Welcome to the first IPFS Weekly of 2019! 🎉

For this first week back, we’ve put together a very special issue looking back on all that you, the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) (opens new window) community, accomplished in the last year.

2018 was a year of significant milestones

January: Mozilla adds support for Decentralization Protocols (opens new window) in popular web browser, Firefox.

February: The world was introduced to libp2p (opens new window), a peer-to-peer networking stack built modularly, with IPFS.

March: js-ipfs v0.28.0 (opens new window) was released, Juan Benet presented Redecentralizing the Web (opens new window) to MIT’s largest research lab, the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab, and go-ipfs released version 0.4.14 (opens new window).

April: We introduced IPFS Companion 2.2.0 (opens new window) and gave folks a look at go-ipfs on Windows (opens new window).

May: We announced the first ever IPFSConf (opens new window), Textile introduced a personal IPFS (opens new window) that runs on your mobile device for true decentralized storage. js-ipfs 0.29.0 was released (opens new window) and we closed out the month by getting the IPFS Cluster 0.4.0 release candidates (opens new window) out with a newly launched IPFS Cluster website (opens new window) to boot.

July: The Awesome IPFS list (opens new window) on GitHub was relaunched as a website (opens new window). Released js-ipfs v0.30.0 (opens new window) and v0.31.0 (opens new window) back to back. js-libp2p had its first official release (opens new window), and lastly, go-ipfs v0.4.17 (opens new window) was released.

August: We celebrated Lab Day 2018 (opens new window) in San Francisco, California (see the talks from Lab Day here (opens new window)) and released both the InterPlanetary Linked Data (IPLD) (opens new window) explorer site and the official site for js-ipfs: js.ipfs.io (opens new window). We closed out the summer with the release of IPFS Cluster 0.5.0 (opens new window).

September: Cloudflare announced their IPFS gateway (opens new window) and the IPFS Weekly Newsletter returned (opens new window). js-ipfs 0.32.0 (opens new window) was released and so was ipld-explorer-cli 0.14 (opens new window).

October: IPFS Pinbot (opens new window) emerged on Twitter.

November: A big month for releases! js-ipfs 0.33 (opens new window) and go-ipfs 0.4.18 (opens new window) and js-libp2p v0.24.0 (opens new window) were all released.

December: We ended the year with a bit of organization, by renaming the HTTP client libraries (opens new window).

Some cool news

Some of our milestones were covered by major publications, so here’s a look back at some of the news we made.

August: Mozilla Hacks, Dweb: Building Cooperation and Trust into the Web with IPFS (opens new window)

September: The Guardian, Decentralisation: the next big step for the world wide web (opens new window)

October: MIT Technology Review, A big tech company is working to free the internet from big tech companies (opens new window)

November: Forbes Magazine, Can Decentralization Impact And Enhance Geo-Location Data Privacy? (opens new window), Nasdaq, Thailand Uses Blockchain-Supported Electronic Voting System in Primaries (opens new window), and Hackernoon, Breaking The Ice: A Crash Course In IPFS, Ethereum And Fat Protocols Of The Future (opens new window).

Community events around the globe

Throughout the year people were excited to meet and chat about IPFS. Here are some of the events we saw each other at, and if you missed these, there’s always 2019!

January: Lisbon IPFS (opens new window), 2018 is the year of the Distributed Web 🙌🏽 🌐 (see talks here (opens new window) and IoT Dev Fest (opens new window) in Tempe, Arizona.

February: The workshop WebVR/AR III: Mixed Reality Networks (opens new window) in Portland, Oregon.

May: Baltimore/DC IPFS (opens new window) held a meet-up.

August: The IPFS community (opens new window) descended upon Decentralized Web Summit 2018 in San Francisco, California.

October: The first IPFS Berlin meetup (opens new window) and IPFS Show & Tell in London (opens new window) took place (see the talks from London here (opens new window)).

2018 by the names and numbers

All told 261 contributors produced 8417 commits across 167 repositories in the IPFS project this year. Thanks to the following folks for helping make this such an amazing year for IPFS.

• 0xflotus
• abitrolly
• achingbrain
• acruikshank
• adamgall
• Admin-DataRoads
• ahazrat
• akrych
• alanshaw
• aleph2012
• aleybovich
• alexander255
• AliabbasMerchant
• amar-laksh
• anacrolix
• andreasolund
• andrewxhill
• aphelionz
• b5
• bartcoelus
• bastiao
• bigs
• bjzhang
• bmuller
• bvand
• camelmasa
• carsonfarmer
• cboddy
• chenminjian
• chriscool
• chrismatthieu
• Coderlane
• contrun
• da2x
• daftaupe
• daijiale
• daviddahl
• daviddias
• davideicardi
• davidgilbertson
• DavidHuie
• DBLouis
• demmojo
• dignifiedquire
• dirkmc
• djdv
• dheatovwil
• dongtianyi
• dordille
• dorstu
• dreadhello
• drgrisham
• drozdziak1
• dryajov
• dsemenovsky
• dustmop
• ebastos
• ebpa
• edsgerlin
• eefahy
• eingenito
• Elexy
• eordano
• erciccione
• fazo96
• fbaiodias
• ffrist
• fiatjaf
• flipflopsimsommer
• flokli
• flyingzumwalt
• fluency03
• FrankPetrilli
• fsdiogo
• garrensmith
• germeuser
• gjeanmart
• gpestana
• grokcoder
• groksrc
• hacdias
• hannahhoward
• hinshun
• hsanjuan
• hugomrdias
• ianopolous
• ibnesayeed
• ivan386
• IvanLuLyf
• j-cr
• jacobheun
• jackloughran
• jamiejn
• jamiew
• jbenet
• JGAntunes
• jfranciscosousa
• jonafato
• jonahweissman
• JonKrone
• jonnycrunch
• justinmchase
• kamaci
• Kcchouette
• keks
• kevina
• kevinsimper
• kishansagathiya
• kjzz
• klueq
• koalalorenzo
• Kubuxu
• kyledrake
• Laevos
• lanzafame
• laser
• leekt216
• leerspace
• leo6104
• LEonGAo1991
• lexrus
• lidel
• LinusU
• litzenberger
• lgierth
• luizirber
• machawk1
• magik6k
• maksimyugai
• manandbytes
• marcooliveira
• marpett
• marten-seeman
• matrushka
• mburns
• mcollina
• meiqimichelle
• mhchia
• mishmosh
• michaelavila
• michaelmcandrew
• MichaelMure
• MidnightLightning
• mikeal
• miyazono
• mgoelzer
• mkg20001
• momack2
• Mr0grog
• My9Bot
• ncocchiaro
• negamaxi
• NeoTeo
• nGoline
• nicola
• Nipol
• nstrelow
• oed
• olebedev
• olizilla
• OR13
• Otto-AA
• overbool
• parkan
• PascalPrecht
• passerby888
• PedroMiguelSS
• petethomas
• pgte
• phritz
• pkafei
• PlayerWithoutName
• pmthomps
• pors
• postables
• Powersource
• preetsinojiya
• prettymuchbryce
• PunkChameleon
• qpakzk
• racin
• raoulmillais
• raulk
• renrutnnej
• requilence
• RichardLitt
• richardschneider
• ridewindx
• rjharmon
• rjrbt
• rob-deutsch
• robbsolter
• robotamer
• rodolfo-r
• Rokko11
• romaric-juniet
• rwv
• s1na
• sahib
• sameer
• samli88
• satazor
• satoru
• sbani
• schomatis
• seungwon-kang
• shunkino
• skylarnorris
• slandau3
• soupdiver
• Stebalien
• steefmin
• steveruckdashel
• sublimino
• suzaku
• taigrr
• tarekbadrshalaan
• taylormike
• terichadbourne
• tdiesler
• the-owl
• thiagodelgardo111
• thomasbeta
• Tirz
• travisperson
• TroyWilson1
• TUSF
• ult-yole
• Varunram
• vasco-santos
• victorb
• vmx
• vukovinski
• vutsalsinghal
• vyzo
• wanderingstan
• warpfork
• waynewyong
• webmaniak
• wei-1
• whereswaldon
• whilei
• whyrusleeping
• wraithgar
• ya7ya
• zbigniewzolnierowicz
• zcstarr
• ZenGround0

Huge thanks to all of you for your time, your expertise, and your contributions. We couldn’t do it without each and every one of you. ❤️

Building the web with Awesome IPFS

These are just a few of the new apps and tools that were submitted to the new Awesome IPFS (opens new window) site, showing that people are excited about building things with IPFS.

• brig (opens new window) - File synchronization with git like interface and FUSE filesystem.

• IPFSStore (opens new window) - Pinning paid with Steem

• Autonomica “IPFS Social Proof” (opens new window) - Autonomica is a Keybase-like Dapp for creating an identity and proving this identity via published social media and web proofs.

• TallyLab (opens new window) - Local-first, end-to-end encrypted diary app for capturing, analyzing, and sharing data about any and everything.

• Pinata (opens new window) - Build and manage your dapp through Pinata’s REST API and IPFS toolkit.

• enzypt.io (opens new window) - A website to buy and sell files through Ethereum and IPFS.

• qri (opens new window) - Dataset creation, collaboration, and discovery on the distributed web.

• Peer Bandwidth Demo (opens new window) - An demo app that uses window.ipfs, provided by the IPFS Companion web extension to get and graph bandwidth info for your IPFS node

• killcord (opens new window) - A censorship resistant deadman’s switch

• Philes (opens new window) - A simple browser-based IPFS notepad app.

• Arpadyne (opens new window) - The New Internet - DNS powered by OrbitDB. Content delivered via IPFS.

Thanks for reading ☺️

That’s it for this special edition of the IPFS Weekly. If we missed something, reply to this email and let us know! Next week we’ll return with all the news that’s happened across the ecosystem since the last Weekly of 2018.

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See you next week! 👋