Weekly Dev Update #160

Hey y’all, 

This week the Oxen core team continued to work on Service Node payment batching, and added ONS lookups for the Oxen block explorer. The Session team focused on general performance improvements, improving and streamlining the startup process for Android, and enhancing general desktop performance. The Lokinet team finished some client side stability changes and continued to work on Lokinet macOS support.

Oxen Core

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

• Add ONS lookup to block explorer https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-observer/pull/6 https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-observer/pull/7/files 

Lokinet

This week we primarily focused on merging client side fixes from last week's development, as well as continuing our efforts to wrangle the Lokinet macOS client to make it play nice with the relevant macOS network extension APIs — which unfortunately are rather sparsely documented. 

• Properly set reply intro pivot router for inbound sessions, pick random initial intro for outbound context, make sure we remove half open outbound contexts after a certain period of time https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1702 

• Rewrite checksums on icmp destination unreachable packets including inner ip header https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1701 

Session

Session Android 

• Start up time optimisations https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/666

• Improved open group polling performance https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/663

• Translation updates https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/660

• Voice message icon bug https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/659

• Add message details page for failed messages https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/658

• Don’t show notification banners on home screen https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/657

• Improve permissions handling https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/656

• Properly Handle External Keyboard Content & Handle Text Content Shared via Intent https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/653 

Session iOS

• Tappable profile pictures https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/462

• Disable push notifications for muted closed groups https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/461 

Session Desktop 

• Preserve image transparency https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1784

• WIP: Performance improvements with react virtualized view https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1783

• Fix device linking issue https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1781

• Header and conversation menus updates https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1779 

Thanks, 

Kee