The IPFS I used before has always been version 0.4.23. After a lot of minor repairs, I finally released 0.5! According to the official statement, after the upgrade, the speed of content discovery will be increased by 2-3 times, the speed of file transfer will be faster, the speed of adding files will be doubled and occupy less memory, and the speed of IPNS recording will be increased by 30-40 times. This article will teach you how to upgrade your existing IPFS from 0.4.23 to 0.5.

Because this update was released on April 28, there is almost no news in the Chinese circle. I discovered this method after reading the English doc a little bit. The method is very simple, and I am too lazy to interpret it step by step. The source blog is [here], you can check it out if you are interested.

Use the following code to upgrade IPFS:

wget https://dist.ipfs.io/ipfs-update/v1.6.0/ipfs-update_v1.6.0_linux-amd64.tar.gz && tar xvfz ipfs-update_v1.6.0_linux-amd64.tar.gz && cd ipfs- update/ && ./ipfs-update install v0.5.0

After the operation is complete, as shown in the figure below, the upgrade is successful.

At this time, when you open your gateway, you will find that it has used the new index page.

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