Ongoing maintenance of key libraries and services — IPFS/2025

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Ongoing maintenance of key IPFS libraries and services

Ongoing maintenance, including security fixes, bug fixes, and supporting the user and developer community.

ETA

Q1-Q4

Expected impact

Continued availability of popular IPFS libraries and services:

• kubo (16.3k stars)
• ipfs-cluster (1.5k stars)
• boxo (222 stars)

Continued availability of JS implementation for ongoing browser & HTTP efforts:

• helia (1k stars)

Progress reporting

Q1

• kubo

  • 9x releases (including RC's)
  • 98x pull-requests merged
  • 15x issues resolved
  • Notable features & fixes include:
    • v0.34
      • AutoTLS now enabled by default for nodes with 1 hour uptime
      • Fix hanging pinset operations during reprovides
    • v0.33
      • Bitswap improvements from Boxo
      • Improved IPNS interop
      • New options for faster writes: WriteThrough, BlockKeyCacheSize, BatchMaxNodes, BatchMaxSize
      • MFS stability with large number of writes
      • New DoH resolvers for non-ICANN DNSLinks
      • Reliability improvements to the WebRTC Direct listener
    • Timely patch releases with quic-go and go-libp2p security fixes

• ipfs-cluster

  • 3x pull-requests merged
  • 2x issues resolved
  • Notable features & fixes include:
    • Docker image fixes
    • Addition of --wait-limit flag
    • Dependency updates

• boxo

  • 8x releases (CHANGELOG.md)
  • 105x pull-requests merged
  • 15x issues resolved
  • Notable features & fixes include:
    • Opt-in, transparent HTTP-block retrieval support over Trustless Gateways HTTP retrieval proposal ipfs/boxo#747
    • Fix redirect URLs for subdirectories with characters that need escaping. fix/gateway: escape directory redirect url ipfs/boxo#779
    • Support for custom DNSLink / DoH resolvers on localhost to simplify integration with non-ICANN DNS systems feat(gateway): allow localhost http:// DoH resolvers ipfs/boxo#645
    • Added ReprovideInterval and LastRun stats to the Reprovider feat: Better self-service commands for DHT providing ipfs/boxo#815
    • Fixed multiple memory leaks Always send cancels even if peer has no interest ipfs/boxo#829, fix(bitswap): blockpresencemanager leak ipfs/boxo#833, fix: bitswap lock contention under high load ipfs/boxo#817, fix(bitswap): filter interests from received messages ipfs/boxo#822
    • Provider helper that buffers results to fix issues with slow re-providing provider: add a buffered KeyChanFunc. ipfs/boxo#870

• helia

  • 36x releases
  • 32x pull-requests merged
  • 10x issues resolved
  • Notable features & fixes include:
    • add auto-tls support (feat: add auto-tls support ipfs/helia#716)
    • add method tracing to routing (feat: add method tracing to routing ipfs/helia#715)
    • allow passing custom ttl when publishing ipns (feat: allow passing custom ttl when publishing ipns ipfs/helia#723)
    • allow modifying trustless-gateway fetch (feat: allow modifying trustless-gateway fetch ipfs/helia#751)
    • add WebRTC-Direct listener (feat: add WebRTC-Direct listener ipfs/helia#741)
    • add republish signed ipns records (feat: add republish signed ipns records ipfs/helia#745)