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: TBD
• 🚢 Expected final release date: TBD
• Release PR: TBD
• Accompanying PR for improving the release process: TBD
• Internal Staging tests by Shipyard: TBD
• Changelog: https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/blob/master/docs/changelogs/v0.38.md

Items In Scope

Required

• Integrate Modernized Provider System from go-libp2p-kad-dht #10881
• bug: failed to establish port mapping: goupnp: error performing SOAP HTTP request after LAN (upnp) router restart #9759
  • libp2p with fix: self-healing NAT mappings with request deduplication libp2p/go-libp2p#3367 (without this, many Kubo-based providers fail as providers due to losing public addr)
• TBD

Nice To Have (Optional)

• nat: stuck in error loop after router restart libp2p/go-libp2p#3224
• chore: golangci/v2 with go 1.25 support #10924
• feat: optimize docker builds #10925
• TBD