v0.45

[MarcoPolo]

🗺 What's left for release

• Separate Core Module #3384
• New builder #3386
• basichost: refactor to use DI for some services #3407

🔦 Highlights

#3384 separates out go-libp2p/core as a separate module. This allows libraries to build against the core interfaces rather than a specific version of go-libp2p.

#3386 shows an outline of how customize a go-libp2p host, and only bring the parts one needs.

Changelog

git log --pretty=format:"%h %s %an <%ae>" v0.44.0..v0.45.0

✅ 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.
  • 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 to see if there are any out-of-date deps that look important.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.
• 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.