v0.39

🗺 What's left for release

• https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/pull/3153
• https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/pull/3094
• https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/issues/3072
• https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/pull/3122
• #3166

🔦 Highlights

This is a small release. The main thing is updating quic-go to v0.49.0 and enabling specific environments with the new CustomTCPDialer option.

Changelog

• Update quic-go to v0.49.0
• Support application provided quic.Transports
• Support SOCKS proxy with ws(s)
• Support CustomTCPDialer for running TCP over arbitrary user-defined proxies.

✅ Release Checklist

• Stage 0 - Finishing Touches
  • Go through relevant libp2p repos looking for unreleased changes that should make it into the release. If you find any, cut releases. deferring this to keep this release small
  • Run go get -u ./... to see if there are any out-of-date deps that look important. If there are, bubble them. Try to avoid directly updating indirect deps in go-libp2p's go.mod when possible. deferring this to keep this release small
• Stage 1 - Release
  • Publish the release through the GitHub UI, adding the release notes. Some users rely on this to receive notifications of new releases.
  • Announce the release on the discuss.libp2p.io.
• Stage 2 - Update Upstream
  • Update the examples to the final release
  • Update the upstream dependencies to the final release and create PRs.
    • filecoin-project/lotus
    • go-libp2p-kad-dht
    • go-libp2p-pubsub (In case of breaking changes.)
    • ipfs/kubo
  • Add new release to interop tester in test-plans
• Make required changes to the release process.

Start with the unchecked items in the release checklist, especially publishing through the GitHub UI, announcing on discuss.libp2p.io, updating upstream dependencies, and adding the release to test-plans. Review the completed checklist entries and release notes to understand the expected process. Done means the release is published, announced, propagated to the listed upstream projects, and recorded in the interop tester.