Weekly Dev Update #162

Hey y’all, 

This week we made a breakthrough on Lokinet macOS support, finally being able to properly interact with the macOS network extensions API, which will help to ensure that Lokinet functions smoothly on macOS in a future release. The Session team pushed out a desktop release with a bunch of performance improvements, and the mobile team focused on voice call support and bug fixes. The Oxen core team finished the final testing for Service Node batching with a pull request to master coming shortly. 

Oxen Core

• Finishing off final tests for Service Node payments batching https://github.com/darcys22/loki-core/commits/batch-sn-payments 

Lokinet

We spent much of this week working through the necessary bits for modern macOS support; we’ve been working on it for a few weeks now, but finally made a few major breakthroughs which have pushed us much closer to the finish line (with the right combination of signing keys, provisioning profiles, and application location) and have a functional Lokinet instance on Mac now properly wired into Apple’s modern networking APIs that communicates with the Lokinet network. We still have some bits to wire up before this is release-ready, but we’re getting close.

• Ongoing macOS network extension support https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1688 

Session

Session Android

• Startup performance improvements https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/682  https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/690

• Fix crash when accessing gallery https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/683

• Fix URL open dialog https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/691 

Session iOS

• Conversation screen fixes https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/479

• Voice call prototype https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/477

• Closed group authenticated retrieval changes https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/475 

• Add mentions only notifications https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/476  https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/478

Session Desktop

• Fix app icon bug, fix scrolling issues https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1804

• Ban user and delete all messages feature for Open Group moderators https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1819

• Media access permissions for MacOS https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1814

• Show current chat notification settings https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1813

• Fix composition box when replying to message https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1812

• Link preview issues fixed https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1811

• Fixgroup key pairs cache issue https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1807 

• Fix password login issue https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1800

• Fix profile key & display name issue https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1797 https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1796 https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1794 

Thanks, 

Kee