# Introducing the Ecosystem Working Group ðŸ”
Since its initial release over 9 years ago, IPFS has been stewarded by a variety of teams and individual contributors, both within and outside of Protocol Labs. More recently though, it has lacked a dedicated team focused on nothing other than the success of the IPFS ecosystem. It is with this reality in mind that we are excited to announce the formation of the brand new IPFS Ecosystem Working Group (opens new window)!
# Brand New on IPFS ✨
Kubo v0.22.0 (opens new window)
- Gateway: support for order= and dups= parameters (IPIP-412)
- ipfs name publish now supports V2 only IPNS records
- IPNS name resolution has been fixed
- go-libp2p v0.29.0 update with smart dialing
IPFSConnect Istanbul (opens new window)
- Have you checked out IPFSConnect (opens new window) yet? It's a community-run meetup of developers and designers building on top of IPFS. Join us in Istanbul on Nov 16th for a day of workshops + talks! Learn more here! (opens new window)
# Around the Ecosystem 🌎
LabWeek23 is happening November 13-17 (opens new window)
- Have you booked your travel yet? LabWeek23 (opens new window) is happening in Istanbul, Türkiye, from November 13-17, alongside Devconnect! This is your chance to connect and collaborate with visionaries and teams that are domain leaders in ZK Proofs, AI and blockchain, DeSci, decentralized storage, gaming in Web3, public goods funding, cryptoeconomics, and much more. Learn more about it here! (opens new window)
A Beginner's Guide to IPFS Content Addressing (opens new window)
- Learn how to harness the power of the InterPlanetary File System for seamless content distribution by checking out this comprehensive guide to IPFS content addressing by Filebase. Read it here! (opens new window)
Fleek's new app is in closed alpha (opens new window)
- "The day is finally here–the first step of the new Fleek, both app and brand ⚡ Let’s set the stage: This is not the full release of the new Fleek app. Today marks the start of our initial closed testing phase, leading up to an open testing period, and later in September, the full v1 release of the new app." Learn more in this blog post! (opens new window)
New git-ipfs remote bridge (opens new window)
- "Love git and IPFS? There's a new git-ipfs remote bridge that lets you snapshot new git releases to IPFS for self-hosting, immutable versioning, and decentralized replication. Go InterPlanetary!" Check it out here! (opens new window)
Encrypted file support will be added to Cedalio soon (opens new window)
- "Introducing the ability to define file types within your GraphQL schema, while we handle the rest. To stay in sync with our company core values, we store files in IPFS, a decentralized peer-to-peer protocol for storing and sharing files across a distributed network. As of now, files stored in IPFS are not encrypted; however, we’re excited to announce that support for encryption will be added in early October." Learn more via their product update! (opens new window)