Iroh 0.14.0 - Dial the world

Welcome to the first iroh release that allows you to dial by just a Node ID:

Thanks to great work from @frando @rklaehn and @arnazeh we now have an iroh-dns-server that allows for looking up node information via DNS, based on the pkarr format.

iroh blob get \ # download a blob
  --start     \ # start an iroh node while running this command
  --node p4augy7yocvwytsp4ygiayhqfygw7zpzudrg5otzk5ry5hl5ydya \ # the node id
  z5p3t7v2s3w5uifsyndr5wolx4fufdlktzoae76uqzwheqkfqdvairoh      # the hash of the blob

By default, iroh will connect to the DNS server run by number 0, but (as with our relays) you can configure iroh to use your own instance of iroh-dns-server.

For more details checkout the PR: Node discovery via DNS (#2045)

🏎️ Faster relay handshakes

To speed up connections to our relay servers, we have refactored the connection handshake. This drops a full roundtrip, on every new connection. This reduces the time to connect to the relays, in general, but dramatically speeds up connections to farther-away relays.

Unfortunately, this means the new relays can not talk to 0.13.0 nodes. To smooth out the upgrade path, we will keep the old relays running for at least another 4 weeks.

The new relays are available under these DNS entries. Please ensure any custom iroh config files you use are updated appropriately.

• US: use1-1.relay.iroh.network
• EU: euw1-1.relay.iroh.network

For more details checkout the PR: Simplify relay handshake (#2164)

✍️  Basic Author API

Authors are an important part of how documents are managed in iroh. We have finally provided an API to manage them!

// Setup an in-memory iroh node.
let node = Node::memory().spawn().await?;

// Create a new author.
let author_id = node.authors.create().await?;

let authors_stream = node.authors.list().await?;
// List of current authors, which is currently just the one we created above.
let authors: Vec<_> = authors_stream.try_collect().await?;

// Export the author for external usage.
let author = node.authors.export(author_id).await?.unwrap();

// I didn't like the author, let's delete it.
node.authors.delete(author_id).await?;

// Ah wait I still need it, import it again.
node.authors.import(author).await?;

For more details checkout: Implement basic author api (#2132)

💾 Upgrade redb to v2.0

Iroh relies on redb, both for storing data in iroh-bytes and storing document structure in iroh-sync. With the release of redb@2.0 we gained a nice performance boost, and smaller features under the hood, allowing us to simplify the code in our storage implementations.

For more details checkout: Update redb to v2 (#2120)

🤯 But wait there’s more!

Many bugs were squashed and smaller features added. For all those details you can checkout the full changelog: https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh/releases/tag/v0.14.0.

If you want to know what is coming up, checkout the 0.15.0 milestone, and if you have any wishes let us know in the issues!

If you need help using iroh or just want to chat, please join us on discord!