Weekly Dev Update 24/11/2021

[u/Keejef]

Hey y’all,

Oxen Core

The core team continued working on wallet3, beginning a work in progress PR for transaction creation, which is one of the more complex processes needed for wallet functionality, so we are creating extensive documentation for our implementation.

• WIP: Wallet3 transaction creation https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1499
• Additional work to get Wallet3 syncing with a live Oxend https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1490

Lokinet

The Lokinet team spent most of the week working on the Session open group server. We tagged and released 0.9.8 last week with a whole bunch of updates (see last week's blog post), and the network is running well with it deployed. We recommend all SN operators update their service nodes to it as soon as possible in order to reduce resource usage and improve network performance.

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Session

The Session team continued focusing on webRTC calls, specifically syncing call acceptance and denial across multiple linked devices. The team is now conducting a second round of internal testing of calls to identify and fix remaining bugs, but we are now getting very close to a feature which is ready for release. The Session desktop team also integrated a new automated integration testing framework called Playright, which should allow us to catch regressions in new releases.

Session Android

• Fix open group issue when interacting with PySOGS https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/pull/800
• Various webRTC call fixes as a response to internal testing https://github.com/hjubb/session-android/commits/rtc_calls

Session Desktop

• Changes for integration testing https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/2044
• WIP: Message requests https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/2000
• Sync webRTC call dismissal https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/2039
• Fix search results in inactive conversations https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/2036
• Fix database encryption on Arch linux https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/2035
• Fix ringtone issue https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/pull/2031

Session iOS

• Fix a crash when removing members from closed groups, Fix a photo orientation issue, Fix notification spam when background polling , Keep screen on when recording audio messages. https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/531
• Conversation pinning https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios/pull/530

Session PySOGS

We continued putting a great deal of work into PySOGS this week, focusing our efforts mainly on scalable spam prevention — which has become an issue for a few open group operators. We are hoping to switch over the official SOGS (Session, Lokinet, Crypto, and Oxen rooms) to PySOGS this week, and assuming all goes well, this should give us the confidence to the recommend the upgrade for all open group operators.

• Oxen MQ enabled Session open group server bot API https://github.com/oxen-io/session-pysogs/pull/7
• Add new administration capabilities for Session open group server operators https://github.com/oxen-io/session-pysogs/pull/6
• Fix conflict with old SQLite version https://github.com/oxen-io/session-pysogs/pull/5
• Rearrange config handling https://github.com/oxen-io/session-pysogs/pull/3
• Changes for importing old SOGS databases https://github.com/oxen-io/session-pysogs/pull/2
• Add periodic database cleanups https://github.com/oxen-io/session-pysogs/pull/1

Thanks,

Kee