0.7 merged into master branch (0.7 preview)

[Paul Frazee]

Hello all,

We've merged the 0.7 branch into the master branch of Beaker. It's not 100% ready for release, but you can clone it now to preview the updates.

Major changes:

 - New UIs in the Browser shell and in the builtin pages

 - A switch to the new Dat protocol, which has big performance improvements and a more featured protocol (versions, file deletion)

 - Better OS integration: you now put saved/created dats in folders on your OS, and have a git-like staging area for doing work and publishing

 - Basic P2P analytics (number of peers and peer history for the past hour)

 - More Web Platform support (window.prompt, onbeforeunload, custom context menus)

 - Better onboarding (still in progress, currently disabled)

 - And plenty of bugfixes

 

Deprecations:

 - Bkr commandline tool

 - IPFS support

NOTE: This PR changed the internal data model of Beaker. Unfortunately that means your old Dats and bookmarks will be lost.

We'll post more soon about what this new version includes and why it took 3 months.

-prf