Part of ongoing maintenance of key libraries and services ipshipyard/roadmaps#1 and ipshipyard/roadmaps#6

Meta

• Release owner: @lidel
• Release reviewer/backup: @gammazero
• Expected RC1 date: ~ 19th
• 🚢 Expected final release date: ~26th
• Release PR: TBD
• Accompanying PR for improving the release process: docs: simplify release process #10870
• Internal Staging tests by Shipyard: TBD
• Changelog: https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/blob/master/docs/changelogs/v0.37.md

Items In Scope

Required

• feat(config): AutoConf with "auto" placeholders #10883
• feat(config): Gateway.RetrievalTimeout|MaxConcurrentRequests #10905
  • boxo with feat(gateway): concurrency and timeout limits boxo#994
    • boxo with gateway: ability to set response write timeout boxo#679
    • boxo with gateway: limit the number of requests in flight boxo#881
  • provider: clear provide queue when reprovide strategy changes #10863
• feat: ipfs-webui v4.8.0 #10902 with
  • fix: refresh stale multiaddrs on the Status page ipfs-webui#2385 to pick up AutoTLS/RelayV2 changes
  • feat: add async provide on share/copy/pin/ipns ipfs-webui#2387 to help users who dont run nodes all the time, and want to quickly start node and share CID
  • fix: stop sending requests to defunct countly ipfs-webui#2395
• chore: update go-libp2p and p2p-forge #10887 & Upgrade to Boxo v0.33.1 #10888
  • feat: go-libp2p v0.43.0 #10892 (https://github.com/quic-go/quic-go/releases/tag/v0.54.0)
  • p2p-forge/client v0.6.1+ with fix: addrs factory skipping logic ipshipyard/p2p-forge#76
• feat: add query functionality to log level command #10885
• fix: ipfs cid without repo #10897 & fix(cmd): exit 1 on error #10903
• fix: Provide according to Reprovider.Strategy #10886
• fix(relay): feed connected peers to AutoRelay discovery #10901
• fix: Windows symlink handling and error recovery npm-kubo#76
• feat: telemetry plugin #10866

Nice To Have (Optional)

• feat: require go1.25 for building kubo #10913
• feat(ipns): support passing custom sequence number during publishing #10851
• fix: move non-error log to warning level libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#1119
• refactor: remove goprocess #10872
• refactor: remove goprocess #10872
• Add /api/v0/log API for querying current log levels #10882
• feat(daemon): accelerated client startup note #10859
• feat(add): add support for naming pinned CIDs #10877
• Add Routing.Type=delegated to only use Routing.DelegatedRouters #10824
• TBD work related to routing/provider (likely needs more work, ETA ~0.38)
  • Merge "all" and "flat" reprovider strategies #10864
  • Move ipfs routing provide and reprovide into ipfs provide namespace #10865
  • TBD Provide newly received blocks according to reprovide strategy #10837
  • Integrate Modernized Provider System from go-libp2p-kad-dht #10881
• other kad-dht provider/reprovider improvements
  • feat: DHT Reprovide Sweep #10834 (wip, likely 0.37+)
    • feat: Reprovide Sweep libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#1082
    • (parked until reprovider refactor) provider: duplicated CIDs sent to provide queue boxo#901
    • (parked until reprovider refactor) Command to clean reprovider queue #10829
• feat(cmds): files: add new-root command to change the MFS root #8648
• bug: failed to establish port mapping: goupnp: error performing SOAP HTTP request after LAN (upnp) router restart #9759
• feat(cmds): files: add new-root command to change the MFS root #8648 as fix for Ipfs daemon hangs when MFS root is not available locally #7183 (comment)
• Deployment plan for AutoNAT v2 #10091
  • update go-libp2p to version that uses AutoNATv2 for everything
• Denylist support fixes and improvements
  • ipfs blockservice is incompatible with sessions ipfs-shipyard/nopfs#34 (NOfs content filtering is not applied to bitswap)
  • Support consuming https://badbits.dwebops.pub/badbits.deny rainbow#126 (same applies to Kubo)
    • denylist: ?format=car does not skip directly blocked CIDs #10361
    • HTTPSubscriber: detect when list is not append-only ipfs-shipyard/nopfs#39
    • HTTPSubscriber: check with If-None-Match or If-Modified-Since ipfs-shipyard/nopfs#38
• Update pubsub and add default validator #9684
• refactor: support percent-encoded /unix paths #10833