Release 0.40

[lidel]

Note

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/v0.40.md

Items In Scope

Required

• Implement modern CID profile from IPIP-499 #11071
• feat(client/rpc): add provide stat and dag import support #11069

Nice To Have (Optional)

• Rewrite batch mode to use temp directory (#136) go-ds-flatfs#142
• Blocks are only sanity checked when debug mode is active #1152
• ERROR from webrtc-transport-pion Failed to accept data channel #11053
• IPIP-476
• ipfs get --compress gives incorrect Header #2376 (tbd if we fix or descope)
• ipfswatch: fix loading datastore plugins #11078
• TBD