V2.5.0 Release - 📕✨🐕 Help from my friends

[olizilla]

🗺✨ Features

• Add an unobtrusive help system to onboard new users (Unobtrusive help system to onboard new users #979)
• Peers page allows you to connect to peers (feat: add connection #969)
• Navigate files in the wild (feat: navigate files in the wild 🦌 #1027)
• The peers table got a whole lotta love (chore: update peers table #1062, chore: add sorting to peers table #1068, feat: add peer identicons #1069)
• Peers page highlights peers on your local network
• Peers page highlights peers on networks near you (Highlight peers in Local Area Network and in close IP space proximity #223)
• Peers page highlights peers with a low ping time

🛠 Fixes and maintenance

• Natural sorting for file names (fix: use localeCompare to sort files #977)
• Update to create-react-app v2 (Upgrade to create-react-app v2 #888)
• Update to Storybook 5 (Update to Storybook 5 #986)

[terichadbourne]

Some additional things I would hope to be able to do from this screen if possible:

• Add nicknames next to CIDs (eg "Oli") so I know what the gobbledygook means.
• Mark a few favorite/pinned peers that would then get surfaced to the top of my list if they're online

[hacdias]

@olizilla since we now have the files in the wild thingy as a new feature, which I kind of consider major, shouldn't we use that for 2.5.0 and move the missing points here to 2.6.0?

[fsdiogo]

@hacdias I'm going to release a new version of Web UI and write the release notes!

[hacdias]

@fsdiogo okay! Please release it as 2.5.0 since it has a new feature 😃

[fsdiogo]

Done, release v2.5.0.

[hacdias]

Thank you!

[lidel]

Folks, was go-ipfs skipped on purpose?
It seems that go-ipfs 0.4.22 shipped with old webui (v2.4.4), which postpones ipfs/ipfs-companion#736 till the next release :(

Perhaps adding an explicit checklist to each release issue would help?

• js-ipfs: webui.js
• ipfs-companion: state.js
• go-ipfs: webui.go#L4

[hacdias]

@lidel that was definitely a mistake... :'(

[lidel]

🙈 I see v2.6.0 has a checklist to ensure we don't miss this again, thanks for adding it! 👍 :)