2023 H1 wrapup blogpost

[p-shahi]

Recap highlights of 2023 H1
ETA: ~1st week of July

Points to hit:

specs

• private-to-private specs

js-libp2p

• js-libp2p-webrtc & (browser to server and private to private/browser to browser)
• js-libp2p monorepo
• QoL improvements
• H2 plans

go-libp2p

• smart dialing
• metrics (mention and link to metrics in go-libp2p #69)
• more
• H2 plans

rust-libp2p

• 0.52.0 release (mention and link to rust-libp2p 0.52.0 blog post #82)
  • kademlia client mode
• WebTransport + Wasm
• more
• H2 plans

cross-repo

• interoperability testing (mention and link to Blog post about our new interoperability tests #70)
• perf (mention and give hint to detailed blog in blog about performance benchmarking in libp2p #74)

community

• HackFS
• JVM, Swift, Nim, Zig, etc libp2p highlights
• IPFS Thing (link to existing blog)
• H2 plans and upcoming conferences
• more

[mxinden]

For rust-libp2p worth mentioning is also the QUIC hole punching. libp2p/rust-libp2p#3964

[marten-seemann]

• smart dialing

This should probably be its own blog post. This would make the most sense after the v0.29 release.

Are we sure a H1 recap blog post makes sense? H1 ending is a pretty random date, and our users probably care more about new features we're shipping.