v0.39

[MarcoPolo]

🗺 What's left for release

• Update quic-go to v0.49.0 #3153
• nat: ignore mapping if external port is 0 #3094
• webrtc: upgrade pion/webrtc to v4 #3072
• quicreuse: make it possible to use an application-constructed quic.Transport #3122
• chore: move go-nat to internal package #3154
• feat: Implement Custom TCP Dialers #3166

🔦 Highlights

This is a small release. The main thing is updating quic-go to v0.49.0 and enabling specific environments with the new CustomTCPDialer option.

Changelog

• Update quic-go to v0.49.0
• Support application provided quic.Transports
• Support SOCKS proxy with ws(s)
• Support CustomTCPDialer for running TCP over arbitrary user-defined proxies.

✅ Release Checklist

• Stage 0 - Finishing Touches
  • Go through relevant libp2p repos looking for unreleased changes that should make it into the release. If you find any, cut releases. deferring this to keep this release small
  • Run go get -u ./... to see if there are any out-of-date deps that look important. If there are, bubble them. Try to avoid directly updating indirect deps in go-libp2p's go.mod when possible. deferring this to keep this release small
• Stage 1 - Release
  • Publish the release through the GitHub UI, adding the release notes. Some users rely on this to receive notifications of new releases.
  • Announce the release on the discuss.libp2p.io.
• Stage 2 - Update Upstream
  • Update the examples to the final release
  • Update the upstream dependencies to the final release and create PRs.
    • filecoin-project/lotus
    • go-libp2p-kad-dht
    • go-libp2p-pubsub (In case of breaking changes.)
    • ipfs/kubo
  • Add new release to interop tester in test-plans
• Make required changes to the release process.