Hey y’all, 

This week we continued our preparation for the upcoming hardfork, this entailed working on the the required changes to the Oxen storage server and Session app before the hardfork occurs. We also put the final touches onto the Lokinet client before we begin the testing phase and worked to ensure the Loki core releases were ready for the upcoming candidate release. 

Oxen Core

• Initialise mapping_value https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1435

• Reduce fees https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1433

• Storage server RPC updates https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1432

• Fee misc https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1434

• Burn parameters https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1428 

• [OxenMQ] Allow mixed persistent and random connection IDs in the same OxenMQ instance https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-mq/pull/34

Lokinet 

We’ve kept up testing in Lokinet ahead of the upcoming hardfork, looking into issues on Windows and Mac and the plainquic tunnel.  We also spent some time tracking down and fixing a long-irritating memory growth in Lokinet which should reduce the memory requirements of service nodes.  We’re quite content with the state of the code for a 0.9.0 release later this month and looking forward to the new places this release will help Lokinet go.

• Liblokinet ongoing testing, development and fixes https://github.com/majestrate/loki-network/tree/plainquic

• Fix memory growth https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1594

• Replacement bootstrap download tool (primarily to help with Windows deployment) https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1597

Session

Session iOS

• Closed Group changes (Increase reliability, getting ready for hardfork) https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/387

• Hardfork related changes https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/384

• Fix unread message count bug https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/386 , https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/383 

• Make select photos option work properly https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/381

• Fix crash occurring in long conversations https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/380

Session Android 

• Explicit group update messages https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/505

• Hardfork related changes https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/503 

• Fix job id mismatch https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/501

• Fix repo documentation https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/498

• Add multiple job id collision handling https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/496

• Remove old jobs and refactor remaining calls to use new jobs https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/495

• Fix expiration timers in groups https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/494

Session Desktop 

• Properly interpret the storage server error messages https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1573

• Replace some mentions of Loki in Session https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1571 (thanks to community member buccella)

• Allow unpadded attachments https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1570

• Redact sensitive information in logs which are saved to disk https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1567

• Pin seed node certificates https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1566

• Further work on local attachment encryption https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1554 

Session Open Group Server 

• Compact polling https://github.com/nielsandriesse/session-open-group-server/pull/21

• Package open group server into a deb. https://github.com/nielsandriesse/session-open-group-server/pull/16 https://github.com/nielsandriesse/session-open-group-server/pull/17 

• Add tests https://github.com/nielsandriesse/session-open-group-server/pull/15

• Integrate Github actions https://github.com/nielsandriesse/session-open-group-server/pull/18 

Oxen Storage Server

• Major Storage server refactorisation in progress https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-storage-server/pull/419

• Get all service nodes endpoint added https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-storage-server/pull/418

• Fix build issues https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-storage-server/pull/417

• OxenMQ RPC https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-storage-server/pull/416

Thanks,  

Kee