Weekly Dev Update #144

Hey y’all, 

This week we have continued pushing hard to finish our outstanding tasks before the next hardfork (date yet to be announced). The Lokinet team is working hard to finish up liblokinet so that clients can speak to other clients using liblokinet, as well as speaking to service nodes using the same protocol. The Session team is continuing work on a complete overhaul of the Session open group server, and the associated client side communication code. The Oxen team is close to putting together a candidate release for the upcoming hard fork and cleaning up various parts of the code in preparation for that release.

Oxen Core 

• Rename LNS to ONS, change burn parameters https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1428 

• Add dockerfile and build script (thanks to community member buccella) https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1421

• Fix up Loki links to point towards Oxen https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1427

• Clean up unused/unmaintained contrib and utils https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1426 

• Test suite fixes for hardfork 18 https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1425

• print_sn_status cleanup https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1424

• Disable uPnP router poking by default https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1423

• Change uptime proof settings https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1422 

Lokinet 

The focus of the Lokinet team over the past week has been fully centered on our liblokinet tunnelling layer. We have it embedded into Lokinet and it’s working, but there are a few rough edges that we’re spending this week to sort out.

• Huge QUIC + liblokinet work in progress https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1576

Session

Session iOS

• Fix small UI issues https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/375

• Fix messages being cut off when received https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/374

• Fix conversation scrolling bugs https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/372

• Client side implementation for V2 Open groups https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/370 

Session Android 

• Further work on sending and receiving pipeline refactorization https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/commits/suggestions  

Session Desktop

• Encrypt attachments when stored locally https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1554

Session Open group server

• Allow http in onion requests to an external server https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-storage-server/pull/415 

• PoW changes for message storage https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-storage-server/pull/413

• Increase limit for number of messages received at one time https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-storage-server/pull/414

• Reduce oxend ping interval https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-storage-server/pull/412

Session Storage server

• Fix Github actions https://github.com/nielsandriesse/session-open-group-server/pull/10

• Add File server and Open Group server modes https://github.com/nielsandriesse/session-open-group-server/pull/11

• Use log4rs to log to stdout and (optionally) to a file https://github.com/nielsandriesse/session-open-group-server/pull/12 

• Add options for command line interaction https://github.com/nielsandriesse/session-open-group-server/pull/13

• Remove unnecessary async usage https://github.com/nielsandriesse/session-open-group-server/pull/14 

• Continue work on new version of Session open group server, all commits can be found here https://github.com/nielsandriesse/session-open-group-server/commits/main 

Thanks,  

Kee