v1.4.0-rc2

Overview

We're happy to announce Boost v1.4.0-rc2 release, with multiple changes and improvements!
Please make sure to upgrade to test the new features shipped in this release. See our upgrade guide for details.

Please review the Boost and Lotus compatibility matrix to plan your upgrade.

Highlights

• Boost HTTP endpoint can now be discovered publicly via the boost client.
  • SP's can set their HTTP url that will be shared as part of this new libp2p endpoint
• Boost can now limit the number of simultaneous HTTP connections when downloading the deal data. Check all about the HTTP limiter here. This applies to both libp2p-http (Estuary) and HTTP (Bidbot and boost client) storage deals.
• The UI Transfer page now displays all the ongoing HTTP connections and their transfer speed.
• Dagstore can be queried to find the piece CID for a given payload CID
  • boostd dagstore lookup-piece-cid --help
• A new config version is available with new HTTP rate limiting parameters

What's Changed

• booster-http: don't extract contents of CAR file for HEAD requests by @dirkmc in #718
• libp2p retrieval transports endpoint by @dirkmc in #723
• booster-http: disable on-the-fly indexing by default by @dirkmc in #646
• set booster-http cache control headers by @dirkmc in #724
• Fix Content-Length header in HEAD request for CAR file by @dirkmc in #725
• Rename booster-http flag --api-sealer to --api-storage by @dirkmc in #734
• Update config version to 3 by @LexLuthr in #735
• Transfer limiter by @dirkmc in #710
• Docker files by @airenas in #713
• fix: dagstore destroy-shard by @LexLuthr in #744
• consolidate markdown documentation by @nonsense in #743
• change network name for devnet by @nonsense in #747
• Transfer limiter web UI updates by @dirkmc in #740
• feat: dagstore lookup-cid command by @LexLuthr in #751
• bump version for v1.4.0-rc2 by @LexLuthr in #755

New Contributors

• @airenas made their first contribution in #713

Full Changelog: v1.4.0-rc1...v1.4.0-rc2