v2.15.0.972 (Beta)

✨ Features

• feat: icon in browser action menu upon version update (#935)

🛠 Fixes and Maintenance

• refactor: webpack 5.x (#938)
• chore(i18n): sync locales

Installation

• Firefox: Install from self-hosted Beta Channel
• Chrome, Brave, Edge and other Chromium-based: Beta Channel at Chrome Web Store
  • Note: publishing to Chrome Web Store is delayed 7 or more days due to #808
• Alternative: use generic .zip attached to this release or build and install it manually

v2.15.0

✨ Features

Display release notes upon Companion update (#913)

Just in case you care 🙈 to read release notes on each update.
This release opens them in a new tab, but future ones will make it less disruptive.
If you don't want to be interrupted, Preferences screen has a toggle to turn it off:

Quick import via HTTP API works with big files

IPFS Companion finally switched to the latest ipfs-http-client and modern JS API.

This introduced fantastic performance optimizations for web browser runtimes, made by @Gozala and @achingbrain.
Imported files are no longer buffered in memory and one can import much bigger files (4GB+) than before .

Persistence for manual opt-ins and opt-outs per site (#929)

Preferences screen now has separate list for opt-outs and opt-ins:

A site is added/moved between lists when user toggles integrations via browser action menu:

Mechanics are simple: direct match (sub.example.com) overrides decision made for a parent domain (`example.com).

Improved "Cannot process IPFS request" page (#911)

Thanks to @jessicaschilling we now have a better explainer when CIDv0 URI gets force-lowercased in Firefox:

Chromium 86 safelisted ipfs:// and other dweb protocol handlers, we hope to see similarly improved experience in Chromium-based browsers in the future.

🛠 Fixes and Maintenance

• fix: default to https when recovering .eth (#847)
• feat(ci): move to github, work on windows (#928)
• refactor: switch to modern async await JS APIs (#811)
  • latest js-ipfs and js-ipfs-http-client
  • Web UI no longer included in Chromium bundle
  • Instead, correct CID is detected and prefetched via IPFS
  • Much faster install via one-click-install in Brave
• fix: regression in HTTP recovery of background tabs (#915) (thank you @quevas13!)
• docs(README): update screenshots for new UI (#909)
• i18n: sync locale

Installation

Firefox / Firefox for Android	Chrome / Brave / Opera / Edge
	Note: publishing could be delayed due to #808

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

v2.14.0.966 (Beta)

✨ Features

• feat: remember manual opt-ins and opt-outs per site (#929)

🛠 Fixes and Maintenance

• fix: default to https when recovering .eth (#847)
• feat(ci): move to github, work on windows (#928)
• refactor: the async await extravaganza (#811)
• fix: regression in HTTP recovery of background tabs (#915)
• chore(i18n): sync locales

Installation

• Firefox: Install from self-hosted Beta Channel
• Chrome, Brave, Edge and other Chromium-based: Beta Channel at Chrome Web Store
  • Note: publishing to Chrome Web Store is delayed 7 or more days due to #808
• Alternative: use generic .zip attached to this release or build and install it manually

v2.14.0.959 (Beta)

✨ Features

• Display release notes upon Companion update (#913)
• Improved "Cannot process IPFS request" page (#911)

🛠 Fixes and Maintenance

• docs(README): update screenshots for new UI (#909)
• i18n: sync locale

Installation

• Firefox: Install from self-hosted Beta Channel
• Chrome, Brave, Edge and other Chromium-based: Beta Channel at Chrome Web Store
  • Note: publishing to Chrome Web Store is delayed 7 or more days due to #808
• Alternative: use generic .zip attached to this release or build and install it manually

v2.14.0

✨ Features

A lot of UI/UX improvements by @jessicaschilling, see respective PRs for the full list of changes:

Huge revamp of pop-up menu (#907)

Preferences page tweaks (#903)

🛠 Fixes and Maintenance

• fix: add favicon to welcome, options, quick-import pages (#906)
• docs: fix link to localization notes (#895)
• docs: add DNSLink lookup to Privacy Policy (#901)
• docs: updated README.md (#899)
• style: update manifest_extensionDescription (#898)
• i18n: sync locale

Installation

Firefox / Firefox for Android	Chrome / Brave / Opera / Edge
	Note: publishing is delayed due to #808

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

v2.13.1.950 (Beta)

✨ Features

• Huge revamp of pop-up menu (#907)
• Preferences page tweaks (#903)

🛠 Fixes and Maintenance

• fix: add favicon to welcome, options, quick-import pages (#906)
• docs: fix link to localization notes (#895)
• docs: add DNSLink lookup to Privacy Policy (#901)
• docs: updated README.md (#899)
• style: update manifest_extensionDescription (#898)
• i18n: sync locale

Installation

• Firefox: Install from self-hosted Beta Channel
• Chrome, Brave, Edge and other Chromium-based: Beta Channel at Chrome Web Store
  • Note: publishing to Chrome Web Store is delayed 7 or more days due to #808
• Alternative: use generic .zip attached to this release or build and install it manually

v2.13.1

👀 tl;dr

It is now possible to opt-in into using the latest WebUI (Preferences screen):

✨ Features

• feat: option to opt-in for bleeding edge ipfs-webui (#893)
• feat(i18n): add ar locale (8ae3087)

🛠 Fixes and Maintenance

• i18n: sync locales (8ae3087)

Installation

Firefox / Firefox for Android	Chrome / Brave / Opera / Edge
	Note: publishing is delayed due to #808

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

v2.13.0.939 (Beta)

✨ Features

• feat: option to opt-in for bleeding edge ipfs-webui (#893)
  The opt-in toggle on Preferences looks like this:

  

• feat(i18n): add ar locale (8ae3087)

🛠 Fixes and Maintenance

• i18n: sync locales (8ae3087)

Installation

• Firefox: Install from self-hosted Beta Channel
• Chrome, Brave, Edge and other Chromium-based: Beta Channel at Chrome Web Store
  • Note: publishing to Chrome Web Store is delayed 7 or more days due to #808
• Alternative: use generic .zip attached to this release or build and install it manually

v2.13.0

👀 tl;dr

• revamped welcome screen with onboarding materials
• clicking on the heartbeat cube in browser action menu brings back the welcome streen

✨ Features

• feat: update welcome page content (#884) – thanks @jessicaschilling!

🛠 Fixes and Maintenance

• fix: respect opt-out hint for subresources in FF (7a78552)
• chore: update docs links to non-beta site (#887)
• i18n: sync locales

Installation

Firefox / Firefox for Android	Chrome / Brave / Opera / Edge
	Note: publishing is delayed due to #808

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

v2.12.1.932 (Beta)

✨ Features

• feat: update welcome page content (#884) – thanks @jessicaschilling!

🛠 Fixes and Maintenance

• fix: respect opt-out hint for subresources in FF (7a78552)
• chore: update docs links to non-beta site (#887)
• i18n: sync locales

Installation

• Firefox: Install from self-hosted Beta Channel
• Chrome, Brave, Edge and other Chromium-based: Beta Channel at Chrome Web Store
  • Note: publishing to Chrome Web Store is delayed 7 or more days due to #808
• Alternative: use generic .zip attached to this release or build and install it manually