Weekly Dev Update #150

Hey y’all, 

This week on Oxen Core we worked on some deployment tools which make the process of testing changes locally much smoother. The Session desktop team released its post-hardfork release which enabled V2 Open groups and improved closed groups, we also worked on a number of reported bugs, such as duplicate messages being received by users. The Lokinet team worked on client connectivity and path building issues and are aiming to publish a new release for Service Nodes in the next few days. 

Oxen Core

• Script for deployment of a local devnet  https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1454 

Lokinet 

This past week saw a bunch of PRs aimed at improving and fixing Lokinet client connectivity, including fixing some issues with path builds, improvements to latency, more robust attempts at path building, and fixes of some potential memory leaks. We hope to have a new release ready for Service Nodes in the next day or two and a client release (after some more testing) in a few days.

• Delay path use until it has an actual latency value https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1623

• Keep ONS cached responses more often, for less DNS latency on repeated lookups https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1624

• Add current block height to `systemctl status lokinet-router` to tell at a glance that Lokinet is in sync with oxend https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1625

• Make profiling less forgiving of path timeouts https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1622

• Fix a bug with sometimes not testing paths https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1628

• Some spelling/typo fixes in documentation (thanks to github user da4089 for noticing and submitting the PR!) https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1629

• Limit how many path builds are attempted at once https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1626

• Reduce some potential memory leaks https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1621

• Increase introsets publishing timeouts and fix prematurely marking a path as dead https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1627 

• Eliminate zombie sessions getting resurrected if more traffic arrives just after being killed https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1635

• Shift intro routers after receiving a drop message https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1636

Session

Session Android 

• Handle zombie group members better https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/525

• Fix out of memory job serialization https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/528 

• New File Server V2 URL handling and V2 Open group fixes / features https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/524 

Session Desktop 

• Custom user nicknames https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1618

• Allow pasting of images into composition box https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1616 (thanks to community contributor shellhazard for this)

• Get Service Node list from Service Nodes https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1614

• Merge protobuf work in progress https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1604

• Vacuum database on startup https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1595

• Better replies for messages with attachments https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1591 

• Better rendering for group updates https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1613

• Fix avatar download when restoring from seed https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1612

• Create conversation for members if they don't exist https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1611

• Speed up first load of rooms https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1610

• Fix message duplication issues https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1608

• Re-design open group invitations https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1607

• Clean translations https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1606

• Enable file server V2 on sending side https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1605

• Pad message buffer on all outgoing messages https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1603

• Fix avatar loading for V2 Open groups https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1599

Session iOS

• Fix inconsistent voice message durations https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/406

• V2 Open group invitations https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/405

• Fix issues in sharing screen https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/404

Session Open Group Server 

• Further work developing various endpoints https://github.com/oxen-io/session-push-notification-server/commits/dev 

Thanks, 

Kee