Weekly Dev Update #156

Hey y’all, 

This week the Oxen core team continued their work on Service Node reward batching and storage server authentication changes, which will aim to make Session more secure than ever. The Session team worked on adding visual onion routing indicators and improvements to the Android conversations screen. The Lokinet team kept its focus on tracking down issues and improving stability which has been the overarching goal for the past month or so. 

Oxen Core

• Service Node revisions (allows enforcement of Service Node versions without blockchain hardfork) https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1465 

• Further work on Service Node payment batching https://github.com/darcys22/loki-core/commits/batch-sn-payments-2 

• [Storage server] further work on endpoints for Session message delete/expiry endpoints, including a new testnet test suite https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-storage-server/pull/433

Lokinet 

Much of this week was spent on pursuing Lokinet stability fixes, involving poring over countless lines of log output and countless more lines of code.  We managed to identify some potential connectivity loss scenarios, which we fixed, but we still aren’t 100% happy with the state of the code and will continue to focus on stability improvements.

• Allowing persisting inbound addresses over restart https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1672

• Improve automated build performance, particularly for of static builds https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1673

• Stability fixes for path handover https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1669

Session

Session Android 

• Include expiration timers in user configuration message https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/613

• Fix IllegalStateException https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/606

• Localise additional strings https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/605

• Only activate QR code scanner when on correct screen https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/604

• Fix timestamp handling for users re-joining groups https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/603 

Session Desktop 

• Fix onion path animation https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1711 , https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1705 

• Fix up Service Node return statement https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1710

• Fix Service Node fetch from seed if not enough on app start in db https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1709 

• Show confirmation modal before link is accessed https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1708

• Fix moderator dialogs https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1707

• Merge dialogs https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1706

• Allow single ONS character names https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1701

• Clean up https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1700

• Improve 502 error handling https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1699

• Make transition to crowdin translations https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1697 

Session iOS

• Handle expiration timers properly in closed groups https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/431 

Thanks, 

Kee