Weekly Dev Update #137

Hey y’all, 

It’s all hands on deck at Oxen right now — here’s what everyone is up to. The Session team is hard at work on multi-device (which is very close to being released!) and continued working on some essential closed group updates. The Lokinet team is still working on liblokinet, and they’ve made a breakthrough in getting successful path-builds on Android devices. The Loki core team opened up a request for comment (RFC) about replaceable contributions, and continued working on the new uptime proof version encoding.

Oxen Core 

• Initialise m_should_use_bootstrap_daemon (thanks to community contributor lxop) https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-core/pull/1401 

• Further work on new uptime proof versioning https://github.com/darcys22/loki-core/commits/1366-uptime-proof-version-details 

Oxen Improvement Proposals

• Replaceable contributions, Staking improvments RFC https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-improvement-proposals/issues/27 

Lokinet 

We’re happy with the recent pull requests and testing on the current dev branch, and we’re working on wrapping up a lokinet 0.8.4 release. This should result in improved performance, especially for Windows users. We also have ongoing development work on the QUIC-based transport tunnel for liblokinet, as well as somework getting Lokinet working on Android.

• NodeDB refactor to address crashes caused by impure multi-threaded nodedb updates, plus various updates (e.g. for oxenMQ rename) https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1529

• Detect and reset Lokinet when local network configuration changes (such as after a sleep & resume, or after changing networks) https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1532

• Ongoing Android development work https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1533 https://github.com/tewinget/loki-network/tree/android

• “Plainquic” QUIC-based tunnel ongoing work https://github.com/jagerman/plainquic/commits/dev

• Updated AppArmor profile https://github.com/oxen-io/loki-network/pull/1531

Session

Session iOS 

• Closed group fixes https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/349

• Conversations screen 2.0 https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/347 

Session Android 

• Performance improvements to ProfilePictureView.kt and recyclers in conversations and home screen https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/422 

• Up java memory to prevent lint running out https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/416

• Multi device sync proto definitions and compiled code with compile fixes https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/423 

• Merge refactoring https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/420 

• Translation fix https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/419 

• Add ban labels https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/437 

• Use address serialize instead of toPhoneString which doesn't work for group public key https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/417

Session Desktop

• V2  Multi device support https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1493

• Fix max closed group size https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1481

• Revert bump https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1475

• Force Ubuntu 18.04 for workflows (issue with glibc being too recent) https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1473 

• Fix continue your session button https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1470 

• Handle incoming group updates properly https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/1468 

Thanks,  

Kee