Dev

This week the Session team made lots of progress on libsession integration, with the final parts of the libsession library being all but finished. The Lokinet team tracked down a few more pressing issues in liblokinet which could be causing degraded performance or packet loss and are aiming to work on fixes over the coming weeks. The core team focused on ONS registration and renewal in wallet3 which is tracking well. Service Node registration in wallet3 will be up next. 

Oxen Core

• Increase maximum output index

• Ongoing work on ONS registration transactions

Session

Session Android

• Attempt to run Session as a foreground service (Thanks to community contributor andrewheadricke)

• Ongoing work on libsession integration, focusing on updating user config message management

• Swap video views in voice calls and mirror view

Session iOS

• Ongoing work on libsession integration, focusing on updating user config message management

• Update conversation swipe actions

• Update accessibility ID’s 

• Fix database reentrancy crash

• Fix crashing action sheets on iPad

Bugfix release Release 2.2.8

• Added a warning prompt the first time someone uses Giphy

• Fixed an issue where mentions weren't working in groups

• Fixed an issue where the voice recording could break the input view

• Update the share extension to always show 'Note to Self' first

• Fixed an issue where the app would attempt to register for push notifications on launch even before onboarding

• Fix quoting in community chats

• Updated the PathVC to indicate the network reachability

• Updated messages sent to 'Note to Self' to properly indicate whether they were sent to the swarm

• Simplified the behaviour of sending 'Note to Self' messages to the swarm (make them behave like other messages)

• Added logic to indicate when a sync message failed to send (and the ability to retry)

• Added the retry/resync button to the long press message menu

• Updated sync messages to run via the MessageSendJob (so they have a built-in retry mechanism)

• Updated the delivery status to always show on the last outgoing message

• Updated the logic to update the delivery status when retrying to send a failed message

• Started caching pending ReadReceipt messages to resolve an edge-case

• Fixed an issue where read receipts could be sent for already read messages

• Fixed an issue where the read state change might not update the UI

Session Desktop

• Ongoing work on disappearing messages

• Ongoing work on libsession integration, focusing on updating user config message management

• WIP: Update contributor and building docs

• Fix line endings issue which caused failed builds on Windows

• Add button to mark all conversations as read (Thanks to community contributor IanMacd)

• Show up to 25 Emojis in the Emoji reacts quick select panel (Thanks to community contributor IanMacd)

• Show profile view before starting conversation when clicking on a user profile image (Thanks to community contributor IanMacd)

• Display up to 5 image attachments (Thanks to community contributor IanMacd)

• Alter attachment deduplication logic to allow easier copying and pasting for multiple images (Thanks to community contributor IanMacd) 

Session Push notification server 

• Change push notification size limits

• Optimise database syncing

libsession

• Add additional property based testing (Thanks to community contributor Fracting)

• Add obsolete message hash tracking 

• Additional work on group config messages

Lokinet

• Ongoing furious debugging, diagnosing, and load testing of embedded liblokinet code

• Ongoing platform layer code redesign

• Fix for a threading race condition and failure under debug builds when running as a service node

Marketing

This week we kept progressing our backyard clean-up of the Oxen and Session tutorials and documentation. The Session tutorial videos were pretty much wrapped up last week, and now we have moved onto Oxen videos. 

Unlike Session, which needed to have some videos updated, in many cases Oxen didn’t really have these kinds of videos to begin with, so we did some planning to figure out what materials were needed and where they’d be useful. So far we’ve recorded tutorials for setting up the GUI wallet, using the block explorer, staking, sending and receiving transactions, and registering an ONS. 

Wes has also started planning an ‘Oxen 101’ series. This video series will provide some introductory coverage of important parts of Oxen — like service nodes and ONS. 

We also found some broken web links on the Oxen website, they were damaging our SEO ranking so we’ve repaired all of those. 

Cam is away at the moment, so the team has been coming together to cover socials. It has been great to see the collaboration and teamwork from everyone to keep the socials ticking — and some posts, like this clip from the Session Tapes and this Cam-esque tweet raked in engagement. We kept engagement and impressions up during the break, with a high over the weekend (Feb 25-26) due to some high performing content (20,000+ impressions on both days). 

Alex has been working with some other members of the team on a refreshed CRM setup. This will help us do a better job of keeping in touch with the people we meet along the way and make sure we’re maintaining the valuable connections that we make. 

Alex and I have been going back and forth on the Oxen Lightpaper, and we will look to start applying these concepts to other aspects of our marketing to further test the messaging.

We introduced our project to some new NGOs who we may work with in the future. It’s early days, but they would be interesting to work with. 

Formatting for our ‘20 and ‘21 Annual Reports is completed and currently pending the tick of approval.