Release 0.40

[lidel]

[!NOTE] Part of ongoing maintenance of key libraries and services https://github.com/ipshipyard/roadmaps/issues/1 and https://github.com/ipshipyard/roadmaps/issues/6

Meta

• Release owner: @lidel
• Release reviewer/backup: @gammazero
• Expected RC1 date: TBD
• 🚢 Expected final release date: TBD
• Release PR: TBD
• Accompanying PR for improving the release process: TBD
• Internal Staging tests by Shipyard: TBD
• Changelog: https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/blob/master/docs/changelogs/v0.40.md

Items In Scope

Required

• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/pull/11086
• [x] IPIP-476 https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/pull/10954 + https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/commit/179e1f86299016e1dd103c4defdae4a21113e23e
• [ ] IPIP-499 https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/issues/11071
• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/pull/11069
• [x] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/pull/11081
• [ ] (potential bug or ux bug): investigate 1 region problem when sweep+accelerated client are enabled (internal)

Nice To Have (Optional)

Bugs

• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/issues/11085
• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/issues/10842
• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/issues/10361

UX/DX Improvements

• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/pull/11098
• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/pull/11097
• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/pull/11091
• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/issues/8676
• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/issues/11024 (needs boxo fix for boxo#1054)
• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/issues/2376 (tbd if we fix or descope)
• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/issues/11053 (needs go-libp2p release with this PR)
• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/issues/10865 (keep old cmds as deprecated)
• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/issues/10953
• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/issues/10958
• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/pull/8648 (also fix for #7183)
• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/pull/10833

Denylist / Content Filtering

• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/rainbow/issues/126 (same applies to Kubo)
  • [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/pull/10948
    • [ ] https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/nopfs/issues/34 (re-triage once kubo#10948 is done)
  • [ ] https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/nopfs/issues/38
  • [ ] https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/nopfs/issues/39
• [ ] TBD: consider porting URLhaus from https://github.com/ipshipyard/p2p-forge/pull/79 for phishing prevention
• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/issues/1152

Dependencies / Infrastructure

• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/go-ds-flatfs/pull/142
• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/pull/10924
• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/pull/9684 (status/blocked)
• [ ] https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/pull/3434

TBD (Things we need to re-triage)

• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/boxo/issues/901 (TBD)
• [ ] https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/pull/11078