ipfs/ipfs-companion v2.2.0rc1

v2.2.0 (RC1)

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Summary

This is the first Release Candidate for v2.2.0.
It focuses on speed and stability, but there are some new and exciting features as well 🚀

Installation

• Firefox: Install from Our Self-hosted Signed Beta Channel
  or download signed .xpi attached to these release notes and follow these steps
• Chrome: Beta Channel at Chrome Web Store
• Other: use .zip above or build and install it manually

In This Release

New Features

• Access to selected ipfs.files APIs via window.ipfs is now scoped to an application path

  • demo and details in #431 and docs/window.ipfs.md
  • tl;dr: each app gets it's own "root" where it can store files:
    Calling ipfs.files.write with /myfile.txt on https://domain.com/
    writes to /dapps/https/domain.com/myfile.txt instead.

• Embedded js-ipfs node supports custom configuration #395

  • User can provide own config (eg. to enable experimental pubsub) via Preferences:

    

• Protocol Indicator in Firefox #418

  • Demo (click to zoom):
    
  • pageAction menu:
    

Fixes

• Significant performance improvement for browserAction pop-up time #430
• Context update locks the UI when on "pin-in-progress" IPFS Path #426, #428
• Error: Not able to stop from state: starting #407
• Fix options_ui in Chrome+OSX #429
• Fix: proxy access dialog display issue on Firefox+OSX #427
• Locale fixes and documentation #434, #435
  • Added Localization Notes with instructions on how to smoke-test translations under Firefox and Chrome

Open Questions, Known Issues

• Should we merge virtual roots for the same IPFS Paths on different gateways?
  See pros and cons in #330 (comment)