v0.4.1

Changelog

User facing changes

Threads

• Block nodes now contain two extra links:
  • target, pulled out of the encrypted block, enabling arbitrary nesting of data and message blocks
  • data, the new home for the data link (previously target)
• With the addition of the extra links, the thread graph is traversable by IPFS without touching the encrypted payloads 🎉, which paves the way for an OrbitDB-like public thread type, and js-threads

Cafe Service

• Fixes a bug in handleDeliverMessage where the envelope payload was not being correctly unmarshalled

Files

• Can now take a target (nested files), but currently disabled

Messages

• Can now take a target (nested messages), but currently disabled

Comments

• Deprecated (replaced by messages w/ a target), but currently still active

Fixes

• Fixes an invites bug which caused direct invites to never be sent

Internal Changes

Threads

• Block indexes now have three states:
  • READY: payload is downloaded and synced (if created locally)
  • QUEUED: waiting to sync
  • PENDING: waiting to download
• During the thread traversal, the inner payloads (the encrypted part) are downloaded with a queue (BlockDownloads), which are handed in concurrent batches like the other queues, while the thread cursor continues to traverse
• Traversal handles parents concurrently
• The actual download could be moved to OS-specific background fetch APIs on mobile, similar to sync

Thread Service

• Logical cleanup, which is good prep for moving threads to their own repo (go-threads)

References

• Closes #264