Weekly Dev Update #173

Hey y’all,

The Oxen core team continued their work on wallet 3, and now have a prototype view only wallet which has the ability to detect multi output Oxen transactions. The team also cleaned up a number of redundant code blocks. 

Oxen Core

• Wallet 3 database tests and basic view only functionality https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1490 

• Cache CI https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1497

• gcc-11 cn-turtle miscompilation fix https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1496 

• Remove useless atomic calculations https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1495 

• fix bugs in initial implementation of sqlitedb abstraction https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1494 

• Make bt-encoding and hex/base32z/base64 encoding into a standalone library (rather than nested inside OxenMQ) https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-encoding

Lokinet

This week saw various packaging updates (thanks to TechnicalTumbleweed, again, for testing and submitting update PRs); ongoing work on properly blocking ipv6 traffic when exit mode is enabled on Windows, and embedded Lokinet; new GUI packaging; and various CI infrastructure improvements that allow us to expand testing with the same resources (across all our CI tests).

• Ongoing windows route manager refactoring to improve system settings (including ipv6 routes) on Windows https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1740

• Embedded Lokinet (aka “liblokinet”) improvements https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1748

• RPM packaging updates for Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1773 https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1770 https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1772

• gcc-11 compilation warning fixes https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1769

• Rebuild of docker CI infrastructure to pre-load all of our CI jobs, across all system architectures https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1774 https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1775

Session

The Session team worked on a release for unsend requests, which allow deletion of messages from other users' devices. The team also worked on a number of UI features, such as unbundling text captions from images which was causing issues with readability.

Session Android 

• Activate unsend requests https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/772

• Fix a crash with null conversationListHandler https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/769 

• Further work on WebRTC call UI

Session Desktop 

• Allow page up and down to work on message list https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1977

• Show information when avatar is clicked in contacts screen https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1976

• Allow note to self to be hidden https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1975

• Exclude nodes from the same /24 in the same path https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1974

• Initial WebRTC call implementation https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1969

Session iOS 

• Change Appearance based on system theme, Enable unsend requests, Fix notifications with no preview show "APN_message", Fix disappearing message not working in new chats, Change "Support" to "Debug Log", Split the image attachments from text in message bubbles https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/524

Session Open Group Server 

• Changes to pinned message endpoint, in line with new DB schema https://github.com/oxen-io/session-open-group-server/pull/21 

Thanks, 

Kee