Release 0.20.1

[BigLep]

Meta

• Release owner: @Jorropo
• Release engineer: @Jorropo
• Release reviewer: @galargh
• 🚢 Expected final release date: 2023-05-24 2023-05-30

See the Kubo release process for more info.

Items in scope

• not sure if it's blocking yet) An error has occurred while serving routing_http_client metrics #9891
  • Confirmed not a bug in default config, does not require patch release
• (not critical but good to have) go-libp2p upgrade which has webtransport and other fixes
  • Backport
• (not critical but good to have) v0.20.0-rc2: cannot build plugins #9839
  • Boxo release
  • Backport

[BigLep]

We are going to do this release, but there is nothing urgent making us do so now. We'll plan on waiting another day or two to get an upcoming go-libp2p patch release.

[BigLep]

With upcoming US long weekend, this likely won't occur until 2023-05-30.

[BigLep]

Given we are expecting to do a 0.21 RC on 2023-06-01, we are going to skip doing a patch release: #9814