Weekly Dev Update #139

Hey y’all, 

This week, the Session team worked on a number of fixes for last week’s multidevice & account restoration beta. The Lokinet team is making significant progress on the QUIC pipeline, which is essential to allow Lokinet to be used as a library. The Oxen Core team fixed various small bugs and worked on completion of the wOXEN Ethereum bridge. 

Oxen Core 

• Fix double counting in coinbase tx sum https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1411

• Add seed warning to wallet https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1409

• Fix wallet time estimation https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1408

• Fix network testing scripts https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1407 

Lokinet 

Lokinet this week gained a working draft tunnel implementation (tested able to push hundreds of megabytes per second in a local connection), as well as updates for IPv6 connectivity and some performance updates. We’re now focussing on bolting the tunnel into Lokinet itself, adding a working library interface, and experimenting with adding Lokinet-tunnelled connections into applications such as desktop Session.

• Support IPv6 NAT for exits (plugging a known exit mode leak) https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1538

• Lokinet reconfiguration on network changes https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1532

• More updates to the work-in-progress Android build https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1537

• Make ONS lookups use consensus to provide better assuredness of LNS resolution https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1541

• Avoid using routers on the same IP (or, configurably, IP range) when building paths https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1539

• Improve packet throughput performance https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1543

• “Plainquic” tunneling code https://github.com/jagerman/plainquic/commits/dev

Session

Last week we released a multidevice beta and updated closed group functionality. We have been collecting feedback since these features were pushed to production, and we are working on a number of fixes, primarily closed group message ordering, restoration of profile pictures and avatars, and administration of closed groups.

Session iOS 

• Further multidevice fixes https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/352 

• Full list of commits can be found here https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/commits/multi-device and here https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/commits/dev 

Session Android 

• Fix cutoff message status indicator https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/453

• Refactorisation merging https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/451 

• Add explicit leave flag https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/452

• Closed group keypair distribution fixes https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/450

• Fix some French translations https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/449

• Fix filter jobs being executed by different factories https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/447

• Better handling of non-admins leaving https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/444 

Session Desktop

• Restoration from seed updates https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1512

• Avatar profile key and closed group creation fixes https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/commits/clearnet 

Thanks,  

Kee