In This Release

• huge internal refactoring
  • browserified build and code modularization thanks to @alanshaw (#311)
  • future-proofing GUI by @olizilla (#314)
• first stab at reproducible build (#306)
  • regular npm-based build is still supported for dev purposes
  • npm run yarn-build or ultra-paranoid npm run docker-build (used for actual release)
    (thanks to @olizilla (#313))
• locale updates (zh_CN)
• fixes
  • href normalization (#316)
  • promise-errors related to legacy code that was left behind (f148251)

Installation

• Firefox: Install from Mozilla Add-ons
• Chrome: Install from Chrome Web Store

Reproducible Build

For background on reproducible builds see #306

Docker build is advised: when building outside of Docker there may be one line diff on some architectures (caused by js-ipfs-api: ipfs-inactive/js-ipfs-http-client#626 (comment)).

With Nave

1. download and unpack source code (links below)
2. npm install -g nave
3. nave use 8.9.1
4. npm run yarn-build
5. inspect build/ipfs_companion-2.1.0.zip

With Docker

1. download and unpack source code (links below)
2. npm run docker-build
3. inspect build/ipfs_companion-2.1.0.zip