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Overview
Kubo 0.38.2 is a quick patch release that improves retrieval, traces and memory usage.
๐ฆ Highlights
- Updates boxo v0.35.1 with bitswap and HTTP retrieval fixes:
- Fixed bitswap trace context not being passed to sessions, restoring observability for monitoring tools
- Kubo now fetches from HTTP gateways that return errors in legacy IPLD format, improving compatibility with older providers
- Better handling of rate-limited HTTP endpoints and clearer timeout error messages
 
- Updates go-libp2p-kad-dht v0.35.1 with memory optimizations for nodes using Provide.DHT.SweepEnabled=true
- Updates quic-go v0.55.0 to fix memory pooling where stream frames weren't returned to the pool on cancellation
For full release notes of 0.38, see 0.38.1.
๐ Changelog
Full Changelog
- github.com/ipfs/kubo:
- chore: boxo and kad-dht updates
- fix: update quic-go to v0.55.0
 
- github.com/ipfs/boxo (v0.35.0 -> v0.35.1):
- Release v0.35.1 (ipfs/boxo#1063)
- bitswap/httpnet: improve "Connect"/testCid check (#1057) (ipfs/boxo#1057)
- fix: revert go-libp2p to v0.43.0 (#1061) (ipfs/boxo#1061)
- bitswap/client: propagate trace state when calling GetBlocks(ipfs/boxo#1060)
- fix(tracing): use context to pass trace and retrieval state to session (ipfs/boxo#1059)
- bitswap: link traces (ipfs/boxo#1053)
- fix(gateway): deduplicate peer IDs in retrieval diagnostics (#1058) (ipfs/boxo#1058)
- update go-dsqueue to v0.1.0 (ipfs/boxo#1049)
- Update go-libp2p to v0.44 (ipfs/boxo#1048)
 
- github.com/ipfs/go-dsqueue (v0.0.5 -> v0.1.0):
- new version (#24) (ipfs/go-dsqueue#24)
- Do not reuse datastore Batch (#23) (ipfs/go-dsqueue#23)
 
- github.com/ipfs/go-log/v2 (v2.8.1 -> v2.8.2):
- new version (#175) (ipfs/go-log#175)
- fix: revert removal of LevelFromString to avoid breaking change (#174) (ipfs/go-log#174)
 
- github.com/ipld/go-car/v2 (v2.15.0 -> v2.16.0):
- v2.16.0 bump (#625) (ipld/go-car#625)
 
- github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime/storage/bsadapter (v0.0.0-20230102063945-1a409dc236dd -> v0.0.0-20250821084354-a425e60cd714):
- github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht (v0.35.0 -> v0.35.1):
- chore: release v0.35.1 (#1165) (libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#1165)
- feat(provider): use Trie.AddMany (#1164) (libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#1164)
- fix(provider): memory usage (#1163) (libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#1163)
 
- github.com/libp2p/go-netroute (v0.2.2 -> v0.3.0):
- release v0.3.0
- remove google/gopacket dependency
- Query routes via routesocket (libp2p/go-netroute#57)
- ci: uci/update-go (#52) (libp2p/go-netroute#52)
 
- github.com/multiformats/go-multicodec (v0.9.2 -> v0.10.0):
- chore: v0.10.0 bump
- chore: update submodules and go generate
- chore(deps): update stringer to v0.38.0
- ci: uci/update-go (multiformats/go-multicodec#104)
 
๐จโ๐ฉโ๐งโ๐ฆ Contributors
| Contributor | Commits | Lines ยฑ | Files Changed | 
|---|---|---|---|
| rvagg | 1 | +537/-481 | 3 | 
| Carlos Hernandez | 9 | +556/-218 | 11 | 
| Guillaume Michel | 3 | +139/-105 | 6 | 
| gammazero | 8 | +101/-97 | 14 | 
| Hector Sanjuan | 1 | +87/-28 | 5 | 
| Marcin Rataj | 4 | +57/-9 | 7 | 
| Marco Munizaga | 2 | +42/-14 | 7 | 
| Dennis Trautwein | 2 | +19/-7 | 7 | 
| Andrew Gillis | 3 | +3/-19 | 3 | 
| Rod Vagg | 4 | +12/-3 | 4 | 
| web3-bot | 1 | +2/-1 | 1 | 
| galargh | 1 | +1/-1 | 1 | 

