Note
This release was brought to you by the Shipyard team.
What's Changed
- feat: electron 39 + kubo 0.39 with sweep and fast root cid provides by @lidel in #3020
- feat: update webui to v4.10.0 by @lidel in #3015
Full Changelog: v0.46.2...v0.47.0
Highlights
🧊 Updated Kubo
See Release Notes for Kubo v0.39.0 for the full list of changes, key highlights below:
⚡ Share Files Instantly
Previously, after adding files to IPFS Dsktop, it could take 30+ seconds before friends could find and download them. Now, when you add files or folders, they become discoverable on the network almost immediately (typically under a second).
This means you can share a link right after the upload finishes and it will just work.
🔌 Your Node Stays Reachable After Router Restarts
Home routers occasionally restart or lose their settings. Before, this would silently break your node's connectivity, forcing you to restart IPFS Desktop manually.
Now, IPFS Desktop automatically recovers its network port settings when your router comes back online. Your node stays reachable without any intervention.
📡 Smarter Content Announcements
The way your node tells the network about your files has been redesigned. The new "sweep" system:
- Uses less memory and bandwidth, less likely to kill your inexpensive router
- Announces content at a steady pace instead of bursts that could slow down your internet
- Remembers progress between restarts, so it picks up where it left off instead of starting over
This is especially helpful if you're self-hosting a lot of files on a regular home internet connection.
🎨 Updated WebUI
The Web UI has been updated to v4.10.0.
Fixed: Diagnostics logs now show full details
The Diagnostics screen introduced in v0.46.0 had a bug where log entries were missing important details.
This is now fixed - what you see in the WebUI matches what you'd see running ipfs log tail directly.