Thus far, Iroh has been built as an implementation of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) focused on interoperability with Kubo, the reference implementation of IPFS. Starting with this release Iroh breaks interoperability with Kubo. Iroh will still be an IPFS implementation in a loose sense of the term, but moving forward our exclusive focus is on hitting numbers that make Iroh a reliable piece of technology that just works. Rather than delete the IPFS implementation we’ve built so far we will rename the project to Beetle, and put it into maintenance mode. Our rationale is outlined in this blog post
This is the first release in our ground up rebuild of Iroh. This sets an initial foundation of functionality that we intend to layer onto as we go.
The following crates are removed:
- iroh-api
- iroh-bitswap
- iroh-car
- iroh-embed
- iroh-gateway
- iroh-localops
- iroh-metrics
- iroh-one
- iroh-p2p
- iroh-resolver
- iroh-rpc-client
- iroh-rpc-types
- iroh-share
- iroh-store
- iroh-util
- iroh-unixfs
The following crates still exist, but have completely different APIs:
- iroh