Weekly Dev Update #170

Hey y’all, 

Lots of backend changes this week for Session, with the majority of work being focused on the Session open group server, the push notification server and the file server, with new features and endpoints being added. The Lokinet team continued work on the liblokinet wrapper as well as dedicating some time to Windows configuration. The core team continued working on the Session open group server, and iterated further on wallet 3, finishing development of a basic view only wallet prototype. 

Oxen Core

• Wallet 3 database changes https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1490  

Lokinet

This week’s work mostly focused on testing and building up the liblokinet embedded Lokinet. We’ve continued the ongoing improvements to the core liblokinet interface, while also developing a compatibility layer for nodejs. In addition, we spent some time working on updating the way Lokinet configures networking on Windows, as well as various smaller updates.

• Internal code logging system updates https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1638

• Update CI repository for automatic Android test builds https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1750

• Update to the latest version of ngtcp2 (for tunnelled liblokinet connections) https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1751

• Tweaks and updates to summary RPC info for Lokinet GUI interaction https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1742

• Various liblokinet updates for improved APIs, performance, etc. https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1748

• Lokinet build for CentOS 8 (WIP) -- many thanks to TechnicalTumbleweed for this (and previous packaging work) https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1752

• WIP lokinet nodejs code https://github.com/majestrate/liblokinet-ffi 

• WIP liblokinet nodejs test app https://github.com/majestrate/lokinet-webrtc

• Docker image recipes for exit node deployment in containerised environments https://github.com/majestrate/lokinet-exit-provider

Session

Session Android 

• Expose logging more prominently https://github.com/hjubb/session-android/commits/restore_log_report 

• Display Service Node IP address in onion path (Thanks ianmacd) https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/739 

• Additional work on WebRTC voice calls 

Session iOS

• WebRTC voice call changes

Session Desktop 

• Initial version of WebRTC voice calls https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1939 

Session Open Group Server 

• Additional work refactoring SOGS database, allows for following features https://github.com/oxen-io/session-open-group-server/pull/24 

• individually and default-assignable read/write/upload

• time-based permission expiries (e.g. restrict this permission for x amount of time)

• distinguishing between admins (who can add/remove moderators) and moderators (who can only moderate but not control the moderator list)

• global server moderators/admins

• global server bans

• single VIEW for simple querying of a user's effective permissions (i.e. with database-side coalescing of global/local permissions)

• pinned message via foreign key

• room icon as a regular uploaded file

• per-file file expiries (so that admins/mods can upload non-expiry files, such as the room icon, or pinned downloads)

• message history so that when messages get edited or deleted a log is kept of the old value (the idea being that mods would be able to look this up)

• movable messages (e.g. so there could be a "bad posts" room that only moderators have access to)

Session Storage Server 

• Ensure foreign key support is enabled https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-storage-server/pull/440 

Thanks,

Kee