Merge pull request #4232 from ipfs/release-0.4.11-rc1

bump version to 0.4.11-rc1, update changelog

CHANGELOG.md

 # go-ipfs changelog
 
+### 0.4.11-rc1 2017-09-14
+
+Ipfs 0.4.11 is a larger release that brings many long-awaited features and
+performance improvements. These include new datastore options, more efficient
+bitswap transfers, circuit relay support, ipld plugins and more! Take a look
+at the full changelog below for a detailed list of every change.
+
+The ipfs datastore has, until now, been a combination of leveldb and a custom
+git-like storage backend called 'flatfs'. This works well enough for the
+average user, but different ipfs usecases demand different backend
+configurations. To address this, we have changed the configuration file format
+for datastores to be a modular way of specifying exactly how you want the
+datastore to be structured. You will now be able to configure ipfs to use
+flatfs, leveldb, badger, an in-memory datastore, and more to suit your needs.
+See the new [datastore
+documentation](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/master/docs/datastores.md)
+for more information.
+
+Bitswap received some much needed attention during this release cycle. The
+concept of 'Bitswap Sessions' allows bitswap to associate requests for
+different blocks to the same underlying session, and from that infer better
+ways of requesting that data. In more concrete terms, parts of the ipfs
+codebase that take advantage of sessions (currently, only `ipfs pin add`) will
+cause much less extra traffic than before. This is done by making optimistic
+guesses about which nodes might be providing given blocks and not sending
+wantlist updates to every connected bitswap partner, as well as searching the
+DHT for providers less frequently. In future releases we will migrate over more
+ipfs commands to take advantage of bitswap sessions. As nodes update to this
+and future versions, expect to see idle bandwidth usage on the ipfs network
+go down noticably.
+
+It is often said that NAT traversal is the hardest problem in peer to peer
+technology, we tend to agree with this. In an effort to provide a more
+ubiquitous p2p mesh, we have implemented a relay mechanism that allows willing
+peers to relay traffic for other peers who might not otherwise be able to
+communicate with each other.  This feature is still pretty early, and currently
+users have to manually connect through a relay. The next step in this endeavour
+is automatic relaying, and research for this is currently in progress. We
+expect that when it lands, it will improve the perceived performance of ipfs by
+spending less time attempting connections to hard to reach nodes. A short guide
+on using the circuit relay feature can be found
+[here](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/master/docs/experimental-features.md#circuit-relay).
+
+The last feature we want to highlight (but by no means the last feature in this
+release) is our new plugin system. There are many different workflows and
+usecases that ipfs should be able to support, but not everyone wants to be able
+to use every feature. We could simply merge in all these features, but that
+causes problems for several reasons: first off, the size of the ipfs binary
+starts to get very large very quickly. Second, each of these different pieces
+needs to be maintained and updated independently, which would cause significant
+churn in the codebase. To address this, we have come up with a system that
+allows users to install plugins to the vanilla ipfs daemon that augment its
+capabilities. The first of these plugins are a [git
+plugin](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/master/plugin/plugins/git/git.go)
+that allows ipfs to natively address git objects and an [ethereum
+plugin](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipld-eth) that lets ipfs ingest and operate
+on all ethereum blockchain data. Soon to come are plugins for the bitcoin and
+zcash data formats. In the future, we will be adding plugins for other things
+like datastore backends and specialized libp2p network transports.
+
+In order to simplify its integration with fs-repo-migrations, we've switched
+the ipfs/go-ipfs docker image from a musl base to a glibc base. For most users
+this will not be noticable, but if you've been building your own images based
+off this image, you'll have to update your dockerfile. We recommend a
+multi-stage dockerfile, where the build stage is based off of a regular Debian or
+other glibc-based image, and the assembly stage is based off of the ipfs/go-ipfs
+image, and you copy build artifacts from the build stage to the assembly
+stage. Note, if you are using the docker image and see a deprecation message,
+please update your usage. We will stop supporting the old method of starting
+the dockerfile in the next release.
+
+Finally, I would like to thank all of our contributors, users, supporters, and
+friends for helping us along the way. Ipfs would not be where it is without
+you.
+
+
+- Features
+  - Add `--pin` option to `ipfs dag put` ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4004](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4004))
+  - Add `--pin` option to `ipfs object put` ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4095](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4095))
+  - Implement `--profile` option on `ipfs init` ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4001](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4001))
+  - Add CID Codecs to `ipfs block put` ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4022](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4022))
+  - Bitswap sessions ([ipfs/go-ipfs#3867](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/3867))
+  - Create plugin API and loader, add ipld-git plugin ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4033](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4033))
+  - Make announced swarm addresses configurable ([ipfs/go-ipfs#3948](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/3948))
+  - Reprovider strategies ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4113](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4113))
+  - Circuit Relay integration ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4091](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4091))
+  - More configurable datastore configs ([ipfs/go-ipfs#3575](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/3575))
+  - Add experimental support for badger datastore ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4007](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4007))
+- Improvements
+  - Add better support for Raw Nodes in MFS and elsewhere ([ipfs/go-ipfs#3996](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/3996))
+  - Added file size to response of `ipfs add` command ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4082](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4082))
+  - Add /dnsaddr bootstrap nodes ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4127](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4127))
+  - Do not publish public keys extractable from ID ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4020](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4020))
+- Documentation
+  - Adding documentation that PubSub Sub can be encoded. ([ipfs/go-ipfs#3909](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/3909))
+  - Add Comms items from js-ipfs, including blog ([ipfs/go-ipfs#3936](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/3936))
+  - Add Developer Certificate of Origin ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4006](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4006))
+  - Add `transports.md` document ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4034](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4034))
+  - Add `experimental-features.md` document ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4036](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4036))
+  - Update release docs ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4165](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4165))
+  - Add documentation for datastore configs ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4223](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4223))
+  - General update and clean-up of docs ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4222](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4222))
+- Bugfixes
+  - Fix shutdown check in t0023 ([ipfs/go-ipfs#3969](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/3969))
+  - Fix pinning of unixfs sharded directories ([ipfs/go-ipfs#3975](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/3975))
+  - Show escaped url in gateway 404 message ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4005](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4005))
+  - Fix early opening of bitswap message sender ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4069](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4069))
+  - Fix determination of 'root' node in dag put ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4072](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4072))
+  - Fix bad multipart message panic in gateway ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4053](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4053))
+  - Add blocks to the blockstore before returning them from blockservice sessions ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4169](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4169))
+  - Various fixes for /ipfs fuse code ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4194](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4194))
+- General Changes and Refactorings
+  - Require go 1.8 ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4044](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4044))
+  - Change IPFS to use the new pluggable Block to IPLD decoding framework. ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4060](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4060))
+  - Remove tour command from ipfs ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4123](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4123))
+  - Add support for Go 1.9 ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4156](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4156))
+  - Remove some dead code ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4204](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4204))
+  - Switch docker image from musl to glibc ([ipfs/go-ipfs#4219](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/4219))
+
 ### 0.4.10 - 2017-06-27
 
 Ipfs 0.4.10 is a patch release that contains several exciting new features,
@@ -60,7 +179,7 @@ other requested improvements. See below for the full list of changes.
   - Add 'ipfs dht findprovs --num-providers' to allow choosing number of providers to find ([ipfs/go-ipfs#3966](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/3966))
   - Make sure all keystore keys get republished ([ipfs/go-ipfs#3951](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/3951))
 - Documentation
-  - Adding documentation on PubSub encodedings ([ipfs/go-ipfs#3909](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/3909))
+  - Adding documentation on PubSub encodings ([ipfs/go-ipfs#3909](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/3909))
   - Change 'neccessary' to 'necessary' ([ipfs/go-ipfs#3941](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/3941))
   - README.md: add Nix to the linux package managers ([ipfs/go-ipfs#3939](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/3939))
   - More verbose errors in filestore ([ipfs/go-ipfs#3964](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/3964))

package.json

@@ -469,6 +469,6 @@
   "language": "go",
   "license": "MIT",
   "name": "go-ipfs",
-  "version": "0.4.11-dev"
+  "version": "0.4.11-rc1"
 }
 

repo/config/version.go

@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ package config
 var CurrentCommit string
 
 // CurrentVersionNumber is the current application's version literal
-const CurrentVersionNumber = "0.4.11-dev"
+const CurrentVersionNumber = "0.4.11-rc1"
 
 const ApiVersion = "/go-ipfs/" + CurrentVersionNumber + "/"