Weekly Dev Update #161

Hey y’all, 

This week the Oxen core team continued working on Service Node payment batching, finishing off some final tests before we review and merge the code. The Lokinet team kept pushing forward on macOS support and looked into the viability of webRTC over Lokinet. The Session team added authenticated message retrieval into the Android and iOS Session clients alongside various performance and bugfixes. 

Oxen Core

• Avoid integer truncation in decoy selection https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1472 

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

Lokinet

This week we continued our efforts to get Lokinet integrated with the native Mac network extension API’s — which is taking longer than expected due to a lack of documentation on the macOS side. We also spent some time looking into how or if webRTC would need to be modified to work over Lokinet, with the intention of determining whether or not webRTC is a viable option for future support of voice calls in Session (over Lokinet). 

• Further OS Specific changes https://github.com/majestrate/loki-network/commits/obctx-tomfoolery-fixings-2021-07-12 

Session

Session Android 

• Fix database initialization https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/678

• UX/UI improvements https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/677

• Authenticated message retrieval https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/676

• Finer grained notification controls https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/675

• Open group quoting bug https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/672

Session iOS

• Authenticated message retrieval https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/475 https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/473 

• Finer grained notification controls https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/474

• Performance improvements https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/472  

• Correctly handle out of sync clocks https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/472 

• Fix conversation screen scrolling and read messages https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/471 

Session Desktop

• Fix profile key config message https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1794

• Fixes for changing name and adding closed group members https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1793

• Make removing open groups quicker https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1792

• Fix link previews with embedded url’s https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1789

• Send seed confirmation message https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1788

• Remove expired messages from db https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1786

• Close modals when clicking outside of modal https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1785

• Transparent PNG support https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1784 

Thanks,  

Kee