Weekly Dev Update #138

Hey y’all, 

This week, we released an early beta of Session’s multidevice support, and improved Session ID restoration. The Oxen Core team finished our work on uptime proof encoding and moved onto adding Oxen Name System (ONS) support for Oxen Wallet addresses. On the Lokinet side, we finished up the new OUIC tunnel which will be an essential part of Lokinet as a library.

Oxen Core 

• Begin developing ONS for Oxen wallet addresses https://github.com/darcys22/loki-core/commits/1402-ons-names-for-transfers 

Lokinet 

Lokinet this week achieved a major milestone: a working full Lokinet implementation (in VPN mode with exit support) on Android! We still have a fair bit of polish to do before this release is ready for public consumption (the current app is extremely barebones; it doesn’t even have an “off” switch), but it works, and it easily handled our Lokinet team voice conversations. In other news, we’ve continued stability testing towards a 0.8.4 (desktop) release, experimented with some latency/performance improvements, and have continued development of the “liblokinet” QUIC tunnel code.

• Android build https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1537

• Reduce path latency by un-bundling packet acks https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1535

• Fix a very slow memory leak https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1536

• Reset state when client device network changes are detected https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1532

• QUIC tunnelling for liblokinet https://github.com/jagerman/plainquic/commits/dev

Session

This week we released a beta version of Session ID restoration and multidevice linking. We will be monitoring reports over the next few weeks to assess the validity of our approach and fix any issues as they arise. 

Session iOS 

• Continued work on UI overhaul of the Session conversations screen https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/347 

• Multi device fixes https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/350 

• Various closed group fixes https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/349 

• Full list of commits can be found on the following branches https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/commits/ui https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/tree/dev 

Session Android 

• Multi device and closed group refactorisation https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/443

• Send messages to own swarm, configuration messages https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/441 https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/439 

• Add sync target and message handling events for self sending https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/438

Session Desktop

• update avatar on convo only if DL+decrypt is OK https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1508 

• Allow only one group to be created simultaneously https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1507

• Implement leaving on multiple devices https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1505

• Send group keypairs for closed group if admin https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1501

• Add back default avatars https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1500

• Replace unused textResponse with used noJson, updating logging https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1499 

• Add the request and reply of an encryptionKeyPair if needed https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1498

Thanks,  

Kee