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@lidel lidel released this 31 Oct 12:09
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This stable release brings precached WebUI on Chromium and recovery from HTTP/DNS failures.

Features

  • First stab at improving resilience by healing broken links to IPFS resources and DNSLink websites. By default IPFS Companion tries to recover from HTTP/DNS failures and open requested IPFS resource at configurable public gateway. This means even if a gateway goes down or gets blocked, user is still able to reach the content over IPFS:

    2019-10-17--23-52-40

    • feat: recover from failed HTTP requests to third party gateways (#783) (thanks @colinfruit!)
    • feat: recover from DNS failures (#797)
    • feat: recover dead sub-domain gateways (#802) (thanks @colinfruit!)
    • feat: precached webui works in offline mode (#782)
  • feat: web ui 2.5.8 (#801)
  • feat: add 'Open Web UI' button to the welcome page (#769)
  • feat: display feedback form on extension uninstall (#799)

Fixes

  • fix: restore Android support (#770)
  • fix: avoid internal requests for action icons (#788)
  • fix: improve extraHeaders feature detection (#787) (thanks @sammacbeth!)
  • fix: streaming HTTP APIs of js-ipfs in Brave (#794)
  • fix: set minimum_chrome_version to 72 (#798)
  • fix: recovery quirks in Firefox and Chromium (#807)

Other

Installation

Firefox / Firefox for Android Chrome / Brave / Opera / Edge
Install From AMO Install from Chrome Store
Note: Chrome publishing delayed due to #808

Alternative: use prebuilt artifacts attached to this release or build and install it manually.

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