libp2p/rust-libp2p

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The Rust Implementation of the libp2p networking stack.

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Indexed issues: 169
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Dominant language: Rust
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 17, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 18, 2026
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169 open issues indexed

swarm: smart dialing classifies DNS-only multiaddrs as private addresses Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6623 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
AutoNAT v2 dial-back work can grow with every inbound connection Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6611 · Opened Sep 12, 2026
AutoNAT v2 can initiate unwanted connections to non-public addresses Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6610 · Opened Sep 12, 2026
derive(NetworkBehaviour) triggers unreachable_code on nightly when ToSwarm is uninhabited Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6600 · Opened Sep 1, 2026
protocols/gossipsub: implement the v1.4 large message extension (fragmentation with pipelined relay + PREAMBLE/IMRECEIVING) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6597 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 31, 2026
README.md lists locutus (aka freenet) as a notable user Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 90/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6585 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
WebRTC relay path can reject the default 16 KiB framed message size Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6557 · Opened Jul 24, 2026
webrtc-websys: RTCDataChannel callbacks can panic after stream teardown Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6551 · Opened Jul 24, 2026
SwarmBuilder::with_websocket hardcodes dns::tokio::Transport::system, bypassing with_dns_config (breaks on Android) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6529 · Opened Jul 20, 2026
Implement Post-Quantum Identities (ML-DSA / RFC-0004) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6462 · 1 comment · Opened May 28, 2026
swarm: `Connection::poll` regularly exceeds Tokio's 50 µs slow-poll threshold Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6438 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 14, 2026
Fix flaky libp2p-kad bootstrap timing test Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 30/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6421 · 1 comment · Opened May 5, 2026
Change infallible custom DNS constructors in a future release Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6420 · Opened May 5, 2026
RUSTSEC-2026-0118: NSEC3 closest-encloser proof validation enters unbounded loop on cross-zone responses Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6412 · Opened May 2, 2026
RUSTSEC-2026-0119: CPU exhaustion during message encoding due to O(n²) name compression Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6411 · Opened May 2, 2026
cargo-deny is not an enforced merge gate in current GitHub protections Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6408 · Opened Apr 29, 2026
Changelog enforcement can be skipped based on contributor-controlled PR titles Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6407 · Opened Apr 29, 2026
Privileged GitHub workflows use mutable third-party refs Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6406 · Opened Apr 29, 2026
Some publishable crate test jobs are not required merge checks Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6405 · Opened Apr 29, 2026
libp2p-request-response: debug assertion is hit Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6376 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 7, 2026
Expose Kademlia K_VALUE as a configurable parameter Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6247 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 14, 2026
wasm-pack build fails for WebRTC + gossipsub in libp2p v0.56.0 due to ahash → getrandom v0.3.4 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6246 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 13, 2026
autonat/upnp gap between rust-libp2p and go-libp2p Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6243 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 12, 2026
RUSTSEC-2025-0141: Bincode is unmaintained Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6240 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 8, 2026
Make usage of expensive (= relayed) connections in high level protocols such as request_response configurable Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6238 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 2, 2026
Post-Quantum Key Exchange Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6236 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 28, 2025
libp2p-floodsub implementation doesn't conform with pubsub spec leading to incompatibilities Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6222 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Nov 27, 2025
Kad PUT_VALUE response deviating from the spec Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6217 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 25, 2025
RUSTSEC-2025-0123: opentelemetry-jaeger crate is unmaintained Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6214 · Opened Nov 19, 2025
fix(AutoNAT v2): Client should reset address status Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6203 · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 13, 2025
build(ios): error on iOS with libp2p 0.56 using quic feature and if-watch 3.2.1 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6161 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 16, 2025
Dial requests in `stream` behaviour are silently dropped Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6157 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 3, 2025
It should be possible to create test swarms with predefined identities Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6151 · Opened Aug 23, 2025
WebTransport protocol for the relay server Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6149 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 21, 2025
[Relay] ReservationReqAccepted not always emitted Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6141 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 14, 2025
Gossipsub backpressure seems to not work for forwarded messages Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6117 · 6 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2025
SwarmBuilder generics are too restricting Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6115 · 12 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2025
ConcurrentDial prematurely gives up on dials Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6105 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 21, 2025
Test function `with_memory_addr_external` is flaky Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6062 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 14, 2025
feat(gossipsub/scoring): expose sub-components used to compute peer scores. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6058 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 12, 2025
kad: Add `Key` to InboundRequest::{PutRecord, AddProvider} Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6048 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 5, 2025
Address Impact of Frequent Deprecations and MSRV Increases Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6042 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 2, 2025
bug: request response protocol outbound failure, UnexpectedEof Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6038 · 12 comments · Opened May 27, 2025
Intermittent Gossip Data Propagation Issues in libp2p Network (Rust-libp2p 0.54) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6035 · 9 comments · Opened May 25, 2025
Relay server: support listening on both WebRTC and WebSocket Open

decision-pending

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6029 · 6 comments · Opened May 22, 2025
feat(gossipsub): Add Message Batch Publishing in Gossipsub Open

decision-pending

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#6006 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 23, 2025
Bug: rendezvous server panics in response to libp2p_request_response::Event::Message Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#5997 · 8 comments · Opened Apr 19, 2025
Unable to open subsequent data channels if the WebRTC Direct initial handshake channel has been closed Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#5986 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 14, 2025
Using `dns-sd` with `libp2p-mdns` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#5982 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2025
kad exceeds substream limit due to outbound timeout, but no inbound timeout Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

libp2p/rust-libp2p#5981 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 9, 2025

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