Weekly Dev Update #149

Hey y’all, 

This week on the Session team we focused on getting out the first hardfork release, which includes a number of changes, such as the new V2 Open groups, closed group stability updates, and performance improvements for message sending and persistence. On the Lokinet side we looked into some performance issues and continued work on Liblokinet. The Oxen core team began working on Service Node reward batching and continued our design discussions on replaceable contributions

Oxen Core

• Fix SN info in Debug build https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1452 

• Fix uptime proofs for older nodes https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1453 

• Added “next test” time (when available) to Oxen Observer SN details page https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-observer/commit/9f4d6dca897e5267b552692ce820fecfa498fb1d

Lokinet 

This week we spent some time fixing some issues with the 0.9.0 release, mostly aimed at clients but with a few minor improvements and fixes for Service Nodes as well.  One notable fix is for Linux systems using systemd-resolved: Lokinet now attempts to speak to it directly to configure DNS which should result in more “automatic” system DNS updating on many Linux systems.

• Don’t queue up multiple simultaneous SN list updates (particularly when syncing) https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1611

• Add robust support for configuring DNS via systemd-resolved via direct systemd calls from Lokinet (rather than a config file) https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1615

• Fix various android-related issues (and inadvertently fix an issue with desktop initialization) https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1610

• Fix a memory leak where some outbound messages could end up not being properly cleaned up https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1617

• Various small fixes, improvements, and internal timing updates for clients https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1614

• Make tuntap a selectable component on Windows for advanced cases (e.g. where tuntap is already installed from somewhere else) https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1618

• Allow configuration of path alignment timeout (useful in some settings with exceptionally high latency) https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1619/files

• Increase the default log level (if not explicitly configured) from INFO to WARN; WARN already produces enough output, and INFO messages are generally about things working as expected https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1620

Session

Session Android 

• New File server v2 URL handling https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/524

• Remove permissions request for legacy storage https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/521

• Fix issue with saving media files https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/516

• Open groups V2 implementation https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/518

• Fix closed group polling issue https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/515

• Refactoring https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/514

Session Desktop

• Closed group zombie members https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1592

• Better attachment replies https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1591

• Changes to password confirmation field https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1587

• Fix tray menu issue (thanks to community contributor acuifex) https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1581 

• Update Yarn lock https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1589

• Fix Windows builds https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1588

• Update node version https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1586

• Refresh Service Node list at regular intervals https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1584

Session iOS

• Switch to V2 file server https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/401

• Open group invitations https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/400

• Fix issues with share extension https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/404

• Fix message deletion corner case https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/402

• Remove unused translation strings https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/396 

Session Open Group Server 

• Documentation and versioning updates https://github.com/oxen-io/session-open-group-server/commits/main 

Misc

• Session push notification server, add additional endpoints https://github.com/oxen-io/session-push-notification-server/commits/dev 

Thanks,  

Kee