Weekly Dev Update #136

Hey y’all, 

This week on Session we worked on multidevice and closed group member list fixes. The Oxen Core team continued to work on uptime proof updates. The Lokinet team continued working towards liblokinet, focusing on TUN interface changes. 

Oxen Core 

• Fix segfault on wallet close https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-core/pull/1399

• Uptime proof versioning changes https://github.com/darcys22/loki-core/commits/1366-uptime-proof-version-details

• OpenRC init scripts for non-systemd debian-based systems https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-core/pull/1395

Lokinet 

Development on liblokinet continued this week with further development in the QUIC communication layer that will be used for carrying Lokinet traffic with the future embeddable version of Lokinet.  We also worked on exit node authentication improvements to improve exit node connection and various smaller bug fixes.

• Improve and expose exit authentication feedback to the GUI https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1526

• “Plainquic” draft implementation of liblokinet QUIC tunnel https://github.com/jagerman/plainquic

• Nodedb refactor & initial liblokinet api development https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1523

Session

Session iOS 

• Improve onion request loading efficiency https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/346

• Fix App extensions https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/342

• Explicit closed group updates https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/341  

Session Android 

• Up Java memory lint https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/416 (thanks to community contributor xloem)

• Add build dependencies as submodules https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/415 (thanks to community contributor xloem)

• Explicit group updates https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/411

• App performance improvements https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/410 

Session Desktop

• Explicit closed group updates https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1468 , https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1461 

• Fix closed group deletion issue https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1467 

• Fix link previews being sent in the following message https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1466

• Move models to TypeScript https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1465

• Improve open group loading speeds https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1459 

• Remove body pending and 2000 body limits https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1458

• Fix password length issues https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1457 

Thanks,  

Kee