⚡️ 0.32 RELEASE 🚀

[vasco-santos]

⚠️ This is will work in progress 🏗

Libp2p is becoming self sufficient on discoverability and connectivity

🗺 What's left for release

• libp2p/js-libp2p#651
• libp2p/js-libp2p-interfaces#67

🔦 Highlights

🕵️ Rendezvous Protocol

Libp2p rendezvous is a lightweight mechanism for generalized peer discovery. It can be used for bootstrap purposes, real time peer discovery, application specific routing, and so on. Any node implementing the rendezvous protocol can act as a rendezvous point, allowing the discovery of relevant peers in a decentralized fashion.

This is a big step forwards in terms of discoverability as peers can register themselves under namespaces that can range from pubsub topics to protocols they support, enabling other peers to easily discover peers that are important for them.

📂 Production Guides and Examples improvements

Taking into account the importante of the Rendezvous, this release also comes with comprehensive examples and production guides on how the needed infrastructure blocks should be setup.

🏗 API Changes

✅ Release Checklist

• Robustness and quality
  • Ensure that all tests are passing, this includes:
    • unit
  • Publish a release candidate to npm

    # Minor prerelease (e.g. 0.24.1 -> 0.25.0-rc.0)
    $ npx aegir release --type preminor -t node -t browser --preid rc --dist-tag next
    
    # Increment prerelease (e.g. 0.25.0-rc.0 -> 0.25.0-rc.1)
    $ npx aegir release --type prerelease -t node -t browser --preid rc --dist-tag next

  • Run tests of the following projects with the new release:
    • js-ipfs
• Documentation
  • Ensure that README.md is up to date
  • Ensure that all the examples run
  • Ensure libp2p/js-libp2p-examples is updated
  • Ensure that libp2p/docs is updated
• Communication
  • Create the release issue
  • Take a snapshot between of everyone that has contributed to this release (including its subdeps in IPFS, libp2p, IPLD and multiformats) using name-your-contributors. Generate a nice markdown list with this script
  • Announcements (both pre-release and post-release)
    • Twitter
    • IRC
    • Reddit
    • discuss.libp2p.io
  • Blog post
  • Copy release notes to the GitHub Release description

❤️ Huge thank you to everyone that made this release possible

In alphabetical order, here are all the humans that contributed to the release:

• ...

🙌🏽 Want to contribute?

Would you like to contribute to the libp2p project and don't know how? Well, there are a few places you can get started:

• Check the issues with the help wanted label in the libp2p repo
• Join an IPFS All Hands, introduce yourself and let us know where you would like to contribute - https://github.com/ipfs/team-mgmt#all-hands-call
• Hack with IPFS and show us what you made! The All Hands call is also the perfect venue for demos, join in and show us what you built
• Join the discussion at http://discuss.libp2p.io/ and help users finding their answers.
• Join the ⚡️libp2p Weekly Sync 🙌🏽 and be part of the Sprint action!

⁉️ Do you have questions?

The best place to ask your questions about libp2p, how it works and what you can do with it is at discuss.libp2p.io. We are also available at the #libp2p channel on Freenode.

[vasco-santos]

Closing this until we have better visibility on what this release will include