Mar 2022
Filecoin and IPFS data providers can publish their content to the Indexer, https://cid.contact. Clients are able to query the indexer for particular CIDs to discover which providers have them. IPFS DHT hydra nodes, when queried, will also fetch from the Indexer and return any discovered records.
Apr 2022
SP’s running Lotus are, by default, announcing stored content (existing and new) indexes to network indexers. Clients are now able to query indexers, such as https://cid.contact, to discover the location of particular CIDs on the Filecoin network.
Jun 2022
The Markets v2 implementation, Boost, is available as a replacement for the Lotus markets process. Storage Providers will have improved utilities and a web UI for managing their deals, funds, and more. A Boost client cli will be available enabling users to make storage deals with http hosted car files. Learn more about Boost at https://boost.filecoin.io.
Sep 2022
Leveraging logged autoretrieve events we will identify the top retrieval errors and work closely with SP’s on root cause analysis and resolution
Oct 2022
The Kubo implementation of IPFS is able to discover content indexed via network indexers, such as cid.contact, over the reframe protocol and retrieve it from Storage Providers running the Bitswap retrieval process with Boost. Only freely available content will be available for this iteration.
IPFS gateways directly query network indexers over reframe, in addition to the DHT, providing higher reliability for entries stored in the network indexers.
Nov 2022
Bitswap, HTTP and graphsync retrievals will all have been battle-tested with load tests and results published.