with https://github.com/ipfs/helia/pull/584
• [ ] https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/pull/2936
• [ ] https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/pull/2931
• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/pull/10492
• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/pull/9684 + update to v0.12.0 with GossipSub v1.2
• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/issues/10347