Weekly Dev Update #185

Hi all!

This past week has been a bit of a whirlwind — the Session team is making good progress on global search and message requests, with the former going into review by our QA team this week. Members of the Oxen core and Lokinet team have been working on SOGS, and have added a number of new endpoints, as well as wrapping up server side support for ID blinding. The Oxen core team is finishing up batching support with per block reward calculation, and wallet3 is making further progress toward being able to sync the blockchain and send transactions. 

Oxen Core

Fix various non passing tests originating from changes to payment calculation changes https://github.com/darcys22/loki-core/commits/micropayments-batched-rewards 

Session

Session Android 

• Message requests https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/830 

• Global search https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/834 

Session Desktop 

• Allow more punctuation in Session usernames, thanks to community contributor AnasGamal for this https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/2147

• Scroll to unloaded messages (part of Global search) https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/2142 

Session iOS 

• Allow PDF previewing https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/558

• Bugfixes (Image rotation issues, Issues scrolling to final message, Font colour issues, media saving) https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/557 

• Update mention lists in open groups https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/550

• Default link previews to https https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/549 

• Fix M1 Mac builds https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/547 

Session Open Group Server

• New endpoints for posting and editing messages https://github.com/oxen-io/session-pysogs/pull/43

• Fix “IN” clauses in queries https://github.com/oxen-io/session-pysogs/pull/45

• Add endpoints to add/remove moderator and admins from rooms and globally https://github.com/oxen-io/session-pysogs/pull/46

• Add user bans, temporary bans, room bans, and server bans https://github.com/oxen-io/session-pysogs/pull/47

• Add endpoint to update room info https://github.com/oxen-io/session-pysogs/pull/48

• Add new option to hide room index list (thanks to community member Ian MacDonald for the PR) https://github.com/oxen-io/session-pysogs/pull/49

• WIP: add key derivation for session id blinding https://github.com/oxen-io/session-pysogs/pull/41

• WIP: add user inbox for SOGS DM message forwarding https://github.com/oxen-io/session-pysogs/pull/50

• Add PostgreSQL automated tests (and fix some bugs it revealed) https://github.com/oxen-io/session-pysogs/pull/51

Lokinet

• Update static dependency bundled versions https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1846

• Properly show GPL license on GitHub https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1845

• Add signal (for non-Windows platforms) to trigger network reloading https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1844

• Make unit tests opt-in to avoid common test suite build failures (particularly with older compilers) https://github.com/oxen-io/lokinet/pull/1843

Thanks,

Kee