earthstar

Good morning! The day for an Willow-powered Earthstar 11 beta is finally here. This is a big experiment: a new protocol underpinning everything, complementary new APIs, and of course, the greatest adventure of them all: getting it all to work in JavaScript.

Another experiment is how Earthstar will be distributed. A beta release of @earthstar/earthstar is available from JSR. https://jsr.io/@ea...

This is a patch release which fixes two dependencies that began to fail: better-sqlite3 and fast-stable-json-stringify. The former was breaking NPM installs, the latter was breaking Deno installs. Now both are fixed.

This release fixes a bug where invitation URLS could not be redeemed in Chrome or Firefox (thanks @tripledoublev!)

This is a feature release adding APIs to automatically discover and sync with peers on the local network. Automatically find and sync with friends at a café, or with your own devices at home.

// Start a new discovery service, and advertise ourselves as "My Computer".
const discoveryLan = new DiscoveryLAN({ name: "My Computer" });

// Wait for new discovery service events...
for a...

This is a feature release which adds support for invitation URLs.

Copying and pasting many addresses, secrets, and URLs is tedious. Copying and pasting a single address which your app already knows what to do with is much better.

They look like this:

earthstar://+shareaddress.xxx/?invite&server=https://server.com&server=https://server2.com&secret=bxxx&v=2

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