Weekly Dev Update #135

Hey y’all, 

This week we raised the Session closed group size to 100 members and continued working on our new multidevice implementation. The Lokinet team published a design document on the proposed TPC over OUIC method which will be used in liblokinet. The Oxen Core team worked on a few minor fixes to Core and continued ongoing work to add messages specifying reasons for Service Node deregistration. 

Oxen Core 

• Clear unused variable warning in simple wallet https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-core/pull/1396

• Compatibility for OpenRC to manage oxen service nodes https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-core/pull/1395 (Thanks to community member Kreyren for this)

• Build internal check for public IP address https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-core/pull/1393

• [OxenMQ] Add a better interface for non-immediate request replies https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-mq/pull/31

Lokinet 

This week’s Lokinet development has focused on finishing/stabilizing the tun refactor code and designing and building an embeddable library version of Lokinet that we are (temporarily) calling “liblokinet”. This library version is aimed at being able to embed Lokinet connectivity into desktop and mobile applications without requiring a full system-level Lokinet installation, which will broaden the places Lokinet connectivity is possible and available. One of our specific tasks currently in progress to accomplish this is designing a layer within Lokinet that can convert TCP streams into QUIC streams for transport over liblokinet.

• Fix potential crash in path expiry logic https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1515

• Fix automatic gui builds broken by the oxen repositories rename https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1516

• Update README with better structure and more prominent suggestions of using the debs https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1522

• Fix building with older versions of libuv https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1514

• Preliminary draft liblokinet API https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1523

• Preliminary TCP-over-QUIC design document https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1525

• TCP-over-QUIC implementation (in progress, no PR yet)

Session

Session iOS 

• Fix inconsistent closed group leaving/kicking https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/341

• Improve onion request path loading efficiency https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/346

• Fix app extensions https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/342

• Increased open group moderation features https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/339

• Improved database handling https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/337

• Raise closed group size to 100 members https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/335 

Session Android 

• Update Spanish translations https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/401

• Open group moderation updates https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/405

• Use translated strings for max group members https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/404 

• Increase group size limit https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/403 

Session Desktop

• Remove body pending and 2000 body limit https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1458

• Fix password length issue https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1457

• Fix profile updates https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1448

• Clean moderator dialogue https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1445

• Increase closed group size to 100 https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1443

Thanks,  

Kee