Weekly Dev Update #151

Hey y’all, 

This week, the Session team primarily worked on V2 file server and open group changes, including updates to the client software to get ready to migrate from V1 to V2 when V1 groups are turned off. The Lokinet team worked on some bugs that were introduced into Lokinet in release 0.9.1, and continued working on support for macOS. Oxen core worked on crashes and bugs in the Oxen mobile wallets and furthered progress towards easier setup for local test environments. 

Oxen Core

• Cmake build cleanups https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1456

• Local devnet script updates, making testing easier https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1454 

Lokinet 

This past week in Lokinet saw us put out two releases: a 0.9.1 last week which included numerous fixes for minor issues that have appeared up since the hardfork, and then a follow-up 0.9.2 released today which fixes a few last minute client-related issues that crept into the 0.9.1 release. Aside from these fixes, we've been focussing on a refactor of how Lokinet runs, particularly on macOS, where our experience has never been particularly smooth (and stopped working entirely for at least some Big Sur users). We're now pursuing dividing up how the Lokinet daemon runs so it will be a smoother, more "mac-like" experience on macOS with additional spillover benefits to how Lokinet runs on other platforms as well.

• Increase timeouts for re-establishing sessions to improve connection robustness https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1634

• Fix cleanup of expiring/dead paths https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1642

• Refactoring logging to use backported C++20 std::source_location instead of macros https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1638

• Fix establishing exit and null routes on Windows https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1643

• Fix exits not working (broken by previous commits) https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1647

• Avoid conversations dying prematurely https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1647

• Reenabling multithreading for Lokinet clients https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1647

• Add 0.9.x release codename (forgotten in the 0.9.0/.1 releases): "A series of tubes"

• macOS Lokinet daemon refactoring (no PR yet)

Session

Session Android 

• Clean gradle files https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/541

• Open group invitations https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/540 https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/536 

• Japanese translations (thanks to community member beantaco) https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/538

• Open group image sending fixes https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/537

• Use V2 file server for uploads https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/533 

• Background job fixes https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/532 

Session Desktop 

• Add onion path indicator to desktop https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1631

• Stop polling V1 open groups once V2 switchover occurs https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1627

• WIP: Scoring system for unreachable Service Nodes https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1624

• Accept new keypairs for existing closed groups https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1621

• Japanese translations (thanks to community member beantaco for this) https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1632 

• Closed group reliability increases https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1630

• Fix attachment extensions https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1628

• Allow unpadded messages https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1625

• Fix nickname dialogue https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1623

• Fix app image start for non-debian based distributions https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1622 

• Fix fonts for non English languages https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1619

• Allow user to specify nicknames for their contacts https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1618

Session iOS

• Fix expiration timer issues https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/411

• Don’t count muted threads in badge number calculation https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/410 

• Variable rate closed group polling https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/408 

Session Open Group Server 

• Fix lint warnings https://github.com/oxen-io/session-open-group-server/pull/2

• Service file and readme changes https://github.com/oxen-io/session-open-group-server/pull/1 

Thanks,  

Kee