Welcome to the IPFS Weekly. 👋

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) (opens new window) is a new hypermedia distribution protocol, addressed by content and identity. IPFS enables the creation of completely distributed applications. It aims to make the web faster, safer, and more open. Since that’s a pretty large scope, we track development across the ecosystem in this weekly dispatch.

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Here are some of the highlights since the last IPFS Weekly.

The latest

• Join us on Thursday for Protocol Labs’ Tech Social (opens new window) in Glasglow at 6:30pm. We hope to see you there!
• The first Berlin IPFS Meetup is also this Thursday, October 11th! Sign up to attend on Meetup. (opens new window) Come chat all things decentralised with the IPFS community. 😎
• IPFS Cluster 0.6.0 was released last week (opens new window). Big thanks to the contributors who helped make it happen: @lanzafame (opens new window), @meiqimichelle (opens new window), @kishansagathiya (opens new window), @cannium (opens new window), @jglukasik (opens new window) and @mike-ngu (opens new window) and others.
• IPFS The Interplanetary File System Explained & Illustrated (opens new window) A great explainer showing how centralized and distributed systems work and how IPFS is changing the game.

IPFS in the wild

Do you follow IPFS on Twitter (opens new window)? For the latest mentions of IPFS in the news, check our Twitter feed or see the latest articles on Awesome IPFS (opens new window).

• A big tech company is working to free the internet from big tech companies (opens new window) MIT Technology Review, 05 Oct 2018
• Someone used my IPFS gateway for phishing (opens new window), James Stanley, 04 Oct 2018
• Phishing Attacks Distributed Through CloudFlare's IPFS Gateway (opens new window), 04 Oct 2018
• Brewster Kahle on What’s Next for the Decentralized Web Movement (opens new window), 04 Oct 2018
• Video: FuseBox Ask Me Anything: Dat Protocol (opens new window), Watch the round table event for anyone interested in learning about peer-to-peer “dweb” file sharing protocols, particularly Dat, 02 Oct 2018
• Tutorial: How to host your own file transfer service on your pc (opens new window), 28 Sep 2018
• Video: How to Leverage Libp2p for Blockchain Applications (opens new window), Chris Pacia, 18 Sep 2018
• CloudFlare's IPFS Gateway Makes it Easy to Create Distributed Web Sites (opens new window), 17 Sep 2018
• Video: Creating a truly decentralized Ethereum Dapp using IPFS (opens new window), Brian Wentzloff, 06 Sep 2018

Updates and new releases

See the latest releases of IPFS tools and projects across the ecosystem.

• ipwb v0.2018.10.01.1947 (opens new window) – InterPlanetary Wayback: A distributed and persistent archive replay system using IPFS
• js-datastore-s3 0.2.0 (opens new window) – Datastore implementation with S3 backend (Also check out go-ds-s3 (opens new window), an implementation of the datastore interface backed by amazon s3.)
• npm-on-ipfs 0.10.0 (opens new window) – Added an s3 storage option
• qri 0.5.5 (opens new window) – 0.5.5 Smokey Topaz German Shorthaired Pointer is out, a.k.a. a patch release with some small features and a few bugfixes.
• The Graph Development Update (opens new window), 03 Oct 2018

Tools and projects we ❤️

Awesome IPFS (opens new window) is a community maintained and updated list of projects, tools, or pretty much any things related to IPFS that are totally awesome. To see more, or add yours to the list, visit Awesome IPFS on GitHub (opens new window).

• IPLD Mindmap (opens new window) – Mindmap application using IPLD as underlying datastructure
• Sourcegraph (opens new window), Discuss code and docs in repositories
• Numerai reveals Erasure: unstoppable, peer to peer data feeds (opens new window).

Coming up in the Community

Did you know IPFS has a community forum at discuss.ipfs.tech (opens new window)? Sign up to participate in discussions about coding, tutorials, see announcements and learn about upcoming community events.

• Introducing Decentralized Camp’s second yearly hackathon Nov 9-11 https://medium.com/buildyourthing/introducing-decentralized-camps-second-yearly-hackathon-9de20516a321
• Sign up to be notified for IPFS Conf 2019 (opens new window), in Lisbon.
• Introducing AraCon (opens new window), the first Aragon Conference, will take place in Berlin, Germany on January 29-30, 2019.
• Git Merge 2019 (opens new window) – This year’s event takes place in Brussels, Belgium, and features a full-day offering technical content and user case studies, plus a day of workshops for Git users of all levels.

Thanks for reading ☺️

That’s it for this week’s news on all things IPFS. If we missed something, reply to this email and let us know! That way we can feature you in next week’s edition.